Archive for May, 2009
The vOICe (Version 0.63 beta)
Requires Cupcake! The vOICe for Android translates live camera views into sound that you hear via the phone's speaker or headset, thus targeting augmented reality for the totally blind through sensory substitution and synthetic vision. The vOICe uses pitch for height and loudness for brightness in a left to right scan of any view. Includes a [...]
NewsRob (Version 2.1.2)
NewsRob is the first Android news reader that has offline capabilities and synchronizes with Google Reader. It provides seamless access to the river of news in your Google Reader account. Articles are downloaded in the background, so that when you pick up your phone you can start reading news, not downloading them. http://newsrob.com Read [...]
Get $5 free My Global Talk VoIP credit with Android Community
Android Community is giving users the opportunity to sign up to My Global Talk’s VoIP service, for low-cost international calls, and we’re throwing in some free credit to get you started. Since we know our readers love getting something for nothing, if you sign up via the widget on the AC frontpage you’ll get $5 credit [...]
Plugging a Few Android Projects
There are a few projects involving Android right now that we’d like to bring your attention to. Theses are all off site and not affiliated with us, but we feel some of our readers might be interested in them. If you get a minute, check ‘em out. They might skew a little towards developers, but they’re interesting [...]
You Tell Us: Can Android Save Motorola?
There’s been steady talk for many months now about how poor Motorola is doing as a company. Going from 23% worldwide market share down to 6% in 9 quarters has many thinking that we’re watching them die a slow death. What is going to keep them afloat? Innovative product design? A separation from Windows Mobile? After committing to [...]
NewsRob (Version 2.1.1)
NewsRob is the first Android news reader that has offline capabilities and synchronizes with Google Reader. It provides seamless access to the river of news in your Google Reader account. Articles are downloaded in the background, so that when you pick up your phone you can start reading news, not downloading them. http://newsrob.com Read [...]
