Android Social Media

In December I wrote the post “My Favorite Free Android Widgets” and since then that post averages about 17,000 views per month. With that kind of popularity I thought we deserve an update. There are still several of those same apps & widgets on my phone today but I have found new and better widgets! [...]

The New York Times has decided to grace the Android Market with their news app. So far I’m impressed. It loads quickly and has a very Android style pull down menu to select different categories of news. The black and white color scheme is very easy on the eyes and stays true to the NY [...]

You read right. Flash Video on Android is here! SkyFire 2.0 is now available for download in the Android Market. SkyFire is a stand alone web browser that detects Flash Video on web pages and offers the option to watch the video. Even better is that the video is opened in full screen resolution according [...]

different Merchant Services Apps available for download in the Android market. In all the private consulting I do its quite handy to have the ability to take credit card charges at all let alone on my phone while I’m on the go.

The open source wordpress project is now building an official app for Wordpress. The author of the wpToGo app that we previously suggested to our readers is at the front of this new official app now available in the Android Market. So far I’m very impressed with what we are seeing the the development. It is necessary to enable Remote Publishing via XML-RPC in your Wordpress Writing Settings. This quick video will introduce you to the app if you haven’t already downloaded it.

The Nexus One runs on a 1GHz snapdragon processor with a 3.7 inch WVGA Amoled touchscreen display. The phone has a height of 119mm, width of 59.8, depth of 11.5, and weighs only 130 grams with the battery. Along with 512 MB of Ram and flash it comes with a 4 GB microsd card which is expandable to 32 GB. (Sounds nice already, doesn’t it).

The Cliq does run on Android 1.5, with MotoBlur running on top. If you are not familiar with Motoblur it is Motorola’s own special blend. You create an account and with that account you sign in. The Moto Blur service is quite unique for many reasons.

I have been enjoying the benefits of a rooted G1 for months now. My Dad has recently become interested in the open-source project and in developing some android apps. Right now he has a Blackberry curve simply because it was free, but a guy he works with got the new Droid with Verizon, he had [...]

We were curious so we compiled a list of known and rumored android phones to date.  As we hear of new ones we’ll let you know. We found it kind of fun to see all the different devices all together and comparable to each other. Enjoy! HTC Dream/T-Mobile G1 Status: G1 launched October 22nd, 2008. [...]

So I was playing basketball with some friends about a month or so ago. My buddy LOVES his iPhone and literally cannot separate himself from it for more than just a few minutes. So were at the gym playing ball and we didn’t notice it but some kids were hanging around our stuff in one [...]