Category: Android Applications

  • Android Apps: Album Art Grabber finds your missing album art

    Over the past few months, I’ve covered a few new apps that hit the Android Market, but most the time I stick to the FREE apps since there always seems to be a good alternative that can be picked up without having to make a credit card payment. Today, things change! Album Art Grabber from…

  • T-Mobile AppPack for Android caught in the wild

    We’ve talked a little about T-Mobile’s AppPack these past few weeks. The AppPack is meant to highlight various T-Mobile and other applications that they think new Android users would be interested in. This morning, the link to the AppPack somehow made its way to several forums across the net with a note from a T-Mobile…

  • Sync your Android phone with DoubleTwist

    I woke up this morning to find an email in my inbox from DVD Jon. Yes, the same DVD Jon who broke the copyright protection on DVD’s about a decade ago. So what does this have to do with cell phones? Well, earlier this year, DVD Jon launched a new Mac and PC application called…

  • intallAPK allows app installation from your PC

    After years of using HTC devices, I was accustomed to being able to install applications on my Windows Mobile devices from my PC through ActiveSync and also from my handset with a .cab file. When Android launched, Google was kind enough to allow users to install applications as they pleased, as long as you did…

  • Android App Review: PhoneFace from Electronic Pocket

    It’s always a pleasant surprise when I get an e-mail from an app developer, letting me know that they have updated their app or are pushing something new out to the Android market and want me to give it a quick run through. Yesterday, Electric Pocket let us know that their PhoneFace app is now…

  • Android Widgets, unlimited potential

    In less than two weeks, Vodafone will be launching the HTC Magic. It will be the second phone to be powered by the Android OS, but the first powered by Android 1.5 (aka the cupcake build). There are quite a few enhancements included in this new build, many of which I wrote about when I…

  • Tethering apps for Android are back, but not in the U.S.

    A few days ago, we broke the news that Google had yanked all the 3G tethering apps from the Android Market. Google pulled the apps since they did not comply with T-mobiles TOS. I guess it took Google a few days to realize that the HTC Dream (currently the only Android phone on the market)…