By techcredo on September 2, 2010
Nokia’s Symbian powered devices may still often have better cameras than Android phones, but since you’re basically stuck with the default camera application on Symbian, Android gets the upper hand nonetheless. There are excellent camera apps on the Android Market that are state-of-the-art, cool as heck and make taking great looking photos more easy, fun [...]
Posted in Android, Android Basics, Featured Posts, Guides & Articles | Tagged Android Camera Apps, Camera Apps, Camera Software, Cameras, Effects, Guide, Photography, Photos, Pictures, Real-time effects, Top 5, Vignette
By techcredo on August 28, 2010
As you may have noticed, the best and most useful Android widgets usually come bundled with quality apps in order to extend the functionality of them. There are of course superb standalone widgets, like Pure Messenger, SwitchPro and Beautiful Widgets, but they will set you back a few bucks. Nevertheless, there are plenty of cool [...]
Posted in Android, Android Basics, Featured Posts, Guides & Articles | Tagged Analog Clocks, Android Widgets, Battery Meter, Best, Calendars, Free Widgets, Homescreen, Standalone, System Widgets, Top, Widgets
By techcredo on August 6, 2010
Back in May, Gameloft released a series of games for Android to mixed reactions. On one hand, the company was praised for the impressive graphics its lavish games featured, but at the same time Gameloft received criticism for not making the titles available in the Android Market. To add insult to injury, Gameloft initially had [...]
Posted in Android, Featured Posts, Games & Emulation, Guides & Articles | Tagged 3-D, Android RPG, Dungeon Hunter, Gameloft, Hack 'n' Slash, Hands-on, HD, Review, Role-playing Game, Ubisoft
By techcredo on July 30, 2010
There are already many superb games for Android, and there’s no doubt in my mind that it soon will become one of the world’s greatest mobile gaming platforms. One can only imagine what the games will look like at the end of the year, when they can be powered by devices with dual-core 1.5 GHz [...]
Posted in Android, Android Basics, Featured Posts, Games & Emulation, Guides & Articles | Tagged 3-D, Android, Dungeon Hunter, Emulation, Gameloft, Games, Gaming, Hands-on, Nintendo, Overview, Polarbit, Top Games, Video Game Consoles, Videos
By techcredo on July 19, 2010
I recently checked out a port of Samsung’s TouchWiz: the launcher that is featured on the Android powerhouse Samsung Galaxy S. The port, courtesy of xda-developer’s member rolle3k, is mainly intended for the Nexus One, although it worked fine on my HTC Desire as well. I loved the look of the icons in the app [...]
Posted in Android, Featured Posts, Guides & Articles | Tagged Android, Force Close Loop, Guide, How to, Safe Mode, Tutorial
By techcredo on July 16, 2010
After an intriguing Wired article in early 2008, I think it’s safe to say that I got fairly obsessed with Android: Google’s then upcoming open-source mobile OS. I felt that Android was going to be the world’s greatest smartphone platform, the idea of it fascinated me immensely and I read news about the development of [...]
Posted in Android, Android Basics, Featured Posts, Guides & Articles | Tagged Android, Apps, Best, Blogs, Devices, Games, Hands-on, List, News, Phones, Previews, Reviews, Rumors, Sites, Top 10, Top Blogs, Websites
By techcredo on June 4, 2010
I have been a huge fan of emulation on phones ever since I discovered Vampent’s flawless Nintendo emulators for Symbian back in 2006. They couldn’t have worked any better on my device at the time, the Nokia N73, and I loved the idea of having hundreds and hundreds of games in my pocket from all [...]
Posted in Android, Android Basics, Featured Posts, Games & Emulation, Guides & Articles | Tagged 8-bit, Android, Apps, C64, Commodore C64, Emulation, Gaming, Genesis, Guide, How to, MAME, Mega Drive, Nintendo, Retro, Sega, Tutorial, Video Game Consoles, ZX Spectrum
By techcredo on June 1, 2010
During its initial year, the Android platform had some catching up to do when it came to mobile gaming. There were undeniably plenty of fun, clever and addictive games out there, but in general they didn’t feature any advanced graphics – not least because the available Android devices at the time lacked the hardware to [...]
Posted in Android, Featured Posts, Games & Emulation, Guides & Articles | Tagged 3-D, 3D, Android, Best, Games, Gaming, Graphics, Hardware, HTC Desire, HTC Incredible, List, Motorola Droid, Top
By techcredo on May 19, 2010
On my fully-charged Nokia N97, I can browse the web and play games for 4-5 hours, all while listening to music, and I will still have around 85 % juice left. Even though Google Sync is enabled, push email, et cetera, and I use it quite frequently, one charge will typically last a couple of [...]
Posted in Android, Android Basics, Featured Posts, Guides & Articles | Tagged Always-On Mobile Data, Android, Battery Life, Bluetooth, Cupcake, FAQ, GPS, Guide, HTC Desire, Improve, Tips, Tricks, Tutorial, Updates
By techcredo on May 9, 2010
An Android application that as of now only comes pre-installed on the Google HTC Nexus One, is the 3D Gallery that’s developed by Cooliris. Forbes said it’s “as dazzling as it gets on a mobile screen”, and I’ve always thought the Cooliris app looked quite, well… cool. That’s why I was glad to find out [...]
Posted in Android, Featured Posts, Guides & Articles | Tagged .apk, 3D Gallery, Android, Cooliris, Download, How to, HTC Desire, Install, Nexus One, Port, Tutorial
By techcredo on May 3, 2010
A feature that was introduced in Android 2.1 is live wallpapers, and they debuted on the Nexus One back in early January 2010. Live wallpapers are basically animated, interactive homescreen backgrounds that can behave differently depending on the time of the day, where you are, Internet updates, and how you move and touch your device. [...]
Posted in Android, Android Basics, Featured Posts, For Fun, Guides & Articles, Videos, Wallpapers | Tagged 2.1, Android, Backgrounds, Demos, Éclair, Freeware, Guide, Hands-on, HTC Desire, Incredible, List, Live Wallpapers, Motorola Droid, Screen savers, Top Free, Videos
By techcredo on April 24, 2010
A detailed guide to running Google’s open-source OS Android on your Windows Mobile device.
Posted in Android, Featured Posts, Guides & Articles, Guides & Articles, WinMo | Tagged Android, Dual-boot, Emulation, Google, Guide, Hacks, How to, HTC, Microsoft, Port, ROMs, Tutorial, Windows Mobile, WinMo
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