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 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 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 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 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
By techcredo on April 17, 2010
Learn how to play 90s DOS adventure game classics on your phone with ScummVM, like Sam & Max, Simon the Sorcerer and Monkey Island.
Posted in Featured Posts, Games & Emulation, Guides & Articles, Symbian | Tagged 5th Edition, Adventure Games, Emulation, FAQ, Full Throttle, Guide, Instructions, LucasArts, N97 Mini, Nokia N97, Ports, Retro, Sam & Max, SCUMM, ScummVM, Sierra, Symbian^1, Tutorial
By techcredo on April 14, 2010
Highlights from the xda-developers: the top forum for Windows Mobile discussions, solutions, development, hacking and customization. This is a guide to some of the best WinMo tools, tweaks and modifications that the XDA has to offer.
Posted in Guides & Articles, WinMo | Tagged 6.1, 6.5, Best of, Classics, Guide, Highlights, Windows Mobile, Windows Phone, WinMo, xda, xda-developers
By techcredo on April 5, 2010
Ah, MS-DOS, you old command-line interface rascal. Those who are old enough will probably remember this OS fondly, that ruled x86 based PCs up until 1995. I knew all its commands by heart, and few people [...]
Posted in Featured Posts, Games & Emulation, Guides & Articles, Symbian | Tagged 5th Edition, Abandonware, DOSBox, Emulation, Games, Guide, How to, Instructions, MS-DOS, N97, N97 Mini, Nokia, S60v5, Symbian^1, Tutorial
By techcredo on March 17, 2010
To make the collection of top Android freeware apps more manageable, usable and easier to overlook, it has been divided into two parts. You can still use the navigation menu at the top of the page, and it will take you to the correct section regardless of which part you’re currently viewing. All additions will [...]
Posted in Android, Android Basics, Featured Posts, Guides & Articles | Tagged Android, Applications, Apps, Awesome, Best, Collection, Desire, Droid, Free, Freeware, Greatest, Guide, HTC, HTC Hero, List, Magic, Motorola, Must-Have, Open-source, Top
By techcredo on March 8, 2010
This is certainly not the first guide to running Quake and Quake 2 on the Symbian^1 powered Nokia N97, but hopefully it will compensate for its lateness by being one of the most thorough and comprehensive.
Posted in Featured Posts, Games & Emulation, Guides & Articles, Symbian | Tagged 5th Edition, Emulation, Guide, Hinkka, How to, Nokia N97, Port, Ports, Quake, Quake II, S60v5, Symbian^1, Tutorial, Video
By techcredo on March 5, 2010
A guide to playing classic Sega Mega Drive/Genesis games on your Symbian^1 powered phone, like the Nokia N97 and N97 Mini, using a nifty little emulator called PicoDrive.
Posted in Featured Posts, Games & Emulation, Guides & Articles, Symbian | Tagged 5th Edition, Emulation, Guide, How to, MasterGear, N97 Mini, Nokia N97, PicoDrive, QWERTY, S60v5, Sega, Symbian^1, Tutorial
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