Amazon Android App Store is now live and comes with two new great features making it a notch above the official Android Market - the first one being the free ‘Test Drive’ option which let users launch and try applications directly from their web-browser via an emulated instance of Android hosted on Amazon EC2 cloud, and second being the "free app-of-the-day" feature giving away a new paid application for free daily to users.
Majority of Samsung Galaxy I9000 users face two issues the non-reliable Wi-Fi and inability to get a GPS location fix by the device. Solution to the Wi-Fi problem was shared earlier, and while the "GPS Fix" issue somewhat got tackled after Android 2.2 update many users are still facing troubles getting a fast GPS fix on their devices.
To get rid of the issue a new free application is now available for download in Android Market pushing extra GPS aiding data resulting in a better and faster GPS satellite fix on Samsung Galaxy I9000.
Just four-days ago I posted a review of Viber for iOS citing unavailability of an Android version, the good news is the application can now soon be expected on Android platform as an official video of Viber For Android is now posted online.
Application eco-system is the biggest advantage of today's smartphone market, Google Androidjust surpassedApple iOS in terms of total usage - with this added advantage of wider audience the Android application eco-system is bound to expand as more developers come-in to get advantage of this large user-base. To makes things even more interesting and favoring for the Android app. eco-system, Myriad the team behind Dalvik Turbo virtual machine has demonstrated "Alien Dalvik" virtualization which allows Android applications to run on non-android platforms like Nokia N900 (MeeGo) without any modifications at same performance levels.
Alien Dalvik is scheduled to get unveiled at upcoming Mobile World Congress and an official demonstration video is already out showing it in action.
Torrent downloading from mobile phones has always been a functionality users are looking for, we have shared TorrentDroid which gets the job done for Android users. µTorrent Remote - the official offering from none other than BitTorrent Inc. the maintainer of BitTorrent protocol and creator of multi-platform µTorrent client is also out now promising complete, hassle free, remote control of your torrent client from anywhere.
µTorrent Remote and µTorrent Web allows users to add, remove, track, stream and control their torrent downloads from anywhere using their mobile phone or any web-browser connected to internet.
Much needed web-version of Android Market is finally unveiled by Google, offering integration with Google Account the webstore enables users to browse, install and manage apps, games and widgets from a bigger, brighter interface.
The best part is that once signed-in users can instantly install apps directly to their devices without any wires (requires the android device to be online), a list of already purchased and downloaded apps is also available via “My Market Account” option.
Motorola Atrix 4G is an Android-based smartphone introducing the concept of Webtop - which basically is a smartphone with capability of fully functional laptop. Featuring an impressive spec-sheet with qHD display, 24-bit graphics, NVIDIA Tegra 2 (Dual-Core 1GHz Cortex A9 + GeForce ULP) processor, HSPA+ at 14.4 Mbps, 1GB DDR2 RAM, 16GB Internal memory with microSD expansion support, 5.0MP camera with Dual LED Flash supporting 4x Digital Zoom and Auto Focus, 720p video capture @ 30fps (Full 1080p video capture will be supported via Software upgrade post-launch) and built-in Fingerprint scanner.
Watch the impressive official promo after the jump.
After RealPlayer and MPlayer yet another popular multimedia player "Winamp" has landed onto Google Android platform.
With impressive features like Wireless Desktop Sync, SHOUTcast Radio, complete Android media management with sync to desktop library, Persistent Player Controls, Play Queue Management, Widget Players & Shortcuts etc., Winamp For Android is certainly going to find it's place as the default multimedia player of choice for many.
The best thing about open-source software is that custom version of them can be created and shared provided that you have the required technical knowledge, we have earlier blogged about the online custom Linux distro maker SUSE Studio making things easier for non-programmers and today we have something on the similar lines but for Google Android.
As the name suggest "RomKitchen" allows users to customize, compile and download there own version of Google Android OS by doing everything online in less than 5 minutes, the free online customization service supports only Samsung Galaxy S and Captivate as of now and allows users to pick there choice of Base ROM, Kernel, Modem, CSC, Apps, Tweaks, Themes and Boot Animation (coming soon) offering the most easy-to-use, personal custom android rom experience.
is now live and comes with two new great features making it a notch above the official 
Majority of Samsung Galaxy I9000 users face two issues the non-reliable Wi-Fi and inability to get a GPS location fix by the device. 
Much needed web-version of Android Market is finally unveiled by Google, offering integration with Google Account the webstore enables users to browse, install and manage apps, games and widgets from a bigger, brighter interface. 
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The best thing about open-source software is that custom version of them can be created and shared provided that you have the required technical knowledge, we have earlier blogged about the online custom Linux distro maker 