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Review: Run Android Apps On Windows With BlueStacks App Player. Customize Every Aspect of Your Android Experience. One of the biggest advantages of Android’s open source roots is that users have complete control over pretty much every aspect of the operating system.

Customize Every Aspect of Your Android Experience

8pen. Pack for Android: Our List of the Best Android Apps. SExpand The Android Market isn't always an easy place to get around.

Pack for Android: Our List of the Best Android Apps

Our first edition of the Lifehacker Pack for Android rounds up essential Android apps—our personal favorites for productivity, multimedia, internet life, and just plain usefulness.P Lots of people are picking up new Android phones these days—nearly 200,000 per day, at last count. Google's default apps are pretty handy, but the Market has many great apps, most of them free. Here's a look at our favorite free and cheap Android apps.P We're using the great app search and sync service AppBrain to create a Lifehacker Pack for Android. Like our iPhone Pack, this list is no short grocery checklist. ProductivityP Astrid: Astrid is a simple to-do manager into which you simply start typing, add context if you want to, then save. Evernote: Evernote's universal note app on Android is not as elegant, fast, or intuitive as Evernote on iPhone.

Internet/CommunicationP. Future mobile phones Future technology. Mind you, this is not a “Green” concept and neither does it claim to be “Eco Friendly”.

Future mobile phones Future technology

It’s just a helpful solution for a tricky situation. The situation being: you running out of juice on your mobile phone. So what do you do? Remove the battery from the back of the phone; give it a few good turns around your index finger and its gathered enough power to last you a conversation or a safe trip to your charger and electric point. Designers: Song Teaho & Hyejin Lee. Overclock your rooted Droid X or Droid 2 with new app – Cell Phones & Mobile Device Technology News & Updates.

Android 2.2 Froyo for Motorola Droid X - Install tutorial, demo. As you’ve probably heard, Android 2.2 Froyo has been leaked for the Droid X, and now pulled, but this time around, we’ve got some hands-on video and the instructions on how to install it yourself!

Android 2.2 Froyo for Motorola Droid X - Install tutorial, demo

We’ve been tricked before about the Droid X‘s Froyo availability, but this is the real deal. Even if it’s not the official build, this is very much Android 2.2 Froyo. Note: This is likely not the final build, and reverting to stock can be quite a challenge for some. Mobile Serendipity: StumbleUpon Heads to iPhone & Android. Less than a month ago, we told you about how social bookmarking and discovery service StumbleUpon has quietly grown into a Web behemoth, driving nearly twice as much traffic as its closest competitor, Digg.

Mobile Serendipity: StumbleUpon Heads to iPhone & Android

One of the things that makes the service stand out from the others is its ability to learn your habits and tastes to feed you relevant links upon which to stumble. Today, the service is brining the serendipity of its recommendation engine to a smartphone near you with boredom-killing apps for the iPhone and Android. "Think about all those times when you're riding the bus, sitting at the airport gate, or waiting for friends, playing with the same mobile apps again and again," writes the company today on its blog. Mobile: Discover the web on the go. 6 Cool Android Apps to Make Use Of Sensors on Your Phone. In addition to these sensors, there are also more practical things that you may want to know about the status of your Android phone and the network and the environment where it is located.

6 Cool Android Apps to Make Use Of Sensors on Your Phone

To this end, I decided to go out in search of some more cool Android apps that integrate with your phone’s sensors to provide you with some interesting information about the status of your phone. Check GPS Satellite Status Many GPS-enabled Android apps simply connect to GPS satellites and initiate the application with your location. However, there are times when you may want to know what the status of your phone’s GPS system is – such as how many satellites are transmitting, your current GPS directly and location and more.

The GPS Status app taps into your GPS receiver and provides you with all of that information in a very cool graphical format. Check Your Battery Juice With JuicePlotter. 10 Things Android Does Better Than iPhone OS. Android Takes a Bite Out of Apple When Android first debuted on the HTC Dream (also known as the G1) back in October of 2008, it was deemed an "iPhone Killer.

10 Things Android Does Better Than iPhone OS

" While it didn't quite slay Apple's handset, it was the first step in a revolution against the tyrannous iPhone. The initial Android platform bested the iPhone OS on several levels, but lacked some key functionalities that the iPhone could provide. Since then, Android has grown - not only meeting all of the functionalities of the iPhone, but besting it in nearly all aspects from an extensive list of devices to a growing Android Marketplace. Online converter - convert video, images, audio and documents for free. The Top 10 Crazy Bastards Who Actually Changed the World (For the Better) Quotes.oldwarez. Want the Best Android Apps? Try StumbleUpon App Discovery. If you own an Android phone and you’re like me, you’ve probably said to yourself more than once, “Wow, there’s an app for THAT?”

Want the Best Android Apps? Try StumbleUpon App Discovery

But finding these gems is no small feat. Beyond turning to friends or browsing broad categories in Android Market, there’s really no effective way to sort through Android’s 100,000+ apps to find those I’ll really like.