Entries tagged with “android apps” from WIRELESS AND MOBILE NEWS

DataViz announced that their Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync client, RoadSync, is now available for purchase in Android Market.

RoadSync provides secure, wireless and direct push synchronization with Microsoft Exchange Server and supports corporate e-mail, calendar, contacts and attachments. The application has been in public beta for the past six months and accumulated nearly 20,000 customers who helped solidify the messaging solution on a variety of server configurations and Android-based devices running 1.5 Cupcake and 1.6 Donut.

SPB TV is now available to Android smartphones including the G1 and T-Mobile myTouch 3G. There a freebie (limited features and channels) and full-paid version for $9.95 from Android Market

Best, Top-Downloaded, Free and Paid Android Apps from Wireless and Mobile News

Review of Reviews Best Top Free Android Apps T-Mobile G1 and T-Mobile myTouch 3G.
Top Best Android Apps 2Day: Top Ten Paid Android Apps Full of Tools.
Top 10 Free Android Apps 2Day: Weather, Rings and Jokes.

Android  and T-Mobile Apps Articles:

• Android and iPhone Apps 2Day: Google Fast Flip: Pub Viewer.
  
• Android Apps 2Day: OpenTable Restaurant Res, Share & Free Meal App.
  
• Android Apps 2Day: HotelsByMe Hotel Booking Finding App.
• Android Apps 2Day: Inspector Gadget, Katamari & Brain Coach.
• Android Apps 2Day: Listen to Listen Podcast Finder App.
• Free Android Apps 2Day: Aloha to Aloqua.
• Adroid Apps 2Day: Layar Adds Augmented Reality Layers
• Android Apps 2Day: Caldwell Banker Int'l Home Finder.
  
• Android Apps 2Day: Layar Reality Browser Adds Info to Photos Where U At.
• Android Apps 2Day: DataViz Free and Paid.
• Google Voice Mobile.
• Free Android App of the Day: ShopSavvy.
  
• Android Free App of the Day: imeem Mobile Music.
• Google Mobile Spreads Spreadsheets to G1.
• TeleNav for Android Starts 2/24.
  
• Android Marketplace Now Accepting Premium Paid App$$.
• Opera Mini Browser Available for Android.
• Flycast Available for Android.
• GoTV Goes Android.
• YourKey Free App Keys into LifeLock Keyed with Ads in App Android Version 1st.
• Free Android Apps 2Day: m:Vampire Sucks Your Blood.
• Android Google Maps Updated with Voice Search and Latitude.
  
• Exit Strategy: NYC Subway Exit Maps 4 Android.
  
• Android Apps 2Day: Amazon Remembers.
• Boingo Wi-Fi Locator Android App.
  
• Visa Android App Launched.
• Firethorn Mobile Banking Android Apps.

To help those who just bought their T-Mobile myTouch 3G smartphones recently, we've rounded up all our apps and applications articles about Android apps to help you find the right apps for your Google Android smartphones.  There are thousands of Android apps in Android Market out there and after you get used to using your myTouch 3G, you'll want to check the top apps available.

Yesterday, we researched reviews to find out what reviewers have wrote about Android Apps.  This week we ran articles on the top downloaded apps from Android Market.  On your mark, get set, download your apps and go!

We update the Android Apps page frequently, you may want to check it out.

Best, Top-Downloaded, Free and Paid Android Apps:

Review of Reviews Best Top Free Android Apps T-Mobile G1 and T-Mobile myTouch 3G.
Top Best Android Apps 2Day: Top Ten Paid Android Apps Full of Tools.
Top 10 Free Android Apps 2Day: Weather, Rings and Jokes.

Apps Articles:

• Android and iPhone Apps 2Day: Google Fast Flip: Pub Viewer.
  
• Android Apps 2Day: OpenTable Restaurant Res, Share & Free Meal App.
  
• Android Apps 2Day: HotelsByMe Hotel Booking Finding App.
• Android Apps 2Day: Inspector Gadget, Katamari & Brain Coach.
• Android Apps 2Day: Listen to Listen Podcast Finder App.
• Free Android Apps 2Day: Aloha to Aloqua.
• Adroid Apps 2Day: Layar Adds Augmented Reality Layers
• Android Apps 2Day: Caldwell Banker Int'l Home Finder.
  
• Android Apps 2Day: Layar Reality Browser Adds Info to Photos Where U At.
• Android Apps 2Day: DataViz Free and Paid.
• Google Voice Mobile.
  
• YourKey Free App Keys into LifeLock Keyed with Ads in App Android Version 1st.
• Free Android Apps 2Day: m:Vampire Sucks Your Blood.
• Android Google Maps Updated with Voice Search and Latitude.
  
• Exit Strategy: NYC Subway Exit Maps 4 Android.
  
• Android Apps 2Day: Amazon Remembers.
• Boingo Wi-Fi Locator Android App.
  
• Free Android App of the Day: ShopSavvy.
  
• Android Free App of the Day: imeem Mobile Music.
• Google Mobile Spreads Spreadsheets to G1.
• TeleNav for Android Starts 2/24.
  
• Android Marketplace Now Accepting Premium Paid App$$.
• Opera Mini Browser Available for Android.
• Flycast Available for Android.
• GoTV Goes Android.
• Visa Android App Launched.
• Firethorn Mobile Banking Android Apps.
  

Finding the best apps for the T-Mobile G1 and myTouch 3G Google Android smartphones can be overwhelming because currently there are thousands of apps out there.

So how you can find the best apps? Well you could read reviews of all the apps out there which would take a lot of time, or you could rely on a source like Wireless and Mobile News to review the reviews out there and compile a best of the best list.
We've created this "Review of Reviews" by reviewing all the top reviews out there and then picking the ones that show up the most often as the best and top reviewed apps. 

1. T-Mobile AppPack - T-Mobile did a great shopping job of finding apps that they new their customers would like.  Many of the apps they picked were already well-reviewed and had high download numbers . The apps included are

• Sherpa, Sherpa learns a person's likes and dislikes through behavior and user feedback, prioritizing recommended retailers, restaurants and attractions.
  
• imeem Mobile streams music customized to your tastes, recommending new songs and artists based on which songs you identify as your favorites.
• WorldTour puts live webcams from around the world onto your home screen.
• Phonebook offers an upgraded, more personalized phonebook for Android.
• FreshFace is a theme engine to further customize your myTouch.
• Movies by Flixster takes the aspect of movie reviews to the next level. Through integration with Facebook, you can find friends who also want to see that movie or read reviews from friends who have already seen it.  It goes without mentioning that T-Mobile wants users to download their T-Mobile My Account.
  

2. Ringdroid - This ringtone making-app is too much fun not to download. Ringdroid lets you record or edit music and turn it into a ringtone. It supports WAV, MP3 and 3GPP/AMR files.

3. Google Maps - Google has a great relationship with Android and it really shows in the Android Map app.  They claim you will never have to carry a paper map again. It helps you find where you are through My Location and then help you go where you want to go. There's street view and satellite view as well as look for business listings and dial them directly. Google Maps was recently updated with Voice Search and Google Latitude. If you already have Google Maps installed, we suggest the super voice app Goggle Voice.
4.Shop Savvy - shopping app that when you scan barcodes, it looks up items online to comparison shop in real-time. It also saves items for future shopping.

5. WHERE - s a bundle of  useful GPS apps that help you find people, places and things. Are you looking for the hottest restaurants, coffee or need a cheap fill-up? Maybe you want to know the local weather, traffic or headlines? Whatever you are after, WHERE has it in little information widgets.

CTIA has partnered with the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) to keep child pornography off of wireless networks.

CTIA and representatives from the wireless industry have created the Wireless Child Safety Task Force. Wireless companies will continue to prohibit websites believed to contain child pornography from being hosted on their servers.

Through the efforts of the Task Force, the wireless industry will expand its existing partnership with NCMEC. For more than three years, The Wireless Foundation has teamed with NCMEC and the U.S. Department of Justice to administer the Wireless AMBER Alerts program.

CTIA-The Wireless Association has elected new officers and Executive Committee members for the wireless industry trade group. Former Vice Chairman, Robert Dotson, T-Mobile USA President and CEO, has been elected as the new Chairman. Mr. Dotson succeeds Verizon Wireless CEO, Lowell McAdam, as CTIA Chairman and will assume the position in January 2009.

Other CTIA elected officers announced at today's Executive Committee meeting include:
AT&T Mobility President and CEO Ralph de la Vega as Vice Chairman,
Asurion CEO Bret Comolli as Treasurer, Centennial Communications
CEO Michael Small as Secretary
Verizon Wireless CEO Lowell McAdam as Chairman Emeritus.

CTIA also elected 36 returning board members for 2009, and the following new members to the Executive Committee: Clearwire Corporation CEO Ben Wolff, TracFone Wireless, Inc. President and CEO F.J. Pollack, and U.S. Cellular President and CEO Jack Rooney.

International CTIA WIRELESS 2009 announced that former Vice President and Noble Peace Prize Winner Al Gore will deliver a keynote address

International CTIA WIRELESS 2009 takes place April 1-3 at the Las Vegas Convention Center.
 

In 2007, Vice President Gore and the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change won the Nobel Peace Prize, and his documentary on global warming, "An Inconvenient Truth," won a highly-coveted Academy Award.

Gore is chairman of Current TV, a network for young people based on viewer-created content and citizen journalism, and he serves as chairman of Generation Investment Management, a firm focused on a new approach to sustainable investing. In addition, he is a visiting professor at Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, and he chairs the Alliance for Climate Protection, a non-profit organization dedicated to examining and developing solutions to the climate crisis.

The CTIA Wireless Association and CEO, Steve Largent didn't let the election go unnoticed they sent out the following statement to the press:

"We congratulate President-elect Obama for his election victory, and we look forward to working together with the incoming Administration and new Congress to provide consumers with even more enhanced communications services.

"The wireless industry is positively changing the way Americans live, work, and play, and as we have all seen in the recent campaign, the technology is playing an increasingly important role in the way all Americans can be engaged in the political process. The industry is eager to work with policymakers in the weeks and months ahead and remains committed to offering every consumer a constantly growing list of communications benefits."

Comment from Wireless and Mobile News:
Although we don't know what Obama's policies will be towards wireless, we know that he used text and mobile to his advantage. CTIA members text voted for him during their convention in San Francisco.

Driving into Vegas on the Way to CTIA Wireless, amongst the cranes constructing mega massive hotel casinos, hanging from one crane was a bunch of blue-suited early adopters strapped on a flying mobile office.

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Is it a balloon? Nope it's the Nokia upwardly mobile boardroom in the sky!

Nokia demonstrated their every where any time capabilities of their Internet tablet. They strapped participants into chairs on a giant platform and hoisted the ultra mobile board room 180 feet into the air with a crane. The product demonstrated was the Nokia N810 Internet Tablet, which is now WiMAX (802.16e) enabled. The tablet will swtich between WiMAX and Wi-Fi. It will support the Sprint WiMAX network coming later this year.

Former presidential candidates Fred Thompson and John Edwards are expected to keynote the third day of CTIA Wireless.

Verizon is expected to start selling the HTC Touch as the Verizon XV6900 Touch with sneak peaks appearing in the blogosphere.

The Verizon version comes in white and has the same touch capabilities of previous versions such as Windows Mobile 6 Professiona1, 256MB of flash ROM, EV-DO mobile broadband, Bluetooth 2.0 wireless, MicroSD slot and a 2MP digital camera.

HTC Touch (Sprint) rated 4 out of 5 by Wireless and Mobile News Review of Reviews

Before you get in touch with the HTC Touch Windows smartphone, please be aware that there are two models available in the US, the first model that came out in June was an unlocked GSM phone that was always compared to the iPhone and has sold over 800,000 units.

The new Sprint version is enhanced with  EV-DO support and compatibility with the Sprint Music Store and Sprint TV. This Sprint version does not support Wi-Fi but has a faster processor and more sensitive touch capabilities. The TouchFlo interface is programmable and well-liked by users and reviewers. Some reviewers raved about the phone calling it “hot” and ‘hands down one of the best devices I’ve used in the past two years.”  While many reviewers did not like the fact that the phone does not have a keyboard.

The TouchFlo interface is easy to learn and use while entertainment features of the phone rated highly. The HTC Touch has good call, video and camera quality.  The HTC Touch is truly an instance where we suggest you  “try before you buy.”  If you have good finger/eye coordination, the HTC Touch may be your phone, but if you’re keyed into keyboards, the HTC Touch shouldn’t touch your heart or wallet.

The HTC Touch costs $249.99 with a 2 year Sprint contract and rebate.

While Southern California was still burning, the news from Day 2 of CTIA included more announcements and SMS help for SoCal:

• The announcement by Dustin Moskovitz, founder of Facebook and Mike Lazaridis, founder of RIM, during a keynote address at CTIA that Facebook will be developing an open Facebook application for BlackBerry devices was reported by almost all wireless publications. The San Francisco Chronicle commented, “The deal underscores how much Facebook wants to attract older members, and how willing RIM is to go after a younger market.
• PC World noticed the AT&T Blackjack II, that runs Windows Mobile 6, will be one of the first devices to support Microsoft’s System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008.
• Guy Krakow a MSNBC thought the new mobile game from Cellfun, Mobile Ring that pits presidential candidates in a boxing match was a “big hit,” as well as being impressed with the Nokia 5310 XpressMusic phone.
• The Associated Press reported on the fact that users can now get AOL Instant Messaging on Verizon and Alltel phones.
• Wireless Week wrote about CTIA CEO Steve Largent’s suggestion that “subscribers of participating wireless carriers can donate $5 to (Southern California Fire Red Cross) relief efforts by text messaging the keyword “GIVE” to “2HELP” (24357).”

Although Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer was a keynote speaker and announced a new server smartphone software from Microsoft there were lots of other news stories at CTIA.

• Tom Kraznit at CNET posted a blog entry about how a panel talked about how instrumental the iPhone has been in influencing the mobile market.
• PC World IDG News Service noted that Microsoft will be backing the mobile enterprise services company, Enterprise Mobile Inc.
• The competition is heating up because AZ Central made sure its readers knew that Microsoft plans on decreasing the price of Windows Mobile Phones below $100.
• PC World has reported on some neat new PC/phone related products to keep PC files on your phone or vice a versa, Web access, GPS sharing, microblogging, and ad supported free International calls from Talkster.
• The Seattle Times mentioned the presence at CTIA of it’s local biz Whrrl, a social discovery service with mobile and Web access.

Sprint and HTC Corp. announced the availability of Touch by HTC™, a full touch screen wireless phone integrating Windows Mobile 6 with advanced entertainment features. The Touch by HTC brings together email and business applications with Sprint’s exclusive multimedia content including over-the-air music downloads, live TV and streaming Sirius radio.

The Touch has a 3 inch touch screen that operates by finger swiping. It uses Windows Mobile 6 operating system, which is compatible with Windows PC software applications such as Outlook and uses Internet Explorer as the browser.

Touch by HTC offers MicroSD card slot that supports up to 4GB - a 512MB card is included with the device. Additional features include a 2.0 MP camera/camcorder with up to 5X zoom, advanced stereo Bluetooth® and Voice-activated dialing. The phone costs $249 with a two-year contract ($100 mail-in rebate) and has been sold previously in Asia and Europe. It will be available November 4.