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Download Opera Mini Final Version For Android

July 14th, 2010

Opera Mini 5.1 Final version has been released for android based phones, it offers a greater, enhanced browsing speed and awesome user experience, allowing much faster browsing speeds, while keeping the costs to a minimum.

Opera Mini is a favorite not just on feature phones, but also on smartphones, scoring an impressive 1 million downloads on the iPhone during the first 24 hours of availability. Opera Mini is highly optimized for almost any handset, delivering the best Internet experience on more than 3000 mobile phone models.

It raises the game on Android phones, since its Opera Mini 5 beta release. Opera Mini can now be set as the default browser for more convenient Internet access. Opera Mini 5.1 also offers improved page layout on high-end Android handsets with large screens.

Some Stats – Opera Mini is used by over 61 million people on more than 3000 handset models and with today’s release Opera continues its mission to provide the best web experience on any device and on any platform.

See The Video Below To Understand More

Download free Opera Mini 5.1 browser from the Android Market or go to m.opera.com from your mobile phone browser.

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Change Default Browser On Android Nexus One – Applies To All Android Phones

July 9th, 2010

Nexus one is one such great phone, I have started loving it after Froyo 2.2 software update – it has become faster and quicker to respond to actions and touch. I have already written several tips for android phones. Today we will tell you the solution to a common problem of changing the default browser on your android phone.

Just in case if you have installed some third party browsers like opera mini, dolphin browser etc and you might have set them as default browser now you may want to revert back to the default browser which comes with android or vice versa, follow the procedure below.

First you need to identify the default browser and then press the menu soft key and then go to Settings >> Applications

Tap manage applications and locate the browser which is set by default like for example – Dolphin Browser

Tap Dolphin browser and then scroll down to locate and click button clear defaults to remove it as default browser as shown

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Automatically Mount Nexus One SD Card When Connected To USB Port On Computer [ Applies To Other Android Phones Too ]

June 4th, 2010

When ever you connect your nexus one or any other android phone to your computer, you would need to manually mount SD card each time you connect your android phone. You can only transfer files to the SD card from computer only when your SD card is mounted, manually mounting it could be really irritating this way.

MountUSB is a free to use software for android phones, which allows you to mount or unmount your SD card just by clicking on the icon. The only thing you need to do it run this application in background all the time.

This application is available on Android Market, you can easily find it with its name and install it for free and then run it, now connect your android phone via USB it will auto mount this time as this application makes it possible.

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Open, Read PDF Files On Android Phones [ Nexus One, HTC Hero etc ]

May 27th, 2010

There are times when you would want to read pdf documents on your android phones, there are some free pdf reader out there in android market but most of them are not good as they either crash some times or does not provide better options to read a pdf on android phone.

Adobe has just released their pdf reader application for android phones, It offers multi-touch gestures, like pinch-and-zoom, as well as double-tap-zoom, flick-scrolling and panning. We’ve also added a “reflow” mode, which will take text-heavy documents with wide margins, and automatically wrap the content for easy viewing on smaller screens.

Following are some requirements for installing to run adobe reader app

Android v 2.1 and above
550 MHz processor
256 MB of RAM
4.3 MB of available disk space

Currently Supported Devices - Motorola Droid, Motorola Milestone & Google Nexus One (While we have not yet tested against other Android devices, we expect they may also run the application just fine.)

You can scan the QR Code below to point to adobe reader app for android

or click here to download the app if you are reading this on an android device

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Official Twitter App Launched For Android 2.1 In Android Market

May 1st, 2010

Twitter has just launched the official twitter app for android 2.1 powered mobile phones, looks like they have planned to launched it before they release tweetie for iPhone.

We have just installed this application on our nexus one, and explored the app – as per our initial reviews it is better and faster than the popular twitter client seesmic for android till now.

Here are some more screenshots below of the app, we had just taken on our nexus one with android 2.1

Download Official Twitter App On Android Phone

Official twitter app is available on android market, just search with the word twitter, you will see the app in the search results.

[ Source Twitter Official Blog ]

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Garmin-Asus Releases the A10 Android Smartphone with Garmin Navigation

April 28th, 2010

As some of you will surely remember, only a couple of days ago, Garmin introduced on the US market the Garminfone, an Android smartphone providing extensive navigation capabilities. And now, the company is back with yet another offering (or, better said, the same offering in a slightly different packaging and branding), namely the Garmin-Asus A10 Android <… (read more)

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More Android and Linux Tablets Leaked by Dell

April 26th, 2010

Information from Dell keeps leaking, this time via Android Central, which has found a MID/Netbook Tablet roadmap from Dell portraying two new models of such devices being in development. Don’t know if you remember, but last week, Dell leaked new smartphones and a tablet, making this one right here seem like a normal thing when… (read more)