Android does not include any way to browse your files (although some manufacturers are now including a basic file explorer in their roms), this not only makes organisation hard but means you can’t see what data is being stored. Luckily, being Android this problem was soon gone when file explorers such as ES File Explorer [...]

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One of the great things about having an open operating system is that applications can totally change the whole look or feel of a phone. Swype for Android is a custom input method which brings innovation to typing  on a mobile and I must say the results are extremely impressive (to enable it long hold [...]

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Movies by Flixster is one of the earliest and most well polished Android applications available and has been hugely popular with over 250,000 downloads. Originally Movies was a free app with no ads, now it is ad supported but they aren’t intrusive and it is understandable that the developer would want to have some way [...]

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This review won’t be relevant to everyone but it’s definitely an app worthy of a review. WordPress is a free blogging system (that this website runs on!), and is the most popular of its kind in the world. The WordPress for Android app allows you to view comments, add new posts, add new pages and view your [...]

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Tapatalk Pro is an Android application that allows you to connect to many forums, as long as they have Tapatalk enabled. Many forums do indeed have Tapatalk enabled which makes accessing your favourite forums on your  mobile much easier – but do beware there are still forums that do not implement it and due to [...]

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Trillian BETA launched a few hours ago – for those that don’t know, Trillian is a multi protocol instant messaging client. Trillian have been in the instant messaging game a long time with most IMers using Trillians PC application at some point. Trillian supports AIM, Facebook Chat, GTalk, ICQ, Jabber/XMPP, WLM (MSN), MySpace and Yahoo [...]

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SMS Popup has been around for a long time on Android. There are many programs which aim to enhance SMS on Android but SMS Popup is the original. The app is pretty simple – when you receive a new SMS, instead of just having an icon in the notification bar you also get a popup. Many complained [...]

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eBuddy is another one of the many multi protocol instant messaging clients for Android, many of you may have also heard of eBuddy for their web based messaging services. eBuddy doesn’t include quite as many services as some other IM clients such as Nimbuzz but it still has the main ones, these are: MSN, Yahoo, [...]

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Todays review is going to be short and sweet, just like this app! tAttachApkInstaller lets you install APK’s from a Gmail attachment. This is extremely handy, instead if getting a lead out and transferring the app to the phone or any other method, you can simply email an APK to yourself and install it directly from a [...]

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Nimbuzz is one of the many multi network instand messaging clients for Android – this means that it connect to many different instant messaging services. The supported services are MSN, AIM, Facebook, Skype, Yahoo, Google Talk, Orkut, MySpace, ICQ, Gadu Gadu and Hyves. The amount of support is really great and it’s one of the best features [...]

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TweetDeck is a social networking client that so far has been available for desktop and iPhone use. It is one of the most popular Twitter clients around and also integrates Facebook, Buzz and Foursquare. Earlier this week TweetDeck announced that they would be releasing a BETA of their Android version of TweetDeck by the end of the week [...]

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I’m sure a lot of readers here user Facebook and are probably disappointed by the lack of decent Facebook client for Android. The official app was finally released around a year ago now but it was extremely basic when compared to its iPhone counterpart – updates have been almost non existant since with the only major addition [...]

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ChompSMS is one of the oldest and most downloaded apps on the Android marketplace. In short, it is a highly customizable SMS client with the ability to also send extremely cheap international texts via ChompSMS’s network – although this really great feature is barely mentioned now on their Android marketplace listing. Originally, ChompSMS was a totally free [...]

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Something I’d been looking for on Android recently was a nice and flexible notes application that could be used for a few different applications such as lists. I saw Springpad pop up in the market and thought it was worth a look, and I’m sure glad that I did because in my opinion it’s the [...]

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360 Live for Android is an Xbox 360 application allowing you to see what your friends are doing online, send them messages or view achievements, view game information and accept/reject friend requests. Unlike other Xbox 360 applications, you log in on 360 Live to your Xbox Live account and it bring up your friends list and [...]

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