HOT 5 google android application.. MUST SEE !!!

Hot 5: Best new Android apps

Google has just launched its neatly arranged web store, making it easy to instantly download apps to your phone or tablet (no software, no plugging into your PC). It has jumped Apple’s App Store in usability, but doesn’t quite have the masses of apps of the competition . But baby steps, right Google?

If you’re just joining the Android Army, here’s five apps to get you started…

Pulse News Reader
Call us shallow, but when someone dresses up a boring old RSS aggregator in this much finery, we shall go to the ball. It’s not perfect, but we’ve yet to see an aggregator done with more glam and it’ll pull in social stuff as well, so you can dip into the tiled homescreen, grab a few headlines and check a few updates in the time it takes to send a text. It’s early days for the news gatherer, too, so we expect creases to decrease over the coming weeks and months.

X Construction
Like all the best smartphone games, X Construction is stupefyingly simple. It goes like this. Look at ravine, canyon, etc. Build bridge from allocated number of girders. Set train in motion. Fail. Try again. Succeed. Look at more challenging ravine, canyon, etc. Rinse. Repeat. Like Trainyard, it’s a process of logic and (to some extent) trial-and-error. But there’s not an Angry Birds-esque fluke in sight when your civil engineering comes up short. Infuriating, and massively addictive.

Seek Droid
This isn’t the first find-my-phone Android app out there. But it is the best. So far. It’ll crank out some noise if you’ve lost it in silent mode, display your phone’s whereabouts on a map (it can activate the GPS remotely if you had it switched off) and remotely wipe your phone, including the microSD card. It works even without a SIM card and has minimal battery drain. We like it.

Google Translate
This is what the future looks like. Okay, it’s not quite as smooth as Douglas Adams imagined, but you don’t have to put a slimy yellow fish in your ear canal either. Google Translate will, however, translate speech on the fly and has a startling level of accuracy. It’s capable of some fairly impressive bloopers as well, but think what fun the future will be when we regularly ask foreigners how to get sand out of Tony’s biscuit.
Astral Commander
Imagine Flight Control had an extra variable: a moving runway. Now imagine several moving runways. Now replace the planes with minesweeping robots and the runways with mines for a brain-scattering finger dragger that’s opiate-grade in its moreishness. It’s also quite difficult. In the best way possible, of course

HTC start to merge officially.... ther is 2 keyboard.. good new for physical keyboard fans... =)

Well, look who finally decided to step up into the light. The HTC Merge has been officially announced from the Taiwanese company to arrive this spring on the market. Probably a little late for it, knowing it was suppossed to come out back in November or early December. For all physical keyboard fans, here is another smartphone option. 

Calling it "the powerful, feature-rich HTC Merge", HTC announced that it will be a CDMA-world phone to combine a full QWERTY slide-out keyboard with the power of Android 2.2 and HTC Sense. Other specs include a 3.8-inch touchscreen display, a 5 MP camera with auto-focus and flash plus 720p video recording. 

It will also feature 3G network, WiFi connectivity or integrated GPS plus the posibility to experience great applications available on the Android Market. HTC Merge is expected to be headed via multiple North American operators in spring.

Samsung Galaxy Pro .... PRo Enough ooooo...

A new member has joined Samsung Galaxy smartphones family and is a candybar-QWERTY Android phone called Galaxy Pro. Designed with half touchscreen and half keyboard, the phone is targeting everyone addicted to this type of handset. 

Unlike the other Galaxy phones, the Galaxy Pro features modest specs. It comes with a 2.8-inch display, 800MHz CPU, a 3MP camera on the back, Wi-Fi, pre-loaded with Social Hub Premium and running on Android 2.2 Froyo. 

An UK carrier Three already confirmed to be offering the Galaxy Pro anytime soon, with no precise infos regarding a pricing or availability. More details will be coming shortly and until that time, check out the source link to see the device in action.

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NEW Samsung Galaxy S II review... it's NICE !!!

Mobile World Congress 2011 has been closed one week ago and we had the chance to see some interesting smartphones making their entrance at the show. One of these devices is the follow-up of the popular and original Galaxy S, the high-eng and powerful Samsung Galaxy S II. A really impressive phone that combines an unmatched viewing experience with incredible performance.

If you loved the original Galaxy S, but got unsatified by its design made of black plastic case on the back and rounded chrome trim, looking more like an iPhone 3GS, Galaxy S II goes to another level. Samsung decided to change that and made a thinner, slimmer and modern new smartphone with a more durable metallic shell on the back.

Claiming to be the thinnest Android handset at only 8.49mm, the overall dimensions of the phone are: 125.3 x 66.1 x 8.5 mm and it weights just 116 grams, despite its large display, which makes it quite convenient to carry it while on the go. Not only it has an impressive 4.27-inch display, but it features Samsung's new Super AMOLED Plus technology, offering offers 50% more sub-pixels, loaded with Gorilla Glass display and TouchWiz v4.0. 

In terms of performance, the major highlight of the Galaxy S II is that fast and powerful dual-core 1GHz ARM Cortex-A9 proccessor, running quickly, 1GB of RAM plus 16GB of internal memory expandable up to 32GG by using the microSD card. 

As for the OS, the handset boasts the newest version of Android, 2.3 Gingerbread, allowing access to the App Market with a bunch of games and apps that you can download onto your phone. There is a rear 8 megapixel camera with auto focus and LED flash, loaded with other essential features such as touch focus, smile,face detection or image stabilization plus a secondary front-facing cam with 2MP for video calling. 

It will also have an integrated NFC (Near Field Communication) chip and will be the first handset to ship with MHL port for dual purpose USB and HDMI out. Other network and connectivity features include support for Wi-Fi® 802.11 a/b/g/n, Bluetooth 3.0 with A2DP or USB v2.0 for browsing or transfering any file to/from other compatible phones. 

To conclude, the Galaxy S II looks more stylish, elegant and powerful than its predecessor. Considering all its advanced specs that make it a top class smartphone, for sure it will be more sucessful than the original Galaxy S, but probably not too affordable. A huge £612 (around $ 1.000) pricing for the 16 model has been revealed on the Play.com website. Hoping this is not true.

have a nice phone but dunno how to protect? here i teach u.. 5 Easy Way to protect ur phone from malware

5 Easy Ways to Protect Your Android Phone from Malware

Worried about your Android phone after the recent malware scare? Here are five things you can do right now to guard yourself.

The recent malware scare on Android phones broke new ground for mobile viruses: It was the first piece of Android malware to appear in Google's official App Market, and it was the most sophisticated piece of Android malware seen to date. DroidDream, as the now-infamous trojan was called, turned out to be a nightmare for users, as it was able to "root" any phone it was installed on, giving total control to the developer. If there was any doubt that mobile malware wasn't a serious threat, the appearance of DroidDream just shattered it.

If you're an Android user, you may be worried about the security of your phone. The good news is that virtually all mobile malware threats require some kind of conscious action on the part of the user—malware can't just penetrate your phone without you doing something that makes that happen (for example, installing a malicious app). That said, the most DroidDream incident shows that mobile malware is more sophisticated than ever.

"The frequency and sophistication has been increasing substantially," says John Hering, CEO ofLookout, a software security company that focuses exclusively on mobile devices. "It started off being more information theft. This was actually a root exploit. Once [DroidDream] hacked the phone, it dropped a command-and-control infrastructure. And it has complete control, waiting to be told what to do."

Scary stuff. Google eventually deleted the offending apps from users' phones and patched them to be resistant to further exposure to the trojan, but if those users had followed some simple anti-malware rules, DroidDream would never have spread. Here are some simple steps any Android user can take to inoculate themselves against mobile software threats.

1. Download Apps Only from Trusted Sources

This is dogma for guarding against malware on any platform. In the DroidDream incident, shady developers pirated existing apps and re-posted them with slightly different names (and the trojan) on the Android Market. But looking at screencaps of the apps versus the originals, they all use the generic Android icon instead of a more distinctive graphic that a legit developer would use. Also, the developers' names, "Kingmall2010" and "we20090202" among them, are dead giveaways. Clearly these guys aren't on the up and up.

Android's open nature by and large lets developers post new apps to the App Market virtually at will. And while Google does some vetting, it doesn't "whitelist" every app like Apple does with iOS. That's led to impressive growth for the platform, but part of the tradeoff means incidents like the DroidDream trojan scare. So be careful before you download; if it's not a company you recognize, do some research before letting that app live on your phone. Check out the ratings and reviews, and look at the app's permissions very closey—there's no reason for a wallpaper app to have access to your personal data, for example.

2. Protect Your Phone with a Password

It's a simple thing to do, yet so many don't. Using a password is the easiest thing you can do to protect your phone from spying eyes. Using a fingerprint lock would be even better. While a lock alone isn't going to ensure complete protection, it will prevent almost all "analog" hacking (i.e. physically looking at your phone)—not to mention put your mind at ease for those inevitable times you accidentally leave the phone in cab or restaurant.

Click on the "Next Page" link below to see three more easy ways to beef up protection on your Android phone.

3. Install OS Updates as Soon as They're Available

In the DroidDream scare, the hackers had used the malicious apps to attack phones via known vulnerabilities in Android. Those vulnerabilities had been patched, however, in more recent versions of the OS. Granted, Android is fragmentized—it's hard to know what version your phone can upgrade to—but when you get an upgrade notification, you should install it immediately. With every update, Google routinely closes up holes that malware authors can exploit.

4. Don't View Sensitive Information on Public Wi-Fi

Wi-Fi is one of the most beneficial inventions for PCs in the last decade, bringing wireless Internet access to virutally every coffee house in the country. But that's exactly the problem—anyone can walk into that coffee house and get on the same network you're using. If your Wi-Fi network is unsecured, you should think twice about doing anything particularly sensitive (like firing up that banking app).

5. Install a Mobile Security App

If you're already doing numbers 1-4 on this list, you probably don't really need to take this extra step. After all, mobile OSes are inherently more secure than their PC analogues, and apps are more isolated from each other. However, installing a security app (from a trusted source, of course) can't hurt, the apps are often free, and there can be extra benefits as well. For example, Lookout's premium Android app (there's a free version, too) will analyze all the apps on your phone and tell you the permissions each and every one of them—handy if you tend to download random Android games with abandon. Many of the major players in PC security—Symantec, McAfee, Norton, and Juniper—all make free security apps.