Top Smartphone Applications for India

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In this post we will discuss about few very useful and interesting smart phone applications for India. Even though I will mostly talk about iPhone apps, similar apps are available in Android phones too. But from my experience I found that, iPhone apps always score better in their layout and overall experience. More over any iOS apps gives the same experience in any iPhones which is far from the truth when you look at the Android phones, even the OS versions differ between the latest phones in the market. Android market is fragmented and the effect is showing. In short the experience may differ between the two application platforms. There are far few apps available in the Windows Market place for India.

In this article we will give pointers and over view of apps without getting into detail. If you like the app, download it and play with it. It is the best way to learn.

MyCityWay

MyCityWay is an essential iPhone app for every Indian who is residing in any of the metros in India. In fact it is a global application and is not specific to India at all. It enables you to explore and navigate urban Cities like never before. Use MyCityWay to find a Chinese restaurant in your neighborhood, locate the nearest petrol bunk, or buy tickets for a movie in your City. It has 38 widgets to choose from each loaded with the latest information about your city. Some of the screen shots are given below gives you a very good idea what it can do for you. This is available for Android users too.

Indian Train

All of us travel by train and keep visiting railway site to know about current PNR status, or to find out a train schedule or book a ticket. There are plenty of smart phone apps which enable to do all of these tasks. It is tough to pick one. I thought India Train is one of the best among them. It satisfies almost all of your needs for train journey except booking a seat which is still reserved to the web based portal launched by Indian Railways. The following screen gives some of the screen shots which give you an idea what these apps can do.

Namma Metro

This is one of the beautifully designed free iPhone apps. The Namma Metro app, developed by private firm O Clock Software, gives information about the city’s latest mass transportation system, making it easy for users to navigate through the latest attractions on Namma Metro, its routes, stops and BMRCL’s other expansion works. Following screen shots give you an idea but you really need to fiddle with the application to know how good it is. Excellent!

Bookmyshow

We all want to book movie tickets the easiest way. Bookmyshow is an excellent application which enables us to do it, now it is available across all smart phones. It gives the movie listing in your town, you can read the reviews, see the trailers, choose the seat you like and then decide and book the ticket, all these in your mobile phone.

Bangalore Airport

This application gives a snap shot of arrival and departure in Bangalore Airport. For booking use Kayak apps which are available universally.

Traffic Tickets

You know that today morning while coming to office you got a call from your boss while waiting for the traffic junction. The moment you picked up the call the traffic light turned green and you could see the traffic police was staring at you. Do you want to know whether you are really caught by him for using the cellphone? The following iPhone app helps call Traffic Tickets Bangalore, you need to just enter your registration number and press go. No need to open the laptop and visit the RTO website and go through many pages to find out the answer.

Warning: Please do not attend to phone calls while driving; you are inviting danger not alone for yourself but also for others on the road. If you really cannot avoid attending phone calls while driving use Bluetooth speaker phones designed for cars ex: Jabra Freeway.

Bangalore Transit

Bangalore City Transit application is your guide to Bangalore public bus system. Plan your trip; find out BMTC bus routes between any two bus stops and much more. No internet connection required for trip planning or bus route search. This is not a great application but still very useful and is designed by Vinaya Shenoy.

Key features

1. Search all bus routes between any two bus stops in Bangalore
2. Provides direct bus routes or with connecting stops
3. Route information is shown in list view or map view
4. Route maps for all bus routes. Locate a bus stop in map (internet connection required)
5. Store bus route results, routes or bus stops as favorite item for easy access
6. Find nearby bus stops from any given bus stop

Similar apps you may find for other metros in India.

MyTax India

MyTax is an interesting app for computing Tax for Indians. It is very easy to use and rich in graphics. It allows you in advance planning for investment.

Visit http://www.mytaxindia.com/ for details.

Citi Mobile

If you have a Citi Bank Suvidha account, you can access your account and do any transaction using the iPhone Citi Mobile apps. It is easier to use compared to iMobile app for ICICI bank. I do not want to include more pictures due to privacy reasons.

NDTV

NDTV has one of first in the media to launch iPhone apps which provides all in-depth news and more.

NavFree GPS Application

There are many online maps and GPS application for iPhone and Android phones. But you may need an offline GPS application while driving. Sygic and MapmyIndia cost $50/- but navfree GPS apps is available for free and it gives a reasonably good offline map for navigation. It has 3D features too and 170MB to download.

Other Apps Worth Mentioning

1. TimesofIndia
2. Saavn - Hollywood Songs
3. TuneIn Radio – 30,000 radio stations
4. RadioTaxi – for your Taxi needs
5. Zomato
6. iMobile – ICICI mobile banking apps
7. DesiRadio – Radio in Indian languages
8. Translate – English to (Hindi, Kannada, Tamil, Telugu, Gujarati and many more )

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Philips GoGear Connect 3 Review

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Is an Android device without the phone worth buying? Let's investigates Philips' rival to Apple's iPod Touch.

Just because a device is described as smart, doesn't mean it has to be a phone. Apple realized this early on, giving the iPod Touch many of the features of its iPhone, including the all-important apps, and simply removing the phone. It's ideal for people who want to use iOS without monthly payments or at the risk of racking up extra bills. Now, the Philips GoGear Connect 3 aims to do the same thing for Android.

The Connect 3 is the latest addition to Philips' GoGear range of portable music and video players. It runs Android 2.3 (Gingerbread), which isn't quite up to the latest Ice Cream Sandwich standard, but isn't far behind, and connects to networks via Wi-Fi. The Android installation is fully featured, and includes Android Market, so you can download any app you would find on an Android phone.

Physical features and design

Comparisons with the iPod Touch are inevitable, so let's get the physical characteristics out of the way first. The Connect 3 is a similar size to the iPod but twice as t hick, so it's bulkier and the design isn't as impressive. The Connect 3's screen is also slightly smaller with lower resolution, so everything looks blockier. It has multi touch though, so you can use two fingers to pinch and zoom into maps, for example.

The Connect 3's microphone can be used with Skype and other telephony services to make internet calls, and there's an FM radio, which you don't get with the iPod Touch. However, the Connect 3 has no camera, so you can't use it to take photos or shoot video. It's an accomplished music player, though, and comes with a Philips-branded version of Songbird (bit.ly/songbird285), which makes browsing and playing music a pleasure.

The screen lets it down though, particularly when playing video. It'll play HD video up to 720p, but because the screen is only 480 x 320 pixels (a total of 153,600 pixels), you lose any fine detail. The iPod Touch has a resolution of 960 x 640 (614,400) pixels, which is four times as many pixels crammed into a screen that's only 0.3in bigger. It's no wonder that the Philips screen looks blocky by comparison.

Some Android phones, especially the cheaper ones, tend to feel slow and unresponsive, particularly if they're running the newer versions of Android. The Connect 3 seems more than capable of running Android, but we noticed some jerkiness while playing games. The iPod Touch feels much slicker and smoother, and once again wins any direct comparison.

Price margins

Perhaps the biggest problem with the Connect 3 is how much it costs. With a suggested retail price of £160, the 8GB Connect 3 is barely cheaper than Apple's £169 8GB iPod Touch, despite the fact that the Touch is better designed, has more features and is more versatile.

Furthermore, the Connect 3 doesn't offer the same savings over the cost of an Android phone that the iPod Touch offers over an iPhone. An iPhone 3GS costs £319 on a pay-as-you-go contract, or is free on a £20-per-month contract (which works out to a total of £480 over a standard 24-month deal). Next to this, the Touch's £169 price tag looks like a very attractive alternative.

However, the same calculations don't apply to the Connect 3. There are phones running Android 2.3 for as little as £99 on pay-as-you go, such as the Orange San Francisco II (oran.ge/sanfran285). The same model is free on a £10.50 per month contract, which is just £252 over its two-year life. Either package provides the added benefit of mobile phone calls and data connection.

Connect 3 vs. iPod Touch

We've come to believe that Android is a more cost-effective operating system than Apple's, yet this really only applies to its phones. The Connect 3, like Android's tablets, can't match the sophistication of Apple's products and fails to significantly undercut its prices. At the time of writing, the Connect 3 was only available to pre-order through a few online stores, with one offering it for £140. If you find it for this kind of price or less, the Connect 3 might be worthy of consideration, but if you have to pay a similar price to the iPod Touch, there's simply no competition The Apple product is head and shoulders above in virtually every department.

Verdict




We haven't seen a device line itself up so readily to be measured against Apple's iPod Touch, and the Connect 3 deserves a round of applause for taking on the Goliath of portable music players. Unfortunately, it fails to match Apple's standards in almost every respect, from its physical features to the way it handles the software. If the Philips device was significantly cheaper than Apple's, we might be happier to shrug off its shortfalls, but at this price it's just not good enough. Stores may still cut the cost to make it a more attractive option for the budget conscious buyer, but we'll have to wait and see.

Features : 3/10
Performance : 3/10
Ease of Use : 5/10
Value for Money : 2/10

Product Info

Philips GoGear Connect 3
Price: £160

Specifications

1. 3.2in multi-touch screen
2. 480 x 320 pixel resolution
3. 262K colours
4. 8GB of memory
5. Built-in speakers
6. Built- in microphone
7. FM radio
8. 3.5mm headphone socket
9. Micro USB port
10. Bluetooth
11. 802.11 b/g Wi-Fi
12. Android 2.3 (Gingerbread)
13. Supports MP3, WAV, WMA, 3GPP, AAC, FLAC, MIDI, Ogg Vorbis audio formats
14. Supports WMV9, MPEG4, H.264 video formats
15. Battery life up to 25 hours audio, 15 hours radio or 4 hours video
16. 58 x 11 x 113mm.
17. 105g
18. Headphones and USB cable included

Pros

1. Get an Android device without committing to a contract or minimum pay-as-you-go data payments

Cons

1. Fewer features than the iPod Touch
2. Not competitively priced
3. Android phones offer better value for money

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Avast Antivirus For Your Andriod Device For Free

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Now Android has Launched the Officially
Antivirus Tool For Your Andriod Device.
It Is 100% Free and best its has many kind
of Features. As usually we Know that the
Best Antivirus is Avast Antivirus in Pc 's
and Laptops . In the Andriod device also
Avast Antivirus works well and Detects&fix
all viruses,mall wares and Trojans.And you
Can install directly From Andriod Market.

Features : -


Virus Scanner
Privacy Report
App Manager
Firewall
SMS/Call Filtering
Web Shield
App Disguiser
Anti - Theft


Click Here To Download

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Google chrome browser for Android phones

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Now Google chrome is available for android devices . Google has introduced chrome browser for android devices but this beta version is only available only for Ice Cream Sandwitch.

This beta version runs only on Ice Cream Sandwitch devices of android 4.0 version phones.

This beta is available in market only for selected countries , in select countries (United States, Canada, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Spain, Australia, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Argentina, Brazil) and languages for phones and tablets with Android 4.0, Ice Cream Sandwich.

Features :

• Browse fast with accelerated page loading, scrolling, and zooming
• Search and navigate directly from the omnibox
• Open and switch between unlimited tabs in an easy-to-view stack
• Sign in to Chrome to sync your bookmarks and view tabs you have open on your computer
• Send pages from desktop Chrome to your smartphone or tablet with one click and read them on the go, even if you’re offline
• Browse privately in Incognito mode

With is google chrome you can exprience lot of fast and simple acessing of pages through web which is nicely fit for small screens.
For more details watch this vedio

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Samurai II: Vengeance 1.0 (working on x10) apk for android

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FEATURES:
★ Intuitive virtual joystick ensures you’re slicing up baddies, not swiping the screen.
★ Dynamic camera finds the best perspective for each encounter, adding variety while keeping focused on the action.
★ Tense, quick and gory battle sequences!
- Battle hordes of on-screen enemies wielding new weapons and sporting unique abilities.
- Stay nimble and plan your attacks – roll out of harm’s way and eliminate ranged enemies like the Samurai Archer before they can strike.
★ Improved game play includes new features.
- Solve environmental puzzles, avoid dangerous traps, and discover useful items.
- The fight is on – not to worry, the combat never takes a back seat to platforming or fetch-quests.
★ RPG elements reward skilled players – upgrade the Samurai’s health, buy new attack combos and upgrade them to devastating levels.
★ Between levels, gorgeous anime-style comic panels tell the samurai’s tale with original hand-drawn artwork.
★ New survival mode pits the samurai against waves of enemies, giving hardcore players a score-attack mode to hone their skills. Two games in one!
★ Runs at 60 frames per second on all Tegra 2 Devices
★ Advanced AI system on par with console games. Goal Oriented Action Planning architecture is used in many PC, PS3, and Xbox 360 games.
★ Samurai II is developed on the Unity 3D 3.2 engine, the latest technology available on mobile devices.
★ Original soundtrack – in classic samurai movie style, soft music builds with the heat of battle.

Samurai II <<< link

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Eternal Legacy HD v1.0.7 for android

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Overview:Enter a huge world made of cinematic 3D environments in this intense role-playing game, a worthy heir of its Japanese predecessors. The absorbing story implies heavy responsibilities: as Astrian, you must save Algoad from destruction and restore the living bond between humans and nature. Enjoy dozens of hours of exploration and fighting in majestic landscapes. Talk to the people you meet, featuring full voice acting: they may join your team, reveal some secret, give you a quest, and more. The thrilling turn-based fighting system will bring you to the heart of action!

Features:
- The best, deepest Japanese role-playing game available on your HD smartphone.
- Freely explore majestic regions, real-time rendered in full 3D, with free 360° camera.
- A mix of fantasy and sci-fi: fight with swords or guns, face robots and magic, fly your own ship!
- Play as Astrian and save Algoad from destruction in this intense quest, lasting dozens of hours.
- Dynamic turn-based fights: preset your attacks, which will be triggered once the gauge is filled.
- Choose the 3 fighters of your team among the 8 different characters you meet along the way.

Eternal Legacy HD v1.0.7 .apk <<< link
SD Files: Snapdragon: <<< link

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App 2 SD Pro (move apps to SD) v2.30 for android

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Android OS 2.2 – 2.3

Are you running out of application storage?
Do you hate having to check each and every app if it supports moving to the SD card?
Do you want an app that automatically does this for you and can notify you when an app can be moved?

“App 2 SD” helps you to move apps to either external or internal storage thru’ the system Settings. This app is crucial to anyone who has memory management issues.

What’s in this version:
★ show smaller app icons on main window
★ show tip on the app details window
★ added “Recommends to friends” and “More apps” options in Settings window
★ bug fixed

APP 2 SD <<< link

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