20 Best free Android Apps

Since the Android Market is present several years ago. Has more than 100,000 applications have been present there, whether the application of Social Network, Game, Utility, Multimedia and others.

But, what is the best Android applications?

Here we try to explain the 20 applications that enter the Android category for your best and should have (taken from http://www.makeuseof.com), not a game application, because 30 the best game Android we have discussed before. Following the application, please select which one best for your Android smarthphone

But, what are the best Android apps?

In this article, I’m going to cover the top 20 best Android apps that aren’t games. If you’re looking for a clear cut list of the most useful apps that belong on your phone, this is it.


Communication & Social Apps
Since this is your phone we’re talking about, communication and social applications are probably a good place to start.
1. Facebook For Android


If you’re like most people, you spend more time on Facebook than any other website on the Internet. If you’d like to be able to keep track of all of your friends on your phone, the Facebook for Android app is a must. You can even sync your Facebook contacts with your phone.



2. Twitter


With the Twitter app, you can do everything you can do online with Twitter. Send tweets, DMs, share photos and video and view the real-time search, maps and trending topics.




3. Foursquare &  Gowalla


Since both of these apps pretty much do the same thing, I decided to include them together. Foursquare and Gowalla let you explore your city, see where your friends are and check into venues to receive prizes and rewards. Honestly, they’re both great apps. I routinely use them both.



4. Google Voice


Place calls and send text messages showing your Google number. You can find a lot of creative ways to use this app, including having your Google calls forwarded to your phone.



5. Meebo IM


An all-in-one chat client, Meebo IM lets you chat with your friends on AIM, MSN, Yahoo, Myspace, Google Talk, Jabber and ICQ, all at the same time. Not using Meebo? Here’s 8 reasons why you should.


 
Entertainment & Multimedia Apps

Now lets take a look at some apps for your entertainment. This section is mostly comprised of movies, music and sports applications.
 6. ESPN ScoreCenter

If you’re looking to follow all of your favorite sports teams or the day’s latest action, the ESPN ScoreCenter app is all you need. Whether you follow the NFL or the Premier League, ScoreCenter is the most comprehensive sports app for the Android. Use it to keep track of stats for your fantasy sports teams.



7. Movies


If you’re a movie buff, you should check out the Movies app. Made by Flixster, this app helps you look up showtimes for the top box office movies, view local theaters, browse 65,000 DVDs, read reviews from Rotten Tomatoes and even manage your Netflix queue.

If you want to look up even more detailed movie information, the IMDb Movies & TV app is good also.



8. Pandora Radio


Pandora Radio lets you stream your favorite music on your phone (in the US only). This is the ideal way to listen to music because it allows you to hear all the latest tunes without having to continually upload them to your phone and take up space.

If you’re a fan of Grooveshark, you can also find their application on the Android Market.



9. Last.fm


Like Pandora Radio, Last.fm can also be used to listen to streaming music. What makes it different, however, is the ability to learn about your favorite artists, find nearby concerts and share your music tastes with the Last.fm scrobbler.



Lifestyle Apps

In this section, you’ll find a few useful lifestyle apps. These can be used when you’re out looking for something to do in your town.
10. Urbanspoon


Urbanspoon is a very useful app for when you’re out on the town and can’t decide where you want to eat. Shake your phone and Urbanspoon recommends restaurants near you.



11. Groupon


Groupon is the best site to help you find daily deals in your city. The daily deals concept is a hot topic right now and has been generating a lot of buzz. Get in on the savings while you can.



12. Yelp


Yelp not only lets you search for places to eat, shop, drink and play, but it lets you leave/read reviews of all of the places around you. Very helpful if you’re looking for that perfect place to stay or eat dinner.



News & Reference Apps

Need to find something? With these apps, you can locate just about anything.
13. Yellow Pages


Yellow Pages might be one of the most underrated apps out there. It does exactly what you would expect it to, but it does it so well. Speak or type a business or service and receive locally relevant results.



14. USA Today


Behind on the day’s news? Use the USA Today app to catch up on the latest news, scores, weather and photos you would normally find in the USA Today newspaper.



15. Google Maps


Since I recently moved to the city, this app has saved me countless hours of being lost. Use it to find your way around and get walking, driving and public transportation directions to find the quickest way to get somewhere.

One feature I really like is, when signed into your Google account, how you can look up directions on your computer and, when it’s time to leave, you open the app on your phone and it remembers your search history.



Tools & Utilities Apps
There are a lot of great tools and utilities apps on the Android Market. To round out our list, lets look at the best ones.

16. Backgrounds & Ringtones


There are 2 things that you surely need to do when you get a new phone: change the background and get a custom ringtone. Since these apps could easily be merged into one I decided to do so on this list. They each house a wide selection of creativity for you to choose from.



17. Advanced Task Killer Free


Keep your phone running super fast by killing tasks when you’re done with them. There are a lot of task killing apps out there. This one’s the best.



18. Lookout


Lookout gives your phone security with its antivirus and backup capabilities. You can also use it to locate your phone when it’s lost.



19. Dropbox


We’ve written lots about the usefulness of Dropbox. Now you can access it on your Android device.



20. Evernote


Evernote allows you to jot down notes, clip articles, take snapshots and save recordings for later. Everything you save gets synchronized with your account on your PC.

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Samsung Galaxy Player, the new rival of iPod Touch

Family Samsung Galaxy not only to mobile phones only, but also a music player. At a celebration last CES 2011, Samsung introduced the Galaxy player as a digital music player iPod Touch challenger. Reportedly, Samsung will sell to the public in the near future.


Galaxy Player reportedly will begin to open pre orders on 4 February 2011, in South Korea. But not yet known when this Android-based devices will be thrown into a number of stores worldwide.

Galaxy Player will be available in two models with 8GB and 16GB memory, similar to what was issued by the iPod Touch. Galaxy Player will run the Android 2.2 (Froyo) and support 1GHz processors. Meanwhile, this player will use a screen measuring 3.2 inch LCD Super Clean WVGA 800x480 resolution.

Some other interesting features will also be presented in the Galaxy Players, including T-DMB, SoundAlive audio enhancing technology, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 3.0 support.

Compared with the iPod Touch, Galaxy Player embedded 2 MP camera in the back of the device, including GPS, support for HD video playback, MicroSD, and the 1200mAh battery.

Specifications of Android Samsung Galaxy Player:
- Android 2.2 OS
- Dimensions: 54.2 x 105.5 x 11.08 mm
- Weight: 84 grams
- 1 GHZ Processor with mulitasking
- 3.2-inch Touch Screen Display, WQVGA resolution, TFT LCD display
- 2 MP camera with limited autofocus
- Advanced DLNA support
- Bluetooth 3.0, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, micro USB 2.0 port
- Internal Memory: 16 GB or 8 GB, micro SD card up to 32 GB
- Integrated GPS(Gobal Position System),Digital Compass, Accelerometer Sensor
- Common Features are SoundAlive, DivX support and FM Radio


     

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Huawei EC5805 (AHALink), 3G EVDO wifi router from AHA

BConnect as Internet service provider not only has released the first CDMA mobile phone-based Android 2.2 Froyo Huawei IDEOS with five color choices comes with several security features such as wireless tethering, 3.2 megapixel camera, better known by the name AHATouch

Huawei IDEOS or AHATouch is the first Android smart phone in Indonesia, which is suitable to be owned by young people. Android Froyo operating system was unable to present a variety of attractive applications and interactive

BConnect also cooperated with Huawei modem with the release of  Huawei EC5805 or better known as AHALink. This device is small size and lightweight making it easier to carry anywhere, other than that this modem has the capability in the network 3G/EVDO Rev-A 800 MHz and 2G CDMA 1x 2000.

Huawei EC5805 or AHALink, is a variant of Mobile WiFi modem that is very different from its predecessor products. The modem is capable of providing internet connectivity to five sets at the same time with very easy configuration

Specifications of Modem CDMA Huawei EC5805:
- Frequency (3G) EVDO Rev.A 800 MHZ
- Frequency (2G) CDMA 2000 1x 800Mz
- Reception: EVDO Rev A 800 MHz
- Speed: 1.8Mbps Downlink 3.1Mbps/Uplink
- Dimensions: 96mm × 56mm × 11.6mm
- Weight: 80g (including the battery)
- LED
- Battery: 1150 mAh, duration of use: 3 hours, Maximum standby time: 90 hours
- Micro SD card slot (supports up to 32GB)
- Internal Memory: 128MB Flash, 64MB RAM
- R-UIM
- WiFi: 802.11.b / g
- Encryption: WEP, WPA, WPA2
- Support OS: Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7, Mac OS X 10.4, 10.5 and 10.6 the latest upgrades

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Specs of BlackBerry Monaco, Montana, Sedona, and Malibu

The latest BlackBerry will reportedly codenamed BlackBerry Monaco, Montana, Sedona, and Malibu mentioned will become a mainstay of Research In Motion (RIM) in 2011.

Indeed, in addition to Monaco, Montana, Sedona and Malibu, RIM's business roadmap for 2011 which was also leaked the name of the BlackBerry Curve 9330 and BlackBerry Playbook.

But the specifications for the Playbook seems to have too often been disclosed to the public. Because, RIM are no longer shy to fling it on various occasions. Just waiting till the date when this product is released to the market.

There are 4 other products that are still mysterious, the Monaco, Montana, Sedona, and Malibu. Here it is leaked from the technical specifications of 4 products, which quoted from CrackBerry

BlackBerry Monaco
- Dimensions: 120 x 62 x 11, 5 mm
- Processor: 1.2 GHz Qualcomm
- Display: 3.7 inch, 800 x 480 resolution, 15.9 aspect ratio
- Camera: 5 megapixels, flash, and HD video recording
- Navigation: capacitive touch screen navigation keys + Blackberry + optical navigation module
- Memory: 4GB storage + 768 MB RAM + up to 32 GB SD card
- Wi-Fi/GPS: Wi-Fi 802.11 b / g / n + GPS + Bluetooth mobile hotspot 2.1.EDR
- Connectivity: Micro USB + Bluetooth
- Sensors: Magnetometer - Accelerometer - Proximity
- Software: Enhanced BlackBerr SW v6.1, BlackBerry Evolution 6, Open GL ES 2.0
- Target released to the market: July - August 2011

BlackBerry Montana
- This product is said to be one of the most sleek BlackBerry
- Dimensions: 115 x 66 x 10, 5 mm
- Processor: 1.2 GHz Qualcomm
- Display: 2.8 diagonal - 640 x 480 VGA resolution - 287 dpi
- Camera: 5 megapixels, flash, IS, and 720 p HD recording
- Navigation: Capacitive touch - optical trackpad
- Keypad: Wide qwerty, physical send, end, esc, menu right side, volume control
- Memory: 8GB - 768 MB of RAM - up to 32 GB SD card
- Wi-Fi: 2.4 GHz b / g / n - 5 GHz a / n - mobile hotspot
- Connectivity: Micro USB - Bluetooth - NFC
- Sensors: Magnetometer, Accelerometer, Proximity
- Estimates released in August 2011

BlackBerry Sedona
- Processor: Qualcomm MSM 8655 800 MHz
- Display HVGA Display, 480 x 360 display, 246 dpi
- Navigation: Trackpad + Navigation Keys + Narrow qwerty
- Camera: 5 megapixels
- Memory: 512 MB + 512 MB RAM + up to 32 GB SD card
- Wi-Fi: Wi-Fi 802.11 b / g / n
- GPS: Autonomous & A-GPS
- Software: BlackBerry v6.1 Lite
- NFC Connectivity - Micro USB - Bluetooth
- Prediction launch August-September 2011

BlackBerry Malibu
- BlackBerry Curve series first to use touch screen
- Processor: Qualcomm MSM 8655 800 MHz CPU
- Display: 3.25 inch, 480 x 360 HVGA
- Navigation: Trackpad and Navigation keys
- Keypad: Virtual qwerty
- Camera: 5 megapixels with HD video recording
- Memory: 1 GB Flash + 512 MB RAM, SD slot Micro Hot Swap
- Wi_Fi: 802.11 b / g / n
- GPS: Autonomous & A-GPS
- Connectivity: NFC - Micro USB - Bluetooth 2.1
- Sensor: Ambient Light Sensor, Accelerometer
- Target released late 2010 or early 2011

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30 best free Android OS games

The development of increasingly Android OS darted like a rocket. Of course, games on Android to be one Andoid OS support so that more and more popular.
Here are 30 free games Android OS is best categorized:

1. Angry Birds
The amazingly popular iOS game moved to Android recently, earning over two million downloads during its first weekend of availability.
The Android version is free, unlike the Apple release, with maker Rovio opting to stick a few adverts on it rather than charge an upfront fee. The result is a massive and very challenging physics puzzler that's incredibly polished and professional. For free. It defies all the laws of modern retail.
Angry Birds for Android was first available to download from app store GetJar but is now available through Android Market.



Now Angry Birds game can be played also on the PC, please take here
Angry Birds for PC

2. Bebbled
Your standard gem-shuffling thing, only presented in a professional style you wouldn't be surprised to see running on something featuring a Nintendo badge with an asking price of £19.99.
You only drop gems on other gems to nuke larger groups of the same colour, but with ever-tightening demands for score combos and scenes that require you to rotate your phone to flip the play field on its head, Bebbled soon morphs into an incredibly complex challenge.



3. The Red Stone
There's an awful lot of square-shuffling games on Android and Red Stone is one of the best. And one of the hardest. You start off with a big fat 'King' square that's four times of the normal 'pawn' squares, then set about shuffling things so the fat King can get through to an exit at the top of the screen.
It's hard to accurately describe a puzzle game in the written word, but seriously, it's a good game.



4. Newton
Released a few months back in beta form, Newton is a maths/physics challenge that has you lining up shots at a target - but having to contend with the laws of nature, in the form of pushers, pullers, benders (no laughing), mirrors and traps, all deflecting your shot from its target.
The developer is still adding levels to it at the moment, so one day Newton might be finished and might cost money. But for now it's free and a great indie creation.



5. Sketch Online
Surprisingly free of crude representations of the male genitalia, Sketch Online is a sociable guessing game where users do little drawings then battle to correctly guess what's being drawn first. It's like Mavis Beacon for the Bebo generation. The version labelled "Beta" is free, and if you like it there's the option to pay for an ad-free copy. But Google can't make you. Yet.



6. Drop
Some might call Drop a game, others might classify it as a tech demo that illustrates the accuracy of the Android platform's accelerometer, thanks to how playing it simply involves tilting your phone while making a little bouncy ball falls between gaps in the platforms. Either way it'll amuse you for a while and inform you of the accuracy of your accelerometer - a win-win situation.



7. Frozen Bubble
Another key theme of the independent Android gaming scene is (ports of) clones of popular titles. Like Frozen Bubble, which is based around the ancient and many-times-copied concept of firing gems up a screen to make little groups of similarly coloured clusters. That's what you do. You've probably done it a million times before, so if it's your thing get this downloaded.



8. Replica Island
An extremely polished platform game that pulls off the shock result of being very playable on an Android trackball. The heavy momentum of the character means you're only switching direction with the ball or d-pad, letting you whizz about the levels with ease. Then there's jumping, bottom-bouncing, collecting and all the other usual platform formalities.



9. Gem Miner
You are a sort of mole character that likes to dig things out of the ground. But that's not important. The game itself has you micro-managing the raw materials you find, upgrading your digging powers and buying bigger and better tools and maps. Looks great, plays well on Android's limited button array. Go on, suck the very life out of the planet.



10. ConnecToo
Another coloured-square-based puzzle game, only this has you joining them up. Link red to red, then blue to blue - then see if you've left a pathway through to link yellow to yellow. You probably haven't, so delete it all and try again.
A brilliantly simple concept. ConnecToo used to be a paid-for game, but was recently switched to an ad-supported model - meaning it now costs you £0.00.




11. Titres
Once you're successfully rewired your brain's 25 years of playing Tetris in a certain way with certain buttons and got used to tapping the screen to rotate your blocks, it's... Tetris.
It hinges on how much you enjoy placing things with your phone's trackball or pad. If you're good at it, it's a superb Tetris clone. Let's hope it doesn't get sued out of existence.




12. Trap!
Not the best-looking game you'll ever play, with its shabby brown backgrounds and rudimentary text making it look like something you'd find running on a PC in the year 1985. But it's good.
You draw lines to box in moving spheres, gaining points for cordoning off chunks of the screen. That sounds rubbish, so please invest two minutes of your time having a go on it so you don't think we're talking nonsense.




13. Jewels
Coloured gems again, and this time your job is to switch pairs to make larger groups which then disappear. That might also sound quite familiar. The good thing about Jewels is its size and presentation, managing to look professional while packing in more levels than should really be given away for free.



14. OpenSudoku
We had to put one Sudoku game in here, so we'll go with OpenSudoku - which lives up to its open tag thanks to letting users install packs of new puzzles generated by Sudoku makers. It's entirely possible you could use this to play new Sudoku puzzles for the rest of your life, if that's not too terrifying a thought.




15. Abduction!
A sweet little platform jumping game, presented in a similarly quirky and hand-drawn style as the super-fashionable Doodle Jump. You can't argue with cute cows and penguins with parachutes, or a game that's easy to play with one hand thanks to its super accessible accelerometer controls.





16. The Great Land Grab
A cross between a map tool and Foursquare, The Great Land Grab sorts your local area into small rectangular packets of land - which you take ownership of by travelling through them in real-time and buying them up.
Then someone else nicks them off you the next day, a bit like real-world Risk. A great idea, as long as you don't mind nuking your battery by leaving your phone sitting there on the train with its GPS radio on.



17. Brain Genius Deluxe
Our basic legal training tells us it's better to use the word "homage" than to label something a "rip-off", so we'll recommend this as a simple "homage" to the famed Nintendo Brain Training franchise.
Clearly it's not going to be as slick, but there's enough content in here to keep you "brain training" (yes, it even uses that phrase) until your battery dies. The presentation's painfully slow, but then again that might be the game teaching you patience.




18. Coloroid
Very, very simple and has the look of the aftermath of an explosion in a Tetris factory, but it works. All you do is expand coloured areas, trying to fill them in with colours in as few moves as possible - like using Photoshop's fill tool at a competitive level.



19. Cestos
Sort of a futuristic recreation of curling, where players chuck marbles at each other to try and smash everyone else's balls/gems down the drain and out of the zone. The best part is this all happens online against real humans, so as long as there's a few other bored people out there at the same time you'll have a real, devious, cheating, quitting person to play against. Great.




20. Air Control
One of the other common themes on the Android gaming scene is clones of games based around pretending to be an air traffic controller, where you guide planes to landing strips with a swish of your finger. There are loads of them, all pretty much the same thing - we've chosen Air Control as it's an ad-supported release, so is technically free.




21. GalaxIR
A futuristic strategy game with an abstract look, where players micro-manage an attacking alien fleet. Pick a planet, pick an attack point, then hope your troops have the balls to carry it off. There's not much structure to the game as yet, but that's what you get when you're on the bleeding-edge of free, independent Android gaming development.



22. Graviturn
An accelerometer based maze game, where the aim is to roll a red ball out of a maze by tilting your phone around. Seems embarrassingly easy at first, until increasing numbers of green balls appear on screen. If any green balls roll off the screen you die and have to try again. It's abstract. It's good.



23. Alchemy Classic
There are a few variants on Alchemy out there, each offering a similarly weird experience. You match up elements to create their (vaguely) scientific offspring, so dumping water onto earth makes a swamp, and so on. It's a brain teaser thing and best played by those who enjoy spending many hours in the company of the process of elimination.




24. Action Potato
You control three pots. Pressing on the pots makes them jump up into the air, where they harvest potatoes. See how many you can get in a row. That's the gist of it. And don't collect the rotten potatoes, else you die. That really is it. The Android Market stats say this is on well over 250,000 downloads, so it's doing something right.




25. Scrambled Net
Based around the age-old concept of lining up pipes and tubes, but has been jazzed up with images of computer terminals, high score tracking and animations. Still looks like something you'd have played on a Nokia during the last decade, but it's free – and looking rubbish hardly stopped Snake from taking off, did it?



26. Word Drop
Laid out like your standard Android block-based puzzle game, the difference here is we're not dealing with gems - you make blocks disappear by spelling out words from the jumbled heap of letters. There's not an enormous amount of point to it, but you can at least submit your scores and best words to the server, where an AI version of Susie Dent will pass her approval.



27. Barrr
What you do here is man-manage a bar world, pointing men at the beers, games or tattoo parlour, then taking their money off them once they're drunk and happy like a good capitalist. And make sure they go to the toilet. Things, as things do in games, soon start speeding up and it gets rather insane and difficult.



28. Tetronimo
The name gives it away - this is a Tetris clone. Or rather it's a game that uses the same sort of block-shifting rules as Tetris, only with a very nice and user friendly touchscreen area beneath the block pit to make it easy to play. We're having trouble locating this on the Android Market at time of writing - either a glitch or the inevitable legal troubles.
UPDATE: Tetronimo seems to have been removed from the Market, but the same developer has released Block It Up Lite, which mixes elements of Tetris and Bejewelled. [Thanks to tmahoney in the comments for the tip.]




29. Word Feud
A superb little clone of Scrabble, with a big, clear screen and online play options that actually work. The game's been offered for free with some hefty advertising over it thanks to the developer being based in Norway - which only received paid-for app sales support recently. A paid version may arrive soon, butWord Feud remains free right now.



30. Friction Mobile
A very odd concept that makes no sense in still images. You fire a ball into the screen, then try to hit that ball with other balls until it explodes. The catch is you're not allowed to bounce balls backwards into your own face. Because then you die. Sounds rubbish, but works well. It's free, so give it a no-obligation, no-commitment whirl.



Perhaps there are many more who signed you think that is not here, please specify in comments

 Source: www.techradar.com

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Announced the second generation PSP, the PSP NGP (Next Generation Portable)

Sony finally reveal the next generation PSP. This new product codenamed NGP (Next Generation Portable) or also called the PSP 2, which is of the view at a glance is similar to its predecessor the Sony PSP. Only, if from the side of the carrying capacity to compete with the PlayStation 3.

NGP PSP using quad-core processor ARM Cortex A9 and quad-core PowerVR graphics SGX543MP4 +. These specifications are similar to known features rumored to be attached to the next generation of  IPAD and iPhone. Unfortunately there is no clarity to the RAM memory in the PSP NGP crammed, but the example unit got 1GB LPDDR2. Even so, the possibility of RAM is 512 MB at the time could launch in the market soon.

Sony PSP NGP, not only can be used as an ordinary game consoles. Sony NGP seems to be also used to socialize with other devices, remember this gaming device is equipped with 3G connectivity, Wi-Fi b / g / n and Bluetooth and GPS. Moreover, supported by 5-inch OLED screen, with a resolution of qualified, 960x544 pixels.

The Sony PSP NGP will feature:
- 5 inch multitouch OLED display
- ARM Cortex-A9 core CPU
- Two analog sticks
- 3G and Wifi connectivity
- Front and rear cameras

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