Android App Review: Retro Camera

With Retro Camera you'll take delicious old-school pics your friends will drool over. 5 cameras, 5 sets of vintage vignetting, film scratch, black and white & cross processing effects for that off-the-hip analog look. Inspired by the Lomo, Holga, Polaroid, Diana, the toy cameras and Hipstamatic. Instant Nostalgia now free.

Rating:   *****
Price: Free 
Version: 3.2
Added: May 12, 2010
Publisher: Urbian, Inc.
File size: 5.79 MB
Downloads: >250000

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Concept: Sporty and Futuristic Circuit Watch Design

This cool watch was inspired by the circuit boards and microprocessors. The designer loves the contrast between metal and synthetic that gave him the idea to design Circuit Watch. This watch has sporty and fashionable look with some futuristic touch. It has 2 tiers case, the upper one will display the minutes while the lower one will display the hours, illuminated by LEDs. To inform you about the AM/PM, this watch has 2 micro LEDs at the top and bottom of the main display.

Designer : Devindh for TokyoFlash

Download Angry Birds for Android Free

The highly successful iPhone, iPod and iPad game Angry Birds, which has has over 6.5 million purchases, has finally made it to the Android platform.

The aim of Angry Birds is to take control of a flock of birds who’s eggs have been stolen by a group of evil pigs. The pigs have taken refuge within structures made of wood, glass and steel and your job is to launch the birds with a slingshot to either hit the pigs directly or hit the structures around them to fall on them and destroy them.

Angry Birds has now been launched on the Android platform and for a limited time you can grab it for free via GetJar.

Angry Birds will work on the following Android devices:

Htc: Desire, Desire Z, Evo 4G, Hero, Incredible, Legend, Magic, Wildfire
Samsung: Galaxy U, GT I5500 Galaxy 5, GT I5700 Galaxy Spica, GT I6500 Galaxy, GT I9000 Galaxy S, GT M110S Galaxy S, GT P1000 Galaxy Tab, SCH I500 Fascinate, SCH I899, SCH R880 Acclaim, SGH T959 Vibrant, SHW-M100S, SPH D700 Epic 4G, SPH M900 Moment, SPH M920 Transform
Acer: E400 BeTouch, Liquid, Stream
Alcatel: OT-980
Apanda: A60
Chunghwa Telecom: CHT 8000
Dell: Streak, Thunder
Elocity: A7
Garmin-Asus: A10
Google: Nexus One
Huawei: U8100 Ivy, U8110, U8230
LG: E720 Optimus Chic, GT540 Swift, GW620 Eve, KU9500 Optimus Z, LU2300 Optimus Q, P500, P503 Optimus One, SU950 Optimus Z, VS740 Ally
Motorola: A955 Droid II, Droid, Droid X, Enzo, MB501 Cliq XT, Moto XT800, XT701, XT720 Motoroi
Pantech: IM-A600S Sirius Sky, IM-A630K Sirius Izar, IM-A650S Sirius Vega
Sony-Ericsson: X10 Xperia
T-Mobile: MyTouch 3G, MyTouch 3g Slide, Pulse
Vodafone: 845
Zte: X850 Racer

Opera Mobile 10.1 Beta available for Android

Opera has launched Opera Mobile 10.1 Beta yesterday, the popular browser for smartphones, for Android.

Opera 10.1 Beta for Android brings several improvements to the browser such as pinch zoom, visual tabs, SVG support and Opera Turbo which compresses web data on Opera’s servers, speeding up browsing and saving you bandwidth. But it won't launch on my HTC Hero! I will see if they will send a update for Opera Mini to work on the HTC Hero.

You can grab Opera Mobile 10.1 Beta for Android from the Android Market or at http://m.opera.com/next

Apple’s music social-network Ping gets Twitter integration

It looks like Apple’s musical social network — Ping — is getting integrated with an actual social network, Twitter (burn). Via a post on the company’s blog, Twitter announced that users of Ping and Twitter would be able to link their respective accounts from within iTunes. Once linked, users have the ability to alert their followers of songs, artists, or albums they like or review. As Twitter explains, activity on Ping will “be tweeted to your Twitter followers” and include “playable song previews and links to purchase and download music from iTunes.” The new feature is available in all 23 countries where Apple’s iTunes Music Store is offered.

Custom TV - A new way to watch all your favorite TV Series

In South Africa you spent hundreds of rands per month to watch just a few of your favorite TV Series like Grey's Anatomy, Desperate Housewives or Gossip Girl and they are outdated. Now you don't have to anymore. Now only pay for the TV Series you want to watch with Custom TV.

At Custom TV they will download any TV Series originally aired on American or British network television channels and deliver them on DVD right to your doorstep on your behalf.

The process is very simple. Look through the list of available TV series on their website, decide which ones you want to subscribe to, then click on Subcribe Now and complete the order form .

Yes, the process is 100% legal. They only provide TV series originally aired on American or British free-to-air network channels, meaning free content and not American or British pay-TV or DVD content. The content they provide is already legally freely available at various locations on the internet including on the official websites of the original content providers. What you pay for when ordering TV series through Custom TV is for the service of them using their own internet and network connections to source this content on your behalf, burning it onto a DVD in a DVD player compatible format, and having the DVD's delivered to your doorstep. The content itself is free already.

This service is only available for South Africa

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Android 2.1 available now for HTC Hero's in South Africa

I finally got Android 2.2 on my HTC Hero!!! I went to MTN in the Pavilion shopping centre (Westville, Durban) and got the update in 10 minutes. The man that loaded it for me was very kind, I'm Vodacom and he did the upgrade for me for free one-time. You can get the update at any Leaf Wireless or Lab88 in South-Africa. The update is not yet out OTA (Over The Air) or available at any Vodacom, MTN, CellC or Virgin Mobile store to be downloaded.

Remember to back-up all your data before going for the upgrade!

What's different with Android 2.1 (Eclair)?

- The phone runs much faster
- The browser loads websites faster
- New Wallpaper and UI (User Interface)
- You can now view all 7 homescreens on one screen in 7 small windows
- New Android Market with more new apps
- You can see weather effects on the homescreen
- All tab icons on menus are in colour.
- A lot of new icons and effects
- Much faster responding camera and new functions
- Import all your Facebook friends one-shot to your Contacts
- New icons on all HTC apps
- Better battery life
- Add more than one Gmail account
- Improved keyboard layout, for much faster and easier typing
- Bluetooth 2.1

And much much more that you must experience yourself

But no 3D Gallery & Live Wallpapers! They said that the HTC Hero won't handle it :(

But anyway. It's AWESOME!!! Now we just hope Leaf Wireless will throw Android 2.2 (Froyo) to us like they said in my email. They are targeting mid November 2010.

Comment below what you think of the Android 2.1 or if you have any questions tweet or email me.