Install PlayStation Mobile Store On Your Rooted Android Device [How-To]

PlayStation Mobile has just been released for Android, but as often the case with Sony, only certified devices have been able to enjoy the new app. Owners of the

PlayStation Mobile Store Goes Live For Certified Xperia Devices, HTC Smartphones And PS Vita

Sony’s Xperia series of Android based smartphones are known for their great hardware and tasteful Android skinning, but when it comes to sales, other manufacturers

Use Your PC’s Internet Connection On Android With Reverse Tether App

The ability to tether out our smartphone (or tablet’s) cellular connection is of massive convenience, and can sometimes be a great life-saver when the primary source ceases to operate.

If you experience a power-cut, for example, the chances are, use of your Wi-Fi hub is cut with it, leaving you with no option but to use your smartphone – provided, of course, you keep it topped up with ample amounts of juice.

There aren’t many apps, however, which work the other way round, allowing your device to use your computer’s connection. Why not just hook up to the same Wi-Fi as the computer? I hear you cry. Well, in some circumstances, this isn’t always a possibility. For example, not all connections – as hard as it may be to believe for some – are Wi-Fi, and some do still connect via DSL modems instead.

Although most do have their own Wi-Fi hotspots, these are often weak, and if you have a limited plan on your device as well, your chances of browsing the web on your Android device are very limited indeed. In such instances, Reverse Tether for Android could be just the solution. So long as you’ve your USB recharge / sync cable in hand, you can take advantage of your computer’s fast, secure internet connection without incurring any extra charges.

Once you’re online, you can continue to play games, browse the web, sync mail, or download updates without any hassle at all, and although Reverse Tether does cost five dollars, there’s a free trial version allowing you to preview the product before parting with any money.

Of course, in order to establish the connection, your Android device must be rooted. Additionally, it will only work on devices with a tether option, and your desktop will naturally need to have an internet connection. There’s no additional software requirement on the part of your desktop/laptop, and all you’ll need to do is edit Network Connections (explained in more detail in-app).

Download Reverse Tether for Android [Google Play link]

This Mod Brings Wireless Charging To Nokia Lumia 800 [VIDEO]

Although Windows Phone received a much-welcome boost from Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, it’s fair to say, in terms of smartphone news, Microsoft’s mobile platform doesn’t really get in amongst the exciting end of the scale. In a refreshing turn up for the books, however, one particular Windows Phone enthusiast has modded his Nokia Lumia 800 to enable wireless charging.

iPhone Liquidmetal Concept Is One Of The Best We’ve Ever Seen [IMAGES]

Depending on whether or not you believe the rumors lurking about, the next iPhone device will be encased in Liquidmetal – a concoction of durable elements creating a sleek yet robust outer shell for Apple’s flagship smartphone.

Smart Alarm For iOS Uses The Science of Sleep Cycles To Wake You Up At The Right Time

The smartphone has replaced many gadgets. The music player, the electronic organizer, the flashlight, the alarm clock and, arguably, the portable console and the point and shoot camera.

Smartphones very easily replace the alarm clock. Alarm clock apps on the App Store / Google Play are a dime-a-dozen these days. They offer plenty of advantages over their forefathers such as being able to choose your own wake-up tunes, decide which RSS feeds or podcasts get read out to you by a robotic voice and added features like dynamic snooze duration and being made to solve arithmetic problems to wake up your brain.

Samsung Trumps Nokia For The First Time In Number Of Mobile Devices Sold, Takes The Number One Spot

Although Nokia have been going through a rather difficult spell in recent years, they have still been managing to cling on to the top spot when it comes to global sales of cellphones – until now. According to new research conducted by a number of analytics firms, Samsung have ousted Nokia from the top of the leader board.

Scalado Album For Android Is The Best Image Gallery Alternative With A Slick UI

Scalado Album is a new way to check out your photos and saved images for Android smartphones, and it is causing something of a stir on the Google Play Store.

One of the arguments that is always leveled at the Android platform is the distinct lack of apps, or usually, the lack of quality apps. Whilst it is true that the average Android smartphone user does not have access to the same level of app volume as his iPhone packing counterpart, there are still some absolute gems to be found on Google’s own app store. Even if they do insist on calling it something crazy like ‘Google Play.’

One such app is Scalado Album which, from the company’s own YouTube video, seems to look like and indeed act like, one of those iOS apps that we keep hearing so much about.

That is, the app has a certain design aesthetic and interactive nous that is often sadly lacking from the average Android solution that has given the platform’s developers such a poor rep.

So, Scalado Album wins on the looks front, but what does it actually offer?

Simply, Scalado Album is a viewer for all your photos. Sickeningly quick, the app lets you do all the usual things such as pan and zoom using taps and pinches, and it does it all nice and quickly with minimal input lag. If you’ve ever used some other image viewing apps, then you’ll know why this is important.

Images can be viewed in a selection of ways, not just as one big collection of thumbnails. Photos can be grouped by location, for example, which means that all the images from thatparty will all be kept together, as will photos that are taken at any event. Images can also be filtered by those that are nearby, which is obviously a riff on the aforementioned location feature. There’s a map view which feeds all this, too, and photos can also be sorted by month taken.

Scalado Album costs $0.99 and is available to download via the Google Play Store right now. It hasn’t been around long, but the download stats and reviews suggest that its developer, Scalado, may be on to something here.

Download Scalado Album for Android [Google Play link]

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How To Remotely Control Every Aspect Of Your Android Device In Case It’s Lost

Many problems can arise as a result of a lost or misplaced smartphone. As well as the hassle of recovering data, paying for a new device (or excess if it is insured), there’s also the risk that the person finding your device could be using it for unscrupulous ends.

Suffice to say, losing a smartphone is no fun, and as such, there’s no shortage of apps helping to locate a device should the unthinkable happen. The self-explanatory Android Lost is one of the most feature-packed offerings we’ve stumbled across, and if you have it installed, it will no doubt give you the best possible chance of finding your Android phone.

Once you’ve downloaded the free app from the Google Play Store (linked to at the bottom of this post), and registered, you’ll be able to control many aspects of your lost device from Android Lost’s web-based service.

It offers users the ability to, first and foremost, lock the device, so if it were to get into the wrong hands, at least the threat that your bank details being stolen or it being used for premium rate calls is severely reduced. You can track exactly where your device is located by means of GPS, and you can even send SMS messages straight from the web page.

You can start or stop the device’s GPS connection, as well as Wi-Fi. It will notify you if the SIM card is changed on the device, and you can securely take photos using the back or front cameras, if your device indeed supports both. Rather eerily, you can make your device talk with text-to-speech, and one suspects the individual in possession of your device would be well and truly freaked out.

If worst comes to worst, you can always erase the SD card or indeed wipe the phone completely.

If you only download one app to protect your device in the event you can’t find it, we highly recommend you opt for Android Lost. It’s free, boasts most of the feature’s you’d require, and will give you the best chance of recovering your device in one piece.

Download Android Lost for Android [Google Play link]

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Diagnosis App For Android Lets You Diagnose Every Aspect Of Your Device From Anywhere

With smartphones and tablets packing in more, higher-spec hardware with each new iteration, it can sometimes seem as though your device is performing a million tasks at once.

In fact, although one can natively keep updated on which applications are running in the background, checking hardware performance isn’t so simplistic – particularly since you usually need to exit an running app in order to do so. But it needn’t be, and a free app for Android called Diagnosis – System Information proves this point.

Acting much like your Android version of Windows’ Task Manager, you can check what’s occurring with most aspects of your device with minimal fuss. When using a device, we often – hopefully not aloud, I might add – ask ourselves the same rhetorical questions, such as: Is this app / process draining my resources? Is my device’s battery too hot? Why is my device lagging – is one of my backgrounded apps the root cause?

Diagnosis answers all of the above questions and more, and what makes it great is that it can be accessed from anywhere – even within an app. Hence, if you’re getting carried away by playing Angry Birds or Max Payne (not yet released of course, but the wait is nearly over), then you can quickly initiate your Diagnosis pane and check the time.

The app leaves no stone unturned, and you can monitor CPU use, free memory, CPU speed, battery information such as temperature and voltage, as well as, perhaps most importantly, which apps are really straining your device’s hardware resources.

If you’re a bit of a statistician, you can record this info on a database for later access, from which you can ascertain average or peak network traffic, CPU use, Memory etc. The app requires quite a few permissions, although the developer has assured the user base that they’re all needed for legitimate reasons (explained in more detail in the description over at the Play Store).

All in all, it’s a very handy tool to have in the inventory, and even if you suspect you’ll only need it once, at less than a megabyte, free of charge (and also, free of ads), you don’t have any excuses not to click the link below!

Download Diagnosis – System Information for Android [Google Play link]