One of the most used apps on my Android smartphone is Google Maps Navigation. This is a free feature/app, which to me, is one of the things that truly separates Android from the iPhone. Being able to use your phone as your free GPS device makes life so much easier than having to make sure [...]

For those of you still in low internal memory land, this is really simple and should save you some internal phone memory. Google allows developers to write their apps in a way that allows them to move to the SD card. This functionality is great if your phone doesn’t have a plethora of internal memory [...]

Recently I talked about running ROMs and images as virtual machines (VM) on our phones.  All of that is still in the early stages of development but running Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) on your Windows 7  PC is a reality today.  Thanks to the free virtualization software VirtualBox by Oracle and Dinesh from the Sysprobs site [...]

I like having the ability to start a Google+ Hangout from my Android Smartphone. It is especially nice when I am travelling, I can find a quiet spot and either start a new hangout or participate in an existing hangout.

Have you ever lost your phone? Do you know what to do in such a situation? I have never lost a phone but I have come close a few times. The anxiety attack that ensued was enough to make me decide to do something to minimize a possible loss. But what should you do to [...]

It has probably been a stressful couple weeks for the Google Wallet team. An article first surfaced a couple weeks ago that exposes a vulnerability with rooted NFC enabled devices, like the Nexus S and Galaxy Nexus. Then some had discovered that a similar vulnerability with unrooted devices. Usually when these articles start to surface it becomes a flood. [...]

The new Ice Cream Sandwich (4.0) update of Android brings with it the biggest overhaul in the camera app. A new looking UI and amazing features go a long way it making it better than the rest. Users of the old stock Gingerbread will have no problem getting used to the ICS camera. The layout [...]

Today we’ll figure out the new launcher in Ice Cream Sandwich. There are several changes from the previous stock launchers in the new version. Some are for the better, some not so much, but that remains a matter of opinion.