If you’re concerned with just what your Android is doing whule connected to the web (which these days can be pretty much 24/7) then you might be interested in a data traffic app that measures traffic across all connections. With tools for calculating network usage costs based on your current data plan thrown in, you’re onto a winner. Which seems to be exactly what SPB Software are offering as the leading mobile software developer expands its presence on Android with the release of SPB Wireless Monitor. Particularly useful for measuring the costs of roaming, SPB Wireless

Installing an app or game on an Android phone is really easy – all you need to do is browse to the Market app and downloaded the title, possibly paying for it if required. But what if you’re browsing the web on a computer and you see an app you want? Thanks to QR codes you can quickly download the app by scanning your PC or laptop display, allowing for over the air installation that downloads the app direct from the Market. While iPhone and Windows Phone users are restricted from access third party app market, Android users can access apps that aren’t available in the

Making movies on any mobile phone is easy – but on Android it is made event easier with a selection of useful apps that can both enhance your camera’s functionality as well as perform minor editing tasks. By using these apps you can take advantage of some excellent mobile video editing and creation techniques, enabling you to create more than just the standard party, night out or day trip video clips. Even better, using a video clip that has been trimmed down to a specific amusing point is a great way to save time uploading clips to YouTube or Facebook. Basic Movie Clips

Well, developers those who were waiting anxiously for trying their tweaks on the newest OS release from Google can now sharpen their talents. Google has just released Android 3.0 Honeycomb SDK. Those who want to try a hand can download the full SDK for Android 3.0. With the Honeycomb SDK being released, we can well hope that the floodgate is now open for Android apps for Honeycomb devices to hit the Android Market. Well, we have been hearing a lot about the features of the Honeycomb for quite a while now. But now, the SDK comes with certain added features that will help the

Android (and Nokia Ovi users, if there are any left) get the benefit of a great new HeroCraft strategy sim game, available to play now. Majesty: The Fantasy Kingdom Sim has been developed for mobile devices and offers an engaging strategy gaming experience based on the classic PC title. Now available on Android – a platform surprisingly bereft of good quality strategy titles – Majesty features an adaptation of the originals legendary indirect control strategy totally adapted for mobile platforms as well as 8 scenario missions with the pre-update release. Already in the top

British Android users rejoice – an official BBC iPlayer app for the platform is on its way, as long as you have an Android 2.2 device and Flash 10.1. It’s a curious choice for the minimum spec given the number of handsets that are already available and using an iPlayer app without Flash (cough-iPhone-cough) and as a result a lot of Android users are understandably up in arms. It seems that the BBC (in their wisdom) offer two streams – one for iOS devices and one for Android, Nokia and others. While it might seem that the United Kingdom’s public service broadcaster

The Android platform is probably the most flexible and versatile mobile operating system around, offering an immense selection of apps and games that are largely provided by single developers (or small teams) access to which largely depends on the quality of the app in question. Taking full advantage of peer review, the Android Market can be a tough place for some first-time developers, where some scathing judgments about poor compatibility with an Android 1.5 handset can see the app rated down, never to be seen again. Thanks to this peer review system, the Market is also

It’s been quite a while since we started waiting for the Dell Streak to arrive on T-Mobile.  The latest information that has trickled down from the T-Mobile stables in the form of a leak almost confirms that the carrier will be launching the Dell Streak 7 Android tablet on Groundhog Day – that is February 2nd. The leak has its origin from a materials-placement guide supposedly mailed to a retailer. Guys at TMO News got hold of the document (pictured below) and the release details just spilled on to the web. The leak  gives us reason to believe that the February 2nd sate

If you are an Android-powered smart handset user on the AT&T network, this piece of news is for you. Google has just made official that Android Market purchases will now have carrier billing support from AT&T. With the new decision, AT&T will start supporting carrier billing for Android Market purchases. This will, thereby, mean that AT&T subscribers will not be required to manually enter their credit card information to buy apps using the standard Google Checkout process. Google has made it known that the charges will be automatically added to the monthly

HTC Magic has made itself into the raw of the Android devices which got their due share of Android OS update. Sorry, it’s not a Gingerbread update but a Froyo one. After all, it started shipping with Donut- Android 1.6, when Vodafone brought it to UK in May 2009. Major improvements include latest Gmail and Android Market clients. With the Android 2.2.1 Froyo update, HTC Magic users can now save applications directly to external memory devices like SD cards saving up the phone memory. The Froyo update really adds to the connectivity options of HTC Magic. Now with the added