SPB Mobile Shell v5.0 - Android Beta Testing Open - Symbian^3 Beta Testing Awaited

It took almost a year, but finally SPB Mobile Shell for Android is ready to be served. SPB Mobile Shell for Android built on SPB UI Engine and highlights some of the innovative UX components to assemble the core mobile experience with cool and very useful UI. Rather than we try explain you with words better Check out the video below to see yourself how and amazing this SPB Mobile Shell looks. Sign up Link after the break..

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Mobile Phone Display Mega Shootout

There are so many of them that it’s pretty hard to make up your mind. It all boils down to LCD vs. LED although this simple fact is easy to overlook. You can go ahead and blame it all on marketing but that’s one thing that just can’t be black and white. Instead of keeping it simple, manufacturers are busy making up catchy names.
Had enough with LCD? Be our guest, try Super LCD. There’s even Super Clear LCD for the sake of being different. Same with AMOLED. There’s the garden variety. But there’s also Clear Black and Super AMOLED.
Anyway, with so many screens around even we got mixed up. And instead of writing down “We’ll never again mistake regular LCD for Super LCD” three thousand times, we got assigned to do this article. Yes sir. Coming up, boss. It’s about LCD and AMOLED, about Super AMOLED and SUPER LCD. It’s about the Retina display, which technically is a type of LCD.

This is not a story going back to monochrome displays and the dawn of STN and CSTN screens. That would’ve made an even bigger mess. Instead, we’re focusing on present day touchscreen and the varieties it comes in. We have each technology represented and it’s quite a bunch of highly popular and fairly recent phones being judged by the quality of their screen. From the good old LCD to the ClearBlack AMOLED by Nokia – they are all here, with all their strengths and weaknesses.

And here are the contenders, along with the display technology they stand for. In the LCD corner, the HTC Desire HD and LG Optimus 7 are next to the Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10.

HTC Desire HD • LG Optimus 7 • Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10
The Samsung S8530 Wave II is on the enhanced LCD team – technically, it’s Super Clear LCD, the brand name Samsung use to market their own SLCD-based screens. The Retina display is not just another LCD screen either – like the Apple iPhone 4 is not just another phone.

The Samsung S8530 Wave II • Apple iPhone 4
The Nokia N8 is running for AMOLED, while the C6-01 has Nokia’s ClearBlack technology behind it. Finally, we have a couple of Super AMOLED screens – on the Samsung I9000 Galaxy S and Samsung S8500 Wave.

Nokia N8 • Nokia C6-01 • Samsung I9000 Galaxy S • Samsung S8500 Wave
An elite club it is and that goes to show how important screens are. Manufacturers can’t go on for ever offering more and more features, so things like screen quality are becoming a key selling point.

Homescreen 3D (Full version) v1.0b - Google Nexus One - HTC - Android - App Download

Requirements: Android
Overview: Visually dynamic 3D Home Screen replacement app in OpenGL using cubes for icons.
- Fluid 3D motion
- Fully customizable
- 2, 3, and 4 column mode
- Texture quality settings
- Various interesting visual settings

Click below to download
[SymbianZone.us]com.zeropointnine.homeScreen3dFull.v1.0b.rar

Video Guide: How to Install Android on An iPhone

If you've got an iPhone, are a little bored with iOS, and you're interested in moonlighting with Google's Android operating system, you can dual boot Android and iOS side-by-side on your iPhone in a few relatively simple steps.

What You'll Need:

All you'll need to get started is an iOS device; Right now, the iPhone 3G has the best support, and that's what we're using in this guide.

Step One: Jailbreak Your iPhone

 

You've got a number of jailbreaking options, including PwnageTool, Redsn0w, and Blackra1n. Pick one that works on your platform, download it, and walk through the jailbreak process. (I'm not going to detail the jailbreak here since the latest jailbreaking methods often change a little, but at this point, jailbreaking an iPhone is a relatively simple process.)

Step Two: Install Bootlace in Cydia

 

In order to do this, you'll need to launch Cydia from the homescreen, tap on the Manage button, select Sources, then tap Edit, then Add. The repository you'll need to add is repo.neonkoala.co.uk. Tap Add Source, let Cydia work its magic, and then tap on your newly added repository and install Bootlace.

Step Three: Run Bootlace and Patch the Kernel

 

Leave Cydia, and launch Bootlace. If Bootlace isn't on your homescreen after you leave Cydia, restart your iPhone and it should be there. Then just launch Bootlace, and let it download and patch the kernel. When it's done, tap on Reboot and wait for your phone to reboot.

Step Four: Install OpeniBoot

 

Now launch Bootlace again, tap the OpeniBoot button, and tap Install, then Continue. OpeniBoot will download and install.

Step Five: Install iDroid

 

Once OpeniBoot is installed, tap the iDroid button, tap Install, OK, and then wait. iDroid—which is essentially the Android OS customized for your iPhone—will download and install. This will take a while, so be patient, and if your battery is low, you may want to plug in your phone you start.

Step Six: Reboot and Play Around with Android

 

Now you've installed Android on your iPhone. Time to play around with it. Just tap on the QuickBoot button from inside Bootlace, tap the Android icon (the one of the little Android proudly holding an Apple), and confirm that you want to reboot into Android.

Heres another easy guide on how to install Android on your iPhone using OpeniBoot. Enjoy the video!

Smart Keyboard Pro v3.5.2 - Android - Google Nexus One - HTC Desire - APK App Download

Requirements: Android OS

Overview: Smart Keyboard is a soft keyboard for Android phones, featuring multi-touch input (only works starting from Android 2.0), supporting several languages: danish, english, english international (with accents), english Dvorak, finnish, french, georgian, german, italian, norwegian, portuguese, russian, spanish, swedish.

Click below to download
[symbianzone.us] net.cdeguet.smartkeyboardpro.rar

Titanium Backup v3.5.1 - Android - Google Nexus One - HTC Desire - APK App Download

Requirements: Rooted Android device!

Overview: The ONLY tool that can backup, restore, freeze your apps data Market links! Even protected apps! Batch backup! 0-click backup, uninstall & even restore

Version 3.5.1

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- Fixed problems with Market links and SQLite on Samsung ROMs (finally!).

- Faster Dropbox upload, when some of the files are already present on Dropbox.

• No time limit
• Very fast app listing (~1 second for 300 apps)
• Sort apps by name / last backup / backup frequency
• Filter apps by name / type / status / Apps Organizer labels (also affects Batch operations)
• Backup/restore regular apps their settings
• Backup/restore protected apps their settings
• Backup/restore system settings (incl. Wi-Fi AP list)
• Restores the Market links when restoring apps
• Zero-click background batch backup
• Interactive batch restore
• Many batch scenarios (eg: if more than N days since last backup, etc)
• Zero-click app un-installer
• Zero-click system app un-installer
• Desktop widgets
• User-defined apps lists with filtering, coloring and scheduling support
• Multiple backups per app (history length can be chosen)
• Zero-click background batch restore
• Batch verification of all backups
• Ultra fast HyperShell (much faster for almost everything)
• Market Doctor can remake any broken Market links (only for apps that were backed up with the link in place)
• App freezer can disable an app (and make it invisible) without un-installing it
• Unlimited, independent scheduled backups (each of which can run 1 to 7 times a week)
• Dalvik cache cleaner can free up precious internal memory
• Synchronize your backups to Dropbox (experimental)
  
  Click below to download
  [symbianzone.us] TitaniumBackup-3.5.1.rar

Meridian Player Pioneer v0.22 - Android - Google Nexus One - HTC Desire - APK App Download

Support/info: Android
Overview: The player with enhanced features for playing music and videos
Support for lossless-format (ape / flac / alac / wav / mpc / wv)
Video playback from the place where it was placed pause, find lyrics, edit ID3-tags, subtitles in films, rating, extra-info and more.
Can play music by folders

Click below to download
[symbianzone.us] Meridian_Player_Pioneer_0.22.0.rar

IM Plus Pro v3.0.13 - Android Google Nexus One - HTC Desire - APK App Download

Requirements: Android
Overview: Chat with IM+ All-In-One instant messenger on Skype, Facebook, AOL AIM® iChat, MSN®/Windows Live™ Messenger, Yahoo!®, ICQ®, Jabber®, Google Talk™ and MySpace IM!

New polished UI!
Text-To-Speech message notifications.
No cost per message.

Click below to download

[symbianzone.us] de.shapeservices.implus.v3.0.13.rebuild.rar

Pure Calender Widget v2.2.3 - Android Google Nexus One, HTC Desire - APK App Download

Requirements: Android
Overview: Google Agenda / Tasks (todo) WIDGET
- Support TouchDown & Corporate Exchange
- Show tasks from Astrid / gTasks / Got To Do / TouchDown
- Multiples skins and layouts
- Scrollable with ADW or LauncherPro

Click below to download
org.koxx.pure_calendar.v2.2.3(symbianzone.us).rar

Battery Indicator Pro v3.0.3 - Android Google Neuxs One - HTC Desire - APK App Download

Requirements: Android
Overview: Battery Indicator is a simple but useful app for Android. Its primary function is to provide an icon in the upper left notification area that shows the exact percentage of the battery charge.

Plus:
* Estimated (dis)charge time left
* Logging of battery state
* Themes for main window
* Manual/auto dis/re-enable device lock screen

v3.0.3

(Bugfix) Remove FLAG_ACTIVITY_RESET_TASK_IF_NEEDED from Intent used to launch Battery Use screen. It doesn't appear to be necessary, and it caused a problem on at least one user's phone (which is a Droid X, but don't know if that's relevant).
(Bugfix) Some phones fluctuate wildly in their reported charge. This causes Battery Indicator to think either that the phone has been charged or that a fuller battery has been put in. I've adjusted the threshold to hopefully work well both for those with phones that fluctuate and for those who carry spare batteries. With this version, a jump of 30 points or more is guaranteed to trip the switch, while a jump of 20 points or fewer is guaranteed not to. (For 21-29, it just depends on the situation).
(Translation) Add Chinese translations.

Click below to download
com.darshancomputing.BatteryIndicatorPro.v3.0.3(symbianzone.us).rar

DSP Manager HTC Desire Stock ROM - Android App Download

Support/Info: Android
Details:
DSP Manager for HTC Desire. (works only for ROOTED phones)
It can be flashed via ROM Manager as an update.zip or if you are skillful in adb shell copy files in root.
Greatly improves sound quality of your stock media player and (others). Tested on my Desire using SkullCandy Asym headphones - sound is just WOW!!!
It contains settings for headset and phone speaker with Dynamic range compression, effect strength, equalizer and virtual room enabler.

Click below to download
DSP Manager(symbianzone.us).rar

Relax and Sleep v2.73 - Android Google Nexus One - APK App Download

Support/Info: Android

Details:
The program reproduces the sounds of nature - rain, burning fire, singing birds and frogs and others. There is a sleep time.

 

Click below to download
relaxandsleep(symbianzone.co.cc).rar

Hypnotoad v2.1 - Android Google Nexus One - APK Funny App Download

Support/Info: Android
Details:
Funny application, which just like the fans of the Futurama. Remember Hypnofrog? Now it will be broadcast on your phone with the original soundtrack!

Click below to download
hypnotoad_1(symbianzone.us).rar

JBlend v1.03.3464 - Java Emulator for Android Google Nexus One - APK App Download

Support/Info: Android

Details:
JBlend - is an application to download and run on Android device Java-programs or games. The features are limited, no support for 3D Java.

Installation:
Unpack the archive to your memory card
Make sure that there is a right root (otherwise you could not get access to system folders)
Start the Root Explorer (EStrongs File Explorer does not work)
Put files in such folders
libDxDrmJava.so - / system / lib
libjbmidpdy.so - / system / lib
libjbmidp.so - / system / lib
javax.obex.jar - / system / framework
MetaMidpPlayer.apk - / system / app
MidpPlayer.apk - / system / app

Then install MetaMidpPlayer.apk and MidpPlayer.apk

That's all...

Click below to download
Jblend_MidpPlayer(symbianzone.co.cc).rar

dxTop Pro v3.0 - Android Google Nexus One - Android Home Interface - APK App Download

Requirements: Android
Overview: dxTop is an alternative to the Android home interface. When you install dxTop it will install as an alternative to the default Home interface allowing you to choose which one to use. Pressing the Home button on the phone prompts you to choose which Home interface to use and you can set dxTop as the default so you won't have to choose anymore.
Make your home screen even better!! dxTop key advantages:
* 5 screens in a diamond layout
* New Dial Bar for quick phone access
* New Recent Activity Widget
* New Menu UI
* 2.2 Support
* System Tab for recent apps and clearing memory
* Categorize applications
* Full theme support
* Lock screen
* 5 Transitions
* Much more

Click below to download
com.android.dxtop.launcher.v3.08(symbianzone.co.cc).rar

Tasker v1.0.8 - Android Google Nexus One - APK App Download

Support/Info: Android - Total Automation for Android

Details:
Tasker is an application for Android which performs Tasks (sets of Actions) based on Contexts (application, time, date, location, event, gesture) in user-defined Profiles, or in clickable or timer home screen widgets. This simple concept profoundly extends your control of your Android device and it's capabilities, without the need for 'root' or a special home screen.

Click below to download
Tasker-1.0.8(symbianzone.co.cc).rar

Tuner - gStrings + 1.0.5 - Android Google Nexus One - APK App Download

Requirements: Android
Overview: gStrings is a chromatic tuner app measuring sound pitch and intensity of the violin, viola, violoncello, bass, guitar, piano and wind instruments.
This version has a few special treats (adjustable range nonlinear scale, doubled processing power) not found in the free version.

Click below to download
org.cohortor.gstrings.tyd.v1.0.5(symbianzone.co.cc).rar

aFirewall v2.3.4 - Android Google Nexus One - Full Version APK App Download

Support/Info: Android

Details:
aFirewall allows you to configure multi-scenes to block different call or SMS at different time. You can forward blocked calls to a non-existing number instead of forwarding them to voicemail.

Click below to download

aFirewall 2.3.4(symbianzone.co.cc).rar

Dolphin Browser v2.6.0 - Android Google Nexus One Full Version APK App Download

Dolphin Browser - one of the best browser for Android.
Features:
- Fast work;
- Ease of management;
- Supports control gestures;
- Multi-touch;
- Synchronize with Google Bookmarks;
- Download videos from YouTube;

Click below to download
DolphinBrowser.Browser.2.6(symbianzone.co.cc).rar

Droid X Eye Live Wallpaper v2.4.0 - Froyo Fix!!! - Android Devices - Full Version APK App Download

V 2.4.0 - Froyo Fix!!!
Please update you comments on the market. Email for any comments on this. (Tested on FRG01B)
- Keep Center/Move on Home Screen Offset
- Unlock Screen Sound (Selectable)
 
Click below to download
com.BetterYourDroid.DroidXEyeLiveWallpaper.v2.4.0(symbianzone.co.cc).rar