Trillian is on of those nice instant messaging software that has been working hard to make their application available for several platforms. In addition to having a Windows and web based version, they have recently made available an alpha version that runs on Mac OS X and a beta version for the BlackBerry mobile phones. The already have an iPhone mobile app available on the Apple App Store. Now the have also released a beta version of a mobile app for the Android open mobile platform.
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Firefox, the leading open source web browser from Mozilla, has just reached another milestone for making our personal surfing experience better. The Firefox Home (iTunes preview) iPhone app has just been approved and is now available for download from iTunes. Continue reading …

Together with Yahoo Mail for Android, Yahoo also released an Android app for its instant messaging service called Yahoo Messenger. You’ll find the Yahoo Messenger app’s user interface is consistent with that of Yahoo Mail. The features for Yahoo Messenger are very basic.

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Fring is a very popular VoIP application with other features such as instant messaging and video calls. The good news is that Fring is now also on the iPhone 4. This enables iPhone 4 owners to make video calls not only to other iPhone 4 owners but also to other smartphone users.

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If you love reading books and you’re into ebooks on your Android mobile phone. You can now use Amazon’s Kindle software on your Android phone because it is now available as a free download from the Android Market. With the Kindle app you can read your Kindle ebooks right from your Android phone.

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RIM and eBay has partnered together to offer an official eBay app for the BlackBerry platform. The eBay mobile app is initially available via BlackBerry App World™ in Australia, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom and the US. The mobile app uses the BlackBerry’s Push Service and multi-tasking technology to provide eBay buyers and sellers up-to-date deals and sales.

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Compared to the iPhone mobile platform, the Android open mobile platform still has fewer mobile games available on the Android Market. But in spite of the fewer number of mobile games on Android, one of the free mobile game I love playing on my Samsung Spica is Air Control.

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I’ve been using the Android based Samsung Spica quite a lot these days apart from my Nokia 5800 XpressMusic mobile phone which is still my main phone. One mobile app that I find quite useful is the Zxing barcode scanner app. The mobile app basically allows you to scan different types of barcodes using your Android phone’s camera.

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Another one of those indispensable free app for Android is the Astro File Manager. File Management on any mobile phone should never be a pain. This is where the Astro File Manager comes in. It has made managing files on my Android based Samsung Spica mobile phone a lot easier.

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I’ve been using my Android based Samsung Spica aka GT-I5700 for several months now. Although the Samsung Spica available in the market as of now uses Android 1.5, I decided to flash and install an Android 2.1 firmware on my Spica. The upgrade to Android version 2.1 was well worth it because of the numerous features available on Android 2.1. One thing I was missing though was a quick access to setting like Wifi, Bluetooth, GPS in one screen. Although Samsung created a small app to allow such access, it wasn’t quite as productive as the Quick Settings mobile app I found in the Android Market.

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