Sometimes you may want to know the distance and height of a nearby object. How do you measure it? If you’re looking for a simple solution, you can simply do that with your Android smartphone by installing Smart Measure app from the Android Market.
To quickly identify a caller without looking at the phone, usually we set different ringtone for each contact. However, how to identify a caller when our phone in silent mode (vibrating mode)? If we can assign different vibrating pattern for each contact, it may quite easy. You can do that with a free app called ViBe for Android.
Some functionalities of a mobile phone may not be required for all time, for example, Mobile internet (Wi-Fi/3G/GPRS), Silent mode, Airplane mode, GPS and Bluetooth, etc. Although, all these features can be enabled or disabled manually, most often people forget to do so and went into trouble. Here is how to automate such features in our Android phone with a little app called Connection Planner.
Carrier IQ is the latest buzzword in the mobile world, which is a hidden software that some mobile companies and carriers implemented on their phone in order to collect user data such as calls, texts, web activities etc, without user intervention or consent. Though there are controversies on this subject, the nature of Carrier IQ termed it as a rootkit (malware) that should not exist in the first place.
You may know how to change DNS server in your computer. Changing your DNS server to either OpenDNS or Google Public DNS can help prevent browsing bottleneck and display pages more quickly. However, changing DNS sever in Android phone is not as easy as in a PC. Here is how you can simply do that in Android to speed up your browsing.
Nowadays, people are using their Smartphone not just for calling and texting, but for a variety of other uses such as paying bills, storing valuable information, checking emails, social networking and also for banking. So, one of the first things you should do when you purchase a new phone is to install a mobile security suite. For Android phone, you may try Comodo Mobile Security for Android, which is designed to protect your Android devices against viruses, unsafe apps, unwanted SMS and calls.