How much does your service provider charges you every month for SMS, $5, $10, other higher? By now you should know that there are apps for everything. WhatsApp Messenger is here to help you save on text, messaging, picture messaging, and even video messaging. In their how words:

WhatsApp Messenger is a smartphone messaging app which allows you to exchange messages with your friends and contacts without having to pay for SMS. WhatsApp Messenger is cross platform and available for iPhone, BlackBerry, Android and Nokia (beta) and yes, those phones can all message each other! To send and receive messages, WhatsApp utilizes your existing smartphone internet data plan: 3G/EDGE (or Wi-Fi when available).

You can get more information about the app at http://www.whatsapp.com/faq/. Click the QR code to download.

WhatsApp Messenger

Is very important to move Apps to SD card. It will free up your phone memory and increase the phone speed. The default process may feel long and complicated, so to move apps to SD card use App 2 SD.

App 2 SD helps you to move apps to either external or internal storage. The app lists movable apps, helps move apps to SD card, and shows storage total and available memory size. Click the QR code to download the app.

App 2 SD

Android

While speaking at the 16th Annual Stanford Accel Symposium, Google Vice President of Corporate Development David Lawee indicated that the acquisition of the Android mobile platform was Google’s “best deal ever” for reasons that are more than obvious now.

For those of you who don’t know, Android Inc. was founded by Andy Rubin — who is now Vice President of Engineering and Chief Android Architect at Google. Google quietly acquired Android back in 2005 for an undisclosed amount of money. Some estimate that Google paid $50 million for Android.

Now, it’s important to note that Google does not make money directly from the Android mobile platform itself, as the company distributes it at no cost. Instead, Google makes revenue from ads displayed on Android through AdMob — which Google acquired for a whopping $750 million. Android is estimate to pull in $1 billion this year. With the way Android is gaining popularity, the number will definitely be greater next year.

After unscrewing the Champagne bottle for the stupendous success of CyanogenMod 6.0, the CM team is headed back to work on the next version of the largest Android ROM. Finally, 2 months of sleepless nights paid off, Cyanogen announced a new milestone – CM 6.1 Release Candidate 1. The team claims the release is definitely a good daily driver, and the remaining bugs will be quickly resolved.  

Feature-wise, Cyanogen points out “Pedlar’s notification powerbar, powerful camera app, new email features, FM radio support (contributed by the MIUI team) and insane performance boosts on all platforms. Take a quick look at more features offered by the new ROM

CHANGELOG 6.1.0 Features

• Update to Android 2.2.1
• Various bugfixes from AOSP and CodeAurora
•  ADWLauncher 1.2.0  
•  Configurable audio focus for music app
• APN cleanup – fixes many issues with GPS and MMS
• Use ARMv6 optimizations for DS/Hero targets
• AudioDSP updates
• Status bar themes
•  Email app updates
• Selected kernel optimizations
• EMMC support
• Camcorder touch-to-focus
• Camera/camcorder continuous autofocus
• Camera option sliders
• Notification “quiet hours”  
• Superuser 2.3.6
• Control locking of MMS app in memory
• Kill foreground app by long-pressing back  
•  New AppWidgetPicker dialog  
• FileManager app  
•  Anonymous install statistics gathering
• Stable shot camera mode
•  Dual-mode snooze  
• Compose SMS/MMS via search button long press  
• Notification category support
• Galaxy S style power widget in notification bar
• Autodetect if we should use /cache for system dex files  
• Quick PIN unlock  
• Increase performance of Gallery3D caching system  
•  Gallery3D bugfixes and improvements  
• Gallery3D highres patches
• Skia performance enhancements  
• APN list update
• Fix AGPS issues on all platforms
• Ability to customize location to save attachments in MMS  
• Dismiss notifications by swiping
• Enabled Sound Recorder app
• Bluetooth OBEX performance boost
• Updated Terminal Emulator app – Jack Palevich
• Updated headset drawables – blunden
• 1/Bravo/Supersonic: FM Radio support – MIUI – http://miui.com
• N1/DS – Kernel 2.6.35 based on Pershoot’s repository
• DS: Updated hardware drivers from official release
• DS: CompCache sizes can be adjusted through CMParts  
• Supersonic – Kernel 2.6.34  
• Bravo: Kernel 2.6.35
• Espresso: Improve backlights
• Espresso: Kernel OC patch
• Legend/Supersonic: Proper notification light support

Downloads are currently available for the following devices:

• Nexus One
• EVO 4G
• myTouch 3G Slide
• Aria
• Dream (G1)/Magic (myTouch 3G)

Thank you CM team and the Android community, for giving us yet another powerful ROM to enjoy our Android phones more than before.

[via Android Police]

For those who use enTourage eDGe dualbook ebook reader/tablet/notepad device understand the necessity to root the eDGe, with full adb access. It opens the eDGe platform to the developers, enabling the debug bridge and allowing root apps to be used. Sounds awesome? Wondering how we did it? We simply were able to decipher the developer’s debug password and use it to enable adb, which runs as root by default.  

The root finally opens the possibility of the Android Market being ported to over-clocking and Froyo based ROM.

From a little nudging from the Android community, enTourage has finally agreed to release the kernel source code for the eDGe. Once the Linux kernel GPLv2 license is available, it will enable developers to begin working on eDGe-specific advancements like enhanced battery life, modified CPU clock speed and bug fixes.

Do you wish to learn how to root your enTourage eDGe and avail the blessings? Follow the instructions below.

Root Instructions for enabling root access via adb

• Go to Settings -> Development – > Turn Debug On of Off
• Enter 89985b36B7906bFfF and click ok.

Viola! Your device gets the root access over adb.

To allow root apps push new software to the device via installing Superuser white list.

• Download edge.zip and unzip it. Run the following commands with adb.
• adb shell busybox mount -o remount,rw /system
• adb push Superuser.apk /system/app/Superuser.apk
• adb push su /system/xbin/su
• adb shell busybox chmod 04755 /system/xbin/su
• Now, reboot your device.

Your root app will display and work.

Try it and let us know your response. Watch the video below.

[via Android Police]

As the lawsuit against Android and Google continues to pile up, Oracle amended its Java complaint against Google over Android patent infringement and provided line-by-line comparisons in its exhibits.

In its tweaked complaint, Oracle ups the ante against Google, who has called the lawsuit baseless. Oracle, which first sued Google over Android in August, said:

In at least several instances, Android computer program code also was directly copied from copyrighted Oracle America code. For example, as may be readily seen in Exhibit J, the source code in Android’s “PolicyNodeImpl.java” class is nearly identical to “PolicyNodeImpl.java” in Oracle America’s Java, not just in name, but in the source code on a line-for-line basis.

Oracle Java Android source code

As you can see for yourself, the code is almost identical. On the flip side, however, this kind of lawsuit are always end with big fat checks settlements. Android is here to stay, as it’s becoming a big source of revenue for Google, raking in $1 billion a year already.