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Galaxy S Plus gets an alpha version of CyanogenMod 9

You hacker, you have a Galaxy S Plus and you’re tired of Android Gingerbread? Then you should consider installing an alternative version of the latest operating system.

Fully developed by Arco68, a version of CyanogenMod is slowly enthusiasm to surface on the Samsung GT-i9001 (aka Galaxy S Plus). More clearly, it is based on Android Ice Cream Sandwich (4.0.4) without the TouchWiz interface (well over) and is currently in its second alpha phase.

What works on Galaxy S Plus:

     * Audio Calls (receive and transmit), GPS, compass, proximity sensor, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, USB transfer, and video hardware acceleration

What does not:

     * Camera, FM Radio and USB tethering

As I stated in the title, it is indeed an alpha version which will have to evolve, and so fill the missing features and fix little bugs persistent. Galaxy S Plus

HTC One X receives CyanogenMod 9 by TripNDroid

The number of custom ROM for HTC One X is constantly growing and in recent hours to the already large group has added CyanogenMod 9 by TripNDroid developed that allows the device to use with the Android 4.0.4 version, renouncing any customization made by HTC. This is therefore a ROM for those who want to use HTC One X without using the UI Sense 4.0. While not an official ROM CyanogenMod, development is well underway and most of the features of the smartphone is working properly. The ROM does not include GAPPS that will be installed separately.

The functional features of it apps for HTC One X include:

     * Network connectivity (data, calls, sms, etc)

     * GPS

     * Bluetooth

     * Bluetooth Tethering

     * Wi-Fi

     * Video decoding hardware

     * Hardware acceleration (2D/3D)

     * Audio

     * Microphone (Recording)

It is still possible to use the camera and the feature that allows you to share Internet access with other smartphone devices via Wi-Fi (Wi-Fi hotspots). The developer is also trying to improve the time necessary to activate the data connectivity, long enough at the time. However, continue to follow all developments. HTC One X

LikePics Photo Effects: a new program for editing images on Android

LikePics Photo Effects – If Instagram is the social part of his success, and certainly very immediate and very nice for users who love this kind of “worlds”, the same can not be said for the filters available in the program. If you seek a free and just as easy to use, with no social component, but with far more options, LikePics Photo Effects might be a good solution.

LikePics Photo Effects, free with ads, allows you to edit images or photos taken with many different filters. Along the lines of Instagram, we will have a set of preconfigured settings that range from shades of color, overexposure to a series of filters sepia, black and white or the like. You can also add frames, crop images or rotate them at will.

Mobile9: customize Android with themes for GO Launcher and more

If you are looking for an application to customize your smartphone, as well as powerful Zedge and other similar software in the Play Store, today we announce Mobile9, the same name under one of the most popular sites for downloading themes, wallpapers and customized for your phone.

The program Mobile9 offers a range of issues to Go Launcher and Panda Home and although the picture is a gallery of wallpapers, One of S we could not access the section of backgrounds. However, if you use one of two launcher mentioned, it is certainly an excellent application for finding topics of your choice.

iTranslate: interesting multilingual dictionary for Android

iTranslate – If for some reason it does not please you the official application of Google Translate, there are several alternatives in the Play Store, free and very complete. iTranslate is chronologically the last to be reached on Android and is a port of the popular app available for iPhone (the name does not mind).

Over 50 languages ​​are supported to always have the right translation at your fingertips.

Google Play Store, update 3.5.15 is available on Android

After the release of version 3.4.6 and 3.4.7 of Google Play Store, the online application store has a new update to version 3.5.15.

For news, we notice some minor changes, notably with the addition of a section of the web platform office which is now present in the native Android application. More concretely, the My Applications section is now divided into two tabs, one grouping the applications on the device with the ability to update automatically and manually (for large applications), and a new page all recounting the whole history of the applications you have installed on your terminal.

Mugen Power providers 4000 mAh battery for the Galaxy Nexus

Mugen Power – The technology in and around smartphones progresses rapidly approaching but the battery life remains here and there stabbing in development. Smartphone Users often complain about the time that their machine without additional power can be used.

Mugen Power Battery Supplier provides a variety of battery that could solve this problem. They provide for the Galaxy Nexus now even a battery of 4000 mAh at.

The Galaxy Nexus comes with a 1750 mAh battery. In our review we reported about the following:

    The battery of a smartphone remains a difficult issue. The Galaxy Nexus performed no miracles in this area, but to my mind more economical than my Nexus S. If you often twitters, browse, Is gaming, etc., you’ll still be charging device every day. The largest consumer is still more the screen. Do you have this often, then your battery fairly quickly. If you are somewhat less often you phone up there, get with the phone just the end of the day. I often thirteen or fourteen hours with the unit done. Battery life remains difficult to assess fixed and depends on how you use it. Android will give you good insight into what the most your battery consumption, so you can extend the battery life by that monitor.

Smart Screen Off: turn off the screen using the proximity sensor

Smart Screen Off is one of those simple but very interesting utility that once installed can be forgotten. This is a very light app that uses the proximity sensor Tablet or Android smartphone to turn off the screen and automatically when we insert it in a holster or pocket.

The developer has decided to create this Smart Screen Off software for your Galaxy Nexus. The Google Phone has no physical key on the front screen and being a great phone for many, it is quite difficult to press the “off” each time to turn it on and off. Taking advantage of the proximity sensor can have a fast and smart to turn off the screen of the device easily.

Best Android Apps: uCar, control what you spend your vehicle

Best Android Apps: uCar, control what you spend your vehicle – uCar is a free application for Android phones that allows us to take up all the costs that we caused our vehicle. The application also serves to keep track of multiple vehicles, and not just cars, but we can control what we spend our bike, our truck or our caravan.

uCar is completely translated into Castilian, which is a plus in an application, if not always the most useful and popular applications are in our language. As if this were not enough, you can export the data into our favorite spreadsheet.

uCar help us to keep a tight check on what we spend on our vehicle, which is very important in the current economic situation. Through data collection we can see better what really cost us to maintain a vehicle.

Best Android Apps: Barcode of Wine

Best Android Apps: Barcode of Wine – When we buy a bottle of wine, especially if not for us because we’re giving away or we will bring to an event, we can go crazy from so many varieties of wine. To avoid that end up in psychiatric born Barcode of Wine for Android, an application that will give us all the information on the bottle you want your bar code scanning.

Barcode of Wine is an Android application that will tell us the type of wine, the years you have, what food goes well, and even allows us to order a bottle as we are scanning. With Barcode of Wine avoid carrying a wine not suitable to an event and look like a real donkey, especially now that wine is so popular and everyone seems to understand wine.