Don’t you think its amazing that you can now have a multifunction computer with a dedicated graphics processing unit, a high definition screen, high fidelity sound, speech recognition, touch sensitivity, satellite navigation, compass, full Internet connectivity, fm radio, voip phone, point and shoot camera and camcorder with 1080p, ftp server, print server, ebook reader, audio / video streamer, remote control and all the apps you will ever need in the palm of your hand? Crazy no? We are living in exciting times.

I have been a faithful android fanatic ever since it launched. I used to have windows smartphones before this, but I am sure you can understand why I would want to move away from that OS.

I just bought the Samsung Galaxy S 2, after flogging my Nexus S on fleabay.. what a device I tell you.. simply A-M-A-Z-I-N-G. Its got a 1.2 Ghz dual core processor and all of the android communities prowess behind it. Its going strong and is currently the most advanced Android smartphone out there. Check out the monster specs sheet n GSMArena.com and a hands on review on Engadget

I wanted to try out homebrewed android ROMs after rooting my device over the weekend, as its the all the rave right now. I tried out a few including one called VillianRom. Although there are a few other ROMs out there, this seems to be the most mature. So anyways, I wanted to get the latest android release on my phone, which currently is Gingerbread 2.3.4 so after installing VillianRom I can report that the phone has become truly supersonic. The quadrant benchmarking scores are off the ROOF, and Linpack reports 86 megaflops on multithread.

There is a lot I can say about this phone, actually I can’t stop talking about it, so I’ll stop here. I will however list some of the apps I most frequently use.

Coolest Apps On The Android Market as of July 2011

1. My Backup Pro
2. Audiogalaxy
3. Astro file manager
4. Shazam encore
5. Rom Manager
6. Set CPU
7. Root explorer
8. HulloMail
9. Whatsapp
10. Remote VNC Pro
11. Barcode scanner
12. Zabihah
13. Adfree
14. Swiftkey X
15. Shootme
16. Skype
17. Pulse
18. Cube Extended
19. Llama
20. Google+
21. Go Weather HD
22. Tubemate (unavailable on the market right now)
23. BBC news
24. Total recall

Some screenshots for to make this post a little colourful.

 

 

 

I will do some more posts about Android in general and how to squeeze every bit of juice out of your android device including tips and tricks as well as some serious reviews on some Android devices I have tested and used including:

• Motorola Atrix
• Acer Iconia A500 tab
• Samsung Nexus S
• ZTE Blade
• HTC Desire S
• HTC Desire

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