From the outset, a smartphone photo manipulation app is a fantastic idea. Thanks to the turtleneck mafia, awful-and-noisy-built-in-camera photography has become something far bigger than most of us expected — who could’ve predicted that the iPhone would become the most popular camera on Flickr in under two years? But now, ladies and gentlemen, it ‘s the turn of the Android. With dozens of new Android handsets emerging every month, and with the Android market share creeping ahead of the iPhone, it’s now time to talk about Android photography.
There’s a bit of a problem, though: most photo manipulation software for Android phones smells worse than a Titan’s loincloth. Mashable has a list of them, but they’re all plagued with inadequacies and bugs; some are slow and some simply don’t work on newer phones!
Enter Photoshop Express for Android. From Adobe you’d expect nothing short of a photo editing miracle app, but alas that isn’t the case. Photoshop Express is certainly useful – and it is a very polished, professional app that’s free of bugs — but I just wish it did a bit more. I wish it wasn’t so annoyingly devoid of obvious, easy-to-implement features.From the outset, Photoshop Express is very smart. You’re welcomed with a pretty, blue Adobe splash screen, and then you’re shown all of the photos currently on your phone. You can start editing right away, or choose a photo to upload.
You also have the option of viewing your online photos (those stored at Photoshop.com), but here’s my first gripe: you can’t download photos to your phone! I wanted to edit one of my Photoshop.com photos, but the app simply won’t let me. I have no idea why Adobe has locked it down in this way — perhaps to provide a ‘new feature!!1′ for the next release? (Also, look at the Phone/Online tabs in the image above — notice how the ‘depressed’ look indicates which tab you’re on. I don’t like it!)
Back to editing, then. Either select a photo already on your phone, or push the hardware camera button to take a new photo. This is the screen you’ll see:
Beneath those four headings there are a variety of functions. Here’s a complete list (don’t worry, there aren’t many): crop, straighten, rotate, flip, exposure, saturation, tint, black & white, contrast, brightness, soft focus, effects, and borders. Most of these are self-explanatory, and they all do the same thing as their desktop software equivalent. The ‘effects’ are nice, providing you with a bunch of pre-programmed filters that’ll make your mundane on-the-way-to-work photos less boring.
There’s a couple of handy undo/redo buttons at the bottom — and no, you can’t make those two annoying bars disappear while you edit the photo. The only way to see the final result is to save the image (thus losing your undo/redo history… awesome!)
Finally, the app has the ability to upload your edited photos to Photoshop.com, Facebook and TwitPic. You can also set it to ‘auto upload’ your photos, which is a rather cool way of keeping your phone synchronized with your Interwebs.
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Want to install Froyo Android OS on the iPhone 2G and 3G with just a click? Developer Sergio Mcfly has just revealed that he is working on a Windows version of iPhoDroid, which is expected to be released by next week.
Here’s what Mcfly has to say:
iPhoDroid hits the chance for Microsoft users to get a taste of the desirable Android Project. And on my schedule it’s for next week. It will be in 1SHOT; 99% to be, at least from my head calculator. So, tell your friend because I need to get this intention more strong than never. Windows platform always was my main target, believe me. And now that time just arrived.
But it will take some time, before you can actually grab this, so stay coming for updates.
Here is a comparison video of two monster phones that are considered among the bests in the market, one is iPhone 4 and other is Android powered Samsung Captivate. The video i am posting below is made by PhoneArena in which they have compared both the phones in terms of design, UI, web browsing and more. Both the phones are awesome and fought each other till the last breath, without any further do move on and see the action yourself.
New numbers from Gartner Group and IDG report Android phones had 17% of the world wide market in the 2nd quarter of 2010. Last year Android only had 1.2% of sales. That’s a fast rise in market prominence for Google’s Android operating system.
Apple inched up from 13% last year to 14.2% this year.Blackberry declined less than 1% but Nokia’s Symbian did a nose dive from 51% to 41.2%.Android’s success was reported earlier for the United States. The Gartner report extends it to the world.
It’s the moment that many of you have been waiting for: the Dev-Team’s ultrasn0w carrier unlock for iPhone 4 is out. You’ll find version 1.0-1 of ultrasn0w in Cydia on jailbroken devices. If not, just add the repo666.ultrasn0w.com repository. It works for iPhone 4 baseband 01.59 and 3G/3GS basebands 04.26.08, 05.11.07, 05.12.01 and 05.13.04. If none of this makes sense then you’ve got no reason unlocking your device in the first place, buddy.
