12 Best Android Productivity Apps

With nearly a quarter million apps on the Droid app market to date, it can become a painful chore to find which apps are worth the time to download and which apps are going to be a waste of memory. Along with exponential development in mobile broadband technology, Android has created an exciting platform for new apps that can help us all get things done in a more convenient fashion. Wading through the massive lists of apps simply will not do. Here are the top 12 best android productivity apps that were built with productivity and efficiency in mind.

Android Productivity Apps

1. Dropbox

This app allows users to upload and automatically save files of all types across multiple platforms, from PCs to smartphones.

2. Gtasks

Google has become a catchall company for searches, emails, calendars, ads, and even social media. Gtasks puts all of these things in a single, easy to use interface.

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3. Quick Office Pro

This app is practically mandatory for every smartphone being used in the business world. It not only gives access to Quick Office programs such as Excel and Powerpoint, it also works seamlessly with multiple cloud memory programs to save and upload data.

4. PdaNet

For truly mobile broadband, PdaNet is the premiere app. It allows any Android smartphone to be tethered and turned into a mobile hotspot.

5. Business Ledger

Business Ledger makes the stress of tax season a thing of the past. Keep up with daily reports on mileage and expenditures with a single tap of the screen. It then compiles the data at the end of the year into a single report.

6. LinkedIn

A Facebook for working professionals, this app allows users to access contact information, emails, updates, posts, and more, all from their Android phone.

7. RealCalc

There is no more need to pull out the pen and paper when complex math problems arise. RealCalc is a fully functional scientific calculator for the phone.

8. CamCard

Stuffing wallets and purses with business cards is a task no longer necessary after CamCard has been downloaded. It turns any smartphone into a functional rolodex. A quick snapshot of any business card is instantly digitized and saved onto the phone.

9. My Backup Pro

With all this information being saved on the Droid, a broken SD card or stolen phone can be devastating. My Backup Pro automatically updates and saves information wirelessly to a secure server, allowing for the immediate transition of information to a new phone.

10. Document Scanner

This app turns any smartphone camera into a fully-functional scanner. After the image is taken, it converts it into a working PDF file. These files can also be uploaded to Google Docs via a mobile broadband connection.

11. SwiftKey Keyboard

The one drawback of the smartphone is the uncomfortable and painfully slow keyboard. With SwiftKey Keyboard, the arduous task of sending out lengthy emails will be a thing of the past as this app learns the users typing patterns, speeding up typing considerably.

12. Note Everything

Note Everything is the absolute best app for taking, saving, and sending basic notes. With very few frills, Note Everything is the easiest way to take notes, email them, or upload them to Google Docs.

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Share Broadband Internet Connection with Your Friends with 4 Steps

People are becoming smart everyday as technology improves and a lot more people are starting to realize the importance of the broadband internet connection. One great importance of a broadband internet connection is that you can easily share your broadband internet connection with as many computers as you want if you have the right devices.

It is very important however not to think sharing your broadband internet connection is extremely easy. You need the right gadgets and knowledge, and this article will be listing the 4 things you need to be able to share your broadband internet connection.

Server Computer

One of the major things you will need if you want to share your broadband internet connection with another computer is a server computer. The server computer will be the main source of internet connection and it will also be the computer that will be connected to the internet. This server computer can be your main computer, and it can be a special computer dedicated only to share your broadband internet connection. Either way, you need a server computer to be able to share your internet connection with other computers.

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Wireless Router/Hub

Another important device you need when trying to share your broadband internet connection is a wireless router or a hub. The main function of the wireless router is to make it easy for you to be able to spread your network across to other wireless enabled computer around you but in the case of a hub its main function is to help you share your internet connection with other wired computers.

Most wireless routers today now have the capability to be able to share your internet connection either wired or wirelessly.

Network Card

You will also need a network card if you want to share your internet connection with other computers. The network card has to be installed on every computer that will be connecting to your computer and it also has to be installed on the server computer. It is through these network cards that you will be able to connect to your router and thus be able to get each computer connected to one another.

Most laptop computers today now come with a network card installed so if you are using a latest computer you have nothing to worry about.

Broadband Modem

A broadband modem is another device you will need when trying to share your broadband internet connection in that it will serve as the main source of internet access. The broadband modem only has to be installed on the server computer and from there you can easily share the internet connection with the other computers.

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HTC Sensation XE - Rs 30,000

The latest phone from HTC has Great audio technology. It has feature beat audio technology that enhances the sound of the smartphone. There are other upgrades too but he battery power and increased processor are two of the best thing that HTC has done. The phone gives great performance and the battery life is improved compared to the original sensation.
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The Phone has the dimension of 126.1 x 65.4 x 11.3 mm which shows great style and is weighted to be 151 gm. It has 1.5 GHz dual core CPU working in tandum with the Adreno 220 GPU. With this configuration, one can open internet at a lightning speed and the 3D games are surely to be enjoyable on this phone.

Android 2.3 Gingerbread has powered this HTC sensation XE and user interface is of HTC itself which is costumed sense 3.5 UI.  The processor as said is 1.5GHz dual-core processor which in comparison to the original Sensation which was 1.2GHz CPU is very high, thus the power on or off will be quicker. The battery used is Li-Ion 1730 MAH battery which is very huge but for such high configuration smartphone, we can guess it to be ok.

The Smartphone is fully loaded with many social apps that are regularly used such as apps are Gmail, You tube, Picassa, Facebook, Myspace, Google Search, Maps, Google Talk, Twitter etc.

Thus using this phone would really be fun. HTC Sensation XE will be available across Asia Pacific from the end of this month. However, no word on pricing is yet known.

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Dell Venue Pro - Rs 23,000

The Dell Company has always been ahead of all in the market of computing device. Since from the date of its entry in Mobile industry, the Company has always tried to create smart, innovative and something we can say different kind of devices.

Dell launched two mobile phones Dell venue which runs on Android 2.2 and Dell venue pro which runs on Windows Phone 7. The phones are available in India at the price of 29000 and 35000 respectively. Dell venue pro is heavy, sleek and bulky. The Phone is very heavy and weighs 180 gm. The Phone looks very smart and expensive. Dell has no doubt paid great attention on build quality.

The phone lacks key features of Windows Phone7 but it is very fast and smooth runner. Look wise, its curved glass display is very impressive.

Specifications:

Dell venue pro is no different from other window Phone7 device. The Phone has a configuration of 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor; 512MB RAM which can be updated to 256MB. It comes in both 8GB and 16GB storage memory without including the memory on microSD slot. Other features are it has Wi-Fi b/g/n, GPS, Bluetooth, HSDPA/HSUPA and FM Radio.

The screen is Amoled screen running with WVGA 800×480 resolutions. With Amoled screen do not mistake it with Samsung’s Super Amoled Screen. But I am sorry that this phones screen is not as contrast as that of Samsung’s Screen. But you will surely enjoy the display.

The Phone has 5 MP cameras with autofocus function and flash that can record video at 720p Resolution.  But I did not find the camera impressive because after 6pm if u take pictures the image comes blurred. The battery equipped in this phone is 1400mAh.

Verdict:

Even though the phone has super high build quality. But some things in the phone could have been better. Some more works were needed towards improving the camera quality; searching contacts and little problem are there on keypads. The keypads buttons are very small. On sending messages there is no draft option, so for users it just creates problem. Rest are alright and there is hands on for it from my side.

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Sony Ericsson Xperia Ray - Rs19,000

Sony Ericsson has always kept its profile low though it has great technology. Sony Ericsson Xperia Ray is the most cute and stylish phone for the mid-range people. The phone is announced to be launched in India at a price range of Rs 18995.

The phone has very powerful media capabilities and screen has very good response on swiping. There you won’t find any lags. The phone is a package of style and performance on it’s range.
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Let us see some feature that you must think before going to have it:
Features:
The Xperia ray has 3.3 inch screen where you will find the two capacitive buttons and the home buttons. The top consists of the power button and the right consists of the volume rocker. At the top, arc shaped body makes it look very stylish. It displays at the resolution of 480X854 pixels. The phone thus is not a big phone and is available in many colors. And you will surely enjoy the phone’s superior design.

The Smartphone runs on the Android 2.3.3 OS and is powered by 1GHz Scorpion processor plus the Adreno 205 GPU and an MSM8255 snapdragon chipset. The phone has many apps like facebook, twitter and other extensions which come up on the screen as tiles. There are Xperia’s own apps like Xperia Hot Shots, the UEFA widget; Wisepilot and Touchnote which you can enjoy on this phone. The phone has very quick response without lag thus navigation is very easier.

The Xperia had always been merited for its media player. It continues to do so in this phone too. Audio files like MP3, eAAC+ and WAV files are supported and in video section MP4, H.263 and H.264 are supported. If one wants more then they can find the rest with infinity buttons provided in it.

The Speaker used is Sony’sxLOUD audio filter technology which produces very clear and light sound. Thus the experience will be very fantastic.In camera section, the phone has 8MP focus camera that offers 720p HD video recording with Sony Exmor R CMOS sensor. The connectivity section includes 3G,Wi-Fi,Bluetooth and a GPS. It has 1500mAh battery.
Verdict:
My suggestion would be if you are not going for high end phones like Samsung Galaxy 2 or Iphone4 then within the range of 20000 it will be wise to get this phone.

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BlackBerry Torch 9850 - Rates Yet To Be Released

Blackberry phones are always the preference of professionals. Its sleek and smart design creates better effect in the surrounding. Blackberry torch 9850 runs on Blackberry OS 7 and has a dedicated high performance graphics with a processor of 1.2 GHz. The phone has 3.7-inch high resolution touchscreen display of 800X480p and has ultimate responsive touchscreen with trackpad navigation system. Its liquid graphics technology delivers incredibly fast and smooth graphics experience.
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Most important feature of this phone is 3G coverage in more than 95 countries and will be available in more than 200 countries. The phone supports Global ready quad-band for UMTS, GSM, HSPA, GPRS and edge connectivity. Thus the customers can enjoy wireless voice and data services.

The phone has 5Mp camera with flash and is capable of 720p HD video recording. The phone has Wi-Fi b/g/n, GPS and Bluetooth 2.1.In this smartphone 16 GB microSD card is pre-installed and supports for up to 32 GB.
In this phone premium version of Documents To Go is added at no additional cost. This feature enhances the editing features and PDF document view. The phone also includes the Blackberry’s latest Blackberry messenger with a range of applications based on gaming and social networking. Social feedbacks have been updated to help explore updates from media, podcasts and more in a consolidated view.

Voice activated search function is also included so that one can say they want and find on the device or on the web through the Universal search applications. Most importantly one can wipe out all the data and information from the device leaving the personal information from the phone.

The phone will be available for $199.99 with a new two year customer agreement. The only thing customers have to do is subscribe to Verizon Wireless network plans. The plans begin from $39.9 for monthly access and data package of 2GB at $30 monthly access.

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Mercury M Tab - Rates Not Released

Unlike beetel, the mercury tablet comes with android 2.3 operating system and 1.2 GHz 3-Core processor and 512 MB of RAM. Now, that’s pretty descent specs for the price tab they placed on the device. The tablet has inbuilt 4 GB memory and can be extended to 16 GB if you wish.
7-inch WVGA TFT LCD touch display with a 1.3 MP camera are the other features to look at. Our source says that the tab will not have inbuild 3G, however you can plugin 3G dongle to surf internet on the go. For a price tag of 9,499 rupees, the tab certainly has edge on the other cheap tablets available in the market.

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Nokia 700 - Rs 18,000

Nokia has introduced the Nokia 700, its smallest ever smartphone with a volume of just 50 cubic cms. The materials in the device are a collection of glass, plastics and aluminium, giving a sleek and stylish finish. Nokia says the 700 is its most eco-friendly smartphone. It makes extensive use of eco-friendly materials in its construction, has software and hardware features to minimise battery consumption and ships with the ‘Ovi Green’ app pre-installed, which updates users on health and environmental topics.

    Features:

•     Camera Size: 5.0 Mega Pixels
•     Camera Resolution: 2592 × 1944 Pixels
•     Camera Support and Features: Video, LED Flash, Screen
•     Display Screen Size: 3.2 inches
•     Display Resolution: 360×640 Pixels
•     Display Type: AMOLED Capacitive Touch Screen
•     Display Colors: 16M Colors
•     Screen Feature: Accelerometer sensor for auto-rotate
•     Internet Connectivity: 3G, GPRS, EDGE, WAP 2.                 xHTML, HTML, RSS feeds Internet Browsing
•     Data Transfer Connectivity Options – Bluetooth v2.1, Micro  USB v2.0, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n
•     Phone Book: Store Unlimited Contacts with Photo call
•     SMS, MMS, Email, Push Email with Predictive text input and Instant Messaging
•     Recording – Audio, Video Recorder & Playback
•     Audio port – 3.5mm Headphone Jack
•     Speaker Phone
•     Music Format Support: MP3, MP4 Player
•     Ringtone: MP3, WAV Ring tones, Vibration
•     NFC Support
•     Voice memo
•     SNS Integration

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Microsoft Xbox 360 Joystick - Rs 1600

Are you looking to buy Microsoft Xbox 360 Joystick for pc in India? Well, if you are then you are absolutely at the right place. The Xbox 360 controller is one of the best joystick controller you can ever find to play PC games. I’ve been using this controller for PC (fifa 11 pc edition of the game) for less than 15 days and its working really great.

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Uber Music Android App - $ 3.49

The app offers six distinct skinnable widgets. It is capable of automatically downloading artist pictures and also setting them as screen backround. Shuffling and overscrolling also form a part of the feature list. Hitting the play button affixed next to a playlist, artist or album enables directly playing the corresponding track.


Android device users can choose tabs that they wish to be displayed on the library screen. Offering complete personalization, users can customize the status bar to view the notifications. It is inclusive of free live wallpapers displaying the ablum art. Engadget reveals that one of its skins comes across pretty similar to the Zune.


Price:


The UberMusic app can be procured through Android App store for a price of $3.49.

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Acer Iconia Tab - Rs 28,000

This tablet has a LED capacitive screen and bordered by half an inch of shiny black bezel. It has a tiny web cam which is seen when you hold this tablet vertically which is very useful for video chat, instant messengers. This tablet has 5 MP camera with a single LED flash and a pair of silver stereo speakers. The device also has a 2 MP secondary camera and comes with a 3.5 mm Jack and at the left side it has a power button and towards the other edge it has a HDMI port. There is plastic flap besides the orientation lock button that houses the MicroSD card and SIM card slots. The tablet is powered by Dual-core 1GHz ARM Cortex-A9 processor while also comes with ULP GeForce GPU, Tegra 2 T20 chipset.

At the bottom of the Tablet there is a docking connector for the optional charging dock with infra red remote. This device has 1 GB DDR2 RAM its battery backup is very good as its battery is 3260 mAh and its weight measures 777g.

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Nokia X7 - Rs 23,000

 

The Nokia X7 is not a ground breaking phone, but it is the first device to ship with Symbian Anna / PR2 (officially) on it. Unfortunately it’s also the only device that has actually begun shipping, except for the exclusive pink N8. Symbian Anna brings many welcomed changes that legacy users have been clamoring for. The interface has changed slightly, thanks to a new icon format and inclusion of the Nokia Pure font. The photo gallery and camera interface took a serious overhaul while the browser received a performance bump but still remains ugly and borderline unusable.
Read on for a mini-review on the X7.
 Hardware

The design of the X7 is original. A large 4″ AMOLED CBD (ClearBlackDisplay) screens adorns the front. It’s Gorilla Glass and capacitive and multi-touch enabled. The screen is bright and visible indoors, as well as clear and crisp, albeit extremely reflective, when natural light is introduced in the outdoors. Gone are the old TFT and LCD displays with bland colors and heavy washout. Nokia put a lot into this display, it’s similar technology behind AMOLED, it’s really great and is on both the E7 and N8.

The angular design of the phone makes it feel much smaller in hand, but also forces you to hold it slightly differently from most other devices. This becomes an issue with button placement. Due to the curved back, the buttons are pushed to the rear of the device where the fingers do not naturally sit when holding. Increasing the volume on a call and even using the camera shutter key takes more than a few days to get used to.

The right side houses the integrated slots for SIM and microSD cards. The mechanism for ejecting the card tray is very peculiar and my inexperience caused me to break the SIM tray lever. Although regular users won’t be removing SIM and memory cards all that often, Nokia has been constantly changing the way they are replaced, leaving me extremely curious every time a new device is announced.

The 3.5mm headphone jack, microUSB port and power button, which doubles as a lock key, sit at the top of the device and a small microphone port at the bottom. The overall design is very minimal, 4 buttons in total and only one faces the user for daily interaction.

The X7 has 4 grilles on each corner, but only 2 of these grilles have speakers behind. At the very least, the speakers should have been placed on opposite ends of the device to provide a simulated surround effect by feeding both the left and right ears. The good thing is, thanks to the placement, you’ll never block or muffle the speakers at all. The X7 packs a serious punch when it comes to multimedia, as it should, being an X-series device. The large vivid screen and the loud, never-distorting speakers make movie watching very enjoyable.

The camera on the X7 is Nokia’s “full-focus” Extended Depth of Field (EDoF). In laymen’s terms, shooting anything closer than you can spit on, will result in eyesores and immediate blindness. Don’t let the 8 megapixel label fool you.


Regardless of distance, the camera takes grainy, noisy, and blurry shots. Consistently. Maybe it’s due to the early firmware, maybe the camera drivers or algorithm needs to be tweaked. In any fashion, if you’re looking for a phone that takes pictures as bad as a BlackBerry, look no further. Everybody else, please get an N8 and call it a day.


Software

The X7 brings along many needed enhancements to Symbian. Unfortunately, the software on the X7 tested is still in pre-release form, so lag, freezes and hangups should be resolved by availability date. Navigating around the interface was smooth and quick, rarely any stuttering and interactions were immediate. Once you move into browsing and ‘heavier’ tasks, the X7 seems to chug and slow down very quickly. Even though Anna brings with it, a new browser and several engine optimizations, it’s still a piss-poor experience. The interface is cluttered and clunky, it’s slow to respond and the low resolution screen is absolutely horrific for reading anything serious. If your main use of a phone is web surfing, stay far away.

On a brighter side, Nokia Maps is hands-down the greatest navigation software for any mobile device. GPS locks are fast, online searching is quite thorough and the turn-by-turn instructions are completely customizable. The Maps application loads near instantly, displaying POI and location information. In addition to the bundled apps on the X7, Nokia’s Store (formerly, Ovi Store) has over 50,000 apps available to users and there must be a good selection, as almost 7 million downloads per day are made. Nokia includes a few of their own, Social, Chat and IM as well as QuickOffice for Word support, an Adobe PDF reader and on-device photo and video editing tools.

If you’ve read one review of Symbian, you’ve basically read them all. Symbian is a tired workhorse being fed steroids to try and keep up with greyhounds. It was around first, but it grew old and stagnated. Ironically, plans for a trip to the glue factory were signed and dotted by Stephen Elop on February 11th, when Nokia announced Windows Phone 7 would be their dominant smartphone platform.

The X7 is a great smartphone for experienced entry-level users. The great design and aluminum body feel great in hand, no doubt the X7 is durable. The screen is large and the speakers are loud, great for watching movies.

The X7 is superb hardware, running legacy software that’s been purposefully buried by Stephen Elop, CEO of Nokia. Successfully buried according to recent Q2 numbers, might I add. So long X7, you had nary a chance.

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