We had featured some cool iPhone apps in our earlier posts. While Pixelpipe just announced 50 new mobile applications for Android via the Android Market, we take a look at some really superior and free communication Apps for Android that are already out there.
The way you communicate won’t be the same once you start using these apps. These apps further advances the way you communicate with your Android Mobile.
Here are the five free apps that you do not want to miss.
Fusion Voicemail Plus by PhoneFusion is a FREE service that lists ALL of your voicemail messages on your SmartPhone screen. Not only does it list your messages from your mobile phone, but from your home, office and any other voicemail box as well. A tap of a screen or a push of a button is all that’s needed to scroll, listen to, call back, and delete voicemails in the order of your choice. Save time listening to the voicemails that you want, in the order you prefer. Fusion Voicemail Plus is available Android ( also available for handsets running Windows Mobile 5 and 6 and BlackBerry)
You can sign up online and download the Fusion Voicemail Plus application to your mobile phone and then redirect or forward all your unanswered calls to our Fusion Voicemail Plus Servers. All calls sent to voicemail are now directed to your Fusion Voicemail Plus mailbox. Each time a caller leaves a voicemail, an SMS message is forwarded to your mobile phone triggering the Fusion Voicemail plus program to download the voicemail from the servers to your SmartPhone, and the voicemail information is displayed on your handset screen.
The application can be downloaded for free from the Fusion Voicemail Plus site.
2. ChompSMS
chompSMS is a great application for people who are busy SMSing and more frequently send SMS to international numbers. chompSMS has lots of features like an on-screen keyboard, signatures, chat bubbles, color customizations, and more. You can use chompSMS as a replacement to the built-in Messaging application, and send SMS messages via your mobile carrier as you normally do. Or, if your mobile carrier charges a lot, you can buy credits to send SMS messages via the chompSMS network, which can be much cheaper.
The chompSMS application is free. If you currently pay too much for SMS messages then simply buy credits, and each time you compose an SMS, choose to send it via the chompSMS network instead of your mobile carrier.
You can install the application from the chompSMS site
3. Twidroid
Twidroid is the first full-featured twitter client application on the android platform with features like native photo posting, location support, auto-completion, a fully integrated notification system and the latest news from twitter buzz.
Here is some of the highlights of twidroid:
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full-featured twitter client
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postings, replies & direct messages
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user detail information
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follow/unfollow a user
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auto-completion of your contact names
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secured operation via SSL
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option to use identi.ca instead of twitter
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option to use twitter compatible APIs
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integrates directly with android’s browser & gallery for sharing
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GPS location support to update your profile or embed into photos
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location-based nearby search
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directly integrated photo-posting from cam or disk via phodroid and twitpic
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directly integrated search through all public tweets
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native url-shortening
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background notifications for replies & direct messages
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auto layout for landscape and portrait mode
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custom alert ringtones
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API to send tweets from your android application
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‘buzz’ feature that allows you to view today’s most talked about stories on twitter directly in the app.
Download it here.
Android jChat is an agent based chat application with GPS support for Android, based on the JADE agent framework.
It allows the user to communicate with any other contact having the same software running and connected to the same JADE platform. Users can send text IM in a chat like way, call a contact by phone or even send an SMS to a contact.
Moreover the position of each contact can be seen on the map at any time and it is continuously updated.
Features of jChat:
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Contacts management: contacts are read from the phone contacts database.
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Persistence: you can see the status of all contacts connected to your own JADE platform.
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Real time localization: you can see the position of the contacts on the map and the distance from your current position. Localization uses the Android mocked GPS provider for tracking contacts position. You are able to import new custom tracks if you wish.
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Multiple chat sessions handling: you can open multiple chat sessions with different contacts and switch between them.
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Support for chat with many contacts in a single session.
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Mocked SMS sending and phone call to contacts.
jChat4Android 1.0 is released as open source software according to the LGPL 2.1.
Source : http://www.androidfreeware.org
5. Meebo
Meebo is a free IM program that supports AIM, MSN, Yahoo, MySpace IM, Google Talk, Jabber and ICQ. You can also sign in using a Meebo account and your chat history will be saved forever, and can be accessed from anywhere by logging in at www.meebo.com
If you love your Android phones, then these are some nice apps you could try for free and enjoy communicating.
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