Android Communication Apps

Save MMS App for Android Review

Save MMS is a simple Android app that lets users save pictures that comes as attachment in multimedia messages. It comes as a welcome relief to users, especially youngsters, who certainly might have tried to save the pictures came in messages more than once, but failed to do so. Now, with Save MMS mobile application at your service, there is no compulsion whatsoever to keep multimedia messages with pictures in the inbox, only because it had their favorite picture.

The App

Android Save MMS app offers a way round the inability of most handsets to save pictures from multimedia messages. Yes, you can forward the message to your email and save as attachment. But those are more round about ways, which are time consuming as well, not to mention the additional KB/MB your internet plan takes up to send it to your email.

Save MMS app offers a simple option to save the pictures that comes with the MMS into your Google Android device. In order to save a picture that came with an MMS message, you only need to launch the Save MMS app, and the app will automatically find out the pictures that came as attachments and are still in the message inbox of your phone. Once the app finds the relevant text messages, you can select and save the picture (it is also possible to rename the file if the user wishes so) you want into the SD card. The pictures so chosen will be saved in a folder called SavedMMS. Unfortunately, there is no option whatsoever available with the Save MMS app that lets you save the pictures in a folder or location of your choice in the SD card or phone memory. Hopefully, this feature(s) will be incorporated in the coming versions of the Save MMS application for Android.

Conclusion

Taken together, Save MMS is a winner. There’ll be people out there who’ll love to have this little app in their Android handsets. The app presents a very user friendly interface to the users, and is also quite easy to use even for a first timer. Above all, Save MMS is downloadable from Android market place for free of cost. Final Verdict: It doesn’t hurt to have this app in your Android device. Try it out once and see how it appeals to you.

Nimbuzz App for Android Review

Now you can chat with your friends in different messengers from a single platform through the new Nimbuzz Android app. Nimbuzz is an integrated messaging app that combines all major instant messaging platforms into your Android device.

All-in-One IM Application

Nimbuzz is a complete chat and calling app that lets you stay online while on the go. The advanced app interconnects a lot if IM platforms as well as supports various VOIP services. The app will integrate all your IM contacts into a single list and provide easy access to all your friends.

The built-in IM client in Nimbuzz app supports a lot of instant messaging services such as Skype, Windows Live Messenger (MSN), AIM, Yahoo Messenger, ICQ, GoogleTalk, Facebook, MySpace and many more. The app also supports many local communication platforms such as studiVZ (German student community), Hyves, Giovani (Italian social networking service) and so on. Before starting to use the app, you have to sign up for a Nimbuzz account. You can easily create account from the sign-in screen in the app.

Connect to Various IMs in Real Time

Nimbuzz app helps you to chat with your friends in different messengers from single interface without having to independently register for each one. The app interface is easy-to-use and provides time sensitive user interface options. Once you have created an account, you can add different contacts using Add Contacts option. You can choose contacts from list of IM clients. To add an IM client, simply choose the client and enter your username and password. All your contacts from the particular client will be added to your Nimbuzz contact list. The contact list includes your friends’ names, avatars and their online status messages.

Android Nimbuzz app is integrated with time-sensitive functions. A short press on a contact’s name displays the contact profile. A long press on a contact initiates a chat session. You can also send URLs to your friends and check URLs via app chat window. All web addresses will be opened via Android browser. Another major feature is the mainscreen notification function. It notifies every incoming chat to let you know you have a message and you will never miss any important chat.

Conclusion

Nimbuzz is a fine mobile app that helps to manage multiple accounts through a single interface. Nimbuzz app is free and you can download it from Android Market.

Handcent SMS app for Android Review

It is interesting to note that no matter whatever applications we have today, to communicate with friends/relatives, the old texting have not lost none of its charm yet. For texting addicts, here is an Android app that takes texting to a whole new level altogether. It has a new interface, plus a number of new features, that one may not find in the usual SMS messaging apps. Above all, Handcent SMS Android app is downloadable for free.

Features of Android Handcent SMS App

Handcent SMS app for Android lets its users customize the app to one’s tastes. One could choose skins, themes (light or dark), and conversation styles so that your SMS messages takes on the feel that you want. The app also lets users add wallpaper to their messaging screen, change the font style, add/remove contact pics, and even put a signature to your SMS.

Further, there is an option in the app by which incoming SMS’ will be displayed in a popup screen, thus eliminating the need to go to the SMS folder and read the text. From the popup, one could not only read the message, but also reply to it, view the sender’s contact information, and view other messages in the inbox. Also, the app lets one send group messages, and the app syncing with the phonebook makes this task a lot easier.

Handcent SMS mobile app also comes with a ‘Speak SMS’ feature, wherein you could write your messages through voice recognition. Android’s proprietary voice recognition software (yes.. the one behind Google Voice Search) is been used for this job. This feature works pretty well, if you speak slow enough and enunciate the words clearly and properly. The Speak SMS feature is also accessible from the SMS popup window.

Further, with the Handcent SMS app, users could customize the color of LED, its blinking frequency when it notifies something, vibrate alert pattern etc. The app comes preloaded with ten language packs, for different countries, with its own T9 keypad.

Final Thoughts

There are still many features to the Android Handcent SMS mobile application, such as customizing the way the device’s accelerometer works in the messaging interface, which is worth mentioning. Perhaps, the user himself must download this app, and see its features one by one, before choosing what all they want to activate in their Android devices. Certainly, this app is useful, and there are not any solid reasons as to why one should not download this app either. After all, Handcent SMS comes free of cost. Verdict: Must have in your handsets!

The jChat App for Android Review

The JADE agent framework has become one of the more popular online chat and text networks for smart phone use and that is why jChat has become such a popular free communication app for the Google Android platform.

Real time contact list tracking

The jChat app for Android has a lot of contact-related features that you should definitely appreciate. For starters, it can read contact information directly from the list already in your phone and that means that if your friends are also on jChat, you can know automatically just by getting jChat to automatically add contacts to your list.

Then, once you have those contacts, you can use the jChat “real time localization” feature to find out where those people are in terms of their relative location and distance from your current position. With pseudo-GPS usage, the jChat mobile application can give you a handle on exactly what is going on downtown. At the same time that you are tracking them spatially, you can also see their online/offline status in real time on your application’s front screen.

Chatting revisited

Although the contact features are impressive, chatting is really the bread and butter of this software package. You essentially have two choices when it comes to chatting over the jChat software package. The first is to do standard pseudo-SMS texting and the second is to actually do a real chat along the lines of what you would see in an instant messaging or online chat room situation.

You also have a heavy amount of choice when it comes to how you want to structure the chat sessions that you enter. You can choose to go with the standard of opening multiple chat windows and keeping them going at the same time with individual people. Alternatively, you can combine chat windows and create a big internet-style chat room with all of your contacts available to chat with everyone else at the same time. The choice is entirely yours when you use Android jChat app.

Final Score

This excellent free communications app for the Android receives 8 out of 10 for all of the above features. It is a little rough around the edges and could become more user friendly over time in order to receive better marks. As of right now however, you can download and install this software package and have top notch chat software ready to go whenever you decide that you need it.