Days today are no longer bilingual or trilingual, we are living in multi racial networked society, especially with mobile devices. Talking to a new foreign student at school, having visiting colleagues from the Japanese branch, buying things at a local Chinese store, or simply traveling somewhere out of town. Knowing a little of another’s language is often the key to breaking barriers, especially when the other party feels you are trying your best. Mobile translation is a hot application area, but seemingly dozens of translation apps are cumbersome and have too many buttons to click to get the actual results. […]

“Contacts Dialer” by SogoApps enables speed dialing by using just one click on the contact picture. The speed dial option was originally intended to shorten the process but sometimes we forget who is designated with each number. With Contacts Dialer, there is no need to try and remember who owns which number. You can call who you want with only one click on a picture. “In the past, the necessity of Technology made ​​us call a phone number, [each man was represented by a number, like prison], now with the advancement of technology, we can change our thinking and call […]

Description: Tango gives you the highest quality video & phone calls, texts, photo & video sharing, games and more for FREE! It’s the all-in-one social networking app that finally combines every way you want to interact with friends & family. Join over 100M people around the world & Tango today! Easy to use – No login & password – create an account in seconds – Automatically finds your friends using Tango – Calls and messages work just like they do on your phone – Works across most smartphones, tablets, & PCs – Great quality on 3G, 4G, and Wi-Fi Fun […]

Description: Privacy for your messaging. FREE! Brought to you by KeepSafe. Over 3 million people trust our picture privacy app! Hide SMS is easy to use and keeps conversations locked. Pick the messages you want to hide and KeepSafe will lock them behind a PIN pad. Use Hide text to lock your private messages. KeepSafe puts you in control over who sees what on your phone. KeepSafe is like a Vault to lock text messages in. Finally you can have private messaging and private texting. This sms hider is the best app to hide text messages. It’s simple, easy and […]

Description: Enjoy free group or one-to-one chats anywhere in the world

★ Kakaotalk picked as Google Android Market Top Developer!
★ CNet’s No.1 Free Texting App
★ Stable service supporting more than 32 million users
★ Ranked No. 1 free communication application in the Android Market
★ Group chat with unlimited number of friends
★ Receive special contents and benefits from your favorite artists, Plus Friends
★ Feature to add friends with their IDs as well as with their phone numbers

Cost: Free

Developer: kakao

Description: Your Android, on the Web
AirDroid is a free and fast app that helps you manage your Android from a desk web browser, all over the air.

AirDroid philosophy:
※ One less cable.
Move things on and off your Android device without a USB cable. Even when the device is not nearby.

Cost: Free

Developer: Sand Studio

Description: Snapp! – an Android app that creates a network where you can post your location no matter where you are – indoors, outdoors, malls, even if you’re on the move!

This app can utilize the app’s system GPS locator, that works both indoors and outdoors, to track your position. Check into nearby locations and post your location on snapp!

Cost: Free

Developer: sensewhere Ltd.

Description: Send quick voice messages to individuals, groups and the world.

Hallo is like texting, but with your voice! Send quick voice messages (30 seconds or less) privately to individuals and groups or publicly to followers on the app and to Facebook and Twitter.

EASY & QUICK: Simply tap ‘Say Hallo’, record, and your message is instantly sent!

Cost: Free

Developer: Hallo, Inc

Description: Get WhatsApp Messenger and say goodbye to SMS!

WhatsApp Messenger is a smartphone messenger available for Android, BlackBerry, iPhone, Windows Phone and Nokia phones. WhatsApp uses your 3G or WiFi (when available) to message with friends and family. Switch from SMS to WhatsApp to send and receive messages, pictures, audio notes, and video messages.

Cost: Free

Developer: WhatsApp Inc

Description: Kyte Phone turns any Android into a kids-friendly phone with full parental controls and GPS tracking.

Once parents log in, Kyte takes over the device with a friendly, playful UI from which kids cannot exit. Kids can then call and receive calls from a list of parent-approved numbers and play any apps and games parents enable.

Using their web dashboard, parents can see their child’s latest location and get a summary of all activity on the phone, including games played and calls made. Parents can also quickly change who their kids can call and which games they can play, with everything synced automatically.

Cost: Free

Developer: KytePhone

Description: Renren Android App make your communication with friends become more convenient.

Renren.com ,China’s Largest Real Name SNS,founded in 2005. Renren.com is the largest real name SNS in China.

Cost: Free

Developer: RenRen Inc

Description: Sina Weibo, an informal mini-blog product, is a new expression to Web2.0. It is a latest Internet service that publishes information instantly.

Cost: Free

Developer: Weibo

Description: Handcent SMS is a powerful free sms/mms tools for your android phone

Handcent fully unleashes the messaging power for android phones, fully customizable and more features than the stock android messaging app.

Version: 3.9.7

Cost: Free

Developer: Handcent

Description: SlideIT is the best keyboard for Android devices.
SlideIT, make it easy to write

Version: 4.0

Cost: Free for 15 day trial, 6.52

Developer: Dasur Ltd.

Description: Simply draw directly on your screen to call or text any contact using Sign.

Sign is a unique, gesture-based speed dial application. Quickly and easily call or text the people you contact most often directly from the home screen with a simple swipe of your finger.

Version: 2.3.6

Cost: .99

Developer: Simply Applied

Description: SIESTA Text Away Message is the simplest, cleanest SMS-auto reply app! Customize your Siesta away-message and when someone texts or calls, your phone sends them an instant auto reply text. Let SIESTA Text do the texting work for you!

Version: 1.0

Cost: 2.99

Developer: MAO NYC

Description: K-9 Mail is an open-source e-mail client with search, push mail, multi-folder sync, flagging and refiling, signatures, bcc-self, configurable alerts and more!

Version: 2.803

Developer: K-9 Dog Walkers

Cost: Free

Description: SPC Security & Privacy:

1. Black list that blocks sms, block call as firewall

2. Private Conversation that move sms call to your private label

3. Customized filters

Version: 1.17

Cost: Free

Developer: Superdroid.net

Description: SMS heaps? Then chompSMS is for you: It’s got a great user interface, chat style SMS bubbles, lots of customizations & heaps more great features!

Version: 3.1

Cost: Free

Developer: chompSMS

Description: PdaNet allows your computer to go online through the Android phones data connection. Supports USB Tether and Bluetooth DUN. No root access needed and runs on all Android phones. Mac&PC
Version: 2.16

Cost: Free

Developer: June Fabrics Technology Inc.