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

KakaoTalk is a phone number based messenger service that allows iPhone and android users anywhere in the world to chat one-to-one or in a group for FREE. No texting overage, no texting plans, no hassles related with texting!

KakaoTalk is fast, easy, and fun way of chatting with your friends globally.

*FREE, UNLIMITED, GLOBAL: KakaoTalk uses WIFI or your existing data plan (3G) to let you send and receive unlimited texts, photos, videos and audios to other KakaoTalk users for FREE. No matter what country you or your friend live in, KakaoTalk works globally and there is not international charge.

*NO DELAY: Send texts, photos, videos and voice notes in lightning speed. Plus, know instantly when the message is sent and read.

*VOICE NOTE: Record your message with superb quality and send it to your friends with just a click.

*PLUS FRIEND: Add your favorite artists as “Plus Friends” and receive special contents and updates from them via KakaoTalk. Plus Friend may not be available in certain countries.

*NO HASSLE SIGNING UP: Just download KakaoTalk, enter your phone number, confirm, and you’re done! Simple as that~

*ADD FRIENDS AUTOMATICALLY: No need to manually invite friends and have them approve you. Your contacts will be automatically added to your KakaoTalk friends list straight from your phonebook.

*SIMPLE & EASY: KakaoTalk is ultra-easy to use.

*NO ADS. Period.

★ Latest New Feature List
1. KakaoTalk emoticons which can be used both in iOS and Androids
2. Custom alert sounds
3. Voice note feature added

If you have any feedback, questions, or concerns, please feel free to contact us as

http://www.kakao.com/talk/en/contact

Follow us on twitter at www.twitter.com/kakaotalk
Check out our Facebook, http://on.fb.me/vYxawf

KakaoTalk is called kakaotalk, katalk, カカオトーク, カトーク, 카카오톡, 카톡. (However, Cocoatalk, Cacaotalk, ココアトーク、ココトク and Kokoatalk are all misspelled names.) More group chat members than whatsapp, Skype, google disco, Beluga of Facebook. More Android app users than kik messenger, ebuddy, MSN, yahoo messenger and AIM.

Developer: kakao

Cost: Free

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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.
※ One less screen.
Send and receive SMS from your big-screen computer, without being distracted by the small-screen thing.
※ One less worry.
Locate and lock your Android when it’s lost. Cannot get it back? Simply wipe all data remotely.

Key features:
※ Desktop SMS
Send & receive SMS from the comfort of your computer. Faster typing and navigation with the full keyboard and large screen.
※ Files and Media
Move photos, videos, ringtones and any other files on and off Android, all without a USB cable.
※ Find Phone
Locate and lock your Android when it’s lost. Cannot get it back? Simply wipe all data remotely.
※ Manage Apps
Easier way of app search, installation and apk export.
※ Camera and Screenshot
See through the lens of your Android camera, front and back. Or stream the screen of your Android in nearly real-time.
※ Phone Calls, Clipboard , Url transfer and more
Call contact, share clipboard content, push url to Android and more features awaiting your discovery.

Cost: Free

Developer: Sand Studio

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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!

Share your position on your other social networks. Snapp! can be integrated with all of your major social media accounts – Twitter, Facebook, Foursquare, and Friendshare. Post updates of your location with snapp! and even attach messages, shout outs, and photos.

It is the quite good app for anyone on the go. The powerful location determining technology allows users to track positions from anywhere, from the mall to downtown and even concerts and festivals.

Cost: Free

Developer: sensewhere Ltd.

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

★★★★ Downloaded and used in over 100 countries ★★★★

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!

FREE: Hallo is completely free to use, does not have any advertisements and works cross-platform. Never pay for a text message again.

INDIVIDUALS & GROUPS: Send private voice messages to your friends or talk to multiple friends, co-workers or your entire family at once by creating a group!

PERSONAL: Voice is more personal and fun than texting, whether you’re privately messaging one person or a group or posting public messages to the world!

SOCIAL: Post your ‘World’ (public) voice and audio messages to Facebook and Twitter and discover and follow celebrities and other interesting people on Hallo to listen to their public updates.

PRIVACY: Meet someone and want to chat, but don’t want to give out your phone number? Give them your Hallo username and connect to start talking. You control who can send you private messages on Hallo.

Cost: Free

Developer: Hallo, Inc

Hallo is a voice messaging app that allows you to communicate privately with individuals and groups or post public voice messages to Facebook and Twitter. Hallo has re-imagined voicemail for the digital generation, making voice communication simple, quick, personal and completely free, worldwide.

This combination of private and public voice messaging makes Hallo unique from any other application and has numerous benefits:

* More efficient communication with individuals and groups — eliminate long or unnecessary phone calls
* Faster and more personal text messaging alternative
* Ability to post public voice messages to social media (Facebook and Twitter)

Hallo is being used by all types of different people and groups, desiring a free, effortless and more personal way to connect — from friends and family, to co-workers, to athletes and celebrities (Harry Shum – Glee, Steve Nash – NBA, and more).

It’s a little annoying you have to sign in with a Twitter or Facebook account.

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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. First year FREE! ($0.99/year after)

WHY USE WHATSAPP:

★ NO HIDDEN COST: Once you and your friends download the application, you can use it to chat as much as you want. Send a million messages a day to your friends for free! WhatsApp uses your Internet connection: 3G/EDGE or Wi-Fi when available.

★ MULTIMEDIA: Send Video, Images, and Voice notes to your friends and contacts.

★ GROUP CHAT: Enjoy group conversations with your contacts.

★ NO INTERNATIONAL CHARGES: Just like there is no added cost to send an international email, there is no cost to send WhatsApp messages internationally. Chat with your friends all over the world as long as they have WhatsApp Messenger installed and avoid those pesky international SMS costs.

★ SAY NO TO PINS AND USERNAMES: Why even bother having to remember yet another PIN or username? WhatsApp works with your phone number, just like SMS would, and integrates flawlessly with your existing phone address book.

★ NO NEED TO LOG IN/OUT: No more confusion about getting logged off from another computer or device. With push notifications WhatsApp is ALWAYS ON and ALWAYS CONNECTED.

★ NO NEED TO ADD BUDDIES: Your Address Book is used to automatically connect you with your contacts. Your contacts who already have WhatsApp Messenger will be automatically displayed under Favorites, similar to a buddy list. (You can of course always edit Favorites any way you like)

★ OFFLINE MESSAGES: Even if you miss your push notifications or turn off your phone, WhatsApp will save your messages offline until you retrieve them during the next application use.

★ AND MUCH MORE: Share location, Exchange contacts, Custom wallpaper, Custom notification sounds, Landscape mode, Precise message time stamps, Email chat history, Broadcast messages and MMS to many contacts at once and much much more!

Cost: Free first year.  $.99 after first year

Developer: WhatsApp Inc

Got friends in different countries and would like to text with them? Maybe you’re traveling to another country and would still like to text with your friends at home.With WhatsApp, you can do exactly that for almost free, as long as both people have Whatsapp installed and you have data access. Though you may have to rely on WIFI for data access. Whatsapp is free for the 1st year, and $.99 after.

Not only can you send texts, you can send pictures, videos and audio messages also. Whatsapp automatically syncs to your contacts, so there’s no need to manually enter contacts into Whatsapp.

Whatsapp is a great tool for texting if you are traveling internationally and want to avoid buying expensive international data plans.

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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.

For more information, visit us at www.kytephone.com

Cost: Free

Developer: KytePhone

To all the parents, I’d like to introduce you to Kyte Phone.

If you ever have to let your kid borrow your phone without messing it up, use Kyte Phone to set permissions and limit what they can access. With Kyte Phone, you can set what phone numbers they can dial and what apps they can access. Once Kyte Phone is launched, you can’t exit out of Kyte Phone without the password. Even if you try to restart the phone when Kyte Phone is launched, Kyte Phone will stay launched at start up.

When Kyte Phone is launched, you can check from the Kyte Phone website:

• When the Kyte Phone app was launched
• Call logs
• When and what apps have been used
• A map of where the phone is

To set up accessible apps, go on the Kyte Phone web site and they will have a list of apps you have downloaded from the Google play store. They won’t have apps that you did not download via the Google Play store. Highlight the apps you want to show up on your phone. The apps on the Kyte Phone web site don’t seem to be organized in any order, so finding apps can be tedious.

Setting up contacts is a little tedious also. It doesn’t pull up your contacts, so you have to manually enter every number you want accessible. Too bad it can’t pull up your contact list to check which contacts you want to add. You can manually set a picture to each contact after it’s added.

There’s no texting support either.

Kyte Phone is new so I’m sure improvements will be me to made to make Kyte Phone even better.

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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. Our platform enables our users to connect and communicate with each other, share information and user-generated content, play online games, listen to music, shop for deals and enjoy a wide range of other features and services.
Renren Android App with humanization interface , good operation, integrate 人人网 (www.renren.com) the newsfeed, status, album, diary, LBS and other features , that make your communication with friends become more convenient.

Cost: Free

Developer: RenRen Inc

RenRen is the Facebook of China.

It looks and feels just like Facebook. Facebook isn’t allowed in China, so RenRen is there to take Facebook’s place in China.

Stay in touch with your friends in China through RenRen

RenRen is only available in Chinese.

Similar apps: Facebook, Friendcaster, Seesmic

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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. It is also recognized as the user-active communication media.
Weibo, innovated by Sina Corporation (NASDAQ: SINA), is the new inter-active application that will be widely used, fast spread and it surely will be distinguished to the world.

Cost: Free

Developer: Weibo

Weibo is the Twitter of China.

It’s all in Chinese.

Just like Twitter in the US, if you want to see what’s trending and follow friends and celebrities in China, check out Weibo.

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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.

> Support All types for andorid phone,from android 1.5 to newest 2.3

> Full SMS/MMS support

> Support 20+ languges

> Group sending options,batch send

> SMS Popup with quick text

> Customize look with theme supports, include iphone look ,hero look, and support for downloading more skins and themes

> Individual contact notification,custom look (background,buble style) for different friends

> Security lock options, password protect handcent and your stock messaing application

> Backup/restore SMS /MMS, Handcent settings online and restore with one click

> My Handcent online services

> Built in spell checker

> Hundreds of handcent online themes, download them free and adding new themes everyday

> 20+ languages supported and will add more language support

> Better Mms support (better picture resize feature,help you download high resolution picture for UK carriers,settings Maximum Mms size)

> Handcent Mms Plus service, helps you send high resolution pictures and videos to your friends

> Additional smileys package add-on, you can download more smileys for handcent from android market

> Support local messaging protocol for different countries

> Split 160 feature support auto split message for CDMA network (for example: Verizon)

> Support for additional font packs, also can display sms message with many beautiful & stylish fonts

> Many plugins (Location,smileys,fontpack…)

> Built in Blacklist with the ability to make incoming mms/sms private per individual sender and help you block spam message.

> Supports manage drafts and undelivery messages

> Added vCard capacity for your android phone ,you can send/receive/import vCards from handcent

>Added Emoji capacity for your android phone,you can send cool/funny emoji icons to iphone and the android phones that installed handcent & handcent emoji plugin

>Handcent greetings include many holidays animated greetings ,you can choose the beatiful greeting and send to your friends.

>Handcent privacy box can help you hide & password protect threads/conversation, private conversations won’t be read(or be made visible) by other messaging apps(stock, 3rd party, etc.)

>Support Schedule SMS & MMS messages,you can setup schedule task by daily ,monthly ,weekly …,powerful

Visit http://www.handcent.com for more introduction & visit http://faq.handcent.com for frequently asked question

Version: 3.9.7

Cost: Free

Developer: Handcent

I really don’t need to say much about Handcent SMS. Along with Chomp SMS, they are both great texting apps. One difference, Handcent is ad free. They both offer a boat load of features. Download extra skins and font packs for Handcent SMS. You can’t go wrong with either Handcent or ChompSMS.

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Make sure you also download some of the available plugins for Handcent. I especially find the group SMS plugin valuable.

Handcent Group SMS Plugin

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

SlideIT keyboard trial version 4

Supports many new skins

The innovative keyboard for quick and easy writing with over 1,000,000 downloads, 45 languages. A revolutionary way to write Email, to send SMS or just to chat with your friends…

Instead of entering text by tapping on letters, SlideIT keyboard eases texting by sliding a finger along the letters, while the words “magically” appear on the screen.

SlideIT keyboard is an excellent tool for entering text, enabling users to dramatically improve writing speed with practically no learning curve.

In addition, writing efficiency is further enhanced with SlideIT keyboard’s smart predictive texting and disambiguation capabilities.

SlideIT has over 40 freely available language packs and keyboard layouts for download. Whether you write in English, Serbian, Catalan or Arabic you can still SlideIT! the keyboard can be configured to load 2 languages simultaneously, and the user can switch between them at any time.

This version is limited to a trial period of 15 days

Version: 4.0

Cost: Free for 15 day trial, 6.52 for full version

Developer: Dasur Ltd.

Check out the video below on using the SlideIT keyboard.

SlideIT Keyboard works quite well. I have no problems with how it works. Typing by sliding your finger across the letters can be a lot faster than the traditional way of typing if you master it. One of the biggest issues with SlideIT keyboard isn’t how it functions but the trace type keyboard functionality is available on a lot of phones by default already.

SlideIT Keyboard may be a little better than the default trace keyboard with more options,shortcuts for phrases, and skins. But if it’s already available for free, I wouldn’t pay for SlideIT Keyboard. One of the reason’s to buy SlideIT may be if the default trace keyboard doesn’t have your desired language.

If your phone doesn’t have trace keyboard capability, SlideIT Keyboard would be a good option.

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