Free Android Applications: 5 Best Applications

Invented by an MIT-borne group, Locale lets you mark your most frequent visited places on a map and set your phone to respond to those places in different ways, for example, switch to silent when in office or at movie theater or turn on the lights when few blocks away from your home. The application is designed to automatically change phone settings based on its location.

This app is a ping.fm client for all Google Android enabled phones. It allows easy updating of user status messages over 30 different social media networks automatically, including, Twitter, MySpace, Facebook, Flickr, Brightkite and more. This app is extremely useful for users to micro blog directly from their Android mobile phone, supporting status messages, micro blogs and blog posts. You can even upload pictures stored on your SD card or clicked instantly from your camera and attach these to your posts.

This app works impressively for all online shopping-geeks. It helps all its users in making smart, informed decisions. Using GPS and Android camera for scanning bar codes, the app will search throughout the Web and all local stores for comparing prices of any product. You can also find reviews by other people and save whatever you like to a wish list.

This free online backup app for Android lets you bring all your photos, docs and videos anywhere. On installing this app, save your files to Dropbox and automatically it will save to all your computers, your Android device and even the app’s website. This will make you carry your online content all the time anywhere at any time. You can share photos, docs, and save email attachments straight into your Dropbox.

This is a mobile interface which enables launching of apps on your mobile interface. The app has a nice interface, and lets you search quickly, and then execute programs, contacts and settings. Just slide open the keyboard and start typing any MP3, application, contact or select form any of the list of suggestions popped up on a separate screen. It offers different tabs to search your required term in the publisher’s apps: Fbook, Quickpedia, Local (Yelp), and Dial Zero.