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If you’re among those few lucky Android users running Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich or higher on their devices, you’ve now got a sound reason to dump whatever browser you are currently using. Google has just released a beta build of Chrome for Android with several innovations that are bound to set new benchmarks for contemporary mobile browsers across all platforms, let alone Android. Ranging from an ultra-swift web browsing experience to real-time syncing of tabs opened on your desktop browser (or any other device running Chrome with your account in sync), this new wonder product from Google is here to redefine the way you surf the web on the go. The highlights of the browser include tabbed browsing, ability to sign in with Google account to access your Chrome bookmarks, accelerometer-based tilt scrolling, easy swipe-across-the-edge switching between tabs, good-looking 3D transition effects between tabs, incognito browsing, facility to jump to most frequently opened and recently closed pages from the browser’s homescreen, auto-zooming on content/URL-laden areas of a webpage, and smoother rendering of webpages. More after the break.

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Today seems to be a good day for Android fans with a couple of big announcements coming from tech giants. First, it was news of the release of Google’s Chrome browser for Android, and now it’s Microsoft bringing its trusted note-taking and sharing tool, OneNote, to the Android Market. Initially released as an iOS-exclusive app, and then released for Windows Phone 7, Microsoft’s official OneNote client is now available to Android users with all the note management features it is known for, including remote access to your SkyDrive account for syncing notes and notebooks in real-time (with support for offline access), enhanced text formatting (with built-in spell check tool), in-app photo capturing and attachment, option to add hyperlinks, images and bullets to notes and plenty more.

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As soon as you hear of a new camera replacement app for iOS, you might be tempted to think that it can’t be anything new, as there are so many of them already in the App Store. TapShot, however, is one camera app for iPhone which is sure to change this perception. TapShot relies completely on gestures to function, and using it, taking photos becomes so easy that you don’t have to do anything more than pointing your iDevice towards your target. The gestures are highly customizable, and you can learn all about them by heading past the break.

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There are a few things in an iPhone which most people never even think of changing, even if they have access to Cydia. One such iOS feature is the omnipresent keyboard with its QWERTY layout, but one jailbreak developer had different ideas, and now you can even replace the stock keyboard layout with the Dvorak one. Dvorak layout is said to be easier on the fingers, and lets you type more efficiently once you get used to it. This is owing to the fact that the key placement in the Dvorak layout reduces the travel distance between more frequently used keys, which also results in less typographical errors.

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In previously reviewed student planners such as Studious, My Class Schedule and Student Timetable, we have already seen some very handy timetable managing options that are available to students owning Android devices. However, lack of simplicity and good aesthetics seem to have left many users longing for a better alternative. Fresh to the Android Market, yasp! is a fine-looking student planner that vows to fill said void, and add a few goodies of its own. Apart from sporting an uncluttered interface, and conventional timetable scheduling and note-taking features, yasp! brings a contingency plan concept to the table. Using said feature, you can define an alternative timetable that would take effect if the original schedule doesn’t work out. Details after the break.

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The concept for Windows Phone 7 custom ROMs is nothing new, the Dark Force Team has developed ROMs for first-gen HTC phones using Mango (as discussed here), but now it appears that they are taking things a step further, and Samsung users can enjoy their work as well! Just yesterday, DFT released Sammy Rainbow, which is the MAGLDR for Samsung Omnia 7 and Samsung Focus (first-gen Samsung WP7 devices). If you are wondering what MAGLDR is, read our detailed guide on the subject. This release has paved the way for custom ROM development for Samsung WP7 devices, and even presently you can flash the Freedom custom ROM, which is pretty awesome to say the least. Read on to learn how to install MAGLDR on your Samsung WP7, and then flash a custom ROM through MAGLDR.

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You might’ve come across quite a few Android photo editing and styling apps that let you apply various effects and filters to your images to give them a cartoonish or drawn look after they are captured. New to the Android Market, Cartoon Camera by Fingersoft is a handy camera replacement app that lets you preview said effect live within the camera’s viewfinder. That is, the app applies the effect to whatever the camera is looking at in real time, so that you know exactly how a photo is going to turn out before you capture it and even lets you adjust the Sensitivity of the effect. Details to follow.

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WordWeb Software is regarded highly among Windows, Mac and iOS users for the comprehensive English dictionary and thesaurus tool that it offers to each platform. While the official iOS client has been around in the iTunes App Store for quite some time, the Android variant has just been rolled out into the Android Market. The mobile client of WordWeb Dictionary lets users view definitions for both words and phrases, complete with examples of usage, pronunciation, synonyms, sentence structures, and related words online as well as offline. Other salient features of the dictionary include easy navigation between words in an alphabetical order, pattern-based search (exclusive feature), real-time search suggestions, help for frequently confused terms, bookmarking favorite words, random word meaning, integrated support for browsing Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Answers.com and Google for further references, advanced search filtering and lots more.

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Even though Windows Phone 7 has got its official Adobe Reader client, but not every eBook can be found in PDF format, and that’s why Mango users need to have some other options for reading books on their phone. Bookviser is an app which combines three of the most used eBook formats, including ePub, TXT and FB2 file formats. Not only does the app lets you read books, it provides a pretty good platform for searching and downloading books of your interest as well. Read on to know more about this must-have app for book lovers.

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There are a handful of apps around for Windows Phone 7 that can help you get the best deals from various sources, letting you save some cash on your shopping, but won’t it be nice if you didn’t have to flip through a multitude of apps before finding something really useful? Quixby Deals is one such deal aggregator which taps into a number of sources, like Newegg and various sections of Woot, and apart from pulling out really great deals, it has a very beautiful interface as well.

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GRAMMY is rightly termed as music’s biggest night of the year. It is the time when singers and musicians from all over the world gather to find out whose work touched the heart of their listeners, as well as critics. If you like to follow the activity which precedes the famous award show, then there’s an app for that. With GRAMMY Live, all iPhone, iPad and iPod touch users can easily stay in touch with the happenings related to this year’s show, scheduled for February 12. Not only that, you can even participate in polls about who will win for certain categories, watch the stream of the show, and the app even offers some fun features, like GRAMMY trivia and a few songs on the GRAMMY Live’s radio.

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It is a well-known fact that a vast majority of photos shared across various online services originate from the camera in some iOS device, but when it comes to recording videos with your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch, the camera is just as useful. Unfortunately, there aren’t as many apps for video editing as there are for photos, and that’s what makes TimeFreeze a really interesting addition to the App Store. The app lets its users add background music to their videos, and you can also make your footage looking like a snippet from the Matrix, by adding the slow motion effect to any area of the clip. Read past the jump for more.

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