Techscot.Blogspot will not be held responsible for any loss of data caused by following these instructions, please do every step carefully and at your own risk!
As you all know the
Samsung Galaxy Young has very low internal memory unlike the bigger
smartphones out there with gigabytes of space while our little Y has
only 160MB.
Sometimes it can be a huge pain when some apps install
on your memory and you keep getting messages like "insufficent memory
available" or "uninstall some applications", sometimes you even get
notifications on the screen such as "internal memory nearly full", etc.
All you need for this procedure is an SD card with some memory you are willing to sacrifice of, ClockworkMod
recovery to help us partition the SD card, Link2SD to move the apps
automatically to the 2nd partition (this option is enabled by default)
and ofcourse, a rooted phone.
Before everything, please make a complete backup of your files from your SD cardto some folder in your computer.
If you ever wanted to download Android application directly from Android Market Place to PC, than we have something really interesting for you called “APK Downloader”, well it’s a chrome extension which can download any application your are browsing on Android Market right to your PC without any problems but we need to configure it before we could actually use it.
Make sure you have a Google Chrome VERSION 20 installed on your PC.
Download and install the Device ID on your Android device.
Download and install the APK Downloader Chrome Extension. (Please view the video to learn how to install)
Disable SSL error warnings
Close Google Chrome application [!Important!]
Right click on the Chrome shortcut and select "Properties"
Select the "Shortcut" tab, and add [space]--ignore-certificate-errors at the end. It should look like this:
C:\…\chrome.exe --ignore-certificate-errors
Close Chrome and re-open it with the modified shortcut, then open the APK Downloader options page. If there is no warning box, then you successfully disabled SSL error warnings.
Enter email and device ID on Options page
1. There are two ways to get Email and Device ID
a. Easy way: install this Device ID app, it will show you your GSF ID and Device ID, what we need here is GSF Android-ID (used by Google Services)
b. Difficult way: Open dial pad, call *#*#8255#*#* ( 8255 = TALK ). If it opens “GTalk Service Monitor”, find lines that begin with JID and Device ID. Your email is JID, and your device id is a string that after android- prefix
For example: if it shows android-1234567890abcdef , then your device ID is1234567890abcdef
Do not type in random email or device ID, it won’t work
That's it. You can now start using APK Downloader.
**After logging in, you can navigate to any Google Play App page, and click the APK Downloader icon in the Address bar to download the .apk to your desktop!
After finished the steps above, you can start using APK Downloader. Open Google Play, view any FREE apps ( for example: YouTube ), then press the APK Downloader icon on address bar ( see screenshot )
Those who use Android 4.0 Ice-cream Sandwich ICS and Smartphones get ready to use the most wanted Top 10 Free HD Games that ranked and developed by Gameloft. These games are collected from the-always-popular Google PLAY Android Market and some others. All the best games at one place is a highly beneficial thing that you get. So grab the benefit and check what your game is!!
The games being high-end graphic ones will run on powerful devices like those having single/dual core processors + GPU graphics say Adreno 200, 205, ULP Geforce, SGX 540, Dual Mali-400 MP, etc. and if you have a screen size > 4”, that is aa amazingly great bonus. These games run really smooth on Android 4.0 ICS Tablets as well. All that is required is an simple internet connection offering 1Mbps or more.
This one is an action game and has got High Definition Graphics. The game is to be played against many ‘Gangs’ that supposedly are trying to kill you without actually knowing the things they do. The game has a special team of cops. The cops are hardened and to destroy evil they may even go against law. The game will definitely hold you and you would simply love the way it is designed.
This one is a mysterious + adventurous game. It has Cowboys, Bandits and many unnatural opponents. The game is a 3rd shooter game. Players increase their enemy count while playing the game. The character of the game Buck Crosshaw shoots all those who deserve to die. In the game the situation makes him to fake his death and in-turn escape to Arizona. If he crosses one evil, he meets another and that goes along the levels of the game. The area where the story is designed is ancient and is supposed to have some wicked force in that hilly region.
The game is for all those fans of sci-fi. The game has the best science-fiction FPS + thrilling action. Mind that the game app has 450 MB files to install. One will definitely praise the graphics, and the smoothness of the game while playing this on a mobile as there have been none discovered with such graphics. They give the game 3D look that is just amazing to use.
Are you the one who is crazy after racing?? Here is your game. The driving skills you possess will definitely help you in the game. And those who lack driving skills need a better practice hand at driving. To win it, the racer needs to escape or to leave behind other cars to achieve the 1st position. Also the player needs to run faster than the cops in high-speed inspectors like Lamborghini Reventon. Get ready to experience the mystery and action at the same stunning quality.
GTA III !! Many of you must a fan of this game. This game is available for Android devices now, courtesy: Rockstar Games. The game runs butter-smooth on the devices. You will definitely get involved in the game while stealing the car, while hitting people with variety of objects and just do as you desire. The game involves you so much into it that you keep playing for countless hours.
The action game adds to the list of best action games over the world. The game is story of fight between you and evil and commanders. Enjoy and complete all the mission levels of the game to unlock a secret mission of the game. It is an improved form of first Modern Combat and modernized to offer modern war.
Almost similar to GTA III, the game offers you an experience of a gangster’s life. Everything that a gangster uses and does are in the game, say bikes, cars, gadgets, plans, plots, etc. The game is on Rio de Janerio city and the developers of the game are Gameloft.
The people who love to race have good news for them. This game is completely FREE and costs nothing. Enhance your driving skills and use them in the best way to win the race. This game makes the player to play for continuous long hours without break. In case you want your game to unlock at fastest possible speed, you will need to buy from the game- XP multipliers along with the credit packs.
IGN, a very famous community offering gaming reviews, developed a 3rd person game – Shadow gun HD. The story of the game revolves around Dr. Edgar Simon. This doctor is doing research in creating a mutant army that would control the globe with evil plans. The player plays a role of hero and aims to destroy this doctor along with his mutants. The hero is named as John Slade who has Big Muscles and keeps highly advanced weapons. The game comes enriched with options like covering, hiding, killing cyborgs, battle droids and many more. This fascinating game is easily available and highly recommended.
This one is again a choice for action-fans. The action game has great smoothness and the sound animation is stunning. Courtesy : Gameloft team. The story tells us that the hero Henry Blake is broken after the life trashed him, and he has choosen the path towards justice and revenge.
Although Indian Tablet PC market is growing at a rapid pace as we can see launching of a new tablet almost every day, but most of these Tablets are priced below Rs 15000. When it comes to Tablet, the successful are the ones which provide real entertainment and nothing should have been sacrificed for that. Bigger Brands such as Samsung, Acer, Asus and Toshiba are still enjoying the highest position in the Tablet PC market as their products generally cost above Rs 15000. In this article we present before you a list of Android Tablets having price above Rs 15000:
IdeaPad Tablet K1
This is one of the highly priced Tablets. Equipped with the Android 3.1 Honeycomb operating system, this tablet has 10.1 inches HD LED multi touch display so as to provide crystal clear display. With 5 MP primary cameras and a 2MP secondary camera, it is possible to capture images perfectly. The device comes with the NVIDIA Tegra 2 T20 1 GHz dual core processor pre installed in it.
IdeaPad Tablet K1
Specs and Features of IdeaPad Tablet K1:
It is installed with Android 3.1 Honeycomb operating system with Android 4.0 update in the process.
The device has 10.1 inch HD LED display for providing crystal clear display and it allows multitouch display as well.
The tablet is powered by a NVidia Tegra 2 T20 1GHz Dual Core Processor
It has two cameras, the primary one is of 5MP while the secondary one is of 2MP.
Connectivity options include Wi-Fi and 3G already enabled in the device.
With expandable memory storage capacity of 64GB, the device would not fall short of storage capacity.
A document editor is provided in the Tablet for the business users.
The price of IdeaPad Tablet K1 is Rs 25000.
Sony SGPT 113 IN (Sony Tablet S)
Sony SGPT 113 IN is yet another highly priced Tablet with amazing features and functionalities. It is equipped with a Cortex A9 dual core processor. With a 5MP camera on the rear side, you can click your friends and the front facing 0.3 camera facilitates video calling in a perfect manner.
Sony SGPT 113 IN
Specs and Features of Sony SGPT 113 IN:
It comes installed with the Android v3.2 Honeycomb operating system.
The 9.4 inch TFT LCD Touchscreen display of the tablet is awesome.
The device comes pre installed with the ARM Cortex-A9 Dual Core Processor.
It has 5MP primary camera fitted on the rear side and a 0.3MP secondary camera on the front side.
WiFi and 3G are enabled in the device that enhances the options of internet connectivity.
The battery of the device is efficient enough to provide 400 hours of standby time.
The price of Sony SGPT 113 IN is Rs 29900.
Sony SGPT 211 IN
This is a tablet with the exclusive feature of a 5.5 inches TFT dual LCD display screen which could be folded. It runs on the Android 3.2 Honeycomb operating system. And, it also has a 5MP camera on the rear side and a 0.3MP camera on the front side.
Sony SGPT 211 IN
Specs and Features of Sony SGPT 211:
The device has a Foldable 5.5 inches TFT dual LCD Touchscreen display.
The device is installed with the Android v3.2 Honeycomb operating system.
The tablet comes pre equipped with the ARM Cortex Dual Core Processor, which provides a fast processing speed.
With a 5MP rear camera and a 3.0MP secondary camera, video calling is much more fun.
For internet connectivity, the device is enabled with Wi-Fi and 3G.
With the Lithium ion battery of the device, it would be possible to browse the internet for 6 long hours without break.
The weight of the device is just 372 grams.
The price of Sony SGPT 211 IN is Rs 32990.
Samsung Galaxy Tab 750
With many interesting features, this product was the most sold tablet last year. It was introduced initially with the Android 3.1 Honeycomb operating system. Today, it comes with the Android 4.0 ICS installed in it and it is up against the Apple iPad.
Samsung Galaxy Tab 750
Specs and Features of Samsung Galaxy Tab 750
The device has a 10.1 inches TFT LCD screen that provides a clear display.
It is installed with the Android 3.1 Honeycomb operating system.
A 3MP primary camera for image capturing and for video recording as well is provided.
A 2MP secondary front facing camera is provided for video calling with friends and relatives.
The device is installed with the ARM Cortex A9 Dual Core processor clocked at a frequency of 1GHz.
HD recording is facilitated with this device.
WiFi and 3G connectivity options are also there for easy connectivity to the internet without the use of any wires.
This tablet consists of a 7000 mAh battery.
The internal memory storage capacity of the device is of 16GB.
One exclusive feature of the device is that it is provides access to the Android Play Store.
The price of Samsung Galaxy Tab 750 is Rs 29000.
Samsung Galaxy Tab 730
The variant of Samsung Galaxy Tab 750 as discussed above, the Samsung Galaxy Tab 730 is rarely sold in the market. The device measures 8.9 inches and is exclusively provided with the Samsung’s own TouchWiz interface.
Samsung Galaxy Tab 730
Specs and Features of Samsung Galaxy Tab 730
The device has an 8.9 inches TFT screen.
It runs on the Android v3.1 Honeycomb operating system.
The device is installed with a 1GHz Dual Core processor.
It has a 3MP rear camera and a 2MP front facing camera.
Installed with the Wi-Fi and 3G options, connectivity to the internet would be possible without the use of any wires.
The device has an internal memory capacity of 16GB and it is possible to record videos in HD through the camera of the device.
The device consists of a 6100 mAh battery.
The price of Samsung Galaxy Tab is Rs 26499.
Milagrow Tab Top
This is the overpriced tablet and is a new entrant in the Indian Tablet PC market. The features of the tablet are not as promising as the Android 2.3 operating system and the 1.2 GHz processor installed in the device have depicted.
Milagrow Tab Top
Specs and Features of Milagrow Tab Top:
The device comes installed with the Rock chip 2918 ARM Cortex A8 1.2GHz processor which is not as fast.
The device runs on the Android 2.3 operating system which is not meant for the tablet PCs.
One exclusive feature of this tablet is the Built in Quad Band 3G SIM tray.
It has a full USB and a mini USB port and HDMI support as well.
The microSD card is also supported by the device via the memory card slot.
There are connectivity options such as Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and LAN.
The 5000 mAh battery of the tablet provide more than 10 continuous hours of use of the device.
The device supports full HD Playback at 1080p.
Various other features are also there such as the built in presence of Adobe Air + Flash 11.
The price of Milagrow Tab Top is Rs 27500.
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Android users must have best browser in their Android, here we are providing you with some best browsers, and you may download any of them which suites best to you. All these can be gain at Google Play Store at free of cost. The browsers will work their best in both Android 4.0 ICS and Jelly Bean 4.1. Browsers are a main part of an internet connection; they convert the HTML/PHP/SQL pages to webpages. They also cover extra features like adds, flash player, themes and many others so you can see the importance of a browser. There are many browsers but here is the list of some best among them: Download Mozilla Firefox
It is the most used Brower all around the globe, it offers a lot to you and all its abilities are same for Android. It’s a free browser.
Mozilla Firefox for Android
Download Dolphin Browser
Dolphin browser is again a best one; it offers various features to the users, using the browser will give you a better experience with your Android. The features of Dolphin Browser cover gesture browsing, tabbed browsing, speaking the site and it is loaded, bookmarking etc. It’s a great fun using it, if you make “?” in it then it will open Google.
Dolphin Browser for Android
Google Chrome
Google Chrome is another widely used browser. Android devices works best in this browser as said that “Android is brainchild of Google”. It has various features like bookmarking, tabbed browsing, it ven supports HTML 5.
Google Chrome for Android
Opera Mini
Opera Mini is considered as best browser when it is time of cheap range phones browser calling. It provides basic required features to the Android version users like bookmarking the sites, browsing along tabs and many.
Opra Mini for Android
UC Browser
Although the name of the browser is not so big but it is doing good job in Android version, you can try it at no cost and if suited then will be best for you.
Android phones and tablets have increased in popularity, the number of apps available for the platform has rocketed.
And that means more free Android games. There's a lot of junk out there but, fortunately, there are gems among the junk.
We've worked our way through a whole load of Android games to reveal the ones you should download to your phone.
If we've missed your favourite free Android game, let us know in the comments.
We also have a video run down of the top 10: 1. Angry Birds
The amazingly popular iOS game moved to Android a while ago, earning over two million downloads during its first weekend of availability.
The Android version is free, unlike the Apple release, with maker Rovio opting to stick a few adverts on it rather than charge an upfront fee. The result is a massive and very challenging physics puzzler that's incredibly polished and professional. For free. It defies all the laws of modern retail.
2. Bebbled Bebbled is your standard gem-shuffling thing, only presented in a professional style you wouldn't be surprised to see running on something featuring a Nintendo badge with an asking price of £19.99.
You only drop gems on other gems to nuke larger groups of the same colour, but with ever-tightening demands for score combos and scenes that require you to rotate your phone to flip the play field on its head, Bebbled soon morphs into an incredibly complex challenge.
3. Red Stone
There's an awful lot of square-shuffling games on Android and Red Stone is one of the best. And one of the hardest. You start off with a big fat 'King' square that's four times of the normal 'pawn' squares, then set about shuffling things so the fat King can get through to an exit at the top of the screen.
It's hard to accurately describe a puzzle game in the written word, but seriously, it's a good game. 4. Newton
Released a few months back in beta form, Newton is a maths/physics challenge that has you lining up shots at a target - but having to contend with the laws of nature, in the form of pushers, pullers, benders (no laughing), mirrors and traps, all deflecting your shot from its target.
The developer is still adding levels to it at the moment, so one day Newton might be finished and might cost money. But for now it's free and a great indie creation.
5. Sketch Online
Surprisingly free of crude representations of the male genitalia, Sketch Online is a sociable guessing game where users do little drawings then battle to correctly guess what's being drawn first. It's like Mavis Beacon for the Bebo generation. The version labelled "Beta" is free, and if you like it there's the option to pay for an ad-free copy. But Google can't make you. Yet. 6. Drop
Some might call Drop a game, others might classify it as a tech demo that illustrates the accuracy of the Android platform's accelerometer, thanks to how playing it simply involves tilting your phone while making a little bouncy ball falls between gaps in the platforms. Either way it'll amuse you for a while and inform you of the accuracy of your accelerometer - a win-win situation. 7. Frozen Bubble
Another key theme of the independent Android gaming scene is (ports of) clones of popular titles. Like Frozen Bubble, which is based around the ancient and many-times-copied concept of firing gems up a screen to make little groups of similarly coloured clusters. That's what you do. You've probably done it a million times before, so if it's your thing get this downloaded. 8. Replica Island Replica Island is an extremely polished platform game that pulls off the shock result of being very playable on an Android trackball. The heavy momentum of the character means you're only switching direction with the ball or d-pad, letting you whizz about the levels with ease. Then there's jumping, bottom-bouncing, collecting and all the other usual platform formalities.
9. Gem Miner
In Gem Miner you are a sort of mole character that likes to dig things out of the ground. But that's not important. The game itself has you micro-managing the raw materials you find, upgrading your digging powers and buying bigger and better tools and maps. Looks great, plays well on Android's limited button array. Go on, suck the very life out of the planet.
10. ConnecToo
Another coloured-square-based puzzle game, only ConnecToo has you joining them up. Link red to red, then blue to blue - then see if you've left a pathway through to link yellow to yellow. You probably haven't, so delete it all and try again.
A brilliantly simple concept. ConnecToo used to be a paid-for game, but was recently switched to an ad-supported model - meaning it now costs you £0.00. 11. Titres
Once you're successfully rewired your brain's 25 years of playing Tetris in a certain way with certain buttons and got used to tapping the screen to rotate your blocks, it's... Tetris.
It hinges on how much you enjoy placing things with your phone's trackball or pad. If you're good at it, it's a superb Tetris clone. Let's hope it doesn't get sued out of existence. UPDATE: While Titres seems to have been removed from Google Play, there's now an official Tetris app available to download. 12. Trap!
Not the best-looking game you'll ever play, with its shabby brown backgrounds and rudimentary text making it look like something you'd find running on a PC in the year 1985. But Trap! is good.
You draw lines to box in moving spheres, gaining points for cordoning off chunks of the screen. That sounds rubbish, so please invest two minutes of your time having a go on it so you don't think we're talking nonsense.
13. Jewels
Coloured gems again, and this time your job is to switch pairs to make larger groups which then disappear. That might also sound quite familiar. The good thing about Jewels is its size and presentation, managing to look professional while packing in more levels than should really be given away for free. 14. OpenSudoku
We had to put one Sudoku game in here, so we'll go with OpenSudoku - which lives up to its open tag thanks to letting users install packs of new puzzles generated by Sudoku makers. It's entirely possible you could use this to play new Sudoku puzzles for the rest of your life, if that's not too terrifying a thought. 15. Abduction! Abduction! is a sweet little platform jumping game, presented in a similarly quirky and hand-drawn style as the super-fashionable Doodle Jump. You can't argue with cute cows and penguins with parachutes, or a game that's easy to play with one hand thanks to its super accessible accelerometer controls. 16. The Great Land Grab
A cross between a map tool and Foursquare, The Great Land Grab sorts your local area into small rectangular packets of land - which you take ownership of by travelling through them in real-time and buying them up.
Then someone else nicks them off you the next day, a bit like real-world Risk. A great idea, as long as you don't mind nuking your battery by leaving your phone sitting there on the train with its GPS radio on. 17. Brain Genius Deluxe
Our basic legal training tells us it's better to use the word "homage" than to label something a "rip-off", so we'll recommend this as a simple "homage" to the famed Nintendo Brain Training franchise.
Clearly Brain Genius Deluxe is not going to be as slick, but there's enough content in here to keep you "brain training" (yes, it even uses that phrase) until your battery dies. The presentation's painfully slow, but then again that might be the game teaching you patience. 18. Coloroid Coloroid is aery, very simple and has the look of the aftermath of an explosion in a Tetris factory, but it works. All you do is expand coloured areas, trying to fill them in with colours in as few moves as possible - like using Photoshop's fill tool at a competitive level. 19. Cestos Cestos is sort of a futuristic recreation of curling, where players chuck marbles at each other to try and smash everyone else's balls/gems down the drain and out of the zone. The best part is this all happens online against real humans, so as long as there's a few other bored people out there at the same time you'll have a real, devious, cheating, quitting person to play against. Great.
20. Air Control
One of the other common themes on the Android gaming scene is clones of games based around pretending to be an air traffic controller, where you guide planes to landing strips with a swish of your finger. There are loads of them, all pretty much the same thing - we've chosen Air Control as it's an ad-supported release, so is technically free.
21. GalaxIR GalaxIR is a futuristic strategy game with an abstract look, where players micro-manage an attacking alien fleet. Pick a planet, pick an attack point, then hope your troops have the balls to carry it off. There's not much structure to the game as yet, but that's what you get when you're on the bleeding-edge of free, independent Android gaming development. 22. Graviturn Graviturn is an accelerometer based maze game, where the aim is to roll a red ball out of a maze by tilting your phone around. Seems embarrassingly easy at first, until increasing numbers of green balls appear on screen. If any green balls roll off the screen you die and have to try again. It's abstract. It's good.
23. Alchemy Classic
There are a few variants on Alchemy out there, each offering a similarly weird experience. In Alchemy Classic you match up elements to create their (vaguely) scientific offspring, so dumping water onto earth makes a swamp, and so on. It's a brain teaser thing and best played by those who enjoy spending many hours in the company of the process of elimination.
24. ActionPotato
In ActionPotato you control three pots. Pressing on the pots makes them jump up into the air, where they harvest potatoes. See how many you can get in a row. That's the gist of it. And don't collect the rotten potatoes, else you die. That really is it. The Google Play stats say this is on well over 1,000,000 downloads, so it's doing something right.
25. Scrambled Net Scrambled Net is based around the age-old concept of lining up pipes and tubes, but has been jazzed up with images of computer terminals, high score tracking and animations. Still looks like something you'd have played on a Nokia during the last decade, but it's free - and looking rubbish hardly stopped Snake from taking off, did it?
26. Dropwords Dropwords is laid out like your standard Android block-based puzzle game, the difference here is we're not dealing with gems - you make blocks disappear by spelling out words from the jumbled heap of letters. There's not an enormous amount of point to it, but you can at least submit your scores and best words to the server, where an AI version of Susie Dent will pass her approval. 27. Barrr
What you do in Barrr is man-manage a bar world, pointing men at the beers, games or tattoo parlour, then taking their money off them once they're drunk and happy like a good capitalist. And make sure they go to the toilet. Things, as things do in games, soon start speeding up and it gets rather insane and difficult. 28. Tetronimo
The name gives it away - this is a Tetris clone. Or rather it's a game that uses the same sort of block-shifting rules as Tetris, only with a very nice and user friendly touchscreen area beneath the block pit to make it easy to play. We're having trouble locating this on Google Play at time of writing - either a glitch or the inevitable legal troubles. UPDATE: Tetronimo seems to have been removed from Google Play, but there's now an official Tetris app available to download. 29. Wordfeud Wordfeud is a superb little clone of Scrabble, with a big, clear screen and online play options that actually work. The game's been offered for free with some hefty advertising over it thanks to the developer being based in Norway - which only received paid-for app sales support recently. A paid version may arrive soon, but Wordfeud remains free right now. 30. Friction Mobile Friction Mobile is a very odd concept that makes no sense in still images. You fire a ball into the screen, then try to hit that ball with other balls until it explodes. The catch is you're not allowed to bounce balls backwards into your own face. Because then you die. Sounds rubbish, but works well. It's free, so give it a no-obligation, no-commitment whirl. 31. Geared Geared is a weird little thing finally converted over to Android from iPhone. It's an embarrassingly simple concept - players slot different sized cogs into place on the screen, with the aim being to power one gear from another. Then, as is video game tradition, it gets harder and harder. Plus there are 150 levels of it all. 32. Meganoid
A stunning little retro game, Meganoid plays and looks like something that ought to be running on a Nintendo emulator. But it isn't. It's new and on Android. It's a speed-based challenge, using on-screen or accelerometer controls to jump and bounce through ever-hardening levels. Developer Orange Pixel is aggressively supporting it, too, with constant map packs, characters and more regularly appearing for download. 33. Cordy
A standard and traditional platform game. Cordy is a speed-based affair, with players running, jumping and collecting their way through its pretty green levels, using an electrical cable to jump, swing over obstacles and grab energy. Uses on-screen buttons so can be a bit tough to play, but comes with 12 free levels to get you going. 34. Angry Birds Rio
Yet more Angry Birds for fans of the simplistic trial and error physics game. Angry Birds Rio is another chapter-based effort as well, with developer Rovio leaving tempting empty slots on the menu screen for periodic updates of new levels. More of the same, but with a prettier, 3D look to it this time thanks to a vague association with animated movie Rio. 35. Grave Defense Holidays
As with Angry Birds, the maker of this superb tower defence game has spun out a separate version it fills with seasonal levels. Recently updated with an Easter map, this free version of the game also includes Valentine, Christmas and St Patrick's Day themed maps. Currently calls itself Grave Defense Easter. Easily one of the best examples of the tactical genre. 36. Words with Friends Free
The popular iPhone Scrabble-alike is now on Android, with an ad-supported version up on Google Play for free. Words with Friends Free should actually be called Words for People Without Any Friends, as once installed it lets users play with complete strangers online - or pick specific people from your contacts list. It's turn-based, so several ongoing games can be strung out for days. 37. PewPew
Very similar in style and concept to Xbox and Xbox 360 retro classic Geometry Wars. In fact, one might legally be able to get away with calling it a right old rip-off. Android PewPew is a rock-hard 2D shooting game packed with alternate game modes. It's a bit rough around the edges and requires a powerful phone to run smoothly, but when it does it's a fantastic thing. 38. Tap Fish
A nice looking little aquarium, that combines the timeless hobby of staring at goldfish with game elements based around breeding new varieties. There's a slight sting in the tail here in that Tap Fish is one of the initial wave of "freemium" Android games brought into life thanks to Google's launch of in-app billing. The really cool new stuff costs little bits of money. 39. Beats, Advanced Rhythm Game
A standard rhythm action, button pressing music game for Android. Beats manages to outdo the official music games by including a Download Song tab, where it's possible to install new song files created by users. It's very hard and very fast. Just like they should be. Runs perfectly on an HTC Desire, too, so there's no blaming glitches for not doing very well. 40. Pinball Deluxe Pinball Deluxe is an actually decent pinball sim for Android, and it's free. At the moment it comes with four tables - Wild West, Carnival, Space Frontier and Diving for Treasure. Ball movement is convincing, and although a bit of the magic is lost thanks to having to use on-screen buttons, it's a smooth enough experience. It's ad-supported. Don't press those. You don't get a bonus. 41. Winter Walk Winter Walk is madness. You play the part of a gentleman, out for an evening walk. From time to time the wind picks up, so you have to hold on to his hat to stop it blowing away.
While this is happening, the chap's internal monologue appears on screen, giving you an entertaining and distracting read in the process, too. Very simple, but a perfect little high score challenge game for the touchscreen era. 42. Colosseum Heroes
Publisher Gamevil takes a break from churning out the role-playing games to give dumb action a go here. Colosseum Heroes is a 2D slasher, where you simply try to survive for as long as possible, building up your armour and weaponry to make yourself tougher and meaner.
Technically this is a "freemium" game paid for with in-app purchases, but if you're prepared to spend a while building up your character's skills manually, there's no need to pay out. 43. Stardash Free
Developer Orange Pixel has a knack of creating excellent retro titles, with Stardash a fine example.
Designed to look like a Game Boy game from before many of you younger readers were born, Stardash is clearly a bit of a Mario homage - but it's done exceptionally well and is endlessly replayable. If you like it, and you probably will, there's an alternate paid version that removes the adverts. 44. Scramble With Friends Free
Zynga's latest puzzler Scramble With Friends Free is technically a free game, but in order to get the most out of it and play as it's meant to be played you'll need to use the in-app purchasing system to buy "tokens" to let you access games quicker. Which leaves a slightly bad T-A-S-T-E in the M-O-U-T-H, but at least it's free and perfectly playable at a slow pace if you're just curious. 45. Dead on Arrival Dead on Arrival is a very impressive looking 3D survival horror game, which dumps you in a hospital infested with zombies. You then try to not get eaten by buying new weapons, boarding up doors to keep the brain-eaters at bay and using wall-mounted weaponry to quicken the zombie mincing process. As with many of today's Android titles, there's the option to pay for stuff within the game to unlock features and remove ads - but you don't have to. 46. Stick Cricket Stick Cricket is a fantastically simple little game that reduces cricket to its core values - you just smash every ball as hard as you can. There's no worrying about field positioning, just a bat and a ball coming at you very quickly. Initially it seems impossible to do anything other than make a complete mess of things and having your little man smashed upside-down, but it soon clicks. 47. Draw Something Free Draw Something Free is the new phenomenon that's taking the world by storm (at the time of writing, at least). It's basically a mobile version of Pictionary, where you're given a choice of three words of varying difficulty, then tasked with drawing them so someone can tell what it is. Syncs with Facebook, too, for easy cross-platform play. If you like the free trial, there's a paid accompaniment with more content. 48. Fragger
The popular web-based Flash game Fragger is now on Android. It's pretty much a clone of Angry Birds, mind, offering simple physics-based challenges based around chucking grenades all over the place to make stuff blow up. It comes with some rather intrusive ads, but that's the price you (don't) pay for sticking with the free version. 49. The Sims FreePlay
Global mega-corporation EA has gone literally mad, giving away its Android version of The Sims for nothing in the form of The Sims FreePlay. In return for sitting through some full-screen adverts every now and again, players get a decent mobile version of The Sims, complete with pets, plants, lifestyle points and all the usual mundane activities that make the series popular. It's not perfect, but does fit in most Sims core features. 50. Super Bit Dash
About as far away from The Sims as you can get. Super Bit Dash is a retro-style 2D platform game, with controls as simple as its pixel art design. The game runs at a constant pace, so all the player has to do is jump and super-special-jump at the right time in order to avoid smashing into the scenery. Obviously it's a lot harder than that makes it sound.
