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August 5th, 2009, 09:07 GMT · By

Open Gesture Pro and Amazon App Available via Android Market

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Amazon App for Android now available at the Android Market
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Android phone users have now two more applications available for them via the popular Android Market. The first of them, Open Gesture Pro, is a shortcut-friendly home screen app that offers users the possibility to launch shortcuts for common applications and settings through different gestures. The second app has been developed by Amazon to allow Android users to easily perform searches and shop on Amazon.com.

Open Gesture Pro offers support for a wide range of gestures as well as user-defined actions to open contacts, apps, files, or bookmarks. According to the Google Android Blog, users can easily launch Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, GPS, and other capabilities, and the app also offers them the possibility to use the gesture feature across the Android. The video below shows a few of the capabilities the app delivers.

Some of the features the Open Gesture Pro comes with towards Android users include:
- Create and define gestures - Users can create a gesture for a variety of shortcuts and edit or delete them.
- Device Health - Swipe down and see an update about available memory, battery level, and SD card space
- Built-in toggle support - Swipe up to quickly edit GPS, WiFi, Bluetooth, Vibrate, Fast Bright, Volume Control, or Airplane mode settings.
- Multiple screens - Open Gesture has five screens that can be browsed horizontally.
- Theme support - Open Gesture can load themes designed for Open Home and aHome.


The Amazon App for Android offers the possibility to quickly load content from the site directly on the phone, while also enabling users to perform searches, scan barcodes or take photos, as well as compare prices, view or edit account settings, view Wish List and recommendations, access the shopping cart, and more. Also worth mentioning is the fact that users can easily make purchases via Amazon’s 1-Click ordering and Amazon Prime. The app can be downloaded for free in the US.

Those willing to try out the new Open Gesture Pro and Amazon App for Android should head towards the Android Market to download them.



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