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Android users can click here to download APK installation file or simply scan the QR code above to go to the installation file. Simply install the app and you’ve got all the news updates in your Android phone. Easy, simple and get your daily dose of Indonesian tech-startup awesomeness!

Dapatkah Android NFC Menjadi Solusi e-Payment Bagi Indonesia?

Ponsel Android keluaran Google semakin populer di Indonesia, sama halnya seperti di negara-negara lain orang-orang bisa membeli smartphone dengan harga yang relatif lebih murah dibanding iPhone. Dan yang lebih menarik, tahun lalu Eric Schmidt mengumumkan dukungan Android Gingerbread untuk NFC (Near Field Communication) dan tentu pembayaran menjadi kegunaannya yang utama.

Di Indonesia, metode pembayaran elektronik atau e-payment sudah lama menjadi permasalahan tanpa solusi yang berarti. Kenapa? Karena kurangnya minat para pengguna. Untuk pembayaran, biasanya kita lebih suka melakukannya lewat transfer antar bank. Hal ini mungkin disebabkan oleh kurangnya pelayanan dan kemudahan bagi para pengguna. E-payment memang lebih rumit kebanding e-banking atau m-banking.

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Could Android’s NFC Become Indonesia’s e-Payment Solution?

Google’s Android handsets have been growing in popularity in Indonesia, just like in other countries where they can get a smartphone with relatively lower price compared to the iPhone. And to make things interesting, last year Eric Schmidt announced Android Gingerbread’s support for NFC (Near Field Communication) and of course payment is most likely to be the main usage.

In Indonesia, e-payment has been always an issue with almost no e-payment solution working properly. The reason? The users simply have no interest of using e-payment solution and quite happy with manual bank transfer which might be caused by the lack of service that’s easy enough for common user to use, e-payment requires to much hassle compared to e-banking or m-banking.

But of course, this can be easily disrupted.

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Mencoba Aplikasi Koprol Untuk Android

Akhirnya, saya mendapat kesempatan untuk mencoba secara langsung aplikasi Koprol untuk Android. Koprol cukup sibuk melakukan berbagai pembaruan pada layanan mereka, mulai dari merge akun Koprol ke Yahoo! yang telah mereka persiapkan sejak April tanggal 26 kemarin, persiapan aplikasi untuk Android yang secara eksklusif, foto -fotonya dimuat di DailySocial beberapa waktu lalu dan hari ini juga Koprol mengadakan acara di Jakarta dengan tagar #ytownhall.

Koprol untuk Android ini masih dalam versi beta, saat mencobanya saya juga mendapatkan aplikasi ini error dan harus ‘ditutup’ dan diakses kembali untuk mencoba beberapa fitur yang ada, yup seperti yang diumumkan Koprol dari email akses aplikasi ini, resiko ditanggung pengguna. 😉

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Hands-on With Koprol’s Android App

I finally got the opportunity to try out Koprol’s Android app. Koprol has been quite busy doing renewals on their service, starting from merging account with Yahoo! which they’ve prepared since April 26, preparation for Android app- the pictures were exclusively posted in Daily Social – and today they are having an event in Jakarta using hashtag #ytownhall.

Koprol for Android is still in beta version and when I tried it out I encountered several times of “error”, I had to close it and re-access it to try their features. What they said in their email that it is “use at your own risk” is actually true. 😉

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Eksklusif : Intip Aplikasi Koprol Untuk Android

Sebelumnya Koprol juga telah merilis aplikasi di platform Blackberry yang meskipun mendapatkan reaksi yang cukup bagus namun tidak terlalu signifikan. Dan sepertinya, sangat masuk akal jika Koprol harus terus mendorong strategi mobile-nya dengan meluncurkan beberapa aplikasi native untuk platform-platform yang populer bagi penggunanya.

Bulan Februari lalu Koprol juga meluncurkan versi touch-web untuk menenangkan para penggunanya yang meminta aplikasi native. Koprol versi touch ini menurut saya sangat nyaman digunakan, memberikan user-experience yang cukup enak ketika menggunakan layanan Koprol meskipun ada beberapa fungsi yang tidak bisa digunakan, misalnya fungsi GPS-location yang diganti dengan IP-based location.

Satya juga mengirimkan foto-foto aplikasi Koprol untuk platform Android, eksklusif untuk pembaca Dailysocial. Selamat menikmati 😉

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Exclusive : Sneak Peek for Koprol’s Android App

It’s been too long for Koprol to come up with an Android app, they hired the super-Android-coder Kristiono Setyadi since last year only to launch the app not sooner than this Thursday on May 5th as informed exclusively to Dailysocial by Koprol’s co-founder Satya Witoelar. Witoelar said that there are few other tasks assigned to Kristiono Setyadi, resulting the long delay for the launch of the long-anticipated Android app.

Previously, Koprol already launched the service’s Blackberry app and gained some traction although not significant. And I think Koprol should pay more attention to its mobile strategy with the launch of several native apps for the location-based service. Koprol team also launched a touch-version for its website to calm the raging request for native apps from its users, and it seems that that strategy work quite well for Koprol. The Koprol touch is a good experience for using the service although couldn’t handle several function such as GPS-location and uses the IP-based location function instead.

Witoelar was kind enough to give exclusive sneak peek of Koprol’s Android app only to Dailysocial readers. Here you go, hot from the oven 😉

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mig33 Updates Its Android App

mig33, the largest mobile-first community in the world, announced the update of their Android application. Version 2.0 was released on April 20, requires Android 2.1 and above. With 826KB in size, this Android application will certainly enable mig33 users to communicate easier with the community.

mig33’s latest Android version has the characteristics of simple design, visual user interface that is more diverse, convenience chat with friends and sending virtual gifts to other mig33 users with just one click.

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mig33 Perbarui Aplikasi Androidnya

mig33 yang merupakan komunitas mobile-first terbesar di dunia mengumumkan pembaruan terhadap aplikasi Android yang dimilikinya. Versi 2.0 yang dirilis tanggal 20 April lalu ini membutuhkan Android 2.1 ke atas. Dengan ukuran 826KB, aplikasi Android ini tentunya akan memudahkan pengguna mig33 berkomunikasi dengan komunitasnya.

Aplikasi mig33 versi Android terbaru ini memiliki karakteristik desain yang simpel, tampilan visual user interface yang lebih beragam, kemudahan chatting antara beberapa teman serta pengiriman hadiah virtual kepada sesama pengguna mig33 hanya dengan satu klik.

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Lunch Time? Check out “Makan Di Mana” Before You Go

One application that will help you to choose a lunch spot is Makan Di Mana (Where to Eat) developed by PT Agranet Multicitra Siberkom, the owner of the famous news portal Detik.com. Available for iOS platform (iPhone) and Android, this free application offers a list of restaurants / places to dine in almost all over Indonesia. Indeed, most information is still in around Jakarta and major cities in Java, but if you check the list in other cities there are also already listed, for example in Banda Aceh or in Ambon.

There are five main features in this application, which are Promo, Nearest, Area & Category, Ask @ Bondan and Recommendations. From the five menus, the Nearest feature is the most useful for me right now.

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