Orkut on Android Mobile Phone – Upload Photos, Live Folders, Scraps

Orkut has announced in the Orukut blog that, Orkut is now available on all Android mobile phones, enabling you to be stay connected to your orkut friends wherever you go.

You get scrap notifications, uploads photos directly to your orkut albums, and you can have your phonebook synced to your orkut friends’ phone numbers and status messages.

Visit Android Market from your Android device and search for “orkut” under the social applications category and install. The mobile application is available only for Android devices running version 1.6 or higher.

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Major features of Orkut on Andrioid are:

Orkut friends live folders
Simply add the list of your orkut friends as a live folder on your home screen, and you’ll be able to browse through your friends list even when not under data network coverage. The live folder also lets you communicate (via call, scrap or SMS) with your friends in a single click. To install a live folder, click “Menu > Add > Folders > Orkut” on your Android device’s homescreen after installing the orkut for Android application.

Photo uploads to your orkut albums
Gone are the days when you needed to download photos from your Android phone to your computer and then upload them to your orkut albums. Now you can simply upload photos from your Android Photo Gallery. Just click “Menu > Share > Orkut” while browsing your photos in the Android Photo Gallery to get started.

Scrap notification
You will get notifications on your Android device when you have new scraps on orkut. The notifications will appear on your Android device notification bar; clicking on notifications will take you to your scrapbook page.