Skype for Android lets you make voice or video calls or send instant messages. Now you can also use it to send files including photos or pre-recorded videos over the internet.

To get the new file-sending feature, you just need to grab the free Skype 2.6 app from the Android Market.

File-sending is available over WiFi or 3G connections and the service is free — but you’ll have to pay for any used data minutes on your own.

Skype 2.6 also offers better battery life and video quality improvements on phones and tablets with NVIDIA Tegra 2 processors. The company has also added new graphics and improved the voicemail and sign-in functions.

FileXChange is a new app being developed by a company called iStartApp that is designed to make the process of transferring files between mobile OS platforms a little easier. While Bluetooth connectivity already does this job, transfering files over Bluetooth can be slow.

FileXChange is designed to make things faster by using Wi-Fi (or Bluetooth) for transferring large files from an iOS device to any Windows, Mac, Linux or Android device.

Among the app’s best features include its ability to transfer almost any file, whether it be a video, photo, PowerPoint, MP3 or text file. From what we can see in the video (below), it appears to have an intuitive and simplistic UI, with decent graphics to boot. You will have functions to email, zip, unzip files and protect your data via password lock. Of course, the whole feature set is centered around high-speed transfers.

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Up until recently transferring files between a computer and an Android phone or tablet couldn’t be much easier. You just plugged in a USB cable, and selected “Turn on USB storage” on your Android device and suddenly your phone’s SD card popped up as a mass storage device on your Mac, Linux, or Windows computer. But Android 3.0 does things differently.

If you’re using a Mac running OS X 10.5 or later, you’ll need to download and install Android File Transfer to copy files to and from your phone or tablet. The first time you connect your Android device, you’ll need to double-click the File Transfer app to open it, but after that the process will be automatic.

If you’re using a Windows computer you don’t need any special software. And if you’re using Android 2.x, you can pretty much ignore the Android File Transfer utility as well.

The web site doesn’t mention Linux, but I’d be surprised if you needed to install anything to transfer data between an Android 3.0 device and a Linux machine.

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iSendr is a peer to peer tool that lets you quickly and easily send someone a file from your computer. Just select the file you want to share and then send the URL to the person you want to share the file with. They can download it directly from your computer, as long as you don’t shut off your PC or close the web browser. That’s because you don’t actually upload anything to iSendr, the company’s Flash-based tool simply facilitates a transfer between two computers.

Now iSendr has added support for QR codes, which makes it easy to download files on mobile devices. Just select the file you want to share and then send either the URL or a picture of the QR code to the intended recipient. They can scan the code with their camera and start the download.

There’s just one catch: even the mobile version of the iSendr web site is Flash based, which means that right now you’ll only be able to scan those QR codes to download files on Android devices that support Adobe Flash Player. Still, if you want to share a large file with a friend, or even just send a large file from your PC to your Android phone without a USB cable, it doesn’t get much easier than this.

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On Air is a free app for Google Android which lets you transfer files to and from your device over WiFi. In order to pair the app with a Mac you can use the AppleTalk protocol. Windows and Linux computers can connect to the phone using WebDAV or FTP. The developer recommends using BitKinex for WebDAV support.

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Basically, all you have to do on your phone is fire up the app, hit the button that shows Windows, Linux, or Mac icons to choose your protocol, and then hit the big power button in the middle of the screen to activate the On Air client. It will show you the URL to enter into your FTP client or other software in order to pull up a list of files and folders on your SD car, as well as a password.

You should be able to drag and drop files between your device and your desktop or rename, delete, or otherwise manage your files now without plugging in a USB cable and mounting your SD card.

The app only works while it’s in the foreground. As soon as you hit the back button to exit the app or hit the power button to turn off the display, the connection will be severed.

On Air is available as a free download from the Android Market.

Transfering photos and other images from your iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad to another device is usually a pretty painless process. But what if you have a few HD videos that you want to send? Most email services place limits on file sizes, which means if you want to shoot a 1GB video file to your buddy, you’re going to have to find another route — like maybe using Transfer Big Files.

Transfer Big Files is a web-based service that lets you do exactly what you’d think it does. You upload files, get a link that you can share with other users, and they can download those files. The iPhone app lets you upload photos and videos from an Apple iOS device and shoot an email to your intended recipient once the files are ready to download.

The mobile app is free, and all users who register for a free account will get 2GB of online storage space. The first 100,000 people to download the mobile app and sign up for a new account will actually get 5GB of storage space. If you need more storage than that, you can pay to upgrade your account.

Transfer Big Files is available as a free download from the App Store.

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Need to grab a file from your Android phone’s SD card but too lazy to plug in a USB cable? WiFi File Explorer is a free app that can help. Basically you run the app on your phone and it creates a simple web server allowing you to access your files from any computer connected to your home network.

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When you fire up the mobile app it will give you a URL you can enter in a web browser to access a list of files and folders on your SD card. From there you can download files, create ZIP archives of folders and download them in one fell swoop, or even grab a URL which you can use to stream audio and video files from your phone to a desktop media player.

There’s also a Pro version which runs about $1 which you can use to upload files to your phone. The free version also shows ads on the mobile app, while the Pro version is ad-free.

As the name suggests, you’ll need a WiFi network to use WiFi File Explorer. It doesn’t work over 3G at all.

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Most Google Android phones include USB ports, allowing you to plug the phone into a computer, mount your SD card, and copy files from a Windows, Mac, or Linux machine to your phone. But the whole process can be kind of a hassle — and your phone can’t access any data on your SD card while it’s connected to your computer.

Awesome Drop is a free application that lets you copy files from your computer to your Android phone without any wires. All you need is the free Awesome Drop app for Android and an HTML5-capable web browser on your computer.

Here’s how it works. You fire up the mobile app, and then visit labs.dashwire.com on your computer. The web site will give you a code to enter on your mobile device, and once you’ve done that, you can drag and drop any file from your computer to a box on the web site. It will automatically send the file to a folder called “drop” on your mobile phone’s SD card.

Since Awesome Drop sends files over the internet, it can take longer to transfer large files than it would using a USB connection. But for text documents and other small files, Awesome Drop is, well… kind of awesome.

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