LogeMeIn‘s mobile apps for iOS and Android let you login to a remote computer to run applications, access files, and perform other functions that can make your smartphone or tablet feel like a full-fledged computer. But at $30, LogMeIn is kind of expensive for a mobile app.

Now the company has released a free version of its iOS app that offers basic remote desktop functionality.

You can use the free app to login to a Mac or PC using the free app to run programs. For instance you can view documents stored on your PC or surf the web in a full version of Firefox or Internet Explorer from your mobile device.

What you can’t do is stream video, transfer photos or other files from your remote PC to your iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad, or use the remote printing function.

For those features you can pay for an in-app subscription update to LogMeIn Pro which costs $40 per year. Or you can make a one-time payment of $100 for the LogMeIn Ignition app.

This new freemium model is similar to the way LogMeIn’s web-based service works. You can install the LogMeIn client on any desktop computer you want to remote control for free and login from any supported web browser for free. But if you want advanced capabilities you need to pay.

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LogMeIn Ignition is a mobile app which lets you remote control a desktop or laptop computer from your phone or tablet. The company added a feature earlier this year that also lets you transfer files from your PC or Mac to your iPhone or iPad — but not the other way around. Now it looks like LogMeIn is getting ready to fix that.

TUAW reports that the company has submitted a new version of the LogMeIn Ignition app to the App Store and it should be available soon. The update will also do a better job of organizing files you transfer from your PC to your mobile device.

The current version of LogMeIn Ignition is available from the App Store for $29.99. That’s a pretty steep price for an iOS app, but if you’re already a heavy LogMeIn user it might be worth it. The company also offers free and paid software that lets you remotely login to a computer using a web browser.

TeamViewer offers a remote desktop service that lets you control a computer over an internet connection. The company launched an Android app earlier this year which allows you to control a PC from a smartphone or tablet. At the time it was only available from the TeamViewer web site, but now you can download TeamViewer Free from the Android Market.

You’ll need to install TeamViewer on your computer in order to use the mobile app, but that’s free for non-commercial users as well.

The mobile app includes tools designed to let you navigate a keyboard-and-mouse operating system such as Windows, Mac, or desktop Linux using a touchscreen Android device. There’s an on-screen keyboard and buttons to emulate a left or right mouse click. The TeamViewer mobile client also supposed pinch-to-zoom to help you navigate on a small screen.

TeamViewer Free supports Google Android 1.6 and up.

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There are plenty of apps that let you remotely access your PC desktop from an iPad, iPhone, or other mobile device. But VMWare’s View client for the iPad is an enterprise solution that lets you access a virtual Windows desktop.

Here’s how VMWare’s virtual desktop solution works. Your company sets up a VMware server and you can access it on the go from any computer using VMware View software.This way your corporate IT folks can keep the OS and applications up to date and customized without having to constantly maintain your computer. And if you lose a PC, everything is stored online so there’s less risk of a security breach.

VMware View for the iPad offers the same kind of access to your virtual desktop, and it also has touch-friendly controls including gesture-based controls and buttons to bring up an on-screen trackpad and keyboard to make it easier to interact with your virtual Windows desktop from an Apple iPad.

The app is available as a free download from the App Store, but clearly you’ll need to have VMware’s server software running in order to use VMware View for the iPad.

You can check out a demo video of VMware View for iPad after the break.

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Citrix has launched an iPad version of GoToMyPC, a remote desktop application that lets you login to your computer and control it on the go. Up until recently you needed a PC to login to a remote PC using the service. but the iPad app lets you do it anywhere you can get an internet connection on an iPad.

GoToMyPC is hardly the first app of its type for the iPad. LogMein, TeamViewer, Parallels, Splashtop, and others offer similar apps. But as you’d expect from a business-focused company like Citrix, the GoToMyPC app has tight security features including 128-bit AES encryption, user authentication, and dual passwords.

The iPad app is available for free from the App Store, but you’ll need to install an app on your Mac or Windows PC to use the service. There’s  a 30 day free trial, but after that you’ll have to pay $9.95 per month (or $99 per year) or more to keep using the service. That’s a tough sell when there are free alternatives such as LogMeIn, but my guess is that Citrix is aiming for enterprise users. The company offers 24/7 global customer support.

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TeamViewer is remote desktop service that makes it easy to login to a desktop, Mac, or PC from another internet-connected computer. The company also offers mobile apps and has been beta testing an Android app since November. Today TeamViewer for Android dropped the beta label. You can download the app from the company’s web site.

The basic app is free for non-commercial users, but existing TeamViewer customers with business, Premium, or Corporate accounts can also use the app.

To login to a remote computer, just run TeamViewer on your PC and then fire up the mobile app and enter the ID and password for the computer you want to connect to. You can bring up an on-screen keyboard, simulate left and right mouse clicks, and manipulate your Windows, Mac or Linux desktop from your Android phone or tablet, using pinch-to-zoom and swiping gestures to navigate. You can also save profiles for computers you need to access regularly.

TeamViewer is available for Android 1.6 and up.

Earlier this year Wyse launched a mobile line of remote desktop apps called PocketCloud earlier this year, allowing users to remotely control a desktop computer using an iPhone or Android device. Now the company has given its Android app a major overhaul, with improved security features and a new UI for tablets with high resolution displays.

PocketCloud 1.1 for Android supports multitasking, can be installed on the SD card on Android 2.2 and up, and includes support for internetaional keyboards. It also supports OS-dependent keyboard layouts, with support for Mac and PC keyboards.

Wyse doesn’t really spell out what, if any changes have been made to optimize the new version of the app for tablets such as the Samsung Galaxy Tab, but the company does say it’s working with Cisco on remote desktop software for the company’s upcoming Cius tablet. I can also say, having used Wyse on my Nexus One smartphone and on the 7 inch Galaxy Tab, the experience of using the remote desktop software on an Android tablet is much better than on a 3.7 inch phone screen.

PocketCloud is available in free and paid versions. The free app includes advertising, limits you to a single connection at a time, and lacks pinch-to-zoom, auto-fit and other features. The full version of the software runs $14.99. PocketCloud 1.1 Free and Pro are both available for download from the Android Market.

You can check out a few more photos as well as a demo video after the break.

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TeamViewer provides remote desktop software that lets you quickly and easily login to a Windows, Mac, or Linux computer from another computer. Earlier this year TeamViewer released an iPhone app that lets you control a computer from an iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad. Now there’s an Android app as well.

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TeamViewer for Android v6.0.1 is still technically a public beta, but it works quite well on my Nexus One. You just have to download it from the TeamViewer website, because it’s not available from the Android Market yet.

The controls are well suited for the small screen: You move from left to right across a screen by dragging left and right. Tap to click, and tap with two-fingers to double-click. Because it’s hard to hit a precise point with your fingertip, you don’t actually tap on the screen where you want to click. Instead you move the screen around so that the mouse cursor is pointing where you want to click, and then tap anywhere.

You can also pull up the tools menu to reboot your computer, hit Ctrl+Alt+Del, or block remote user input.

The thing that surprised me most about the mobile app is that it’s almost fast enough to stream video from your PC to your phone in realtime. Sure, it won’t do 30 frames per second, but it certainly does more than 5. Unfortunately it doesn’t stream audio, so you’ll want to watch subtitled videos… or none at all.

Aside from using TeamViewer to login to a computer remotely to email yourself some files, help a friend diagnose a PC problem, or you know, do anything really useful, you could just use TeamViewer as a way to surf the web using a desktop browser… from your phone. It’s a pretty neat trick, although not something I’d want to do every day.

The TeamViewer Android app is available as a free download for now, although the company tends to offer free and Pro versions of its software, so a Pro version may be on the way.

You can check out some more screenshots as well as my hands-on video after the break.

thanks Lee!

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