Just read about this new app for rooted Android phones on LifeHacker and it sounds great - I actually wish there was something similar for BlackBerry 6 because I’d love to have something like it on the BlackBerry Torch I use as my primary phone.

The app is called LCDDensity and is available in the Android Market. What the app does is it tricks your phone to display a higher resolution which means more things can fit on the screen and you have to scroll less - because everything will appear smaller - when browsing the web and you can see more pictures at once in the gallery app and I am sure you regular Android users can think of more places where this would be useful.

On the page where LifeHacker originally picked up the app - AppBrain - they recommend that you read a thread (currently 9 pages long with 10 posts per page) in the XDADevelopers forum started by the author of the app before using it (link to that thread below) and I concur completely. I don’t know much about rooting Android phones or installing root-only apps such as this one but looks like this is an install/use at your own risk type app. (Ed. note: I have installed this on my rooted G2 and it works extremely well, but do be careful, as it has the potential to mess up your display and force a full reset).

See below for a video of the ‘first prototype for “fast density switch” for Android’ app (now called LCDDensity) in use.

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Get the app in the Android Market by scanning the QR Code below. Remember this is an install/use at your own risk app.

For More Info:

XDADevelopers Forum thread where the app’s author posts about it here

AppBrain LCDDensity page here

LifeHacker post about the app here

Screenshots of LCDDensity app Before & After are 2 images taken from AppBrain article here & combined