Screenshots on Android phones

Just a side note: To make screenshots of your (unrooted) android phone you need to install the Android SDK.

The SDK is downloadable free of charge here:

http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html

Make sur under "Preferences" -> "Applications" you enable the USB debug feature. Connect the phone to your computer (USB).

Under the tools/ subdirectory there is an application named

ddms

Launch it and select

Device -> Screen shot

You'll be presented a screenshot window. Click on "Refresh" to refresh it and "Save" to save it to a PNG file.

On the left you see the "ddms" application running with the screen shot window on my MacBook Pro (click on the thumbnail to get the fullsize screen shot).
With the ddms debugger you're able to debug running applications on your android phone. Don't be confused about many messages scrolling on the message window. You'll also see network access exceptions when WLAN or mobile internet access is shut down (very interesting to see who wants to connect where...).

Here are some of the android screenshots from a Android 2.1 HTC Legend.

When "sipdroid" is active the "telephone" application uses sipdroid to call via VoIP (SIP). Nice thing when having unfiltered WLAN access.