Question: I'm just wondering how to fire up an Intent to the phone's browser to open an specific URL and display it.

Can someone please give me a hint?

Answer: 
The short version

```
startActivity(new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, 
    Uri.parse("http://almondmendoza.com/android-applications/")));

```

should work as well...
```
Intent browserIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, Uri.parse("http://www.google.com"));
startActivity(browserIntent);

```