Suggested Android Apps

[Raphael]

Well my HTC Touch HD's touch screen decided to stop working on Good Friday. (one of the many things to go wrong this weekend, starting with my eldest going down with a nasty tummy bug on Thursday that made the whole family sick for the weekend).

So I bought myself a Samsung Galaxy S as a replacement. Now although my beloved has an Android phone (SE Xperia 10 Mini Pro), I am basically new to Android, coming from being a Windows Mobile user/developer for the last 10 years (heck I still have a working grey-scale Compaq iPaq running Windows PPC 2000 lying around somewhere as well an HP iPaq WinMo2003SE with built-in phone + GPS, one of the first WinMo smartphones)

What apps do you suggest, and why?
What apps do you not like and why?

[Thedonhopeless]

what type of apps? games? angry birds

[Raphael]

Any type of app.

I already have all 3 Angry Birds games.

I have OliveTree; the Mars Hill Church app (Driscoll, not Bell); Ligonier; RZIM; Grace to You; and the ESV app.

I have NFS shift, Glyder 2; squish the bugs (my eldest loves this one); Alchemy

I've switched to using Kindle.

I'm using Opera.

[Thedonhopeless]

aig (answers in genesis) has an app thats cool, theres also a free bible that speaks the verses i forget what its called but thats cool as well.

have you used shazaam? it can determine any song it hears, and tell you the artists and song name just by listening, its pretty cool.

hmm, robo defense is a great game!

words with friends is cool, its just liek scrabble you can play with people online.

advanced task killer is a must for battery power, it kills apps for you all in one big swoop.

also lookout is a virus program that scans apps for unsafe things, and it also lets you remotely lock your phone if you lose it and it can find it by gps. it gives you control over it through their website. itsa a MUST

tango lets you video chat with people for free.

google maps is a free gps program, its awesome

those are my must have apps, that everyone should have.

i also like alchemy, its fun and im stuck at 309/370 elements.

hope some of this helps!

[Raphael]

aig (answers in genesis) has an app thats cool,

Hmmm, personally I prefer CMI, but if they don't have an App I'll grab the AIG one.

theres also a free bible that speaks the verses i forget what its called but thats cool as well.

I have the ESV Bible read by Max Mclean in mp3 format, so I can always copy them over.

have you used shazaam? it can determine any song it hears, and tell you the artists and song name just by listening, its pretty cool.

No I haven't. My beloved's Xperia has TrackID which does the same.

hmm, robo defense is a great game!

I'll look at that one.

words with friends is cool, its just liek scrabble you can play with people online.

That sounds fun....I'll have to also tell my mom-in-law about that one as she is a scrabble freak.

advanced task killer is a must for battery power, it kills apps for you all in one big swoop.

So far I've been using the Samsung one which seems pretty comprehensive.

also lookout is a virus program that scans apps for unsafe things, and it also lets you remotely lock your phone if you lose it and it can find it by gps. it gives you control over it through their website. itsa a MUST

AVG was one of the first things I installed.

tango lets you video chat with people for free.

I had been hoping Skype would finally offer video (I've seen a working beta on the 4G Desire HD). I don't know what will happen now with MS having bought them, so I might need to look at Tango.

google maps is a free gps program, its awesome

pre-installed. I also added Google Earth and Google Skymap.

those are my must have apps, that everyone should have.

Cool

i also like alchemy, its fun and im stuck at 309/370 elements.

LOL my beloved installed that on my phone this weekend, along with the cheat sheet.

hope some of this helps!

Yup it does. Thanks