10 indispensable Android apps
by Jack Wallen | January 26, 2012 9:43am PST | Image 1 of 11
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Introduction
A year ago, I put together a list of 10 must-have Android apps. Since then, things have really changed. Not only has the Android platform evolved into a much more stable, reliable, and powerful platform, the apps have also grown.
My original list of essential apps remains unchanged. But other apps have now either improved or come to the surface -- and they certainly deserve a list of their own.
Note: You can read the full post in our 10 Things blog.
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RE: 10 indispensable Android apps
Funny - only ONE of the listed apps is at all useful to ME - but then I am not the typical consumer for Droid stuff anyway - hate to be an early adopter, because past experience says I most often get burned in so doing.
Willnott27th Jan -
RE: 10 indispensable Android apps
PowerAmp is not free....the trial is....but it is a great music player and well worth the few bucks or so to purchase the licence
ColdFusion_z27th Jan -
RE: 10 indispensable Android apps
I am drowning in email. Please remove my email address from all future distributions
Slepow27th Jan -
RE: 10 indispensable Android apps
@Slepow -
Don't be lazy. There are means for you to disable newsletters and other things. Find them.
HypnoToad7228th Jan -
RE: 10 indispensable Android apps
Ty.
Very good list.
chaunceybell27th Jan -
Nice but lack of memory
Would love to run some of these but with the crappy app memory provided on many Android devices I can't get much on. Even after offloading what I can to SD, the remaining app memory is miserly and results in continual lack of memory messages on start up and the gmail app gives up syncing then too.
StevenNZ27th Jan -
RE: 10 indispensable Android apps
@StevenNZ
What phone do you have that is so bad?
heathman27th Jan -
RE: 10 indispensable Android apps
@heathman Sounds like an iPhone owner pretending to be an Android owner to me.
anothercanuck27th Jan -
RE: 10 indispensable Android apps
@StevenNZ HTC Flyer 1Gb ram 32GB on board, upto 32GB MSD, wi-fi & gprs (sim) ??599.99 slashed to ??299.99 on Amazon or Expansys!! Beautiful device... Amazing at half price. :-D
tigertim3627th Jan -
Not my top-10 list...
Besides the usual Google apps, the 6 apps that I use most are:
- Remote Desktop Client" by Xtralogic -- the best Windows Remote Desktop client I've found on Android, and it supports Network Level Authentication (which most of the others don't) so you can connect to the latest versions of Windows desktop and server in the most secure way. WAY worth the money I paid.
- "IP Cam Viewer" by Robert Chou, so my wife can watch our pets when we're not home -- constantly updated and improved. Definitely worth the money.
- "K-9 Mail" mail client by K-9 Dog Walkers, so that I can check my Hotmail account - blows away the stock Android mail client! Free.
- "Audible" audio book player by Amazon. Free.
- "Visual Voice Mail" by T-Mobile. Free. (I've heard that Verizon charges extra for similar functionality)
- "Thinking Space Pro" by Mindjet, for idea brainstorming. Compatible with FreeMind data files. Very unique menu system. Worth the money!
Bit-Smacker27th Jan -
RE: 10 indispensable Android apps
@Bit-Smacker Wow. How did you get hotmail to run on k9? I can't get my @live.com to configure. Keeps giving me error message, wrong username or password.
bikerrich27th Jan -
POP3 with SSL
@bikerrich I found this link that explains how to do it and it works on every standard POP mail client I've tried:
http://windowslivehelp.com/solution.aspx?solutionid=a485233f-206d-491e-941b-118e45a7cf1bBit-Smacker30th Jan -
RE: 10 indispensable Android apps
@Bit-Smacker
If you use Remote Desktop Client, you must absolutely use ThinServer XP as server. It converts your XP machine into a Windows terminal server !
bojanwojan12th Feb -
RE: 10 indispensable Android apps
You can try my app as well "World Time & Widget"
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.mahesh.worldtimeplus
askmahesh@...27th Jan -
Android is a misnomer...
an android is a mechanical iteration of a human, that being said, the logo is a cute little green robot, love the logo, just sayin'. As for that app list, meh, might use maybe one or two of those, I don't 'live' on my mobile devices like the author.
tek_heretik27th Jan
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