Zath.co.uk have posted a nice little article detailing their best 11 apps available for Android. It’s definitely worth a read as I discovered a couple of apps I didn’t know existed (but will certainly be trying out now).
http://www.zath.co.uk/11-of-the-best-android-apps-for-nexus-one-htc-desire-may-2010/
Apps; you've gotta love 'em
May 10, 2010 at 11:12 pm |
Great list but i would make it 10 and loose TasKiller. Task managers, in general, interfere with the way android works… Dunno if you guys have JuiceDefender, UltimateJuice and JuicePlotter but they are brilliant battery management apps
that work together. Also just a question but what do you guys like more chompSMS or handcent?
May 10, 2010 at 11:32 pm |
The first thing I did was look at these lists, but found myself disapointed.
I go through them and find, twitter apps, facebook apps, all the crud I don’t see. How many twitter apps do we need for crux sake?
The Google Sky is kind of cool but shouldn’t be on a top 10/20 etc.
What would be nice is things like…
Best navigation app
Best music app
Best video app
Best RSS reader
Best news widget
Best weather widget etc
Best file browser (inc network browsing)
Best GPS tracking (ie emergency tracking, sms passive, data active)
Best IM Client (+Jabber Client)
etc…
And out of all of these I would try and get the Free No Ads ones… I think I’m gong to make an new acronym which I will attach to any apps I make FFNA – Free, Full and No Ads. :p would it catch on?
The HTC clock is nice, and the built in weather is v.nice too but it’s a cruddy background service which doesn’t reckonise my “small” locations, other sites will let me search on these (but i know the weather comes from specific towns near by etc), so I can use other widgets but I lose the very cool windscreen wipers :p and graphics.
Currently I use…
3G Watchdog
androidVNC (not tested that well yet)
ES File Explorer (still need to test Astro)
FTPServer
GPS Speedo / GPS Status / GPS Test
Jabiru (jabber client)
WarDrive
WifiStatic
Google Sky Map
CoPilot Live
Compass
Contraction Timer / Contraction timer (2 separate apps :p)
Aldiko (free books)
Bubble
And a few other odds and games, and loads of widgets im testing atm.
May 11, 2010 at 2:32 pm |
Sorry to post on a completely irrelevant topic again…
but I can’t seem to work out how to type a £ on my desire! It’s nowhere on the keyboard
May 11, 2010 at 2:51 pm |
It took me a while to find it too. On the keyboard just left to the “Return” key, press the “12#” button. Then look on the left-hand side and press the “1/2″ button to switch to the next page of symbols
May 12, 2010 at 3:51 pm
Another irrelevant, seen the news on 2.2, apparently performance is super. Wonder when our desires will get updated.
I’m not going to bother rooting mine until “support” dries up or gets slow, being patient for now :p
Although I do like the idea of “starting fresh”, so I don’t have to have various built in apps (peep etc).
May 11, 2010 at 3:29 pm |
Haha cheers, can’t believe I didn’t notice that!
May 14, 2010 at 6:41 pm |
No problem :p
May 12, 2010 at 4:34 pm |
I’m with Si on this one. Heard android 2.2 will give around 450% performance increase in TFLOPS anyways. read it somewhere on androidandme i think. And about rooting its alright atm no big advantages of rooting other than removing the stock apps. Was gonna root to get a flashlight app but ive got one without rooting
May 12, 2010 at 4:48 pm |
MFLOPS
And obviously this is for the N1
But yea.
Need a desirefanatics mini forum, the big ones just seem too big and unwieldy. :p
May 12, 2010 at 5:11 pm
The biggest question is when will htc release the 2.2 update… I hope we don’t have to endure the same painstakingly long time that the hero users are. I don’t mind sense staying as is with Froyo as the OS instead of eclair
Yea a mini forums would be cool.
May 16, 2010 at 6:46 pm |
Its a myth that task killers are not required, people keep yabbering on like they know things. No they are not essential but they can help conserve power and kill a program which is hanging.
All they do is offer a function that is readily available any way. If you go into (settings >> running services) you can kill an app from there… if this screwed with android don’t you think this function wouldn’t be there?
June 21, 2010 at 4:14 am |
Stored to your site, so I will be back!
July 14, 2010 at 4:25 am |
thanks for share
July 22, 2010 at 1:43 am |
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