I'm really enjoying having a smartphone...here I am standing in line for Captain America and I'm browsing Wordforge! Which Forgers have one? Which kind/service/data access? Anyone have some Android apps they'd recommend?
Droid Incredible. Don't do too much fancy with it, though I'd like to. The basics, like the Internet browser, Google Maps, work and other e-mail accounts are usually enough for me. I also like Cool Reader for reading gigantic Word documents and Awesome Drop for transferring those large documents from my computer to the phone. I wish the phone-computer linking were a bit smarter and I wouldn't have to finagle ways of accessing my documents on the phone as with using Awesome Drop, but it could just be that my laptop's kinda old (for a laptop). And I wish there was some way of just opening a folder on the phone and being able to see and organize every file I've put on it, but I haven't figured that out yet.
Droid X and I use it for so much more than business. Except for the messaging, it blows the doors off of my old Blackberry. Here are my favorite apps. Oh and here is my list of recommended apps for the phone for you to down load. Some are free, some you gotta drop some coin on. Geocaching and Outdoors Garmin OpenCaching Urban Scout Compass by Catch.com Knots Guide by SusaSoftX Google Maps Geocaching by Groundspeak Launcher / Skin LauncherPro Plus Downloading Music Amazon MP3 Math (its not the red room) Unit Converter - ConvertPad by Sunny Moon Percent Calculator by CityJams Ebook Reader Amazon Kindle Reader Google Books Social Media / Web Twidroyd LinkedIn Facebook for Android* Meetup Android Central Tapatalk * I am playing around with FRIENDCASTER, which everyone says is a better facebook app than the facebook app, but I have not been impressed so far. SMS (texting) Handcent Utilities and Tools Quick Settings Stopwatch & Timer Droidlight LED Flashlight App 2 SD Free (move app to SD) ASTRO File Manager Bubble by Ben Zibble SwiftkeyX - Best keyboard out there. Only competitor is Swype, but I didnt like it. Travel Poynt HotelsByMe Hotel Reservations GasBuddy - Find Cheap Gas Kayak Flight and Hotel Search News, Sports, & Weather ESPN ScoreCenter NFL Mobile AP Mobile IMDb Movies & TV Hurricane Hound Free WeatherBug Elite Documents Adobe® Reader® Documents To Go (paid version) Notes by Yuli
32GB iPhone 3GS/Unlimited Everything Adobe Photoshop Express Amazon Mobile Bubble Explode Fandango Movies Flashlight Fluid Google Earth Remote (allows me to use my iPhone as a remote via WiFi) Slacker Radio Tapatalk Twitter Virtuoso Piano Free Waze GPS Yelp American Airlines AP Mobile Bubble Shooter Free Bump Cash Cab Convert Units for Free Dictionary.com ESPN ScoreCenter (the best sports app out there, IMHO.) Facebook Files Pro: Documents to Go WBRC's app for local news Free Translator Genius Scan Groupon iHandy Level iMap Weather Radio (The single best app I have. I credit it with saving a few lives.) Lightsaber Unleashed LinkedIn NASA App Newegg Mobile OpenTable (Restaurant Reservations) Pocket First Aid (American Heart's First Aid app. Worth EVERY penny.) Holiday Inn Priority Club Rewards RedLaser Shazam Siri Assistant (Works GREAT in big cities. Not so much in BFE, AL.) Southwest Airlines Star Trek Phaser (from the 2009 movie) Ustream Ustream Broadcaster Warships (A free Battleship board game ripoff) The Weather Channel app Wikipedia Mobile ABC 33/40 Weather 5-0 Radio Police Scanner
I've got an iPhone 4, 32GB. I don't even use a quarter of the stuff it can do Facebook Endomondo Met office Nightstand Trainyard Angry Birds Angry birds seasons Angry birds Rio (I like angry birds!!) Sleeptalk (I sing in my sleep!) Marvel comics National lottery Loadsa recipe apps Hipstamatic CP Pro Yeah, I don't deserve it really because I don't use it to it's potential!
I've got a T-Moble Comet, running Android. I dislike that I need a 3G signal to access the 'Net and the camera is subpar, but it is tiny and the built-in TASER if very nice. (Or at least it would be, if they made a phone with a built-in TASER. )
As soon as I walked out of Verizon with my phone, my son started downloading apps: Angry Birds, Dragon Hunter, Paper Toss, etc. I've never played it, but it's on there. About the only game I play is Harpoon. I'm just not a gamer. He plays every game he can get his hands on. Facebook Yahoo Mail The US Constitution The Federalist (all 85 papers) Google Sky Maps Flashlight Kindle (haven't used it)
I had a Droid2 and I absolutely hated it. I used LauncherPro on that and had it looking pretty cool, but it really started to get buggy. I just got a HTC Incredible 2 and I abso-fuckin-lutely love it!!!! Such a great phone! It's very fast, it's got an 8MP camera and shoots 720p video. It's got some neat apps that come with it from HTC with their Sense UI. As far as apps that I use on a daily basis: Games: -Live Texas Hold 'Em (great PvP poker, tons of tables and great tourneys!) -Drag Racing (VERY ADDICTIVE.) -Brain Genius Deluxe (Not really a game, but it's a great brain workout) -Bubble Blast 2 (addictive. Good puzzle game) News: -Pulse News (This app is amazing for news, you can get just about any news source including AP) Speaking of AP, I installed the app on my phone but the widget force closes constantly, so I got rid of it. Music: -PowerAmp Pro (10-band EQ, great widgets, plus Dolby and SRS sound management) -GTunes Music Lite (downloader, it's where I get all my music and it's free) -Soundhound (SOOOO much better than Shazaam) Entertainment: -TWI - Texting While Intoxicated (Moderate section brings a lot of spam, but more than enough lawlz) -FML - Fuck My Life (Great toilet reading) -Daily Horoscope (good looking horoscope app, also offers the Druid horoscope and Chinese) -Yourself (CREEPY horoscope/innerself/numerology app. Seriously REALLY CREEPY how right it is about most people) Video Conferencing: -Tango -And when they finally come out with it, GTalk w/ Video I love my DInc2, it's got a lot of NEAT features. Like how it plays the ringer louder when it detects it's in your pocket or how it quiets the ringtone when it detects you pick it up from the table/pocket. My favorite part is the Super LCD screen, fantastic quality and perfectly sensitive. Another cool thing is while you're in a phone call, if you turn the phone over, it turns on the speaker phone. I don't think I'm going to "mod" this one much as I actually like the UI and how it works flawlessly. I wasn't sure if I was going to like the HTC Sense UI, but I'm very impressed!
Am I the only one who has no desire whatsoever to use the internet on a phone? The very idea of trying to do anything on such a small screen is torturous. My phone handles calls and texts, and that's all I need it for.
I use mine to check the weather once in awhile. I've used the VZ Navigator GPS function exactly once, but it did get the job done. There is also the VCast/Rhapsody music thing that I've never used, but that might be worth a shot. I really should do something to justify the extra $30 a month I pay for unlimited internet access.
I actually got rid of my computer about a year ago and only use my phone now. A 4in screen is plenty, especially when the site resizes and you can zoom in/out. If Android didn't have flash, I never would have considered it. Most of the time I'm posting from my phone on almost all my sites. BTW, why do y'all use Facebook for Android? Just going to the mobile website gives you better options and more usability. I hate the Facebook for Android app, it pisses me off.
Right now I am using the Droid Charge and HTC Thunderbolt. I have used Android phones all the way back to G1. The Facebook app for Android flat out sucks! On the flip side Google+ app is awesome.
My first smartphone is a Droid Charge, and it is rapidly becoming a way of life for me. I've concluded that having one of these things means never being bored or unproductive again. I'm playing Words with Friends (a Scrabble clone), a couple of games running simultaneously with (who else?) some friends. I'm checking out constellations with Google Skymap. I'm reading books with the Kindle app while sitting in a restaurant. I'm reading threads on Wordforge while waiting in line at a movie theater. I'm watching videos on YouTube while waiting for the movie to begin. I'm studying Russian with Google Translate--the speech recognition/synthesis capability is simply astounding! I'm staying in touch with everyone via the Facebook app. I'm killing a shitload of pigs and breaking their stuff in Angry Birds. It's a still camera. It's a video camera. It's a voice recorder. It's a music player. It's an appointment calendar. It's a GPS navigation system. It's a traffic conditions monitor. It's a web browser. And it's a telephone besides! And the 4G service (which, to be perfectly honest, hasn't been exceptionally reliable) is BLAZING FAST. I'm starting to think that one could almost abandon fixed broadband access...
Blackberry Bold, and I loves it. For my apps fix though I just have a 64GB iPod touch, just upgraded to the newest one. Words with friends is awesome, I'm The Chick Whisperer if anyone wants to add me. Hanging with friends is great too.
HTC Desire with an unlimited data plan. All the normal shit, love it. It's the non tech things that really affect my life, like the level and flashlight apps. Ya know, aside from having the entirety of human knowledge in the palm of my hand.
I'm on Verizon's now-discontinued "unlimited" plan, which I'm told will throttle at some point, but I'm not actually using all that much bandwidth. I'm not streaming movies or anything.
Interestingly, in some ways I prefer the Android Facebook app. Even with the appropriate settings to the "feed" on my laptop, I can tell it is selecting what status updates to send me. My phone gives me updates from people I haven't heard from in ages.
I have an HTC Desire, and my plan with Cell South is very reasonable. For $50 a month I get 500 minutes, unlimited texting and unlimited data. And I have yet to go over my limits. As far as apps, I have Pandora, Angry Birds, Andoku, Bible, app for my bank, and job search by Indeed. I love my phone!!!!
That's what I've been telling my friends for years as I attempt to get them to switch. "I carry around a device that gives me access to a significant portion of the sum total of human knowledge. Oh, and it makes phone calls too."
