FabSwingers.com forum: Android Apps

By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

This isn't a Android v iPhone post. Or a slanging match for either.

I've recently got an Android phone and finally mastered the basics of it and wondered are is/are the most useful Android apps to download.

Any ideas?

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By *ittle_brat_evie!!Woman
over a year ago

evesham

i have the HTC Desire HD and was shocked at its battery life until i rang phones 4 u who recommended installing advanced task killer. this will close all apps running in the background and had almost doubled my battery life

bit of a boring one i know but one that helped me

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By *obletonMan
over a year ago

A Home Among The Woodland Creatures

depends on what you want to do with it really.

I'd definitely get a power management app and a task manager to maximise your battery life tho

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Thanks. I've also downloaded DROP!

Highly addictive!

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By *oddessWoman
over a year ago

swansea

Alchemy - my favourite game

Androidify - customize android men and set as friends pics

Tweetcaster - coz I luv Twitter

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By *oddessWoman
over a year ago

swansea

And talking tom cat cracks me up big time!!!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

angry birds...../you don't need anything else....

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By *andy muncherMan
over a year ago

Nottingham

have look for phoenix app a/z of sex positions very good

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I love "stupid zombies" I also got school security to scan each ap I get, i can only access fabs when hooked up to WiFi but when I'm out n about it won't let me as its a 18 + site.. gota work it out as very annoying

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By *andy muncherMan
over a year ago

Nottingham

"I love "stupid zombies" I also got school security to scan each ap I get, i can only access fabs when hooked up to WiFi but when I'm out n about it won't let me as its a 18 + site.. gota work it out as very annoying"

what network you on

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By *arambarMan
over a year ago

swindon

May just need to get your network to allow access to "grown up" sites... you can either do it on the phone or in a shop, depending on which network you're with.

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By *arambarMan
over a year ago

swindon

"This isn't a Android v iPhone post. Or a slanging match for either.

I've recently got an Android phone and finally mastered the basics of it and wondered are is/are the most useful Android apps to download.

Any ideas?"

There's an article on a site called Tech Radar called "40 best free Android apps" which is well worth a read... if you Google the article title and the name of the site, then you'll find it.

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By *arambarMan
over a year ago

swindon

"i have the HTC Desire HD and was shocked at its battery life until i rang phones 4 u who recommended installing advanced task killer. this will close all apps running in the background and had almost doubled my battery life

bit of a boring one i know but one that helped me

There's an article written by one of the senior Android developers at Google, and she (yes, she!) explains why killing tasks is a bad idea on Android... it's called "Multitasking the Android Way" if you suffer from insomnia and fancy reading something to send you off to sleep

But I agree that the battery life on the HTC Desire (mine's not an HD one though) is pretty crappy. I switch off stuff like the animated wallpapers, disable wifi unless I'm using it, no bluetooth enabled, and restrict when apps can go online to check for updates as much as possible. I also have the screen on a fairly dim setting instead of the ultra-bright default setting.

I was getting better battery life but nothing amazing. I got the best improvement when I upgraded to FroYo and then when I installed something called Juice Defender. Now I can go about 2 days without having to recharge my battery.

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By *ornyandnymphoCouple
over a year ago

poole

The one I would recommend to everyone is free AVG antivirus.

I'd only had my phone for 1 day when I dowloaded AVG, it found 1 virus instantly and several since.

I must stop going on these naughty sites lol

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By *iceguydaveMan
over a year ago

Monmouth

I'd recommend RockPlayer which will play pretty much any video format you throw at it - great for catching up on TV shows as well as porn

I also use the Rail Planner which is very useful waiting at Paddington to see where the next train to South Wales will go from - I always find out a few minutes before it goes up on the board!

I've also got Amazon's Kindle software installed and am curently catching up on the complete Sherlock Holmes stories.

Probably most use to me has been the various Google mapping/GPS features - with Navigation so well integrated with my contacts, it's a piece of cake to use my HTC Desire as a sat-nav-plus.

Needless to say, all these are free apps!

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