Amazon : Impulse shopping , made all too light on your sound — it remember products you scan ( either a photo or barcode ) so you may buy them afterwards , too .
Astrid : If you give suck at remembering things , Astrid is a unproblematic task managing director and to - do list . Killer feature ? It synchronize with the Remember the Milk River .
Astro : An Android task manager to kill useless background processes is compulsory , at least if you want your sound run at top speed . Oh , and Astro happens to be a middling all-fired good file managing director , too .
Documents To Go : If you call for to edit Office document on your phone , you pretty much stupefy ta go through DataViz ’s Documents To Go . Save us , oh native Google Docs app .
Evernote : Android does n’t transport with a note - taking app , and if you ’re gon na snap up one , it might as well be one that syncs notice , photos and file across multiple platforms , even if Evernote ’s Android app is still in beta .
Facebook : Yes , it ’s vastly deficient to its iPhone opposite number — an unfortunately common theme for Android apps — missing entire functions like Old World chat and Events , but with Android 2.0 , its tight desegregation with contact almost makes us forget about that . Also , it ’s unpossible to not have this on your speech sound .
Flixster : moving-picture show . You like know what ’s performing , right ? Flixster ’s got local listings and outset , along with lagger and reviews from Rotten Tomatoes .
Fring : Our preferred free multi - protocol IM app from the iPhone , but on Android : If it ’s a substance communications protocol with more than one sad , lonely user , you ’re cover .
FxCamera : A gratis , and solid camera app with monetary standard — but of the essence — photograph effects , like Polaroid , Fisheye and ToyCam .
Gmote : Using your earphone as a distant control for your computer is practically a God - given right hand , and Gmote ’s the best Android remote for play and controlling movies and music on your computer .
Goggles : Google ’s splattering into visual search is imposingly eagle - eyeball , capable to scan not just barcodes , books , picture and music like other apps , but landmarks graphics and business organisation cards , too .
Google Voice : Google Voice just changes the room you utilize your speech sound , and the app ’s seamless consolidation is a slayer feature for Android as a whole . Get in descent for an invite , if you have n’t already .
Layar world : Quite simply , the king of augmented realness apps , able to layer pretty much whatever kind of data you require on top of your deadening , HUD - less world .
heed : For being a Google Labs projection , Listen is full - featured and excellent podcast app , with lookup , subscriptions and support for streams and downloads .
Locale : An disceptation all by itself for multitasking and background processes , it ’s a location cognizant app that lets you congeal how your phone respond to certain situations or places — like dampen your ringer at school , or killing 3 GB when your battery ’s low , or pretty much any other scriptable activity . Indispensable .
NESoid : It ’s BYO ROMs , but this $ 3 NES emulator single - handedly solves Android ’s gaming problem by letting you play any NES secret plan you’re able to get your hands on . Bonus : The smug sense of satisfaction that this would never fly in the App Store .
NewsRob : This is what we imagine a mythological Google Reader RSS app would be like , with two - way background sync and full provender downloads . ( If you ’re not a Google Reader user , we ’d recommend the 99 - penny FeedR , for its simple mindedness . )
OpenTable : Never be squeeze to mouth to a real human being to make a reservation again . ( As long as the restaurant ’s a part of OpenTable , anyway , which it probably is , if it ’s worth eating at . )
Pandora : Pandora CTO Tom Conrad may have said , “ I need Android like I need a hole in the foreland , ” but Android decidedly need the honorable net radio app around , which auto - advise euphony based on other artists you like using sorcery . ( Or algorithms . )
PdaNet : The ridiculously easy way to tether your laptop computer to your telephone , over USB or Bluetooth , without rootle it . If you do n’t wanna cough up $ 30 for the full translation it ’ll still connect to non - https:// addresses just fine .
place : Google ’s Places is our preferred directory app for finding what ’s nearby — restaurants , chocolate , bank , shopping , whatever — mostly because it ’s leisurely to use than the arguably more jam - packed Where — but also because its data seems to be get more detailed useful at an exponential pace .
Qik : bouncy picture cyclosis over 3 constant of gravitation or Wi - Fi , which one - ups the others with reinforcement for full Re 720×480 DVD quality video from the Droid .
Retro Defense : The gorgeous , and possibly classical , Android pillar United States Department of Defense biz .
Ringdroid : If you wanna make your own ringtone , Ringdroid is how , either using an MP3 you already have , or by pull in a whole young one .
Runstar : A very pretty running play covering , it offers full stat tracking and everything else you ’d gestate from a fitness app , with more features , like multiple exercise modes on the direction . If only it made the Droid luminousness enough to in reality run with .
Shazam : What ’s that song playing in the background ? Hold your earphone up , and Shazam will tell you . It ’s magic that never get old .
Twidroid : Still the Twitter app for Android , even if the free version halt back features like bit.ly support , it pay back well all the time . And with fresh launched cud - inch , its potential seems limitless .
Voice Recorder : You need a voice recorder app . This is it .
Wapedia : True , Wikipedia apps are glorified shrinkwraps , but Wapedia do settlings trivia showdowns at dinner really fast , with a clean presentation to rush .
Weather Channel : Not every Android phone has HTC ’s ginormous weather whatchamacallit to say whether it ’s vesicate hot or a Category 5 hurricane outside , so for everything else , there ’s the Weather Channel , which gives you a choice of widgets to slap on the home screen and offers ( optional ) weather alerts in your notification bar to flush .
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