More and more people I know are dumping their iPhones, BlackBerrys, and other smartphone devices for new Android powered smartphones. I get lots of questions about what apps they should install, so this is just a quick post to list some of the apps I love having on my Motorola Droid.
In no particular order...well.actually it's mostly alphabetical...
- Advanced Task Killer - Lets you kill backgrounded apps when the phone starts getting slow.
- Apps Organizer - Speaks for itself. Helps prevent app bloat by keeping apps neat and organized on your main desktop.
- Barcode Scanner
- Barnacle Wifi Tether (Need to root the Droid first if you're on 2.1) - Use the Droid as a wifi access point ANYWHERE!!!
- Bebbled - A great time waster, and it looks beautiful.
- Bubble - A construction level on your phone. Great when I was trying to level out some new cabinets.
- CacheMate (rooted Droids only) - Clear your cache and free up space.
- FlightTrack - Flight tracking knows exactly where the plane is as it flys across the sky. Also can keep you informed of delays and such. Excellent for frequent flyers.
- Gem Miner
- Gesture Search (Google) - Search for items in your phone by drawing letters on the screen.
- Google Earth
- Google Goggles
- Google Sky Map
- gStrings - A guitar tuner on my Droid....very nice.
- Handcent SMS - A great replacement for the built in messaging app.
- Listen - Podcast aggregator....good...better than it was two months ago....still want it to be better.
- Google Maps - LOVE THIS....especially the voice search and turn by turn directions.
- Kindle (read books your Android device)
- Movies (Flixster)
- Pandora
- Qik and Knocking - Stream live video from your Android device to the Internet.
- Shazam - What's that song on the radio? Don't know? Shazam will figure it out for you.
- Silent Time Lite - Schedule quiet times for your phone.
- Speed - Fun little speedometer app. Great when your own cars speedometer doesn't work.
- Swype (An awesome replacement for the stock keyboard)
- The Weather Channel - Nice weather app for Android. I especially like the widget that drops onto the desktop.
- Tricorder - Fun Trekkie app....that really works.
- Twidroid - I'm still waiting for TweetDeck to build an app for the Android.
- Google Voice
- Where - Find important stuff that is nearby. Gas, food, shopping, hotels, etc...
That's not all of them, but those are my favorites.
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