Android apps

[Graham C]

Damn, I should look around more

If you've only had the phone 24 hours, you should be in a cooling down period, may be worth looking into if you'd prefer the new phone.

[StuartHopkin]

Brag - £31 a month, no upfront fee, 500 mins, 5000 texts, 2000 3 to 3 mins, 24 month warranty
Beat - It's on 3

No data allowance? 

Cheap deal though, most places have an upfront fee at £30 pm.     Looks a nice phone.  You'll like the , it's not like that's gone from being one of the best phones on the market to being old tech overnight.

1GB of data.

Deals are available on O2, Vodafone and T-mobile as well for about the same sort of deal.

Harshest rubs

[ManuelsMum]

Got all you can eat data plus loads of calls and texts on Oneplan on 3, month to month contract, 25 quid, plus you can tether, using WIFI tether on Android (no root needed), works like a dream (once 'always on mobile' has been enabled). Download movies, whatever, they don't care.

Fab app: getspool.com     Chrome browser plugin, if I'm on a page I like, or the page has  vid I like, eg youtube, bbc news, etc, I just click the button on browser. I go to Spool on my phone, and the page or video is sitting there, wiii!

Been trying to work out a way to make my phone trackable even once hard reset, apparently possible but you need to cook a rom :/

[kinboshi]

Not got any myself.  Just be careful what you install (just use the market for installing stuff unless you think you can judge what's OK or not).

The main thing I'd advise anyone using gmail/android is the two-step verification to help prevent your account being compromised. 

[Bongo]

Loads of stuff for 10c:
http://www.androidcentral.com/slew-popular-apps-suddenly-are-10-cents-android-market

[ManuelsMum]

Loads of stuff for 10c:
http://www.androidcentral.com/slew-popular-apps-suddenly-are-10-cents-android-market

Can't pay without a 2 quid transaction fee from my bank

[BMoney]

I've been an Android user for a few years now, but I haven't experimented much with apps. I mostly play simple games and have practical apps (Tesco, The Weather Channel, Currency Exchange); I know - what a geezer, right? 

Some of the more interesting ones I'd recommend are:

Shazam (http://www.shazam.com/music/web/android.html) - if you're out and about and you hear a song you like, it finds the name for you.
QuickDic (http://www.appbrain.com/app/quickdic-offline-dictionary/com.hughes.android.dictionary) - despite the suggestive name, it's not sexy in the least. It's just an offline language dictionary, so you don't have to worry about roaming when you're abroad.
DI.fm (https://market.android.com/details?id=com.audioaddict.di) - awesome web radio.

[Nakor]

Anyone use MSN Messenger on Droid?
Whats the best app?

[Laxie]

ebuddy is the one myself and a few more on blonde use, but we've had it for a couple of years now so not sure if it's necessarily the best these days.

[Nakor]

Seems to do the job, many thanks.

[ManuelsMum]

They don't use msn but for general instant messaging I've used Touch and Kik. A little intrusive (always on) but they do they job pretty well.

[maldini32]

whats the best battery saving app?

ive updated my phone to the new firmware and its absolutely killing my battery.

[Machka]

whats the best battery saving app?

ive updated my phone to the new firmware and its absolutely killing my battery.

I hear good things about JuiceDefender.

[gatso]

juice defender certainly used to be the app of choice like a year ago. no idea if anything better has come out since

personally I cba with any of them now, just carry a spare battery in my wallet, takes 10 seconds to switch over on the rare occasions that I run out of juice

[Laxie]

Now that we've all had time to get used to our androids, what apps are your favourite? 

For me it was c:geo (a geocache tool) - but they removed the best feature on it last month.