Comments on: What … or Where… Are The Great Android Apps?

By: Pedro Andrade

Pedro Andrade — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 12:35:23 +0000

I believe there's a miss link from your "how i did predictions for 2010" to this post

Tks for sharing your predictions, its really insightful

PA:

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 01:15:34 +0000

Four months, Ted.

I find myself using my Nexus One a lot like Buzz Bruggeman. It makes a great phone, and as a mobile hotspot for my iPad, it is awesome.

Most of the “standard apps” for Android work just as well as their iOS counterparts: Twitter, Facebook, Fandango, Kayak, Kindle, Pandora, Dropbox, Zillow, Yelp, Foursquare, OpenTable… they are all great. There are only a few other apps that I find myself going back to: Touchdown for Exchange email, WeatherBug, Adobe Reader and Flash/AIR. Google’s gesture search is incredibly handy, as is the ability to have default actions for downloading PDFs, web pages, maps, etc.

As for games… well, I play Angry Birds a lot. :-/

By: apdigi

apdigi — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 00:40:27 +0000

I love angrybirds and kindle so much, so do with my both children.

By: John

John — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 00:39:04 +0000

Thanks all. I am downloading many of these. Frank, any chance you can tell me which of the three calorie counters you meant?

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 19:50:52 +0000

Your son might enjoy downloading some of the free high quality development tools that Microsoft provides and using the best phone app development environment to create some Windows Phone 7 apps or XNA game apps for the phone.

By: matt mcknight

matt mcknight — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 17:24:06 +0000

I was shocked when I saw that iPhone doesn't have a Gmail app. The new Gmail app with priority inbox is amazing. I don't even have to here a blip from my phone when a non-priority email arrives.

Google Voice is really great on android as well. I can't even remember the last time I

Angry birds works great on Android as well, cute little game.

I like Double Twist better than the iPhone music app.

By: Frank Bissel

Frank Bissel — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 10:16:26 +0000

Try Calorie Counter and you’ll see what an Android considered app should operate like.

By: Frank Bissel

Frank Bissel — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 06:29:34 +0000

Try Calorie Counter and you’ll see what an Android considered app should operate like.

By: mrg

mrg — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 04:57:29 +0000

oddly, i interpreted the link bait a bit different. I just got a Droid X and am looking at this 'marketplace' and thinking, 'what a garbage dump'...

The turd that GOOG laid is just as stinky as the AAPL itunes 'store' which is bad enough to keep me from drinking their high-priced pruno.

Granted, i'm thinking of findability and not known-item searching; aka facet search. These are really just canned searches with sort by X,Y, or Z. ex. apps just by bigCO; apps released in the last week; apps tagged genetics; german only; etc.

But, alas, GOOG has this problem on so many parts of their empire. My recent bigCO switched to Google Apps for business and corporate content is black hole'd in terms of findability in this same manner. It's insanity to not have the findability tools at your disposal whether at a personal or business level.

By: George

George — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 03:25:33 +0000

SlideIT, by far the single best development to hit mobility since the iPhone itself. It has vastly accelerated my productivity and typing speed. It is absolutely amazing….not available on the iPhone