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Droid man myself, but from experience I found that everything you expect from old phones you should get on your smartphone - examples include calculator, converter, stopwatch etc etc - I don't know about iPhones, but I know my droid didn't come with this sort of stuff as standard which left me in a tight spot when I needed it.
There's also quazi-legal ones like police scanners which can pick up police radio chatter which is kinda fun.
Angry Birds, Paper Toss...my mind's gone blank now...
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I use a Droid too, but pretty much all the apps appear on both phones. Andy, my phone pretty much came with all that standard stuff and more you mentioned you didn't have. Its an HTC EVO4 and even has voice controls a year before iPhone 4S came out.
Good apps are Weather Channel, Pandora, Netflix (if you have an account already,) my bank has an app I downloaded for online banking which has come in handy too.
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i have an iphone and an android tablet and trust me.. the apps on the iphone are a zillion times better. apple may have final say in who gets to publish an app, but it also ensures quality control.
i agree with LeDaemon that pandora is a great app although i dont bother with netflix with such a small screen. i use my tablet for that. the weather channel i dont bother with cause i am not smart enough to worry about the weather
my must haves: - twitter - facebook - pandora - stitcher: access to tons of podcasts that will stream in lieu of downloading. piers morgan, freakaonomics, and dan savage are great. - thechive and pocket reddit are great fun for killing time browsing amazing pics - b emoji is a good app if you use emoticons when you chat - monster apps, appallstar, and app deals offer daily apps and games that are on sale (typically for free) - key ring is a cool one that collects all your membership service cards and creates barcodes that the cashiers can scan instead of having 10 cards on your keychain or wallet. - skysaffari is a cool astronomy app that will help you learn the constellations and will give you real time and real place locations. as you hold your phone to the sky and pivot, the map on the phone will pivot with you. - there are a few cloud apps that allow you to store music and videos on the cloud so you can stream anywhere, especially good if you have wifi. i use pogoplug but thats because i bought their hardware which gives me the ability to add multiple external harddrives to the system.
for games: - pocket frogs. not sure why but i love breeding them and trying to fill my frogdex catalog. - wordfeud or words with friends. your typical scrabble games - flickhomerun - asphalt 6 - zombie gs - sims medieval and freeplay - nfs shift 2
i am sure there's more but i just cant think of them at the moment.
quote:Originally posted by LeDaemon: I use a Droid too, but pretty much all the apps appear on both phones. Andy, my phone pretty much came with all that standard stuff and more you mentioned you didn't have. Its an HTC EVO4 and even has voice controls a year before iPhone 4S came out.
Good apps are Weather Channel, Pandora, Netflix (if you have an account already,) my bank has an app I downloaded for online banking which has come in handy too.
Mine was the budgety of budgetness though haha
Samsung Galaxy Fit - my first branch into smartphones
got it for $161 PAYG
The only real bug in my ass about it is it doesn't have a camera flash, but what-thefuck-ever, ya know?
- WorldMate ... manage your travel itineraries, reservations, hotels and track flights, etc. - Slacker (premium account) - MOG ... Subscription gives UN-limited songs on Demand - Mapquest - Key Ring ... all my Rewards Cards on one App, and they work in the stores (Starbucks card, Fred Meyers, Best Buy, Safeway, etc.) - Photobucket - Songbird (my favorite music player) - Tune In Radio - Pulse - HD Weather - Walgreens (I LOVE this)... I can be out snapping photos of a footgirl, upload instantly to my Walgreens account. Go get coffee somewhere, Select Prints, choose the closest Walgreens, click the "Go" button ... finish coffee and pop in at the Walgreens ANYWHERE to pick up the prints. Footgirls LOVE this.
Between my phones, tablets and other devices, I probably have hundreds of apps installed. The favorites do change from time to time.
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Ben, whats MOG? my wife has rhapsody and its about $9/month for unlimited songs on demand too but the app is limited to 1 device per account so it wont work on mine unless we upgrade and then its like $20/month. not worth it to me since i have almost unlimited cloud storage. anyway, i am interested in learning more about MOG. thanks.
quote:Originally posted by nusuth: Ben, whats MOG? my wife has rhapsody and its about $9/month for unlimited songs on demand too but the app is limited to 1 device per account so it wont work on mine unless we upgrade and then its like $20/month. not worth it to me since i have almost unlimited cloud storage. anyway, i am interested in learning more about MOG. thanks.
MOG is something like Rhapsody ... you can pay $5 a month and get unlimited, on-demand music through your web browser from any computer. Over 14 Million songs in the catalogue.
For $5 more, making it $10 per month, you get unlimited music on demand on any computer AND on any device.
I use MOG on my Android phones, iphone, Tablets and ipod touch. Using this on a phone, I can run it through the AUX in on my car stereo and use that for my driving tunes.
I've also used RDIO ... which is just like MOG and much like rhapsody. I've toggled back & forth between the two, using one for a few months and then the other.
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quote:Originally posted by tulsafootlover: Ben do the people at Walgreens give you strange looks or ask if you have a foot fetish?
They DO! I cracked up when I read this, because it's always an episode when I go in to pick up prints. I usually bring the footgirl with me, and I've picked up prints at Walgreen stores in several different cities & states.
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We have also recently joined the collective and now each have an iphone 4S. I am always on the lookout for new and useful apps.
I finally found a very good and accurate navigation app with turn by turn voice direction too. The googlemaps that is preinstalled on the 4S is great, but does not give voice directions.
I now use the mapquest app. It's free and gives voice directions which for me is a huge help when driving.
I also use Runkeeper which is a very good fitness program to track your distance and time when you run, walk, bike and a host of other distance exercises.
Yelp app is very good for online reviews and to see what is around you. The monacle feature is awesome.
Star Rover is a great astronomy app. Uses your GPS and camera to show real time constellation, star and planet locations in the sky as you point your phone up in that direction.
For shopping I use Key Ring, pic2shop and Shopsavvy...the last two let you scan bar codes on products then searches for the best price in your area.
Those are a few of the apps I am using now.
Lets keep this running and post any other apps that sound interesting and useful.
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