5 Useful Apps For Android

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As an Operating System for smartphones, Android is a tough competitor for Blackberry and i-phone based mobile devices. This Google-owned mobile platform is used by renowned phone manufacturers such Samsung, Dell, Sony Ericsson, and Motorola for their smartphones. The Android had 25% share of US smartphone market in mid 2010. The percentage increases since then and it is reported in May 2010 that about 400,000 new Android-based smartphones are activated each day. To support the ever-growing Android market, Google and other mobile software manufacturers have developed a vast collection of paid and free Android apps. To install these apps, you can directly download them via your phone. Once the download finishes, the apps will be automatically installed in your phone. Alternatively, if you want to minimize data charges, you can download them from your PC or laptop and later install them to your Android phone with the help of software like Astro Download Manager. This is one of several excellent apps for Android mobile phones because it enables you to manage and store your documents easily.

Google Docs allows you to synchronize your phone with documents you have in your Google account. Therefore you can freely access and edit your documents from your smartphone. Although this is not the official PDF Reader (the official one would be from Adobe), this app is worth downloading and using. While the feature from this app is basically the same as the Adobe PDF Reader app, ezPDF Reader is probably better for beginner user since it is more user-friendly. Besides helping you to install apps easily on your Android phones, Astro File Manager has more useful features. This file manager also functions as task manager and file customizer. The Astro File Manager can also extract or create Zip and Rar files and attach them to your e-mails. If you are afraid of losing the precious data in your device, you can use this application as file backup creator which backs up the apps and data from your phone to its memory card. With the Astro File Manager, you can also check the performance of your Android OS. This is by far the coolest Android application. The Gmote 2.0 comes without the bugs from the 1.0 version. With this software, you can change your smartphone into a remote control and use it for your computer. Gmote 2.0 enables you to control your computer when playing medias such as music and movies. Besides functioning as a remote control, this app can also help you in presenting PowerPoint presentations and slide shows. Another plus side of this improved version of Gmote is that this app can turn your phone into a WiFi touch pad. This app is ideal for business purposes. Google Voice will notify you when a message appears. It also transcripts messages from the voicemails you have received. This Android app is highly recommended for busy entrepreneurs and business people.

Free. Seriously, there's nutty features like conversion options, tip calculator, weather, time, Wikipedia search, and a ton more bat-shit crazy options (seriously) that don't really belong in a note-taking app but are nice (,) to have as a backup. Read It Later: Read It Later is a similar service to Instapaper, which means it's an offline news caching reader. Save articles through their browsers and read them offline on your phone. Looks great while reading too. 1. It syncs with your Google Reader account for feeds and plays well with Twitter and Read it later. Free. It's so smart it gives suggestions on what you're trying to do and can even convert units and currency. Dropbox: It really doesn't get easier than Dropbox. With its Android app, you can view and edit all your Dropbox files in a sweet and simple interface and even stream music and videos you've uploaded to Dropbox in its media player (or save for offline viewing). Astrid Task/To Do List: No other app gives as much detail to to do lists as Astrid.

Its "advanced" options lets you set priority levels, integrate with Google Calendar, sync with Google tasks, and set up tags, alerts and periodic reminders. Astrid keeps it easy, for the most part, but also offers deeper settings if you're the obsessive, customize-everything exactly-how-you-want-it type. Free. It also can act as a backup, application manager, and task manager (if you're into that kind of thing). Free. Send the recording via Gmail, record by widget and more, it does all a voice recorder needs to do. Gmote 2.0: Using your phone as a remote control for your computer is practically a God-given right, and Gmote's the best Android remote for playing and controlling movies and music on your computer. Free. It all sounds so simple but TouchDown really is the best way to work with Exchange on your Android phone. 20. It shows your data usage in either the notification window, through the app itself, or widget.

Amazon Free App Reminder: Amazon has its own Android app store and one of the perks is that they offer a free app everyday. This will send you a daily notification about the free app on that particular day and link you straight to the Amazon app store. Basically, if you have a crappy Wi-Fi connection it'll flip you over to 3G and turn off Wi-Fi. If you have a bad 3G connection, it'll put you on Airplane Mode until it gets better. The way it works is that the accelerometer determines how you hold the phone (left, right, toward, away) and can associate an action for the grip. You trigger that action by waving your hand over the proximity sensor. So you can load apps, change ringer mode, open notifications, turn off the screen, etc with a simple wave of the hand. It could prove useful in cold weather situations or if you want to pretend you have wizard powers. Pops: Pops makes notifications ridiculous.