Favorite Android/iPhone Apps?

[picklemonkey]

I'm still new to the smart phone scene, so I thought it would be interesting to see what apps everybody loves/uses. Here's what I've been playing with on my phone recently


ShopSavvy
- Product bar code scanner, looks up the best price online for any bar code you scan

Shazam
- Records/identifies the song that you're listening to

Flashlight
- Turns your screen completely white and maximum brightness. It works pretty well

What The Doodle
- Online Pictionary game. Pretty addicting

AndroidVNC
- Control my PC via VNC

[Jenks]

Re: Favorite Android/iPhone Apps?

shazam is awesome. never ceases to amaze me with some of the things i ask it to id and it picks em up.

papertoss = addictive.

taximagic - finds a cab closest to your location and calls them for you.

hopstop - awesome for cities like manhattan/chicago/boston where you do a lot of walking. gives you walking directions from mappoint to mappoint. you can also choose rail, subway, bike, bus, etc. it'll tell you for instance- south two blocks, take #7 train, etc. it's only for the major metropolitian cities tho.

yelp - foodie reviews for every city

scrabble - duh

pandora - must have.

[threehills]

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I have the droid and have used extensively....

Robowars lite - A good tower defense game

Aldiko - e reader that allows you to download a bajillion free books

[poults]

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My faves so far are:

The last.fm program for the streaming interent radio station,
MyBackupPro,
Contacts2Sim,
Xtralogic Remote desktop Client,
Shazam,
B&B Silent Mode (Widget for silent mode on and off)
Internal Memory Widget (self explanatory)

[toasty]

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Key Ring = reproduces the barcodes on those reward cards, gym cards, etc. that you attach to your key ring, so you just scan your phone instead. Very handy!

[toasty]

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Ringdroid == creates on-the-fly ringtones from media on your phone

[res0nat0r]

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Key Ring = reproduces the barcodes on those reward cards, gym cards, etc. that you attach to your key ring, so you just scan your phone instead. Very handy!

This is a very cool idea!

[picklemonkey]

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Key Ring = reproduces the barcodes on those reward cards, gym cards, etc. that you attach to your key ring, so you just scan your phone instead. Very handy!

hell yeah, thanks! just installed it

[toasty]

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For you android folks, I installed the ShapeWriter keyboard a few days ago, and I am really digging it. Rather than typing each key, you just drag your finger around the keyboard, and it uses word prediction to insert the correct word.

http://www.shapewriter.com/

Takes a bit of getting used to, but having used it for a few days, I find it much faster than regular typing. I gather it's available for iPhone as well, but I've not tried it on that platform just yet...

[DreamGirlie]

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Google Skymap is pretty cool.

[jeffrey collins]

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Wow. Sounds like plenty of cool apps for me to check out if I ever get into the iPhone thing. Some of those sound really killer.
Shazam
ShopSavvy
Flashlight
Key Ring

Those sound very cool.

[picklemonkey]

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Google Skymap is pretty cool.

I just installed this and it's WAY cooler than "pretty cool" You just point your phone at the sky and it renders a map of all the planets/stars/constellations/nebulas/etc that you're looking at. I'm standing in my house walking in circles with my phone over my head wishing it weren't so cloudy outside

[Troklo]

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^That looks nice! Is there something like that for the iphone?

[ger stokes]

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For the iphone, the 2 games i always come back to are zombieville and minigore, well worth checking out.

http://www.mikamobile.com/zombieville1.html

http://minigore.blogspot.com/

you can see them both in action at the links there.

[DreamGirlie]

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I just installed this and it's WAY cooler than "pretty cool" You just point your phone at the sky and it renders a map of all the planets/stars/constellations/nebulas/etc that you're looking at. I'm standing in my house walking in circles with my phone over my head wishing it weren't so cloudy outside

Glad you like it! It was awesome in the summer time when it was warm out and I could actually stand being outside for longer than 15 mins intervals haha.