Must Have Android Apps and Games?

Andrew 83 · 13-04-2012 01:27PM

Ludo wrote: »

It all goes to SD automatically once downloaded and installed fully....leaves 72KB on internal memory (68KB app and 4KB data in my case so far).

Thanks, I'll get it so!

Marty McFly · 14-04-2012 02:05AM

Does anyone know if the football millionaire app is available on android? Cant find it. If it isnt is there pans to release?

Mrs Garth Brooks · 14-04-2012 11:49PM

The mouse lite app is great. It turns your phone into a remote control, so you can control your pc or laptop over a wi fi connection. The full version costs something like €2 and will let you control more like itunes, windows player, and powerpoint from your phone.

ED E · 15-04-2012 04:16AM

HardLuckWoman wrote: »

The mouse lite app is great. It turns your phone into a remote control, so you can control your pc or laptop over a wi fi connection. The full version costs something like €2 and will let you control more like itunes, windows player, and powerpoint from your phone.

Teamviewer is free and arguably significantly more powerful.

Kenny Logins · 15-04-2012 08:29AM

HardLuckWoman wrote: »

The mouse lite app is great. It turns your phone into a remote control, so you can control your pc or laptop over a wi fi connection. The full version costs something like €2 and will let you control more like itunes, windows player, and powerpoint from your phone.

Try Unified Remote.

Mrs Garth Brooks · 15-04-2012 10:59AM

Kenny Logins wrote: »

Try Unified Remote.

This is seriously so cool. I never knew there were remotes available for these phones.

AntiRip · 15-04-2012 11:16AM

Anyone try out the new Swiftkey 3 Beta yet?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKVYhv8MO9Y

Think it's in closed beta testing but you can download the apk here. Link provided by XDA Forums.

Best keyboard on the market I think.

BenEadir · 15-04-2012 07:36PM

AntiRip wrote: »

Best keyboard on the market I think.

Better than SWYPE? How? I'm genuinely interested as I've tried loads of keyboards including Swiftkey (previous versions) and I keep reverting to SWYPE.

Ben

AntiRip · 15-04-2012 07:55PM

BenThere wrote: »

Better than SWYPE? How? I'm genuinely interested as I've tried loads of keyboards including Swiftkey (previous versions) and I keep reverting to SWYPE.

Ben

It's all about personal preference I suppose. If you like swype stick to it. I didn't really like the swiping cause I used to forget where a letter was and it used to take me a while then to scan the keyboard before I could swype again

. I flies away with this keyboard because a lot of the time it remembers what words you use in combination with other words so the longer you use it the better it gets. That's just me though. Everyone to their own

Zascar · 15-04-2012 08:31PM

Yeah I'm the same, I like Swiftkey. I tried Swype and although I really did like it, i found it annoying for the times when you had to put in something different that it did not know etc. Perhaps I'm wrong but I think most people have tried Swype but few from what I can see stick with it in the long run. This new Swiftkey looks great as it solves some of the problems I find annoying like spaces and punctuation.

harpstilidie · 15-04-2012 08:57PM

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.scimob.akinator&hl=en

Fun game. You think of a real of fictional person and then answer questions and it's nearly always right. Worth the €1.59 although I'm easily amused!

rogieop · 15-04-2012 09:08PM

the only problem i find with swype is that if ive been texting for a while and then go back to using my laptop it kind of disorientates me for a few seconds!!!

any plans to introduce a laptop with swype?

wilser · 15-04-2012 10:22PM

harpstilidie wrote: »

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.scimob.akinator&hl=en

Fun game. You think of a real of fictional person and then answer questions and it's nearly always right. Worth the €1.59 although I'm easily amused!

comes up not available in your country for me

The Kid · 15-04-2012 11:26PM

Zascar wrote: »

Yeah I'm the same, I like Swiftkey. I tried Swype and although I really did like it, i found it annoying for the times when you had to put in something different that it did not know etc. Perhaps I'm wrong but I think most people have tried Swype but few from what I can see stick with it in the long run. This new Swiftkey looks great as it solves some of the problems I find annoying like spaces and punctuation.

I'll second that. I've championed both Swype and Swiftkey many times, and have spent lots of time using both. But I too always came back to Swiftkey in the end mostly due to the hassle of having to continuously enter words that Swype didn't understand.

In the end I bought the full version version of Swiftkey on offer for 10 cents and I can honestly say it's one of the best 10 cent purchases I've ever made in my life! (True, my first Chomp bar was pretty awesome, but it didn't last nearly as long!)

dulpit · 16-04-2012 12:03AM

Been using Swiftkey since the 10c sale and I must say it has nearly (not quite) convinced me that soft keyboards are okay (but I would prefer a good qwerty board tbh).

Just downloaded the beta linked above, I'll see how that goes for a while...

harpstilidie · 16-04-2012 09:30AM

wilser wrote: »

comes up not available in your country for me

That's odd. I downloaded it on Friday night no problems.

Search for 'Akinator' in the Play Store and it should come up.

mickoneill30 · 16-04-2012 10:42AM

The Kid wrote: »

I'll second that. I've championed both Swype and Swiftkey many times, and have spent lots of time using both. But I too always came back to Swiftkey in the end mostly due to the hassle of having to continuously enter words that Swype didn't understand.

The first time you type a word that Swype doesn't understand you click the word and then add to dictionary. From then on it's swipable. My vocabulary isn't big enough for this to be needed to be done very often.

I think the dictionary must be backed up automatically. I formatted my phone last week and I've just checked the personal dictionary while typing this post and there must be a couple of hundred in there (mainly names) that are relevant to me.

Zascar · 16-04-2012 02:32PM

Using the new Swiftkey beta and I really like the way it can work out misses spaces as I'm always doing that, but I really really do not like how they have removed the seperate punctuation marks for full stop, comma and questions mark, and replaced with a push, hold and slide. It just takes longer and seems like its slowing me down. Very annoying. Also for me the heptic feedback does not work, not sure why. I also cannot find the setting to decrease the time of the long press response. Gone back to the old one for now. Pity I really liked the space correction.

madmoe · 16-04-2012 02:35PM

Zascar wrote: »

Using the new Swiftkey beta and I really like the way it can work out misses spaces as I'm always doing that, but I really really do not like how they have removed the seperate punctuation marks for full stop, comma and questions mark, and replaced with a push, hold and slide. It just takes longer and seems like its slowing me down. Very annoying. Also for me the heptic feedback does not work, not sure why. I also cannot find the setting to decrease the time of the long press response. Gone back to the old one for now. Pity I really liked the space correction.

I agree with you totally about the punctuation, very annoying! The haptic feedback default value is very low at 10ms and thus can hardly be felt. I doubled it to 20ms in the settings and can feel it now.

Cheers,
M

Zascar · 16-04-2012 03:21PM

Does anyone have access to their restricted forum? Would be interesting to see if others are seeing the same. Although seems unlikely that they'll change this at this late stage. If they gave an option to turn on and off the swypy thing that would be ok.

Is it just me or are some settings missing from this compared to the last one?

dulpit · 16-04-2012 05:55PM

Zascar wrote: »

Does anyone have access to their restricted forum? Would be interesting to see if others are seeing the same. Although seems unlikely that they'll change this at this late stage. If they gave an option to turn on and off the swypy thing that would be ok.

Paul O'Brien (http://www.modaco.com/) said the same thing about the punctuation, and I agree... Fingers crossed that they'll fix it...

subway · 16-04-2012 07:46PM

It's quite slow feeling too. Just a tiny bit, but it's there

Kenny Logins · 16-04-2012 08:20PM

wilser wrote: »

harpstilidie wrote: »

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.scimob.akinator&hl=en

Fun game. You think of a real of fictional person and then answer questions and it's nearly always right. Worth the €1.59 although I'm easily amused!

comes up not available in your country for me

Yeah, same here..

AntiRip · 16-04-2012 10:36PM

Kenny Logins wrote: »

Yeah, same here..

Try market enabler.

subway · 16-04-2012 10:41PM

It's been free on the Web for about 5 years
http://uk.akinator.com/

Ghandee · 19-04-2012 03:17PM

Don't think its got a mention yet, but can knock down will take hours of your life!

jayteecork · 19-04-2012 03:43PM

Fúck Sony's Wisepilot.

Update had it going from 2mb to about 17MB of internal phone memory and I can't delete the fkn thing. Can't put it on SD either.

Have to keep uninstalling the update as I'm out of phone memory.

Ste- · 19-04-2012 03:52PM

jayteecork wrote: »

Fúck Sony's Wisepilot.

Update had it going from 2mb to about 17MB of internal phone memory and I can't delete the fkn thing. Can't put it on SD either.

Have to keep uninstalling the update as I'm out of phone memory.

Time to learn about root and delete it from the system folder.

ED E · 19-04-2012 04:41PM

jayteecork wrote: »

Fúck Sony's Wisepilot.

Update had it going from 2mb to about 17MB of internal phone memory and I can't delete the fkn thing. Can't put it on SD either.

Have to keep uninstalling the update as I'm out of phone memory.

Either root your phone and remove it(Model? Its a 1 click process with some) or just turn off automatic updates for it, then it cant continually update itself.

danthefan · 19-04-2012 05:23PM

Is there any particular browser that's recognised as being better than the others? I have ICS, currently using Chrome, but I find the text wrap much better in Opera so might go back to it.

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