HTC Legend due to land tomorrow...... what should I be looking for in the app store?

http://nimbu.amorvi.com/2010/02/top-50-apps-for-android-1-5-cupcake/

http://www.androidforums.com/htc-legend

Check out Ndrive, turn your phone into a satnav, has 7 day free trial works fairly well, been trying it on my hero today

Its called Market not app store

ASTRO as a file manager

GUARDIAN ANYWHERE is a great little unoffical app that downloads the content you want from the guardian newspaper everday, can schedule downloads over night. Can't belive its free. Also BBC news and Sky news apps but not really used them.

RAC TRAFFIC is vaguely useful for spotting hold-ups on the road.

MILEAGE is just a petrol consumption record, does some charts for you.

KARL's MORTGAGE CALCULATOR is good if you're looking at mortgage numbers (costs, capital/interest spreads, lifetime costs, amortization)

LAYAR is supposed to be "amazing" but to be perfectly frank I've never found the need for anything I can find on there. If I'm looking for something I'll typically google it via google maps and find it that way.

Used to be a free satnav (NAV4ALL) it wasn't great but did the job but its been pulled. CO-PILOT is supposed to be ok but its £24 and I haven't got that.

Other than that, plenty of little inane things to occupy your time but I don't really bother, countless other battery indicators, 3G bandwidth watchers, silly games and pointless apps (Horoscopes, jokes, quotes, foreign languages, convertors etc) although STEAMY WINDOW (oo-er) will keep my 2 yo occupied for ages.

Air Control! Keeps me going for a while when bored.

Also found a few VNC clients, but never been able to get them to work/connect/do anything.

Google Sky Map is quite good. Uses the GSM (or GPS) signal to determine your position, then the accerlormeter to measure your angles, then shows you the stars/constelations your looking at. If you're into that kinda thing it's quite interesting.

Shop Savvy is something else I like, although more a gimic really - one of those barcode price scanners. Only use it to keep the iPhone people at bay!

That's about all I have, and a free tetris game.

Is talking Karl available for Android yet? It’s the funniest app I have ever seen on the iphone

Is talking Karl available for Android yet? It’s the funniest app I have ever seen on the iphone

Unfortunately not!

I have the following free stuff:

3G watchdog - keep track of data usage, and kill when limit reached

barcode scanner

batterytime lite

beeb player

bluetooth file transfer

Handcent SMS - much better than the stock SMS

Layer

Mybackup Pro

Photoshop Mobile

Remote Record - Sky+ app

Ringdroid

Save MMS

Shazam

Shopper

SMS backup and restore

Spare Parts

Taskiller

Unit Coverter

Wave Secure - track lost mobile and remote wipe, Lookout does same job

Also have voice to text (speak your SMS' and search commands) and Google turn by turn nav hack (Brut's)

I have:

AndroZIP

Android VNC

Flight Director

Toss it

3d Level

Google translate

Magic Marker

Nimbuzz

Fring

Facebook for android

Last FM

Pic Say

Barcode Scanner

NewRob

Speedtest.net

Photobucket

Strobe Light

Coin Flip

LED Scroller

Monkey Kick Off

Shazam

Display Shot

Scorchio (my best App)

Remote VNC

Shoryuken

UK Traffic

Star Wars Light Saber

Bubble

Steamy Window

And Advanced Task Manager (A must for ending apps and saving battery) has a widget to.

And all need to be reinstalled as 2.1 is out on friday.

Edited 14 April, 201016 yr by mluton

For the Hero I assume?

Is that date confirmed this time?

For the Hero I assume?

Is that date confirmed this time?

Yes Hero or in my case G2 Touch

From HTC, Orange & T-mobile, not sure about other netoworks though.

I guess I should add what apps I now have.....

Google Sky Map

Wordpress

ATK

WiFi Analyzer

NewsRob

Barcode Scanner

OpenSodoku

WaveSecure (paid)

chompSMS (paid)

XE Currency

CIDR Calculator (nerd tool)

Finance

GPS Status

GDocs

DateWidget

WhatGas

ConnectBot (nerd tool)

CarDar Lite

Carr Matey

Net Counter

Battery Widget

Quick Settings

Shazam

Astro FM

RAC Traffic

Google Maps Update

Soooooooooooo freaking pleased I didn't get an iPhone.

Edited 28 April, 201016 yr by foo

Had the phone a day and I have just figured out how find and download apps easy isn't it....google goggles is so much fun

Games, 20 of.

Thought id Pin this and the piephone app topic saying as its quite a common question

Sweet, a pinned thread.

Aweshum.

Here is Gizmodo's androidappsdirectory.

Aha..!!

aDyno

Great little Gforce/bhp meter, have I mentioned its free?

Ok the BHP may not be so precise as it only uses accelerometers etc and not gps yet, but its under development (slow but still moving I believe..?)

As for games, currently im hooked on:

SpacePhysics (not free *cough* )

Crystallite (not free, *cough* )

Retro defence (FREE)

Apps:

Co-Pilot (not free, *cough* )

I Music

Pkt Aution (Ebay)

Advance Task Manager (not free, *cough* )

Cache Mate

PdaNet (Use phone as modem, Advisable on T-mobile only)

Gmote - use phone as a presentation mouse/remote for your laptop/pc

Edited 12 May, 201016 yr by JLneonhug

I use most of the following but also:

Runner - great app for tracking runs.

Snowstorm - Free weather widget forecast tool

Facebook sync - syncs your contacts with their facebook pics (I'm still on 1.6 so don't have HTC sense)

Bluetooth file transfer

All free as well so even better!

If you sign up to appbrain - it makes it easier to list and manage the apps on your phone..

EG:

Neo_VR's Apps on the HTC Desire

Phone: HTC Desire

32 total, 32 free (100%), 0 paid (0%), 31MB total size, $0 total price

• Mileage
  
• GPS Status
  
• Compass
  
• AppBrain Market Sync
  
• Last.fm - Personal Radio
  
• PodKast [audio&video Podcast]
  
• Google Sky Map
  
• Radiant Lite
  
• Handcent SMS
  
• 3G Watchdog
  
• Earth Live Wallpaper
  
• Storm (Live wallpaper)
  
• Starfield 3D Live Wallpaper
  
• Engadget
  
• Task Manager
  
• twidroid for twitter
  
• Meebo IM
  
• Barcode Scanner
  
• K-9 Mail
  
• Google Maps
  
• ASTRO File Manager
  
• SNesoid Lite (SNES Emulator)
  
• Dolphin Browser HD
  
• Act 1 Video Player Trial
  
• Layar Reality Browser
  
• Movies
  
• ShopSavvy
  
• Battery Status
  
• Google Goggles
  
• Listen
  
• Today in History Widget
  
• Facebook for Android
  

View this app list on AppBrain

on my tattoo:

ATK (task killer)

BeamReader (pdf reader)

Bubble (bubble level!)

Compass

Documents to go (.doc and .xls reader)

Labyrinth Lite

OI File Manager

OI Notepad

Opera Mini

Solitaire

How could I forget random lolcats?

OS Maps. Awesome!

here's mine for my rooted hero

0870

action potato

astro

bbc news

bebbled

blocked stone

blockoon

blockx3d

bluetooth file transfer

bonsai blast

color flashlight

compass

contacts2sim

convertdroid

xe currency converter

epicurious

facebook

frozenbubble

gem miner

geobeagle

google goggles

geoquiz

hdos

jewels

juicedefender

layar

last fm

labyrinth lite

london tube status

mapweasel

meebo

movie finder

m puzzle

brut navigation (rooted only)

ocado

nru

nhs near

papi jump

paper toss

phit droid

pkt auctions ebay

places directory

poke a mole

prime

quick uninstaller

quickoffice

qype

rac traffic

record it (remote record for sky plus, 'whats on' is the none record free version)

replica island

ringdroid

slideme

sfcave

shazam

shop savvy

shot

sky news

soccer score centre light

g1 psycho

ak47

schottgun

socobar

tetris

throw a panda

titanium backup

toss it

trap

trapster

kayak

tripit

train times uk

tts service

tubestatus

urbanspoon

wiimote controller

wikitude

winds of steel demo

wireless tether for root

word drop

wordwrench

zedge

A good one for working in an office is Locale. It lets you automaticaly change your system settings and volume controls depending on where you are.

Edited 4 June, 201016 yr by roo

Does anyone use a security app?.. pref with remote wipe functionality?

I was "relieved" of my desire on sat night, and its concerned me a bit being that the pin-pattern thing isnt the most secure of ideas (think fingermarks on screen) and its just got me thinking about just how much data is stored on the device, even though ive changed all of my passwords and blocked the sim/imei - no doubt with a bit of noose they could still get into the phone.

Oh dear Col, sorry to hear that. I don't use one myself, although I'm now thinking it's a very good idea! :(