Catch Notes
nDrive
GTasks
ICE
Palmary Weather
LED Light
CallRecorder
VLC Remote
Sipdroid
I'm perplexed that the cost-saving (minutes-saving) sipdroid app was only mentioned by you, and it was after more than a thousand other posts. There must not be a lot of people needing to preserve minutes.
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sipdroid + Google Voice + Google Voice Callback (+ a lot of time spent reading posts to figure out how to set it up
) = free minutes over wi-fi for outgoing and incoming to GV number. (Also free over 3G but with questionable quality.)
Def. my favorite app so far.
Other free ones I like:
- ArcMedia - first one I found that finds and plays my vids recorded by a Sandisk V-Mate recorder.
- Apps Organizer - I'm an android noob, so this organizes my home screen(s), e.g., one Calendar icon for the four cal apps I'm trying.
- Amazon Kindle, FBReader, Moon+ Reader, OverDrive Media Console - for ebooks
- Chrome to Phone - works with Chrome browser to share stuff
- Dropbox - [EDIT TO REMOVE "several apps sync to it", thx to Roze questioning below] - am trying Dropbox, Sugarsync, and Tonido, so not really yet a "favorite app"]
- KeePassDroid - passwords (works with Dropbox). A longtime Palm SplashID user looking to find an alternative.
- Lookout - security, phone finder/wiper, backup/restore
- MessageEase - a different type of keyboard, with roots in Palm OS. My thumbs are too big for other keyboards. Has a learning curve. Also Grafitti.
- Minutes Checker for Virgin Mobile
- MortPlayer Audiobook (beta) - keeps resume points for all audiobooks.
- Pandora - personalized radio, great on wi-fi.
- Soundhound/Shazam - recognizes songs from audio (still trying these).
- Superbox - nice for noobs to get tools they need in one shot.
- Tonido - for your private cloud (
$100 gets you a home server, as an alternative to keeping your PC running)
- World Newspapers - real nice newspaper/magazine scraper/reader.
Can't yet speak to competing apps I'm still trying (nicely organized in one icon by Apps Organizer), like Notes: Evernote, Springpad, Mobisle Notes, Note Everything, Colornote, ...)
I tend to like apps that don't require much use of the hard buttons, and dislike those that do. E.g., "Add Event" should (IMHO) be a screen press on a plus sign or something, and not reached via the Menu button. And dismissing the keyboard should be like in MessageEase (tap a big hand icon), and not like Swype (press the Back button).