Guest deekarma Posted June 9, 2010 Report Share Posted June 9, 2010 I've been loving the idea of the streak for ages, and loving my very own since Saturday. I call him Frank and, so far, he and I are getting on swell. I am new to android having moved from Blackberry and previously Win Mob. Learning a new OS is fiendishly fun. If you have the time to help me narrow down the market place, can you recommend your top 5 apps that you would recommend for the streak - free or paid - and a brief description. So far have: Advanced Task Manager Astro Antibody - this is a fun and original game btw! appInstaller Barcode Scanner Docs to go Goggles Google maps,sky, mail, phonemypc shazam trapster Interested in all and any recommendations. cheers from me and Frank Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Dogmann55 Posted June 9, 2010 Report Share Posted June 9, 2010 (edited) Hi deekarma Well I have had mine since Monday and so far i have installed Seven for real time Push E-Mail in my case for Yahoo and MSN but covers most providers. Barcode Scanner the easiest way to get apps on the device IMO. Gentle Alarm great alarm clock. iSyncR to get all my Albums from iTunes onto the Streak Google Sky Map because i like it and it's fun 3G Watchdog so i can monitor my data use Beautiful Widgets for a nice Home screen Clock and Weather Widget System so i can look at performance in detail Astro file Manager as is says it's a file manager and few other things. Live Calender Widget puts icon on you Home screen press it and it brings up 14 days worth of upcoming appointments F1 Pocket 2010 all you need to see about F1 was used on WM previously MotoGP Pocket 2010 as above but for MotoGP What i haven't installed and have no intention of installing is a Task Manager as so far don't think i need one. That's it so far but i only intend installing things i really am going to use as opposed to as many apps as i can Marc Edited June 10, 2010 by Dogmann55 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest deekarma Posted June 9, 2010 Report Share Posted June 9, 2010 Nice one Marc, thanks. Gonna check out seven, gentle alarm clock and system. I agree on less is more philosophy. This isn't the way the market operates though. So far I have installed loads and uninstalled loads since they were pants. Great fun had nonetheless. Really curious about rooting the wee fella and using him as a wifi hotspot. Now that is good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest courtlandre Posted June 9, 2010 Report Share Posted June 9, 2010 (edited) Aldiko- for the ebook readers out there. Dropbox- Online file storage Dolphin Browser- Just a browser, but pretty nice. Mixzing- Media player with a good homescreen widget Zedge- For ringtones and wallpapers Edited June 9, 2010 by courtlandre Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest marra2 Posted June 9, 2010 Report Share Posted June 9, 2010 Yay lets all give our streaks names ha ! Mine is called Derek now ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest trickyhenry Posted June 9, 2010 Report Share Posted June 9, 2010 OK I have never seen anything like this before and am guessing its not well known.... 'w.tv' is the app of the day. It allows you to stream tv and DVD's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bjtheone Posted June 9, 2010 Report Share Posted June 9, 2010 Aldiko- for the ebook readers out there. Dropbox- Online file storage Dolphin Browser- Just a browser, but pretty nice. Mixzing- Media player with a good homescreen widget Zedge- For ringtones and wallpapers I would strongly recommend FBReader for ebooks. I read a lot of ebook (currently have around 300 on my phone) and I think I have tried all the ebook readers available for Android. Setled on FBReader and the epub format as the best solution, managed by Calibre on my Linux laptop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest tudorw Posted June 9, 2010 Report Share Posted June 9, 2010 as a rule I don't really game, but Air Control is very nice, well executed, fun to play, looks great in widescreen format :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest courtlandre Posted June 9, 2010 Report Share Posted June 9, 2010 I would strongly recommend FBReader for ebooks. I read a lot of ebook (currently have around 300 on my phone) and I think I have tried all the ebook readers available for Android. Setled on FBReader and the epub format as the best solution, managed by Calibre on my Linux laptop. Aldiko is a much cleaner and nicer interface and it also supports the epub format. Also, you can add sources into aldiko which means free books... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest tudorw Posted June 10, 2010 Report Share Posted June 10, 2010 (edited) Advanced Task Cleaner 2.0 is nice, you can specify apps to auto kill after a certain period, I have found it helps keep the device 'snappy' If you are into DJ'ing then you must look at Andj it's a great app, pitch control, que points, retard and accelerate with touch, if that means nothing to you then move along... AndroIRC seems to be doing a solid job as an IRC client. Ethereal Dialpad is another music app, but certainly no skills needed, great for showing off touch screens those new to them :) Shazam, again another good show off piece, play it a piece of music (commercial'ish works best...) and it'll recognise it and pull up the details. Ustream Broadcaster and Ustream Viewer provide video entertainment and live video broadcasting from your handset (works pretty well on mobile as well as wifi) finally for some fun, search for W.TV (sry trickyhenry, missed your post) and install it, its some chinese app and seems to have literally hundreds of channels, movie trailer (english voicetracks with subs), dvd's and other things too, anyone read chinese? Edited June 10, 2010 by tudorw Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Paul Posted June 10, 2010 Report Share Posted June 10, 2010 My currently installed... ;-) http://www.appbrain.com/user/paulobrien/apps-on-the-phone P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest pug11111 Posted June 10, 2010 Report Share Posted June 10, 2010 i have got on my streak acv- comic book reader/aldiko reader /appbrain/barcode scanner /astro /better keyboard/dolphin browser /skyfire browser copilot live/doodle jump/layar/edw / wings of steel best game i played /and a few root programs. I get to spend lots of time playing with my phone as you can see lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Dunhamzzz Posted June 10, 2010 Report Share Posted June 10, 2010 I'll add to the list, I've had a major experiment as this is my first Android device, there are loads of apps out there! 360 Live - XBox live client - the ability to send messages during games without having to use the xbox controller/interface is priceless (the app is actually pretty great anyway) Spotify - I decided to upgrade for mobile as it's the only music app I really use now. WC2010 FotMob - for the World Cup, has fixtures, news and will have results and stuff. Touiteur for twitter, I like to use official apps where possible, but this is the best one out there until 2.2 Orientation Lock Widget so you can lock the orientation from the home screen If I travelled a lot more I would definitely go for Locale as well, that looks amazing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest TomDroid Posted June 10, 2010 Report Share Posted June 10, 2010 I'll add to the list, I've had a major experiment as this is my first Android device, there are loads of apps out there! 360 Live - XBox live client - the ability to send messages during games without having to use the xbox controller/interface is priceless (the app is actually pretty great anyway) Spotify - I decided to upgrade for mobile as it's the only music app I really use now. WC2010 FotMob - for the World Cup, has fixtures, news and will have results and stuff. Touiteur for twitter, I like to use official apps where possible, but this is the best one out there until 2.2 Orientation Lock Widget so you can lock the orientation from the home screen If I travelled a lot more I would definitely go for Locale as well, that looks amazing. Have to add the Cartman quotes - if only for the sheer un-pcness (is that a word?) of it! :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bjtheone Posted June 11, 2010 Report Share Posted June 11, 2010 Aldiko is a much cleaner and nicer interface and it also supports the epub format. Also, you can add sources into aldiko which means free books... Hummmm... perhaps I will give Aldiko another go. Last time I did not like the UI or the bookshelf feature (its pretty but not practical when you have 300+ ebooks on the device). In terms of sources for books... I manage my collection on my laptop using Calibe (which is a "real" book collection library/management tool, plus it does format conversions). If you want free books there are many sites for that and yes I do use them for publishers that either will not release ebooks, time delay them significantly from the hard cover release, or for books I already have paper copies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest deekarma Posted June 11, 2010 Report Share Posted June 11, 2010 Having moved over from blackberry, I find the email client poor. The gmail service is ok, but I run multiple accounts and the native client is all over the shop with notifications and marking read an only loads 25 msgs at a time. Xan anypne recommend an alternative? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest dan13l Posted June 11, 2010 Report Share Posted June 11, 2010 For anyone using Astro as a file manager, I had a couple of problems with certain Samba shares so switched to ES File Explorer. I much prefer the way that works, and I've had no problems with it at all (admittedly on a Nexus One, I've not made my mind up about the Streak yet). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Andy Garton Posted June 11, 2010 Report Share Posted June 11, 2010 Having moved over from blackberry, I find the email client poor. The gmail service is ok, but I run multiple accounts and the native client is all over the shop with notifications and marking read an only loads 25 msgs at a time. Xan anypne recommend an alternative? You can try the updated K9 Mail in the market, but it's still not great. I'd be interested to hear of better alternatives also... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest AndyCr15 Posted June 11, 2010 Report Share Posted June 11, 2010 only loads 25 msgs at a time. Erm, that's an option when setting it up, no? I have mine loading 50 at a time. You can have more... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest deekarma Posted June 11, 2010 Report Share Posted June 11, 2010 For anyone using Astro as a file manager, I had a couple of problems with certain Samba shares so switched to ES File Explorer. I much prefer the way that works, and I've had no problems with it at all (admittedly on a Nexus One, I've not made my mind up about the Streak yet). +1 I used this after struggling to get the streak to see my pc through an smbl using astro. ES explorer pretty much automatd the process. Nice interface too. You can try the updated K9 Mail in the market, but it's still not great. I'd be interested to hear of better alternatives also... I tried out the beta seven mail client. It works quite nicely and delivers mail in real time. i couldnt get it to work with attachments though, which is a showstopper. Erm, that's an option when setting it up, no? I have mine loading 50 at a time. You can have more... Yeah, just saw that you can go up to 100. I rather hold the entire archive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Andy Garton Posted June 13, 2010 Report Share Posted June 13, 2010 The latest version of course K9 Mail is well worth the download imo, some nice new features which work well on the Streak. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Loconinja Posted June 15, 2010 Report Share Posted June 15, 2010 The latest version of course K9 Mail is well worth the download imo, some nice new features which work well on the Streak. I notice that it does not replace the pre-installed version of K9. Is it possible to uninstall the older version? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Andy Garton Posted June 15, 2010 Report Share Posted June 15, 2010 Yes if you have root. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest deekarma Posted June 15, 2010 Report Share Posted June 15, 2010 Mmm, doesn't see to improve much on stock client. For example the messages don't reliably mark as read and can take an age to download. I'll keep searching. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest hobochangba Posted June 17, 2010 Report Share Posted June 17, 2010 Aldiko is a much cleaner and nicer interface and it also supports the epub format. Also, you can add sources into aldiko which means free books... I second this. I've got Aldiko installed and hooked it up to the catalogue from http://www.drinkmalk.com/stanza/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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