Essential Android Apps

cjgardens · 2 Apr 2013 at 21:07

Thought it was going to be like the epic bench, very detailed, it's out for iso as well

TheOtherOption · 2 Apr 2013 at 21:12

That result was using an HTC One

Not run the extreme bench yet but will do and will post back with the score.

B&W · 2 Apr 2013 at 23:04

Lol couldn't resist I left wifi & sync on by accident but I got 9034 on ice storm with my xperia z the average score for the XZ is 9300 lol when I'm bored I'll try to beat it.

Orcvader · 2 Apr 2013 at 23:18

I seem to be having problems running 3DMark on the Nexus 10, during the normal test, I get a black screen after the final test, and on the extreme test, it just goes back to the 3DMark home screen after the demo. Reloading it seems to allow me to see the score I got for the normal test though, which is 7922 (beating the 7763 average

).

EDIT: And turning demo off in settings got it to work... brilliant... now to see how my Nexus 10 fairs against other people's Nexus 10s

.

EDIT 2: Thermal throttling

Guess I'll leave it to cool off for a while...

Pigeon_Killer · 2 Apr 2013 at 23:38

Normal = 11164
Extreme = 6339

Spleen Sauce · 3 Apr 2013 at 07:24

rossk26 said:
Need an app for notes, ideally one that can be password protected too?

If you need password protection, Catch Notes is really good.

EniGmA1981 · 3 Apr 2013 at 08:01

3DMark scores:

Normal: 2795
Extreme: 2088

Is it just me, or should the S3 be scoring higher than that? That looks abysmal to me lol

tals · 3 Apr 2013 at 08:07

Nexus 4

Normal 10984
Extreme 6371

AndyCr15 · 3 Apr 2013 at 08:52

A new Dropbox alternative is out. Seems okay and they appear to be giving away quite large chunks of free cloud storage for a limited time.

Sign up with this link to start with 10gb free - Link removed - no referrals!

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.copy

EniGmA1981 · 3 Apr 2013 at 09:51

so that's 60gb on dropbox, 50gb on box, 50gb on mega and now 10gb on copy... I think that's enough storage for any one person don't you? lol

Simian · 3 Apr 2013 at 10:00

Naaaaa... You also need 7.5Gb on Skydrive, 5Gb on UbuntuONE and if you're on BT Broadband (Infinity Option 2) 50Gb BT Cloud, 5Gb GoogleDrive... erm... have I missed any!!

Plus Google Music holds 20,000 tracks... which for me as I only have 16,567 tracks in my entire collection came to 112Gb on it's own!!

Richie · 3 Apr 2013 at 11:23

AndyCr15 said:
A new Dropbox alternative is out. Seems okay and they appear to be giving away quite large chunks of free cloud storage for a limited time.

Sign up with this link to start with 10gb free - Link removed - no referrals!

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.copy

Nice referral link... why not just put www.copy.com ?

AndyCr15 · 3 Apr 2013 at 11:25

Why on earth would I do that? For starters people would get half the space?

Macky · 3 Apr 2013 at 16:55

Bagged where's my water and perry for 32p each. Absolutely brilliant games.

Belloni · 3 Apr 2013 at 21:32

Anyone got the chrome update? Does it fix the random font sizes?

cjgardens · 3 Apr 2013 at 21:46

The last one I had didn't. Think that was last week?

EniGmA1981 · 3 Apr 2013 at 23:32

Just updated it now... update dated yesterday - and I can confirm that no, it still hasn't fixed the sizing issue.

PiKe · 4 Apr 2013 at 14:13

Gridrunner by Llamasoft for free.

http://minotaurproject.co.uk/Minotaur/donate.php

Orcvader · 4 Apr 2013 at 14:54

Google moving from Webkit to Blink, and Mozilla working with Samsung to create Servo:

http://blog.gsmarena.com/google-announces-blink-a-new-open-source-rendering-engine-based-on-webkit/

http://blog.gsmarena.com/mozilla-and-samsung-collaborate-on-servo-a-brand-new-web-browser-engine/

Wonder if these will bring better browsers to the mobile space? To be honest, I don't feel 100% satisfied with all the current browsers, they all feel sloppy compared to the desktop ones

.

Nexus18 · 4 Apr 2013 at 15:02

Hopefully they will be excellent!

Likewise, firefox and chrome are superb for desktop (personally use firefox instead of chrome for a ton of reasons) but they are awful on android, imo the worse out of all the android browsers

If it weren't for the desktop sync features and firefox addons I honestly can't think of any reasons why people would still use them

Best browser by far is the sense one imo, great text reflow, flash player, fast/smooth, good amount of features/options, nice UI + quick thumb controls and most importantly renders web pages correctly with the right font size.....

Only 3rd party browsers I would look at are xscope, quick ics and dolphin. Holoweb is pretty good too.