Essential Android Apps

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Rich_L said:
I'm in the US too - it's eye-wateringly expensive tbh, but I am at least getting 'value' for money, my contract is around $130 a month with Verizon but that does include unlimited calls, texts and data - and I did use around 8,000 minutes and 3gb of data haha :p

3G coverage is great though, pretty much everywhere and get around 160-200k/s so most of the time I don't even bother using Wi-Fi just use 3G instead.
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8000 mins a month. 5 hours a day, every day. Epic.

Watch out for the headaches and the double vision. You're in the states? Check your medical insurance too.
 
Yup :p It's actually spread over 6 days so about 6hrs a day or thereabouts spread over a 10hr day - sales/customer service Rep as an Ind. Contractor. Do have a headset mind which helps and last month was a bit of an anomaly as I was training so lots of conference calls lasting 3-4 hours while dialling out etc. Still though should rack up an epic amount again this month :D

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Actually thinking about it I only worked about half the month but of course as I was on the phone dialing out, the minutes are doubled i.e. a 1 hour conference call with 2 numbers counts as 2 he's of minutes of course.
 
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Anyone tried talkmyphone?

https://code.google.com/p/talkmyphone/

Seems pretty good - your phone messages you on your PC via Google Talk if you get a text or call, you can also locate the phone or send texts from it by sending commands via a chat window. It was very handy when I left my phone at home the other day because I could see who was texting or calling me and then ring back!

Does seem to crash sometimes though, but it's a very new app and new releases coming out each day (I'm on 1.8 which I installed last week and just noticed that there is 2.03 now :D).
 
G|mp said:
Any good Calendar apps that sync nicely with Google calendar?

Got a Wildfire coming as a works phone.
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The built-in app syncs pretty well :p With the Agenda widget (which is uber-customisable) and Gtasks I haven't found any features lacking (yet)
 
Wicksta said:
Anyone tried talkmyphone?

https://code.google.com/p/talkmyphone/

Seems pretty good - your phone messages you on your PC via Google Talk if you get a text or call, you can also locate the phone or send texts from it by sending commands via a chat window. It was very handy when I left my phone at home the other day because I could see who was texting or calling me and then ring back!

Does seem to crash sometimes though, but it's a very new app and new releases coming out each day (I'm on 1.8 which I installed last week and just noticed that there is 2.03 now :D).
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Can you give a mini-guide to get it running? I've got Google Talk open and put all my settings in but I'm not seeing anything!
 
Shadowness said:
Can anyone recommend a good app (dont mind paying) that automatically switches certain settings on the phone by time.

ie. Overnight the phone is on silent, but at a certain time it will switch back to normal. And Between 5pm and 10pm it automatically turns the wifi on, but only between those times.

I found a great program on WinMo, but looking for a good android version :)
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Sweet dreams does this

:)
 
gumbald said:
Can you give a mini-guide to get it running? I've got Google Talk open and put all my settings in but I'm not seeing anything!
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I'm using a seperate account as that way you can see when the phone is online etc. Do you get 'logging in' then 'connected' when you start it?

Literally all I put in was the gmail account to send to, the account sending from (optional) and the password to that account.

The only bug I've come across now is that it seems to close if you get called by a withheld number but this has been reported.
 
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I'm using a seperate account as that way you can see when the phone is online etc. Do you get 'logging in' then 'connected' when you start it?

Literally all I put in was the gmail account to send to, the account sending from (optional) and the password to that account.

The only bug I've come across now is that it seems to close if you get called by a withheld number but this has been reported.
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I'm just using the one account. Tried to use a jabber account as the sender, but might have to try another Gmail account that I can add to my contacts then.

Seems to be working with a newly created account. Awesome.
 
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gumbald said:
I'm just using the one account. Tried to use a jabber account as the sender, but might have to try another Gmail account that I can add to my contacts then.
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I was originally using a jabber account (as thats all it supported in previous versions) but now using a spare gmail account I have, both seem to work but it felt tidier using gmail for both.

The new version is pretty cool, messages you every time the battery drops 5% and you can send SMS messages to contacts now rather than just numbers.
 
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I was originally using a jabber account (as thats all it supported in previous versions) but now using a spare gmail account I have, both seem to work but it felt tidier using gmail for both.

The new version is pretty cool, messages you every time the battery drops 5% and you can send SMS messages to contacts now rather than just numbers.
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Not managed to send an SMS yet, comes back with "No match for +44..." or "No match for Dave...".
 
gumbald said:
Not managed to send an SMS yet, comes back with "No match for +44..." or "No match for Dave...".
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Annoyingly 2.03 doesn't seem to work with numbers, I've reported it as a bug as it means you can't reply to message from people not in your contacts. I'm able to send to my contacts using names no problem though:

Code: 
Me: sms:Dave Smith:testing for ocuk

My Phone: Sending sms to Dave Smith
SMS sent
 
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