Essential Android Apps

strumpusplunket · 16 Jun 2011 at 22:20

I'm currently using Sense Analog Glass Small for my clock. Looks nice, and I like that it can be set up to show system info next to the digital clock display as well. Had the black version for a while, but this one fits my screen colour-scheme better.

Actually think the 4x2 version looks a bit nicer, but I need the screen real estate.

Grrrrr · 16 Jun 2011 at 22:59

EDIT\\ oops wrong thread!

PiKe · 16 Jun 2011 at 23:27

Wrong thread?

_Jimlad_ · 16 Jun 2011 at 23:45

EBay app has been updated and now pretty functional.

Hen_Dawg · 17 Jun 2011 at 07:45

_Jimlad_ said:
EBay app has been updated and now pretty functional.

Yea, it's good

_Jimlad_ · 17 Jun 2011 at 07:50

whats people using for buying and reading books?

Montala · 17 Jun 2011 at 08:45

_Jimlad_ said:
whats people using for buying and reading books?

A Kindle!

_Jimlad_ · 17 Jun 2011 at 09:20

Grrrrr said:
Made a couple of changes since my last post, went a bit crazy with UOT

hideous

Richdog · 17 Jun 2011 at 10:45

_Jimlad_ said:
hideous

This.

_Jimlad_ said:
EBay app has been updated and now pretty functional.

Indeed, very nice!

Larkspeed · 17 Jun 2011 at 10:56

gam3r said:
Do you see a substantial increase in battery life?

Yes a huge difference.

without it my phone uses 79 - 90 mA with the screen off.

with it it use 6 - 7 mA

so as you can see a fairly big difference

Father Ted · 17 Jun 2011 at 11:21

I'm having an issue with the Go Weather Widget. When I open it, it tries to update and comes up with the error 'Updating weather data failed, please try again'

This happens over 3g or wifi reagrdless of how strong the connection is, occasionally it will update successfully. Anybody else having a similar issue?

_Jimlad_ · 17 Jun 2011 at 11:26

Father Ted said:
I'm having an issue with the Go Weather Widget. When I open it, it tries to update and comes up with the error 'Updating weather data failed, please try again'

This happens over 3g or wifi reagrdless of how strong the connection is, occasionally it will update successfully. Anybody else having a similar issue?

it failed for me for a while as well. i ditched it and grabbed beautiful widgets

Montala · 17 Jun 2011 at 12:02

_Jimlad_ said:
it failed for me for a while as well. i ditched it and grabbed beautiful widgets

There is also Fancy Widget of course, which has just had a 'name change' to Fancy Widgets (subtle!), with slightly more included in the 'free' version.

krooton · 17 Jun 2011 at 12:46

ultim said:
You are missing the point of the app. Its so customizable and you dont have to use words to display the time.

Every time I see it people are using words though. I dunno, it just seems a pretentious waste of time to use the written word aspect of it.

I just use Beautiful Widgets, you can customize everything, I even made my own clock from PNGs created in PS.

boxman2000 · 17 Jun 2011 at 12:51

Larkspeed said:
Yes a huge difference.

without it my phone uses 79 - 90 mA with the screen off.

with it it use 6 - 7 mA

so as you can see a fairly big difference

Which app was this please? In need to increasing X10 battery life at the moment!

reflux · 17 Jun 2011 at 15:40

_Jimlad_ said:
EBay app has been updated and now pretty functional.

At LONG last. The eBay app has always been a pile of carp vs. the iPhone version. Good to see it's improved, although the UI still needs some work IMO.

Larkspeed · 17 Jun 2011 at 16:44

boxman2000 said:
Which app was this please? In need to increasing X10 battery life at the moment!

set cpu

Nexus18 · 17 Jun 2011 at 18:13

Can't make my mind up at all between these browsers

Dolphin HD
Boat Browser
Dolphin Mini

kona786 · 17 Jun 2011 at 18:20

add Miren to the mix

Robbo · 17 Jun 2011 at 18:22

I'm on the stock one on the Galaxy S II at the moment but I have to admit, it's pretty damn awful. I've never seen a mobile browser crash and bug out as much as it does.