Essential Tablet apps (Android)

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Soooo, there's not a lot about at the moment so I thought a thread to share the best might be good for the growing number of tableteers...

Thumb Keyboard - Indispensable IMO, allows you to type whilst holding the device portrait and easy to flick between normal keyboard and this.

Pocket Cloud - Free and easy to use tablet optimised VNC/RDP client.

Tweetcomb - Nice tablet optimized twitter app.

Pulse - Not too dissimilar from the phone version but feels a lot nicer with dual panes.

CNN - Really nice tablet app for news.

Drawfree - Basic, but useful tablet drawing app.

Gun Bros - Plays very well on tablets.

I'm sure there's more but don't have my device with my atm... Please share any more you have.
 
opera mobile is looking very good, renders pages much more like a desktop browser at the correct zoom and optimized for tablets too, a few comparisons:

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It would be a lot better if it had a more conventional tab interface and flash does not seem to work in honeycomb...

Edit: Absolute win:

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PiKe said:
If you run a non-optimised tablet app does it just do what the iPad does and zoom it in?
Click to expand...

Not really, most of the non optimized apps I've used just kind of resize so a lot of the buttons are normal size etc.

Here's a screenshot of tune in radio, which is not optimized:

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Fruit ninja runs fine but there's also a tablet version of that.

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Wish there was a tablet version of wordfeud... One of the annoying things about non optimized apps is that they sometimes want you to go portrait.

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I use thumb keyboard and always have, even the non thumb layout is great.

Scratch that IM+ it worked for about 30 mins but now either won't load or won't log in.

Also been playing words with friends as it has aa tablet interface now... Not as good as wordfeud especially with notifications but at least it looks great.

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So Sim City is now out for Tablets, plays ok haven't played it much yet...

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Have been playing a bit more of shadowgun and loving it more...

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Also been playing lets golf 3, I like it but having to wait for energy to recharge is a bit of a chore, fun to play with others over wifi or passing the tablet to and fro.

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Only just started playing 9MM, graphics are nice and it plays like max payne, you go into bullet time and dive around.

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Also playing a bit more Nova 2, was playing it on my phone before but looks a lot nice on the big tablet screen.

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