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Favorite Smartphone Apps

themetfairy Aug 31 2010 07:48 PM

What phone apps do you really enjoy using? I figure that this is a good place to learn about which ones are out there. The Verizon FiOS app lets me set my DVR from my phone - I've used that a couple of times. Buddy Runner gives me time and distance readings for walks and runs, and e-mails me the data. I recently downloaded the Starbucks app. I know the joke is that there are two on every corner, but there are times that it's nice for me to be able to quickly find the nearest one.

dgwphotography Sep 01 2010 09:19 AM Re: Favorite Smartphone Apps

Chrome to phone - this allows me to send text, phone numbers, links, and even maps from my chrome browser to my phone... Google Maps - GPS unit? I don't need no stinkin' GPS unit. IIRC, when Google announced adding this feature to Android, Garmin and Tom Tom stocks went down about 20% in the first day. Barnacle Wifi Tether - I can use my phone as a wireless hot spot, and go online through my laptop's wireless connection. This only works on rooted phones. Facebook - ok, I admit it... NewsRob - syncs with my google reader account for RSS feeds There isn't a good scrabble app for android yet. That's the one thing I really miss from my ipod touch. The Scrabble app is amazing.

themetfairy Sep 01 2010 09:29 AM Re: Favorite Smartphone Apps

dgwphotography wrote: Barnacle Wifi Tether - I can use my phone as a wireless hot spot, and go online through my laptop's wireless connection. This only works on rooted phones. What's a rooted phone? Is a Droid rooted?

metirish Sep 01 2010 09:46 AM Re: Favorite Smartphone Apps

Rooting a phone = It removes all software/firmware restrictions on the device, some of those restrictions would be form the carrier and some form the manufactures it's like jailbreaking an iphone . I t gives you the owner " super user" access to the phone. My fave apps.. Pandora MLB At Bat 2010 Google Listen Twidroid Pro Stream it all Radio Photoshop Google Voice Weatherbug WikiMobile Score Mobile FC Engadget Facebook....it's not a great though. I like widgets too

themetfairy Sep 01 2010 09:54 AM Re: Favorite Smartphone Apps

Thanks irish :)

Fman99 Sep 01 2010 10:42 AM Re: Favorite Smartphone Apps

On my iPhone, favorite apps: Facebook iSub (allows me to connect to my server at home that has 70 GB of music on it) sudoku2 RotoWire (fantasy sports news) Yahoo's free Fantasy Baseball/Football apps iMapMyRun (tracks all of my runs, can edit the numbers, and post to Twitter/FB from the app) FIOS DVR Manager Dropbox Angry Birds (mindless fun)

metsmarathon Sep 01 2010 11:40 AM Re: Favorite Smartphone Apps

angry birds is the best. as i await new levels, i'm now going back and replaying them all once more, to try and get two and three stars on each level.

dgwphotography Sep 01 2010 12:37 PM Re: Favorite Smartphone Apps

Angry Birds Beta is supposed to come to Android this week - I'm looking forward to trying it...

RealityChuck Sep 01 2010 02:08 PM Re: Favorite Smartphone Apps

Opera Mini New York Mets.com link Weatherbug Pandora (streaming radio) Mobipocket reader (ebooks)

Kong76 Sep 01 2010 05:19 PM Re: Favorite Smartphone Apps

I just don't use my phone as much as some ... I have facebook, ESPN, Bloomberg News, Google Maps, etc. Nothing exciting, I'm online enough. I guess I also don't want/need to be connected too much when I'm disconnected as a growing number of users. There are days when I'm totally sick and tired of the internet. I think a lot of that has to do with facebook, and to to a lesser extent baseball and the Mets.

Rockin' Doc Sep 01 2010 07:00 PM Re: Favorite Smartphone Apps

I use my phone to make and receive phone calls. That's about it.

Kong76 Sep 01 2010 07:55 PM Re: Favorite Smartphone Apps Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Sep 01 2010 07:57 PM

I should call you one day during lunch, you're the first person in my contact list for obvious reasons.

Kong76 Sep 01 2010 07:56 PM Re: Favorite Smartphone Apps

avi

The Second Spitter Sep 04 2010 08:19 AM Re: Favorite Smartphone Apps

NYM Baseball News (android)

Ceetar Sep 15 2010 07:12 AM Re: Favorite Smartphone Apps

metirish wrote: Rooting a phone = It removes all software/firmware restrictions on the device, some of those restrictions would be form the carrier and some form the manufactures it's like jailbreaking an iphone . I t gives you the owner " super user" access to the phone. My fave apps.. Pandora MLB At Bat 2010 Google Listen Twidroid Pro Stream it all Radio Photoshop Google Voice Weatherbug WikiMobile Score Mobile FC Engadget Facebook....it's not a great though. I like widgets too Got my Fascinate yesterday. Will eventually do all the techy/rooting stuff like replace the stupid Bing search thing, but for now, the basics. Is photoshop really worth it? What can you actually do with it on a phone? (It is cool that Picasa dumped all my pictures onto my phone though.) I downloaded Columbus, which seems to be a workable geocaching app. Working on making my phone accept .wav ringtones now. meetthemets and lazymary are both .wav format on my computer.

Ceetar Sep 15 2010 07:28 AM Re: Favorite Smartphone Apps

Maybe i'm missing it, but a _perfect_ app would be a widget that shows either the current Mets score or the next game. or a countdown to Opening Day. In fact, if I had the time and willpower to learn mobile app development (which would be a good career move as well) I'd try to make one.

themetfairy Sep 15 2010 07:57 AM Re: Favorite Smartphone Apps

On the ESPN app I have the Mets listed as my favorite team, so when I go to the app I see the previous game, current game and next game.

Ceetar Sep 15 2010 09:11 AM Re: Favorite Smartphone Apps

themetfairy wrote: On the ESPN app I have the Mets listed as my favorite team, so when I go to the app I see the previous game, current game and next game. saves me work then. heh. I'll check it out.

metirish Sep 15 2010 07:11 PM Re: Favorite Smartphone Apps

The Photoshop app is good but not as good as the iPhone/iPod touch......having said that if you have a PS account then it works fine as you can view your images...the only editing I have done with it is just playing around, basically you can crop and play with exposure, brightness etc....

metsguyinmichigan Oct 29 2010 05:51 PM Re: Favorite Smartphone Apps

There's a cool Scrabble app called "Words With Friends" -- and there's a free version -- where you play a Scrabble-like game with friends from all over. I play against my sister in Florida, and it's a lot of fun. If anyone wants to download and play, search for "Mets Guy" and it's me.

Fman99 Oct 29 2010 08:06 PM Re: Favorite Smartphone Apps

metsguyinmichigan wrote: There's a cool Scrabble app called "Words With Friends" -- and there's a free version -- where you play a Scrabble-like game with friends from all over. I play against my sister in Florida, and it's a lot of fun. If anyone wants to download and play, search for "Mets Guy" and it's me. You are challenged, sir.

batmagadanleadoff Nov 01 2010 08:45 AM Re: Favorite Smartphone Apps

I bought a new cell phone last week, one of those fancy dancy top of the line (top of the line for the next 15 minutes, at any rate) 4G Androids with all the bells and whistles. I hate it. I have no desire to watch movies on a four inch screen while I'm, I don't know, eating in a pizzeria. I haven't found a PDA organizer app that can do things as efficiently and as logically as a Palm. That's the app I'm missing the most. So what I"m doing to compensate is to use my old Palm Centro phone as as organizer and my new smartphone for all the rest. I've regressed about 10 years tech-wise, in that I've essentially decoupled my organizer from my cell phone --- I'm now walking around with two devices.

metirish Nov 01 2010 08:50 AM Re: Favorite Smartphone Apps

batmagadanleadoff wrote: I bought a new cell phone last week, one of those fancy dancy top of the line (top of the line for the next 15 minutes, at any rate) 4G Androids with all the bells and whistles. I hate it. I have no desire to watch movies on a four inch screen while I'm, I don't know, eating in a pizzeria. I haven't found a PDA organizer app that can do things as efficiently and as logically as a Palm. That's the app I'm missing the most. So what I"m doing to compensate is to use my old Palm Centro phone as as organizer and my new smartphone for all the rest. I've regressed about 10 years tech-wise, in that I've essentially decoupled my organizer from my cell phone --- I'm now walking around with two devices. Try this http://apps.androidtapp.com/#jorte/id/j ... pace.jorte same app diff link http://androinica.com/2010/04/16/jorte- ... p-reviews/

John Cougar Lunchbucket Nov 01 2010 08:56 AM Re: Favorite Smartphone Apps

batmagadanleadoff wrote: I bought a new cell phone last week, one of those fancy dancy top of the line (top of the line for the next 15 minutes, at any rate) 4G Androids with all the bells and whistles. I hate it. I have no desire to watch movies on a four inch screen while I'm, I don't know, eating in a pizzeria. I haven't found a PDA organizer app that can do things as efficiently and as logically as a Palm. That's the app I'm missing the most. So what I"m doing to compensate is to use my old Palm Centro phone as as organizer and my new smartphone for all the rest. I've regressed about 10 years tech-wise, in that I've essentially decoupled my organizer from my cell phone --- I'm now walking around with two devices. You could be like me and have a Palm smartphone. To the extent that market share is everything in gadgetry, the Pre is a trainwreck, but it works swell, and its ability to sync everything up (all my email accounts, address books, calendars, etc) is definitely awesome. HP has appartently gone forward with a next-gen Pre in Europe, available here soon.

metirish Nov 01 2010 09:00 AM Re: Favorite Smartphone Apps

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: batmagadanleadoff wrote: I bought a new cell phone last week, one of those fancy dancy top of the line (top of the line for the next 15 minutes, at any rate) 4G Androids with all the bells and whistles. I hate it. I have no desire to watch movies on a four inch screen while I'm, I don't know, eating in a pizzeria. I haven't found a PDA organizer app that can do things as efficiently and as logically as a Palm. That's the app I'm missing the most. So what I"m doing to compensate is to use my old Palm Centro phone as as organizer and my new smartphone for all the rest. I've regressed about 10 years tech-wise, in that I've essentially decoupled my organizer from my cell phone --- I'm now walking around with two devices. You could be like me and have a Palm smartphone. To the extent that market share is everything in gadgetry, the Pre is a trainwreck, but it works swell, and its ability to sync everything up (all my email accounts, address books, calendars, etc) is definitely awesome. HP has appartently gone forward with a next-gen Pre in Europe, available here soon. The latest Palm Pre which I think you have got good reviews, I had read an article recently about how basically Palm Pre has been bogged down with terrible management in recent years but apparently it's on the upswing.......Bono I believe is a big investor .

batmagadanleadoff Nov 01 2010 09:04 AM Re: Favorite Smartphone Apps

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: batmagadanleadoff wrote: I bought a new cell phone last week, one of those fancy dancy top of the line (top of the line for the next 15 minutes, at any rate) 4G Androids with all the bells and whistles. I hate it. I have no desire to watch movies on a four inch screen while I'm, I don't know, eating in a pizzeria. I haven't found a PDA organizer app that can do things as efficiently and as logically as a Palm. That's the app I'm missing the most. So what I"m doing to compensate is to use my old Palm Centro phone as as organizer and my new smartphone for all the rest. I've regressed about 10 years tech-wise, in that I've essentially decoupled my organizer from my cell phone --- I'm now walking around with two devices. You could be like me and have a Palm smartphone. To the extent that market share is everything in gadgetry, the Pre is a trainwreck, but it works swell, and its ability to sync everything up (all my email accounts, address books, calendars, etc) is definitely awesome. HP has appartently gone forward with a next-gen Pre in Europe, available here soon. I was thinking the same thing this weekend. When I shopped my new phone last week, I thought that the new Palm models were woefully behind the competition - and by behind, I'm talking like a '62 Mets games behind deficit. I knew very little about the android market going in, and purchased my new phone assuming that it would be simple to find Palm-like oraganizer apps. I was wrong. I spent a few hours this weekend surfing for Palm-like apps (unsuccesfully) and also lurking on several Droid forums, where I learned that there seems to be quite the market for new Droid owners who miss their Palm organizers. The app doesn't seem to exist.

batmagadanleadoff Nov 01 2010 09:28 AM Re: Favorite Smartphone Apps

metirish wrote: I bought a new cell phone last week, one of those fancy dancy top of the line (top of the line for the next 15 minutes, at any rate) 4G Androids with all the bells and whistles. I hate it. I have no desire to watch movies on a four inch screen while I'm, I don't know, eating in a pizzeria. I haven't found a PDA organizer app that can do things as efficiently and as logically as a Palm. That's the app I'm missing the most. So what I"m doing to compensate is to use my old Palm Centro phone as as organizer and my new smartphone for all the rest. I've regressed about 10 years tech-wise, in that I've essentially decoupled my organizer from my cell phone --- I'm now walking around with two devices. Try this http://apps.androidtapp.com/#jorte/id/j ... pace.jorte same app diff link http://androinica.com/2010/04/16/jorte- ... p-reviews/ Thanks, Irish. I'll check out this app later on. BTW, Organizer suites do exist, and in abundance. But they don't work as efficiently as the Palm Organizers. To me, the Palm software stands out not only for its logical and intuitive way of doing things, but because it's incredibly simple to use. It's great software and it's a shame that Palm wasn't able to leverage it's market share lead in the PDA area into the cell/smart phone arena.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Nov 01 2010 09:33 AM Re: Favorite Smartphone Apps

The reason I bought the Pre was partly because I didn't wanna become one of those Apple automatons, but mostly because Sprint offered a more affordable monthly bill. The Pre has some issues. The keyboard is very small and difficult to type on, and the slider means you have to type vertical even though its easier to view most web pages horizontally. It also has only a tiny fraction of the apps that Iphone have, but I basically use the web browser, email, calendar, weather and google maps anyhow, and it seems like most of the important stuff is covered. I also had to take back my first one after it malfunctioned, but the 2nd one is still running fine 1 year in. Palm basically killed itself by creating the palm phone and webOS. They hired an Apple bigwig to oversee it and it's nice and elegant like an apple product but they just got killed on market share (a Sprint exclusive in the US didn't help) then had to give away the phones practically. HP bought Palm and said just recently that they would get into the smartphone market behind a ramped up version of the webOS so there may be hope still. I'd consider another Palm. Blackberry now has a phone that looks a lot like the Pre too. Not sure if it works the same.

metirish Dec 10 2010 12:17 PM Re: Favorite Smartphone Apps

Here's a cool looking app for iPhone/touch users.....an app that logs what books you have read or are reading...and more http://readmoreapp.com/

Ceetar Dec 10 2010 12:56 PM Re: Favorite Smartphone Apps

Everyone downloaded their Angry Birds Seasons (advent calendar) right?