Monday, December 20, 2010

Ten Great Free Android Apps

With Android 2.3 Gingerbread on its way any minute now I thought it would be a great time to review some of my favorite Android apps on my Nexus One.

Already I have noticed the app store and Youtube changing on my Nexus One seemingly in preparation for the 2.3 OTA launch.  It will be interesting to see when Gingerbread finally rolls out.

Wifi Analyzer - Makes your Android phone into a great wifi diagnostic device.

VR Tunnel Lite Live Wallpaper - Great wire frame 3d live wallpaper with motion sensing.

Google Shopper - Coupled with bar code Scanner allows for instant lookup of product information while shopping.

Barcode Scanner - Free bar code and QR code reader.

Advance Task Killer - Kills off apps that run in the background and saves CPU and battery.

Retro Clock Widget - Great looking clock widget that goes well with the built in Weather Widget.

Light Grid Live Wallpaper - Live wallpaper with multi colored blocks that have a sharp look.

Scanner Radio - Listen to live streaming police and fire radio on your device.

Connect Bot -  SSH client for Android.  Connect remotely and even to the local phone's OS.

CIDR Calculator - Calculate CIDR and net masks for your IP ranges.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Where's Gingerbread for the Nexus one? Is Samsung pressuring Google to delay the release so they can sell some additional Nexus S handsets?

http://nexus404.com/Blog/2011/01/16/class-action-lawsuit-filed-against-t-mobile-and-samsung-over-delayed-android-updates-vibrant-user-files-lawsuit-for-t-mobile-vibrants-lack-of-android-2-2-update/

Robert Chase said...

My Nexus One just updated to 2.2.2 this evening. Seems like there are a lot of people who are not happy with the 2.3 delays for the N1. It's interesting that the N1 is Google's internal testing handests and all the new Samsung Handsets are shipping with 2.3.

http://phandroid.com/2011/01/21/nexus-one-getting-update-to-android-2-2-2/

Robert Chase said...

My phone updated to 2.3 quite some time ago and I am suffering from the battery drain issue that many other users are experiencing.

http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=15057#c302

Google closed this bug as not an Android issue even though the bug only appeared after the upgrade to 2.3. Needless to say there are a lot of people that are less than pleased with this.

Robert Chase said...

First big 2.3 update. Hopefully the battery problem will go away. So far so good though.