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Re: Android Phone users

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Originally Posted by _Stretchie_ (Post 2191629)

Also my Hero has a stop watch, can't see why it woul dbe different, try this tap the clock as if setting an alarm and see what the options you have at the bottom are by scrolling right with the track ball. I have:
World Clock - Alarms - Stopwatch - Timer

Nope, it's a bit different. The Magic shipped with a Vanilla Android 1.5 installation, they later upgraded this to 1.6 - but it's still Vanilla.

The Hero, and every other HTC Android phone bar the Magic in this country, ships with Android + a load of extra HTC apps to make it more useful. I guess the clock app you have is one of these. :(

Still, it was the second Android phone out (The T-Mobile G1 being the first), so to be expected.

Re: Android Phone users

I have a HTC Magic, since last April...don't have that many apps though so grabbing a few from this list :D

Has anyone done the hack to get Google Maps satnav working? I haven't got round to it yet.

Interesting to hear about end of March release for Android 2.1? I'm not sure if I'll get it on my phone - it's only a 192meg version not 288 like the Hero (and some versions of the Magic). I live in hope that they create a version for my phone! Off to Google about updates...

P.s. Some apps I have...
Aloqa: good alternative to Layar (I like the interface better and some of the functions available are excellent)
Beebplayer: IPlayer on your phone
Bonsai Blast/Gem Miner/Jewels: good games to have on there
IMusic: good for finding music to listen to online (and, ahem, downloading if you want)
Screebl Lite: keeps phone screen 'alive' when you're reading but not pressing buttons, works on angles
Shazam: identifies music, on lots of other phones so you might have heard of it
Labyrinth Lite: has cool effects (it's a game)
Meebo/EBuddy: msn messaging apps

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Can you not run google maps on an Android phone? Or is the SavNav hack for turn by turn nav?

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It's an addon for google maps which adds turn by turn navigation

http://www.google.com/mobile/navigation/

At the moment its only available in the US but there is a hack to get it to work anywhere, although I have tried many times and cannot get it to work.

I still think Co-Pilot is better though as it works when you don't have a mobile signal.

Re: Android Phone users

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Originally Posted by robchester (Post 2192890)

Can you not run google maps on an Android phone? Or is the SavNav hack for turn by turn nav?

It's just for the Google Maps satnav bit - right now, I have it, but only for the US (it's only 'supposed' to work in the US). But by doing a few bits of trickery you can get it to work in Europe too ;)

Re: Android Phone users

BUMP

Aloqa - One of those 'what's going on around you' and the best I've tried so far, search runs a good distance of a couple miles around you unlike 'Layar', also you can set it to look around a certain point on a map so if the GPS hasn't quite picked up where you are or you want to look for things around a place you are going to you can do. Quite a good one actually
Drop box - Online repository for files, will still use photobucket for photos but MP3s and videos and documents will be good, if I go travelling anywhere I'll be putting scanned copies of insurances and things like that on it, then from any computer, my phone I can get them/download them
MixZing - Media player, good player for music, I have the free version but am thinking of upgrading to the pay version (£4.50), it's not great with video, having said that the only video I currently have on the phone is a copy of 'The A Team' film (but the standard video player plays it fine). I also tried 'Nemo player' which gets good reviews but I thought it was ****e so uninstalled it
Speedtest - Test your connection speed
Tagreader - Reads Microsoft tags
Hoccer - File transfer facility (also on Iphone), you select the file to transfer (picture, video, application) then you get the other phone with it installed either side by side and you just drag it from one screen to the other or you hold your phone (tightly) and pretend to throw it like a frisbe towards the other person and the other person just holds the phone up to 'catch' the file. Works well, been trying it today as I recently got a new work phone (HTC Desire). Works great
Maps - The google maps on the device, check for an update, it's got street view on it, you just go to the street you want then press and hold on the street until the the little 'address' bubble appears, then tap that and the option to the right should be street view
Postcards - Also on Iphone, send a postcard to someone either using a picture already on your phone or by taking a picture with your phone, then flip the card over and type the message and the address, it gets printed out and posted that day for either £1.49 first class or 99p second class, you have to pay by paypal though but it works over wifi so you could use it abroad without incurring big charges if you found wifi. Only thing that bugs me on this is that it gives you the option to pick an address from your contacts but it doesn't pull the address through, it does have a postcode search though
Wire goggles - 80's up your photos, looks cool. Well, you have to take the photo through this application, it does not change existing pictures.

Lookie see
http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j1...sting/Desk.png

http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j1...sting/Coke.png

http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j1...sting/Room.png

Anyone else got some good uns?

Re: Android Phone users

I want a desire :( Gotta wait until December for upgrade. By then they should be shipping with And2.2

Re: Android Phone users

Pkt auction - fleebay app
Google search by voice
Weather bug
Gameboid - game boy emulator
Maiziod - pacman
Heart monitor
Robo defense.
Bluetooth file transfer.
Task killer

Re: Android Phone users

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Originally Posted by Viney (Post 2366447)

I want a desire :( Gotta wait until December for upgrade. By then they should be shipping with And2.2

Mate it's a GREAT phone. I've had my Hero (personal phone) now for over a year and love it but just got this Desire as a work phone and it's GREAT. Unfortunatly with it being the work phone I don't use it all the time or for the same stuff but have downloaded most of my apps on to this Desire aswell and it is just great.

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Originally Posted by BigBaddad (Post 2366452)

Pkt auction - fleebay app
Google search by voice
Weather bug
Gameboid - game boy emulator
Maiziod - pacman
Heart monitor
Robo defense.
Bluetooth file transfer.
Task killer

I've got 'Task Manager' by Rythm Software, it's goodish and has autokill but I'm not convinced by it's performance, the Hero does my head in as it's always got stuff running in the background like Stocks and twitter (I don't even use either of them but they are always on the list) but if I end all, then press and hold the home button to show what programs are open (like ctrl + alt on windows PC) they are still there??

Re: Android Phone users