Best Android Apps of 2009
(The Google’s Android Developer Challenge Winners)
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6.
Best Media Apps
Buzz Deck
BuzzDeck is the quick and easy way to get all the web content and news you care about. This app make all the hot topics you might be interested in ready available, get twitter and Facebook updates alongside. BuzzDeck learns what you like and recommends cool new stuff. Simple, elegant and fast. Find out more about Buzz Deck at http://mippin.com/buzzdeck
BuzzDeck
SPB TV
SPB TV is one of the few TV android apps yet, optimized to run on android phone. SPB TV app provides users with lots of channels in multiple languages with easy-to-use features and settings. No subscription fee! Requires a reliable 3G or WiFi network connection for proper streaming. Full-featured 60-days trial.
FxCamera
Start taking better pictures with your android phone using FxCamera. This app enables you to take pictureS with various effects: toyCam, polandroid, fisheye, symmetriCam, warhol, normal, among other effects.
FxCamera Android
7.
Best Productivity and Tools Apps
WaveSecure
WaveSecure is a complete mobile security solution that protects your device, data and privacy. Track your phone’s location and who is using it, lock down your phone remotely, making it worthless to the thief, backup all your data, wipe out your data remotely, restore your data. Not just anti-theft, WaveSecure is a security app that protects your phone, data & privacy in the event of loss. Track SIM changes and find your lost phone via a secure site.
Wavesecure
Hoccer
Use intuitive gestures to throw images, contacts, URLs and messages through the air and let the recipients catch it. There is no need for prior exchange of contacts.
Hoccer
Tasker
Tasker helps you take charge of your phone. Design your own home-screen widgets to do whatever you like, change the icons and wallpaper for all your applications automatically, announce when your battery is low, set brightness differently for different applications at different times, en/decrypt or zip/unzip application data on the fly, do time-lapse photography, remap media/camera buttons to do whatever you like, launch music app when the headset is plugged in, make automatic recordings of calls from chosen phone-numbers, lock particular applications in particular locations and more. You are free to do whatever you like with your phone. For more information to go tasker.dinglisch.net.
Tasker
8.
Best Social Networking Apps
Ce:real: Everyday trends
Get your news in a cereal feed. Are you curious about real world? How about North Pole or an edge of Africa? Also, it can also be your neighborhood. Get it all in hot photo stories with Twitter trends keyword which has speed of lights. Enjoy millions of happenings in real world and you can participate in it as well. Beyond the world of online, Ce:real can be a unique way to meet and interact, join and touch with “Ce: real”.
Ce:real
SocialMuse
Check out what users on the other side of the world are listening to. Find people with similar musical taste, or just explore the world through music. Browse other users’ music libraries, listen to previews of their songs, and buy them if you like them. Check out their profiles on MySpace, Facebook and Last.fm; another social app for android.
SpotMessage
SpotMessage is a communication tool using GPS. Send a message designating a spot with Google Maps then the message will be delivered when the recipient arrives at the spot. SpotMsg has many uses; as an alarm reminding you of a task at a certain spot or for sending your friend a surprise message on his or her arrival.
SpotMessage
9.
Best Travel Apps
Trip Journal
This app is the ultimate trip tracking, recording, documenting and sharing solution that is currently available for android phones. Use Trip Journal to document your vacation experiences and share them with your friends and family. Track your traveling route, record events, photos, notes and attach them to trips. Visualize the recorded information and follow your position real time on Google Maps. Impress your friends by sending them real time updates from the places that you are visiting, and let them know about what you have been doing lately, share your recorded information in nicely designed KMZ files that can be viewed in Google Earth or export the trip photos to a Picasa web album. No more paper journal on road trips.
Trip Journal
iNap: Arrival Alert
Ever wanted to get some sleep during a train ride, or a quick nap on the bus to work? You either hoped to wake just in time not to miss your station, or set an alarm to wake you far too early. iNap will wake you up at you destination using your GPS.
iNap
Car Locator
Save your location whenever you park, and Car Locator will take you back to where you parked your car with no problem. Thefree version expires after 25 runs.
Car locator
10.
Best Misc Apps
Rhythm Guitar
Another good app for the guitar players. Plays like a real 6-string, 5-fret guitar. Strum and pick chords, make new chords, string them together to create songs, transpose songs to fit your vocal range. Great for songwriting, chord reference, learning radio hits, or even plugging into speakers and pedals.
Andrometer
Andrometer allows you to measure the approximate distance between you and an object that you can see. Uses GPS, accelerometer, and geomagnetic sensor.
Calton Hill GPSCaddy
The Calton Hill GPSCaddy is like having your own Pro Tour caddy with you at all times, well in the android phone. It allows you to quickly and easily map any golf course either out on the course using GPS positioning or in the comfort of home using Google Maps. Then, when you are playing the course, it uses GPS positioning to tell you exactly how far you are from the significant features for the hole you are playing, e.g. the green, bunkers, water hazards, etc. It can also keep track of the scores for you and your playing partners.
GPSCaddy
And those are the best apps from Google’s Android Developer Challenge; download them to your droid, HTC hero, Cliq, Eris, G1, and other android phone, have fun.
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