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Gunner5 Jun 27, 2010 6:09 pm

Haven't seen DriveSafely mentioned yet. Have a look at www.DriveSafe.ly
There is also a co-branded Motorola version called MotoSpeak that only works with Motorola bluetooth devices according to developer.

What it does - reads text messages to you over your bluetooth device and sends canned responses to the sender (you can modify the canned text)

Paid version allows you to hear up to 500 words, choose voice, enables voice command and some other stuff.

One bug is that it starts my media player after every call :confused:

whizbee Jun 29, 2010 1:10 pm

Shazam, Shop Savvy and Google Maps/Google Sky Maps. I'm also somewhat addicted to RoboDefense.

gfunkdave Jun 29, 2010 6:35 pm

Lots of my favorites have been mentioned, but I'm surprised nobody has mentioned Flight Director ($1.99). It's a totally addictive game that has you landing planes (don't let them crash into each other!) on Google Earth maps of real airports.

jfe Jun 30, 2010 12:28 pm

I am going to try the Sling Player next week, as I am upgrading my slingbox :)

aspex Jun 30, 2010 2:03 pm


Originally Posted by jfe (Post 14220905)
I am going to try the Sling Player next week, as I am upgrading my slingbox :)

You are going to love it. We've been using it extensively to watch the World Cup over 3G on the ATT network and it has been extremely stable. Compared to SPM on my iPhone 3G it is loads better in terms of video quality from the same location on 3G.

mbrindam Jul 8, 2010 9:30 pm

Drync Wine Pro for Android Released!
 
Drync Wine Pro for Android has been released! Please check it out and rate it on the Android Market. http://bit.ly/drync_droid



Originally Posted by BiziBB (Post 13425340)
Who has a favourite wine app for android phones?

I'm just looking for updates and to find out when some of the iPhone apps promised to be ported across, get released.

Here's an iPhone-specific apps list; which ones are comingto /are out on Android? I know that drync is coming (but no firm date).


How about an android version of Snooth?


BiziBB Jul 13, 2010 4:41 am


Originally Posted by mbrindam (Post 14268490)
Drync Wine Pro for Android has been released! Please check it out and rate it on the Android Market. http://bit.ly/drync_droid

Thanks. I did get a reply to my question on the developer's site over the weekend. Now it's installed. :)

Note that there is a free and a paid version (Australia does not get paid apps on the Android Marketplace for some odd reason. Not important enough dollarwise to bother including us?)

BobbySteel Jul 14, 2010 5:38 am

I've been blown away by RockPlayer these past couple weeks.
http://www.diffthink.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=4

It's the only player I've seen on any mobile platform of note that can play Divx, AVI and MP4 video all at once. Nothing on the iphone can do this, period.

This isn't a big deal to most consumer users but it's a godsend for those of us that have ripped our DVD collections or download things off the torrent networks. Now you can simply copy files over rather than worry about transcoding and format.

This, with a 32GB microSDHC card, is HEAVEN on long trips now and one of the key "little things" that has made me turn away entirely from the iphone platform. It's unlikely Apple will ever support Divx (at least not in the next year or two), so this saves me many hours of frustrating one-off transcodes.

mbrindam Jul 14, 2010 9:54 pm


Originally Posted by BiziBB (Post 14290709)
(Australia does not get paid apps on the Android Marketplace for some odd reason. Not important enough dollarwise to bother including us?)


Had no idea - crazy. Well - if you have any feedback let me know... will be adding features over the upcoming months. Thanks!

jfe Jul 15, 2010 7:15 am


Originally Posted by aspex (Post 14221411)
You are going to love it. We've been using it extensively to watch the World Cup over 3G on the ATT network and it has been extremely stable. Compared to SPM on my iPhone 3G it is loads better in terms of video quality from the same location on 3G.

I installed the sling player, and it's awesome

I have three inputs working right now

Directv
LG Blu Ray player with Netflix
OTA Antenna

Which means, I can watch all my recorded programs on my DVR, plus I can watch netflix on the phone, which is awesome

Now, I just need to find a wired camera with an S-Video output that has night vision, and I am all set

TPacific Jul 15, 2010 10:49 am

Handcent SMS - I like it much better than the default Messaging.

tev9999 Jul 16, 2010 1:38 pm

Flashlight (flash-the-brain) came in quite handy last night during a power outage. I had tried a couple others but they really didn't work on the Nexus One. This one is pretty good.

gfunkdave Jul 16, 2010 5:37 pm


Originally Posted by tev9999 (Post 14312334)
Flashlight (flash-the-brain) came in quite handy last night during a power outage. I had tried a couple others but they really didn't work on the Nexus One. This one is pretty good.

I like TeslaLED flashlight a lot since it uses the LED and not the screen, but it only works on rooted Nexus Ones, or on non-rooted Froyo.

falconea Jul 17, 2010 5:51 pm


Originally Posted by BiziBB (Post 14290709)
(Australia does not get paid apps on the Android Marketplace for some odd reason. Not important enough dollarwise to bother including us?)


Originally Posted by mbrindam (Post 14302854)
Had no idea - crazy. Well - if you have any feedback let me know... will be adding features over the upcoming months. Thanks!

We do get paid Android Marketplace apps here in Australia - but perhaps it's only for Android 2.0 and up? BiziBB has a Android 1.5 phone, from memory. Mr Falconea and I have the HTC Desire which is Android 2.1. Mr Falconea has bought several apps.

Just wanted to correct any misconception.

Audrey

Chuckles Jul 19, 2010 7:45 pm

Language Translator
 
Hi; What have folks found to be the best speech-to-speech language translator to use when traveling? I tried "Talk To Me Classic", and it was extremely buggy, did a poor job of understanding my words, and kept locking-up the Droid. Tried "Translate", and is better, but you seem to be only to speek to it in English (would be nice if when I ask someone in far-off spots a question, they could talk into the translator and it tells me in English what they said. Thanks in advance :)


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