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Gallery: 10 useful Android apps

By Andy Smith May 22, 2009, 1:40 AM PDT

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Gallery: 10 useful Android apps

Cab4Me

Cab4Me

Fancy loading your Android phone up with some cool apps? So did silicon.com’s Natasha Lomas – and over the next 10 pages you can find more info on the ones she liked.rnrn

rnBeing handy is the watchword of this app which makes the bold boast to let you “Get a cab. Anywhere”. And that’s pretty much it in a nutshell. Tell it your location, scroll around a map and pinpoint where you are (or let it use GPS to find out) and Cab4Me brings up a list of user-rated cab companies in the locale, furnishing you with phone numbers and other useful details such as payment methods accepted and service hours. Automatic cab ordering is planned for later versions of the app where you won’t even have to speak to the cab company but just send them your location and destination data instead.rn

rnImage credit: Skycoders/Cab4Me

Voice Recorder
Voice Recorder
Gallery: 10 useful Android apps

Voice Recorder

Voice Recorder

Keep an aural record of meetings or record voice memos with the Voice Recorder app which turns your G1 into a – you guessed it – recording device. Sound quality is low but it should still suffice for meetings, memos etc. There is also an option to turn on ‘background recording’ so you can perform other tasks while it’s recording.rn

rnPhoto credit: Natasha Lomas/silicon.com

Gallery: 10 useful Android apps

Tube Status

Tube Status

This handy app aims to help Tube-hopping Londoners get their daily dose of travel woe. Misery line suspended yet again? Oh well, at least you’ll know before you go. The app also offers info on ‘this weekend ‘ – aka the time when Transport for London is most likely to be flicking the off switch on your travel plans.rn

rnImage credit: Maxence/Tube Status

Gallery: 10 useful Android apps

Translate

Translate

Another does-what-it-says-on-the-tin app ‘Translate’ will do just that, or it will at least most of the time. But it’s free so you can’t complain about the inevitable translation wobbles. It supports a raft of languages – counted 32 linguistic options including three versions of Chinese. It’ll even transcribe into Cyrillic so Greeks and Russians rejoice. The app also has a ‘history’ feature so you can quickly refer back to find phrases you looked up previously.rn

rnImage credit: Cu00e9dric Beust/Translate

Gallery: 10 useful Android apps

TooDo

TooDo

TooDo is a life-organiser app from French developer u00c9douard Mercier so if making lists of things you need to get done and giving yourself deadlines floats your boat TooDo could work for you. There’s a handy dashboard view for an overview of impending tasks, while to-dos can be categorised by context – such as ‘at work’, ‘back home’, ‘shopping’ etc – and it’ll also let you filter by importance of tasks and more.

Image credit: u00c9douard Mercier/TooDo

Gallery: 10 useful Android apps

PicSay

PicSay

PicSay is an image editor for Android that lets you turn camera snaps into greetings cards, invites, meetings reminders – with a little photo-wizardry on your part. Perfect for knocking up that last minute e-card birthday greeting at the airport (so you don’t return home to the dog house).rn

rnPhoto credit: Natasha Lomas/silicon.com

Gallery: 10 useful Android apps

Compare Everywhere

Compare Everywhere

Compare Everywhere is a barcode-scanning app lets you price-check items by scanning the barcode to find out whether it can be bought more cheaply elsewhere before you part with your hard-earned cash. And, while it’s a nice idea in theory, it is however early days for this vision of a connected future to truly work.rnrn

rnThe issues are two-fold: one that the scanning results are often hit and miss, depending on the type of item you’re scanning. And two that the ‘Everywhere’ of the title does not mean ‘everywhere in the world’ it means ‘everywhere in the US’. Results, therefore, appear in dollars and ‘local stores’ means Walmart or, if you’re lucky, a .com shopping site which may offer international shipping. So this app can be handy, certainly, but more so if you’re looking to buy a book in the US, say, than tea-bags in the UK…rn

rnPhoto credit: Natasha Lomas/silicon.com

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