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Android Must Have Apps
Feb 23rd
Now these picks are not by some internet standards or by any other influence other than me seeing extreme use in them.
Shop Savvy Bar-code scanner. Yeah the results have not been up to what I expected but hey, they do offer a chance to look at the products on amazon and see what other people’s reviews are of the items.
Zxing scanner. Not near as good as shop savvy, but is another scanner so I have two to pick through. Choices are wonderful.
Cherry Rplayer – you can manually insert radio stations you like – I of course have ZRock in mine, because well they only have an iphone app and well I want to hear Zrock Dang it!
Opera Mini- because it does some stuff that google browser will not, like play myspace games right off their site, without need of an ap.
Pandora Radio – I love the way it lets you pick a music type and just ride with it. (audio out to audio in on my car, excellent sound.)
Digital Clock from Socialmobile , it’s like my back up alarm clock (only use it while it’s on the charger though)
Twit.tv by Mediafly – all the Leo Laporte podcasts I can listen to.
Pretty much everything I have found, are just trials or do not live up to what they charge you, or just plain ol toys.
still waiting for Myspace Mobsters Android ap. Or a nice pdf viewer that costs no money and does not have trial period.. like foxit for Droid would be real nice. Mozilla Firefox for android would be nice. Hulu would be good.
Tv.com player would fricken rock if it had shows i like in full episodes. like Smallville Two and Half Men. but seems like everything that I like, is just 1 minutes snippets, really how much bandwidth could 300×200 really be ? They could soooo make some money from the ads, kinda like hulu does, if they would just do it . Youtube ap is great, but don’t hit pause, you freaking video fail every-time you do hit pause.
A-online radio has great features but it does not make the list. It just does not buffer very well. See Pandora radio isn’t as free roam as Aonline, but I can plug my G1 into my car stereo, turn on Pandora radio and let it play all the way from work to home. I plug in A-online and it plays for all of about 20 seconds. If it is not a buffer issue then the garbage shuts off every time the back light turns off. I know it’s one of the two and I can do nothing about either.
A very good write up on ZdNet called 10 Must Have- Android Apps
Android, Shop Savvy Barcode scanner
Dec 6th
The Shop Savvy Barcode Scanner for androids
The application gives some sense of security. Knowing that you can scan an item and check local prices that might be better than what you are about to pay for the item at the establishment you are at currently. There is a downside though. It seems the application only finds Target Stores, I mean the store with the big circle looking like a dartboard target.
On some occasions it does show Walgereens. Really it should show more than one vendor location. instead what ever vendor they choose, they show all locations of that vendor. It is supposed to show you the cheapest place to purchase the item. See I think that might be a bit of bs. I have a feeling it’s a sponsored programs, like just an advertisement market. it does no search other than your location, and how to find their sponsor who carries said product. See I bought a coffee bean Grinder from Kroger for 9.99 (I am not paying $100+ for a grinder, I’m just not. While standing in Kroger I scanned it, the results I got said Target for $12.99. i looked down at the price on the shelf, 9.99 ..
The model I got was proctor Silex fresh Grind model number E160B. Barcode 0 22333 91600 1 . Here it is at Target for 12.99 . Sorry Kroger does not have it on their site but
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LOL that should do. Don’t bother scanning car parts, because clearly they have no car parts sponsors.