This past week, I upgraded my Motorola Cliq (stuck on Android 1.5) to a shiny new Samsung Vibrant (thanks Brendan for the nudge towards this phone). Of course step one with this new phone, was grabbing all of the appropriate apps. Some apps I had on my Cliq but didn’t use, got left behind; and some apps that didn’t run on 1.5 (but do on 2.1), I picked up brand new for this phone.
Here are my immediate download/installs. In no particular order:
- Advanced Task Killer – Crap runs in the background all of the time. This kills that crap.
- Shazam – Awesome, and awesomely useful app for tagging music you hear while out IRL (in real life). I use this a lot when I hear a song and want to remember to download it later.
- Foursquare – I am bullish on Foursquare. Anyone who knows me, knows that. You can even stalk me here.
- Twitter – My old phone didn’t run the native Twitter Android app. This one does. I am going to try this over Twidroid for a bit.
- Google Voice – I use my Google Voice number to handle all of my voicemail. Nice little app.
- OpenTable – I love the OpenTable app. I use this frequently when I am out somewhere already and want to make a quick reservation for later in the day/evening. So simple and so useful.
- Phone Flicks – Netflix doesn’t have a good native Android app. This is the next best thing for simple queue management.
- StickyBits- Just grabbed this. Haven’t used it yet, but I LOVE the idea of this and the possibilities.
- Delicious- I use this mainly for quickly bookmarking things I see on my phone, that I’d rather read on a regular monitor later.
- Yelp – Crossed up with OpenTable, I can find a place, and book a place, on the move.
- Pandora – Best streaming music app there is. I used to be a Last.fm guy, but I love plugging my phone into my audio jack in the car, and streaming Pandora.
- Bank of America – BOA’s Android app is fantastically simple. Check balances, make transfers, pay bills, all on the move.
- Facebook – Obviously. They just redesigned their app this week as well. Looks sharp.
- Starbucks Card Balance – This is a unitasker app, but I love it. One tap and I know my SBUX card balance before going into grab a coffee.
Anyone have any more suggestions?