Edwin is a Speech-to-Speech app that can talk back to you and answer a range of questions. Careful if you plan to use it in your car though.
Watch on youtube.
- Specifiers for time, phone functions, launch apps:
- What time is it?
- Turn the bluetooth off.
- Specifiers for weather:
- Whats the weather?
- Tell me the temperature again?
- Whats tomorrows forecast?
- Convert weight, temperature, currency, speed:
- Convert $100 into pounds.
- Dictionary related stuff:
- Define the word banana.
- Spell the word: Android
- Translate, “Android Tips has all the tips you need” to french.
- Location specifiers for map searches:
- Map the closest donut shop.
- Whats the closest movie theater?
Gilt Groupe is a nicely made discount luxury item shopping app.
It’s like Woot, but for luxury Men, Women, Home and Children items. An email announcing the start of each day’s sales is sent to all members shortly before the sale starts, and orders are taken on a first come, first-served basis.
Clicker is a TV/Movies search engine that turned social. You can now follow what your friends watch online and add them to your queue. All the free (and paid) TV on the web on one site!
- The best part about the Clicker website is a queue that keeps track of your shows and alerts you when they are available online.
- The android app features checkin’s. You can now ping friends when watching your fav show.
- Clicker.tv supports a neat interface if you plan to use it on your TV.
Groupon lets you buy local offers at ridiculous prices. You just have to show the barcode on your phone to redeem the offer.
- Find the deals nearby.
- Review and buy deals local businesses.
- Access your purchased Groupons and redeem them.
Knocking is a live video broadcaster that lets you talk with other androids or iphones. Works on the 3G and wifi too.
Youtube demo.
First Aid Assist demos over 40 first aid procedures. Also, links to Youtube videos when needed.
One of those, “you never know when you’ll need it“, apps.
With Android becoming pervasive, the competition moved to the best value android phones for a family of four. The winner is: Sprint.
For just $42.50 per line/month, a family of 4 on Sprint receives:
- 4 free Android phones: Choice of Free Samsung Intercept or Free HTC Hero
- 1500 shared landline minutes (3000 mins for $10 more)
- Unlimited any mobile calling/data/web surfing
- Unlimited messaging
- Free nights and weekends from 7 p.m.
Its amazing what competition does to phone and plan prices.
Off-course if you are looking for the best, theres always the Samsung Galaxy line of phones, Evo or the Droid X.
Fox News brings you “Fair & Balanced” news to your Android.
- Video News
- Notifications
- Live Talk Radio
- Fox News Shows
If Fox is not your thing, try the ONN.
Google is releasing App Inventor to the public. It was available to a few limited universities until now.
Up for some android drag and drop magic?Learn App Inventor.
Youtube videos: What is App Inventor?, App Inventor in action.
Thx NYtimes.
Find and share parking, using Google’s Parking spot.
- Open Spot will show you all parking spots within ~0.9 miles.
- Share your spot before you leave and get karma points.
