25 Jun10

Topics:Arb Thoughts 

It has been a little over a month since I bought myself a birthday present. The HTC Desire. Lovely little device with so many awesome features. Sure, I miss the AMAZING camera that was my Sony Satio. But that was a camera, not a cellphone. Although. I have been thinking that this little beautiful device is not really a cellphone. It is a mini PC with a cellphone and a decent camera attached.


The beauty of this phone comes in the fact that anyone in the world can develop a great piece of software for a device that is always available. Beautiful. :) Here's a list of the applications I found useful:

MUST HAVE:

• Advanced Task Killer - keeps you phone's memory managed perfectly!
• 3G watchdog - Living in SA means we don't have unlimited mobile data plans. Essential to help you keep tab.
• Battery Snap - Great for monitoring your battery usage over periods and seeing how things chew up battery life.
• WeFi - Beautiful tool for when you are travelling around. Helps you find WiFi hotspots, free, password authentication required, etc.
• Swype keyboard - Brilliance. Replace your standard keyboard with one you can swipe patterns to write. VERY accurate in beta. Bring on brittish english!
• Bar-code scanner - Great for when you want to download an app with a bar-code as a link or if you want to find out who stocks the tissues you like in new york.
• Foxy Ring - Brilliance. Manages your ring tones volumes & your phone's data connections just the way you want them.
• Handcent SMS - Beautiful application for managing your text and multimedia messages.
• Fring - Want skype? This is how to get it working. Not only that, its a great SIP client and it has connections into most instant messaging networks. In one package. Kief bru.
• AppBrain - Find apps on your PC, split them into lists and even set them to install on your phone next time you sync. Brilliant.

Cool optional ones:

• Body finess - Great for you gym bunnies. And those of who wanna get to the gym and do what needs to be done.
• Smooth Calender - Awesome widget which replaces any standard calendar widgets.
• Bubble - Ever been left wanting a spirit level. NEVER FEAR!
• Foursquare - Now these guys have done a great job of building an application which just works. Brilliantly.
• Voice Search - Fun toy to play with C/O Google. Does speech to text and hits google and other bits. Only bitch I have is that it isn't offline for dictation.
• TTS Service - Text to speec. Who doesn't like making a computer read Afrikaans.
• Bluetooth File Transfer - Great for browsing your friend's phone contents. :P

Got any other suggestions? Leave me a comment so others can take advantage.

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