Android has officially become the most used mobile operating system worldwide (and it started with the United States) with over 17% market share. That is an impressive number and it demonstrates that the OS is here to stay for a long time. The latest 2.2 update will bring more usability, more support for graphics applications and multimedia, faster loading times and much more.
There are currently over 20,000 apps on the marketplace, all of which are high quality and a lot of which are free. This makes Android a very attractive OS for any type of user. 2010 has seen the most new apps released so far (and it hasn’t even ended!) and the trend is expected to continue. To give you an idea of what an Android phone or tablet can do, here is a list of the most popular apps currently available on the marketplace:
Tether Plus is one of the many tethering apps for Android, but because it’s not free and it’s being maintained by a software company, it is more stable and has more features than the other solutions. You can use it to connect your laptop or even home computer to the Internet using your 3G data plan, via Wi-Fi. Yes, basically, your phone becomes a wireless router with a wireless access to the Internet. Best of all, you need not pay an additional fee for tethering, as the app makes it look like you’re just surfing the Web using the phone itself.
Tether Plus-Android Apps
This is one of the most popular apps on the Android market, and for good reason- it helps you backup and restore all of the important data that is stored on the phone. It allows you to back everything up to your SD card or on the services online servers, which makes it even more secure. If you lose your phone or just the data (by accidentally resetting the phone), your information will be safe and you can always restore the phone to the way it was before.
MyBackup Pro-Android Apps
OfficeSuite Pro is practically the best mobile office solution, and it has support for the most popular files such as MS Word, Excel, Powerpoint and Adobe’s PDF, as well as some more obscure file formats like some types of attachments and older DOS files. You can use it to view, edit and send any documents on the go, wherever you are, right on your Android phone. This is an invaluable tool for all mobile professionals and business people.
OfficeSuite Pro-Android Apps
This is a great hands-free aid that lets you not only control the phone while you’re driving or doing other things, but also read and compose emails, SMSes and documents and take calls. It uses the Android’s integrated voice to text converter to read all your emails for you and allow you to dictate anything to the phone, with your voice being converted to text. It’s also pretty accurate, unlike most other similar tools that have their own voice converter.
Voice on the Go-Android Apps
Anyone nowadays has a dozen different usernames and passwords that they need to remember in order to get by, but that is a hard thing to do. SplashID helps you with that task by providing a safe place for you to store any sensitive data, such as the above mentioned passwords, business details, and even credit card numbers. It uses an uncrackable encryption that is locked by a single master password, which is the only thing you’ll actually need to remember.
SplashID-Android Apps
If you liked the Today screen in Windows Mobile, you’ll be happy to know that you can have it on Android, too. Unlike the iPhone, which doesn’t allow you to change the home screen, the Android desktop is completely customizable. As such, developers have created accurate copies of all other mobile operating systems, including Blackberry, Palm WebOS, iPhone and of course Windows Mobile. With E-Mobile Today, you can have your schedule, meetings, alarms, system information, and anything else displayed on the home screen when you turn on your phone. This can help you be even more productive and save you a lot of time.
E-Mobile Today-Android Apps
If there’s something about Android that many users are disappointed about, it is its abysmal video formats support. You can play only avi or mp4 files with certain limited encoders, and even they’re slow and don’t support resolutions higher than 480×320. Pocket DVD is one of the few real solutions that can really help you. You can use it to convert any DVDs and movies to a format that is easily playable by your phone (even using the default player) while not losing the quality, audio sync or subtitles! Until someone makes a better universal video player for Android or until Android 2.2 is released, this is one of the best alternatives.
Pocket DVD-Android Apps
There are many other great apps available on the Android marketplace, but the above ones are some of the best. You should definitely give them a go the next time you have the opportunity – I’m sure you’ll find most that of them can be pretty handy.
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