1. Seesmic
There are many Twitter apps on Android - and Twitter itself shook up the scene with the launch of its own-brand app recently - but we're sticking with Seesmic. Offering support for multiple accounts, a home page widget showing latest tweets and an incredibly slick and professional design, it's one of the finest examples of app development out there today.
2. Facebook for Android
The app is lacking in features compared to Facebook itself, but a recent update added Inbox support to the Android app, finally allowing its users to communicate in almost real-time. The app's fast and stable, with a simplicity that reminds you of the old days when using Facebook used to be bearable.
3. ASTRO File Manager
ASTRO is nothing more than a Windows-style file explorer, but if you're into tinkering and directly installing Android APK files yourself, it's essential to stick something like this on your phone. Makes your phone feel like a computer, and makes you feel like you're in charge of it.
4. Job Centre Plus
Hey, times are hard and you've got to pay for your oppressive monthly mobile phone contract somehow. Offering a fully searchable database of current UK job vacancies, it's a slightly cumbersome but useful tool. Some of the spelling's a bit off and the presentation could be better, but you can't argue with the chance to browse low-level admin jobs in Plymouth from the comfort of bed.
5. AppBrain Market Sync
You iPhone users won't believe this, but there's no official way to install Android apps from a PC. Seriously. You'd think Google of all companies would've sorted that out, but no. Which is where the unofficial Appbrain app comes in. Letting users queue up Market downloads via PC and have them sent to mobile, you're also able to generate an embeddable code that displays your currently installed apps on a web site.
6. Google Sky Map
A stunning app that renders Patrick Moore obsolete, by using your phone's orientation tools to give you an accurate representation of the stars and planets on your screen. Point phone at sky, then learn what constellations are visible and if that's a UFO or just Venus. Even works indoors, if you're not keen on getting cold.
7. Layar
The stunning augmented reality app has recently gone commercial, adding an online shop that allows users to buy AR content, like travel guides, local house price apps and much more. But you're still able to use the numerous free Layers to pop data up over real-world locations, delivering a satisfying futuristic experience.
8. Foursquare
The social media darling is represented in fine form on Android, with the Google app offering easy one-click check-ins, integrated Google Maps for a seamless Google-branded experience and home page shortcut options to all your favourite places.
9. WordPress for Android
The app started out as independent creation wpToGo, before WordPress decided it liked it so much it bought it up - hiring the maker to develop it in-house. It's very feature-packed, with the latest version offering full integration with other apps, letting you spin content and send it direct to the app for easy updating. Could do with more image insertion tools, though.
10. Google Goggles
A bit of a novelty, in that it lets you take photos and have Google analyse them and come back with a search results page for what it thinks you're looking at. However, the app's main use is as a QR code reader, which lets you scan barcodes for quick access to apps and whatever data people choose to embed in the odd little data squares.
11. AppMonster
The act of monitoring and uninstalling apps on Android is a bit of a clumsy process, to be honest, with numerous sub-screens to navigate - and yet more yes/no/are-you-sure dialogue boxes to get through once you've found the 'bin it' page. So get a decent app manager. Like AppMonster, which also offers one-click backup of all your apps to SD card, if you're the type who worries about having copies of everything.
12. AppSaver
The forthcoming Android 2.2 update known as "FroYo" will let users save their Android Market purchases to their phone's SD card, freeing up valuable in-phone memory. But until then, an app like AppSaver does at least let you save your app install files to the SD card.
13. Skyfire 2.0
The USP of the Skyfire browser is that it supports Flash content, popping up a little window when it detects something like an embedded YouTube video. The actual Flash business is handled by Skyfire's server, which does all the computery stuff - then sends the file to your handset. A bit clunky on slower Android phones, but works like a dream on models with faster processors.
14. Task Manager
If you come from a bit of a hardcore PC background, you'll find Android's lack of a blue X to close apps a bit of a worry, what with the OS handling app closures itself. Which is why you need a good manual override tool to shut any persistent apps. It may help you save battery life, but most important is the feeling of control and empowerment you get from one-click closing apps.
15. RAC Traffic
An official production of the motoring organisation, the app is dead simple - it guesstimates your location via the mobile signal, then pops up the current traffic alerts for your area. Much better than having to listen to the radio for the odd update about arterial blockages.
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