Android has just surpassed iOS (iPhone’s OS) in the US and it’s on its way to be the top dog in the world’s mobile scene. In 2 years, Android went from being a promising underdog to becoming a mobile juggernaut with a bursting app community. These are the essential apps every professional should have in his or her smartphone:
Ever missed a stop on the bus and woke up on the other side of the city? Never again. Wake Up! lets you set a location based alarm that will be triggered when you reach your destination. Ideal to gain much needed extra minutes of sleep, worry free.
GDocs (Google Docs)
In the absence of a Google Docs official Android application, Art Wild’s developed GDocs, to allow you to view spreadsheets and to create, edit and view word processor documents from your Google Docs account.
It’s a scriptable, location-aware settings manager (boring description). You can set triggers and actions for every imaginable condition such as battery level, dates, times, GPS coordinates and calls from specific people can all be used. You can set your phone to display pop-up notifications, silencing itself when it detects you are in your office, texting people when you reached a meeting place or turning airplane mode on in airports. The possibilities are endless. It can even be integrated with third-party programs to increase its functionality. For example, you can make your shopping list automatically pop-up whenever you get to the grocery store.
A magical solution for those constantly on the move. Create virtual folders shared across your computers and mobile devices. Dropbox seamlessly integrates with Windows Explorer and Apple’s Finder to provide a free cloud based storage solution accessible from anywhere in the planet. Watch this instructional video to see Dropbox’s capabilities.I’ve been using it for more than a year and it has become a life saver. No more carrying pendrives around, no more CD burning. Love it.
Capture anything. Save your ideas, things you like, things you hear, and things you see. Evernote works with nearly every computer, phone and mobile device out there. Evernote the most popular cloud based note taking application in the mobile space. Also available for iPhone and every major mobile platform out there.
Pretty self explanatory. A must have app. Voice Recorder lets you play, save and send your voice recordings via email. Simple to use and very handy.
Which others would you add?
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