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- Thursday 30 January 2014

tOP 10: android apps

Bloom.fm
1 of 10

Best new music app: Bloom.fm

Originally reviewed by  25 December 2013
Bloom.fm is, at heart, a rival to services like Spotify. If you want to go all-out you can pay a tenner a month for all-you-can-eat streaming of its massive 22-million track library.

However, you can also pay much less to ‘lend’ a certain number of tracks at a time. Instead of all-out streaming, you can make playlists of tracks you want to listen to. You can have 20 tracks at a time for just £1 a month or 200 tracks for £5 a month. It’s also much cuter than Spotify, featuring an animated bee that darts around the screen as you navigate. And it’s less annoying than it sounds.


BBM
2 of 10

Best new messaging: BBM

Originally reviewed by  25 December 2013
BlackBerry mobile phones may not be everything they once were, but the BBM messaging service is going strong. The app was downloaded more than 10 million times in 24 hours according to BlackBerry.

The release of the app was a bit acrimonious, as it was leaked and pulled before being officially let loose. However, it’s not going strong. If you’re already wedded to Whatsapp, we’re not sure the basic look of BBM will win you over, but it’s a solid (if late) addition to the range of Android messaging apps.
Tinder
3 of 10

Best new dating: Tinder(/Grindr)

Originally reviewed by  25 December 2013
Grindr has been around for ages – it’s an app that lets gay men hook with other nearby guys easily. However, it’s only this year that its ‘straight’ alternative Tinder has become popular. It’s an app that lets you see other nearby Tinder users, and message them if they’re also up for a bit of flirting.

It’s perhaps not the best way to find your next great love, but we have heard of people who have forged relationships using this location aware service. Be aware, though, that it’s also populated by plenty of people simply looking for a bit of an ego boost.
Dolphin
4 of 10

Best browser: Dolphin browser

Originally reviewed by  19 December 2013
We imagine many of you are perfectly happy with either the stock Android browser or Chrome, which is fast becoming the ‘standard’ Android web browsing app in new Androids. However, if you’re not, Dolphin is worth checking out.

It’s one of the oldest third-party Android browsers, and it supports Flash with a workaround and the latest version offers a Siri-like virtual voice assistant.

MX Player5 of 10

Best media player: MX Player

Originally reviewed by  19 December 2013
There are many media players available on Android, but the one we keep on coming back to is MX Player. Unlike some players, it offers advanced codec support, meaning you’ll be able to play virtually any video file as long as you have enough power on tap.

There are also various plug-ins for the app to give hardware acceleration for many of the most popular Android processors. MX Player isn’t fancy or flash like some media player apps, but it is easy to use and reliable. If your phone won’t play your video collection, download it now.

QuickofficeMX PlayerQuickoffice
6 of 10

Best new office suite: Quickoffice

Originally reviewed by  19 December 2013
One of the most disruptive Android app releases of the year is one that many of you probably ignored. Quickoffice is Google’s own office suite for Android. It’s based on an existing third-party suite that Google bought in 2012, but it was released as an Android freebie this year.

It lets you create spreadsheets, documents and presentations on your phone or tablet and then sync them with your Google Drive storage. Not only does this wipe away the benefit of Windows Phone’s integrated Office suite, it also challenges the many paid Android Office apps out there.

ProCapture
7 of 10

Best camera app: ProCapture

Originally reviewed by  19 December 2013
Pro Capture is an Android camera that successfully plugs many of the gaps in the vast majority of inbuilt Android camera interfaces. These include a full-resolution panorama mode, a wide-angle mode that’s a half-way house between a normal still and panorama shot, and a noise reducing HDR-style mode that takes two snaps and merges them to reduce noise.

It also gives you easy access to camera settings, making it a good choice for those who already know how and when to use exposure compensation, and when to alter white balance.
Co-pilot
8 of 10

Best GPS app: CoPilot Live 

Premium

Originally reviewed by  19 December 2013
Our favourite day-to-day navigation app while on foot is still Google Maps. It looks good, it’s reliable and it works. However, if you have slightly greater needs, CoPilot Live Premium is a good choice.

In particular, it’s great for people who need to navigate through a foreign country in the car. It gives a SatNav-like experience and lets you download maps of full countries for navigating when offline.
SketchBook Pro
9 of 10

Best art/drawing app: 

SketchBook Pro

Originally reviewed by  19 December 2013
SketchBook Pro by Autodesk is an app so good that it’s used in the Galaxy Note 3 to big-up the art possibilities of the digitiser stylus. This is an app that allows separate layers, giving you real editing potential in Photoshop style.

You also have loads of control over the kind of brush used. Although it’s still for sketching, there’s a lot of power and flexibility on offer here. It remains very easy to use, though.
Swiftkey
10 of 10

Best keyboard app: 

Swiftkey

Originally reviewed by  19 December 2013
Many people still don’t realise this, but it’s pretty easy to change the keyboard used throughout your Android phone. It’s one of the key things to optimise if you find your phone a pain to use.

Our favourite, and probably the most popular, third-party keyboard is Swiftkey. As well as offering a decent core keyboard and lots of personalisation, there’s also gesture typing and very good autocorrection engine.

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