Your Top 5 Android Applications?

[anon(3653)]

1. Weather Channel
Gotta have the weather, especially this time of year!

2. Key Ring
This has eliminated all of those little cards on my key ring! It also has that "awesome" factor in the reaction of people at the stores when I use it.

3. Google Talk
This has helped me reduce text usage whenever I am out with friends as my wife uses Google Talk on her iPod Touch using wi-fi from the house to communicate with me.

4. MyBackupPro
So far it has worked well.

5. Sports Tap
I really like this program. I would love it if it were not 15 or more minutes behind the games.

 

[TKNOVA]

1.Sportstap
2. Dockrunner
3. Astro file manager
4. Home++ home replacement
5. Where

 

[Wrong way down one way]

I like: Advanced Task Killer, SMS popup, Missed call, Droid Light, Weather bug and Pandora. Okay that was six but still I like them all.

 

[MajorMajor]

Advanced Task Killer
Panda Home
Dolphin Browser
Where
Weather Bug

Google Sky Maps (to amaze family and friends)

 

[droidweasel]

1.pda.net
2. weatherwidget donate and dolphin.
3.lookout
4.spare parts
5.sms popup.
but these change daily with all the new apps coming out.

 

[aquajeff]

Locale
Beyondpod
Astro file manager
Mybackup Pro - saves time after uploading mods
SMS popup

I am excited about Evernote but haven't used it yet.

 

[fooman]

my top five

1) Facebook
A must have..

2) NewsRoom
Best RSS reader by far.. easiest and fastest way to keep up with all the latest Android news

3) Beautiful Widgets
So purty..

There's nothing else I use a ton every single day..

 

[rgrandy]

Beautiful Home
- Awesome Weather/Clock Widget

Twidgit Lite
- Good Twitter Client Widget

Photo Frame Deluxe
- Great Photo Frame Widget that displays personal pictures

Movies
- Nice movie preview/theater/rating app

Gigbox
- Amazing concert finder that finds stuff in your area

 

[Shotine]

1. Camera LED
2. Ebay pkt auctions
3. Robo Defense
4. Nintendo Emulator
5. Pandora

 

[granadzo]

1. Google Maps
2. Ebay pkt auctions
3. Automatic Task Killer (improved my battery life)
4. Facebook
5. Beautiful Widgets

 

[ridavid81]

PicSay Pro for photo editing
TuneWiki for Last.FM Radio
Beautiful Widgets but this is no longer available
Advanced Task Manager Pro
Power Manager for battery life
WaveSecure Beta is great incase you lose your phone

 

[jaboda79]

Dolphin Browser
Pandora
Handcent
Phit Droid 3rd edition (tetris-like casual game)
Mabilo Ringtones

 

[mitchell.23]

twidroid

barcode scanner

iMusic

calWidget

pandora

 

[Shinsei]

My major dissent from others' top 5 lists comes with my choice of Twitter app. I have a strong distaste for Twidroid because for most users, I don't think the $5.50 USD price tag is worthwhile for the added features. Granted, there's the free version, but if you need bit.ly support, you're stuck paying five dollars for it.

In no particular order...

Seesmic - Sure, Twidroid is good, it's wonderful, but it also costs money for a minimal set of extra features. Seesmic is free, supports bit.ly and has a nice shiny UI. And a cute raccoon icon. The downsides are that it doesn't support multiple accounts, buzz lists or Twitter lists, but for the average user, does it really need to?

Pandora - Radio over 3G with decent quality. You don't really need any other music/radio app. Podcasts, on the other hand...

Advanced Task Killer - For quite a while I used Taskiller. While it's fine and dandy, Advanced Task Killer seems to be a little more efficient at keeping memory-hogging programs dead without having to manually kill them.

Math Alarm Clock - With my first Android phone, I used Klaxon, which was great until it stopped working and the dev disappeared for a while. I discovered Math Alarm Clock; while it's a paid app at a buck, it's awfully effective at turning the brain on first thing in the morning by forcing you to answer annoying math questions in order to snooze or disable the alarm. The math is optional, but the feature set is quite nice and it's a heck of a lot nicer than the built in app.

Zedge - While I do have Mabilo installed as well, Zedge is an interesting new app that has both ringtones and wallpapers available. At present, there's just over 6,000 wallpapers, but nearly 350,000 ringtones. The interface could use a little bit of work, but the previews of ringtones load much faster than in Mabilo. I don't think it's a replacement quite yet, but it's most certainly one to keep an eye on.

 

[beeray]

Is there a clock widget that has a simple Roman numeral face similar to home++?

Beeray

 

[valerie3boys#AC]

Any good Twitter apps out there? Besides Twitdroid?

swift is pretty good!!

 

[valerie3boys#AC]

In no particular order:

Barcode scanner
Dolphin browser
fake-a-call free (though I haven't had to use it yet)
Mabilo Ringtones
Photoshop.com mobile
Twidroid and swift
SMS Popup (very important)
Save MMS
Live Football Scores

My 5-yr-old loves:

The Schwartz Unleashed
Steamy Window
Android Lightsaber
FartDroid
Kid's Paint
MonkeyKickOff

Okay I obviously can't follow directions and list 5 but those are some of the ones I love...

 

[Shinsei]

In hindsight, I see that I left off my SMS app of choice, ChompSMS. I've tried Handcent and while it's okay, I always found it a little clunky on my G1 and just not as polished. Chomp's only real downside is that it (very passively) tries to sell you text messages paid through its own "network", rather than your carrier, but it does so without any intrusion and not by default. In fact, in order to send a message through Chomp's network, you have to go into the settings and very specifically enable it.

If you do somehow enable Chomp's network by accident, it helpfully distinguishes from a normal text message with a different colored "Send" button.

Visually, ChompSMS looks almost identical to its iPhone influence. You can customize the color scheme if you so desire, but there's only the one visual style to choose from, unlike Handcent.

This is, of course, not a comprehensive review or comparison, but I also figure there's no sense in just writing lists of our favorite apps without giving any indication as to why they're our favorites!

Edit: iPhone, not iPod, dummy.

 

[clozer]

1. Dolphin Browser
2. Sports Tap
3. Meebo
4. Bar Code Scanner
5. iMusic

 

[VoltaicShock]

Math Alarm Clock - With my first Android phone, I used Klaxon, which was great until it stopped working and the dev disappeared for a while. I discovered Math Alarm Clock; while it's a paid app at a buck, it's awfully effective at turning the brain on first thing in the morning by forcing you to answer annoying math questions in order to snooze or disable the alarm. The math is optional, but the feature set is quite nice and it's a heck of a lot nicer than the built in app.

I would end up pulling the battery out of the phone -