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Re: Ten(10) Applications You Must Have On Your Android Smartphone by Eberex(m): 6:28pm On Aug 16, 2015 |
Endi: Why didn't u define each App and what they do |
Re: Ten(10) Applications You Must Have On Your Android Smartphone by SexyStrawberry(f): 6:36pm On Aug 16, 2015 |
izuch: See me here :-D |
Re: Ten(10) Applications You Must Have On Your Android Smartphone by Endi(m): 7:08pm On Aug 16, 2015 |
Eberex: I didn't for lack of time. But let me rush through a description for each. 1. Flashshare - Shares huge files over a WiFi Direct network... almost like Bluetooth with x10 speeds. 2. Flipboard - Read more than a thousand magazines and news sites in the world. Brilliant and amazing UI and design. 3. Office Mobile - MS Office for mobile. You get MS Word, Excel and others. I don't need my PC to type and edit articles. 4. Musixmatch - Music player which downloads lyrics, edits song titles, downloads Album art etc. 5. Google Translate - Translator. I don't have to bother about what my co-gamers in Romania and Brazil are trying to say. 6. Tubemate - Download YouTube and other videos with the click of a button. Google sanctioned app, because they dont allow download of YouTube videos. Download this app from Android Freeware Marketplace, not available on Playstore. 7. Dumpster - A recycle bin for phones. Never mistakenly lose a photo, app or song forever. Just go to Dumpster, you will find that precious pic there. 8. Mobdro - Watch over 2000 Premium Cable TV channels for free and this includes all the DSTv channels and some Italian and Spanish porn channels. 9. Snapseed - Something better than Photoshop. On Android. 10. Songily - Song download app. No ads. No hassles. Almost every released song can be found there. |
Re: Ten(10) Applications You Must Have On Your Android Smartphone by Nobody: 8:04pm On Aug 16, 2015 |
danjumakolo:Exactly. That was the first ever application i bought on play market. 3 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Ten(10) Applications You Must Have On Your Android Smartphone by izuch(m): 8:22pm On Aug 16, 2015 |
bigtt76: Lols, whatapp me nah |
Re: Ten(10) Applications You Must Have On Your Android Smartphone by Nobody: 8:42pm On Aug 16, 2015 |
Allureia:I just downloaded mobdro. OMG....this is one crazy app. It's like Sky TV+DSTV collabo for free! |
Re: Ten(10) Applications You Must Have On Your Android Smartphone by Nobody: 8:52pm On Aug 16, 2015 |
ExInferis: I think the 4gigs ram will add to.faster gpu rendering. It will also unleash a superb multi tasking capabilities sammy is know know for.The only thing is I am not sure this 3000mah ampage will be enough to push the pixels and clock speed that will come from these Ram |
Re: Ten(10) Applications You Must Have On Your Android Smartphone by Kennessy50: 9:09pm On Aug 16, 2015 |
u mentioned few of the apps but still hav alot to be mentioned more of d apps include frontline commando,apkshare,mp3 converter,piano,youtube downloader,cardiograph, wps office,cymera,dr driving,trafic racer,highway rider,merriam webster and so on. |
Re: Ten(10) Applications You Must Have On Your Android Smartphone by Eberex(m): 9:19pm On Aug 16, 2015 |
Endi: Aha, now you're talking |
Re: Ten(10) Applications You Must Have On Your Android Smartphone by sallysalsa09: 9:30pm On Aug 16, 2015 |
izuch: Looooool sick |
Re: Ten(10) Applications You Must Have On Your Android Smartphone by ExInferis(m): 9:37pm On Aug 16, 2015 |
danjumakolo: If they stopped putting unnecessary 2k displays on phones maybe battery life wont be an issue. Android is just a poorly architected OS, requiring octacores and oodles of RAM while iphone 6 does much better with dual cores at lower clock speeds and just 2gb or less of ram. That's why it's interesting seeing android fans gloating about specs to apple fans, or windows fans. 1 Like |
Re: Ten(10) Applications You Must Have On Your Android Smartphone by Superman11(m): 9:43pm On Aug 16, 2015 |
Is this all?? This is Absolutely RUBBISH!!! Seriously Battery APP!!! 1 Like |
Re: Ten(10) Applications You Must Have On Your Android Smartphone by kurupt1: 9:54pm On Aug 16, 2015 |
ladyF:mugu |
Re: Ten(10) Applications You Must Have On Your Android Smartphone by izuch(m): 9:58pm On Aug 16, 2015 |
sallysalsa09: Who's sick? |
Re: Ten(10) Applications You Must Have On Your Android Smartphone by Nobody: 10:07pm On Aug 16, 2015 |
ExInferis: Well for me,I only like Android because of its open source spirit.This gives me ability to have read and access right into the system partition, thereby modding every thing to my taste.The days of frequent power dissipation in Android is getting over with the coming of qi charging and power banks. 1 Like |
Re: Ten(10) Applications You Must Have On Your Android Smartphone by ChrisHandsome999(m): 10:39pm On Aug 16, 2015 |
FriedPlantain:gud evening evangelist.. FriedPlantain:gud evening evangelist.. |
Re: Ten(10) Applications You Must Have On Your Android Smartphone by Nobody: 10:40pm On Aug 16, 2015 |
your list sucks. what the hell am I doing with DU battery saver when my phone has its own battery percentage n kill used background app without telling me. u try sha to have made fp 1 Like |
Re: Ten(10) Applications You Must Have On Your Android Smartphone by ExInferis(m): 12:34am On Aug 17, 2015 |
danjumakolo: Qi is just one type of competing inductive charging. Better to say "wireless charging" to mean the technology. Also your ability to root will soon be taken away from you. Android wants to compete on the enterprise and government fronts, so security is ever more paramount, especially on biometrics-verified payment which is already supported on Android M. Samsung Knox already disables Samsung Pay if you root. With the recent Stagefright fiasco, Google and its partners have no choice but to strengthen security; that means more bootloader lockdowns. Android is very much becoming iOS: dwindling root, sealed battery, disappearing SD Card (which is inevitable due to samsung's new File System which will be industry standard) etc. |
Re: Ten(10) Applications You Must Have On Your Android Smartphone by krozay(m): 1:20am On Aug 17, 2015 |
1)Musixmatch 2)es file explorer 3)leo's fortune 4)mobdro 5)wps office 6)snapseed 7)pocket showbox 9)uc browser 10)vlc |
Re: Ten(10) Applications You Must Have On Your Android Smartphone by bankydd(m): 2:31am On Aug 17, 2015 |
shadowgwalker: pls bro..you got link to a new license key ..avast blocked the forner one now my system is ridden with virus |
Re: Ten(10) Applications You Must Have On Your Android Smartphone by Nobody: 6:10am On Aug 17, 2015 |
ExInferis:As long as Android runs a linux kernel there will always be root. Android wants to compete on the enterprise and government fronts, so security is ever more paramount, especially on biometrics-verified payment which is already supported on Android M. Samsung Knox already disables Samsung Pay if you root.You can root your phone without tripping Knox; TowelRoot does that already. With the recent Stagefright fiasco, Google and its partners have no choice but to strengthen security; that means more bootloader lockdowns.There will always be Nexus devices. adb reboot-bootloader fastboot oem unlock There. FTFY. |
Re: Ten(10) Applications You Must Have On Your Android Smartphone by ExInferis(m): 8:32am On Aug 17, 2015 |
Karmanaut: Having SU access by design as an admin is quite different from hacking into your phone to gain elevated privileges. There's a reason phones come with root access blocked. While home automation, car integration, IoT, and payments are rapidly coming from the future to the present, Google and the OEMs have no choice but to completely lock down Android. This is inevitable. No one would seriously transact securely on a device that is easily cracked open. Have you noticed its getting progressively harder to gain root access these days. Security is one of the core reasons blackberry ruled the corporate and government landscapes. Its also something microsoft crows about. Lool at iOS. We started from full pwnage and soft unlocks to a near total lockdown. Apple invested heavily on security. No government or enterprise ia going to deploy a platform that is insecure. Tje days of catering to a select geeky few are fast dwindling. In these days of snowden, mobile payments etc android has to be locked down. And you seriously believe samsung, with all its investment in knox, wont spend considerable resources to fortify knox? Not if they want to succeed as a payments platform. Giving a few nerds root will hurt them more than the petitions of a tinkering few. Also, samsung rules the android world, being the only oem making any profit from android. Removing sdcards is not just a design choice, its both business as well as technological considerations. With thinning profits they dont want to keep paying microsoft royalties on the aging FAT file system. Sealed batteries are a design trade-off, as phones shave millimeters and bezels to get thinner and SoCs get smaller, removable batteries have to go. Of course, the renegade thin-margin OEMs such as Oppo, OnePlus, Elephone, Tecno, etc will keep giving you root in their android forks, so be happy. But one day you'll say, Ex Inferis did say once that root will be gone. 1 Like |
Re: Ten(10) Applications You Must Have On Your Android Smartphone by Jean2(m): 8:35am On Aug 17, 2015 |
Shine Ya Eyes flashlight app made by a Nigerian. Works on android phone with or without camera light. |
Re: Ten(10) Applications You Must Have On Your Android Smartphone by sallysalsa09: 8:44am On Aug 17, 2015 |
Re: Ten(10) Applications You Must Have On Your Android Smartphone by Nobody: 9:12am On Aug 17, 2015 |
ExInferis: By qi charging,I mean Android phone like Samsung comes with special charging ports to charge WIRELESSLY and within 30 minutes,you get 100% change. I think what gave Android these phenomenal rise is her policy of open source.OEMs that bring a locked boot loader will loose customers and thats why the Chinese phones are heating the US market,being that they are non contract phones.I think the RC community of xda will fight any phone that comes with a locked program.The simple adb shell command which allows you to run unprivileged mode is able to either 1) gain privileged access and execute in privileged mode(changing ro.secure or 2) start another program that executes in privileged mode( sudo command). If this holds, the Android system by itself is pretty much not immune to privilege escalation attempts. The stagefight alerted by zimperium which is found in the core Android media play back lib has been patched by Google within 3 days.So I gez Google engineers aren't sleeping. Developers will always have there way to use sam pay.A mere installation of triangle away allows you to clear the hash counter found in knox.This shud allow u use the loop pay. I think Google might only come with a decentralized authentication technology where each Android device is capable of directly verifying the identity of other device without the need for a third-party Key Center. This end-to-end authentication creates a protected communications network that is entirely insulated from cyber-threats and privacy intrusions. Within this circle of trust, users can exchange sensitive data such as social security numbers or bank wiring instructions and know that the information will reach only the device intended just like what turing robotics is bringing now This can only be done where the master public key and the unique private key are anonymously pre-bundled into Android phone. 1 Like |
Re: Ten(10) Applications You Must Have On Your Android Smartphone by sojye: 10:16am On Aug 17, 2015 |
FriedPlantain:there is no way you can download from pornhub app. You can only watch porn there |
Re: Ten(10) Applications You Must Have On Your Android Smartphone by Nobody: 10:59am On Aug 17, 2015 |
bankydd:u mean for android? Use a torrent site and app to search for this word; 'avast.apk'. Im sure u will get something cool. Or , if its ok with u, then AVG is what I'll also suggest. Its cool too. |
Re: Ten(10) Applications You Must Have On Your Android Smartphone by ExInferis(m): 2:56pm On Aug 17, 2015 |
danjumakolo: there're so many things wrong in this post. 1. Qi is a trademarked standard of the Wireless Power Consortium. It doesnt come with ports, its simply inductive charging between a transmitter coil and a receiver coil separated by an air gap of say 5mm. And there's no way in heck inductive charging is efficient enough to charge to 100% in 30 mins! it's trickle charge, slow and inefficient. Even the bundled samsung's quick charge 2.0 charger goes full in 2 hours. 2. danjumakolo: only a small segment of the market makes their purchasing decision based on rooting capability. Dont assume because you and I and a few of our pals are tinkerers mean the mass market are also geeks. No OEMs market their products and put "rootable" in their blurbs and bullet points. Even Google doesnt advertise Android as something inherently rootable. You forget that the bread and butter customers of hardware are carriers: they buy the phones at premium, stuff them with bloatware, lock them to their network and sell at contract. The carriers, who have a remarkable say in the Android world than in the iOS world, would not accept any OEM marketing root as a feature, even if just for the sake of warranty. Look at the official Google Developer Edition phones: how many did they sell? what is the Nexus market as compared to samsung and LG? The xiaomis, Lenovos, OnePlus and Huaweis make their market due to high specs and low price, that is their appeal. Most of them come with theme engines, making the desire for root access minimal. danjumakolo: Android rose because it's free, yes. Every manufacturer and their dog could take AOSP and knock out a phone in no time. BUT... The concept of Google's version of Android, the official Android, is going closed source. Google is moving more and more key services and tying them to Google Play Services and frameworks, which are proprietary. OEMs and developers are begining to have to kowtow to Google's design language and best practices if they want PlayStore and Google services. Google is asserting control, and the garden is becoming walled. Even the PlayStore, which once was wide open, in now being curated in incremental steps. This policy is what gave rise to CyanogenOS and Cyanogen as a company bent on taking their fork of Android in a direction consistent with the AOSP vision. danjumakolo: Absolutely not. Like i said earlier, no one buys phones just for open bootloaders, else the developer editions would have sold more than any other phone. OEMs market either specs, or lower costs. The average consumer does not even know what root or bootloaders are, and those 2 terms are definiote no-nos for corporate and government purchasers. Open bootloaders and root access portray an insecure platform. XDA exists precisely because of locked hardware. They challenge themselves to beat root and do stuff just for the heck of it. Also, the chinese phones are not officially sold in the US, except imports. Most of the chinese phones run on TDD LTE, which is incompatible with US LTE bands. The chinese phones hardly come with playstore by default, and the chinese language is pervasive and system wide. The main market of the chinese phones are Asia itself. danjumakolo: for the bug to exist, someone WAS sleeping in Mountain View. And as for the patch, it applies to only a small subset of the billions of phones out there, precisely due to fragmentation. A lot of phones are stuck on Gingerbread, Froyo, ICS, Jellybean. Those ones are left out. When Apple or Microsoft releases an update, it rolls out almost simultaneously to all users. danjumakolo: You're talking basically about asymmetrical cryptography and a challenge-response system. But peer to peer in these days of multifactor authentication is risky. There needs to be a central clearing house that verifies token blobs going both ways as an added layer of security. Except if the keys are stored in a Secure Element, like Apple does with Apple Pay, vendors must design a panic system that rejects transactions once a phone is hacked, which still invalidates the need for root access. This means a third party cert server in the big grey cloud! 1 Like |
Re: Ten(10) Applications You Must Have On Your Android Smartphone by olatommy7(m): 4:30pm On Aug 17, 2015 |
kindly let me know what apps i can download to open view ms word file on android phone thanks |
Re: Ten(10) Applications You Must Have On Your Android Smartphone by niiabe: 5:51pm On Aug 17, 2015 |
saxywale: Power Amp made me who I am Today.... I first rooted my phone because of power ( to get free forever with lucky patcher) |
Re: Ten(10) Applications You Must Have On Your Android Smartphone by Nobody: 6:44pm On Aug 17, 2015 |
ExInferis: Lemmi not drag this discussion. But I am surprised you didn't highlight the main aim of an unlocked boot loader.it's not because of rooting,but it allows customers to choose from the variety of carriers.Moto x style is gonna rave the US market because it's coming unlocked. Nice interracting wiv u |
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