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4. Best Free Multimedia for Android
MX Player (6.8 MB), a powerful video player supports for multi gestures such as pinch and unpinch to zoom in and out videos to fit your screen, left scroll to adjust brightness and right scroll to adjust volume, multi-core decoding, CPU optimization and better subtitle readability. (
Review)
MoboPlayer (5.7 MB), playback videos in various formats with features including thumbnail displays, subtitles, slide up/down on the left/right side to adjust volume and brightness, long press a file to add to playlist, view properties and more. (
Review)
QQPlayer (6.7 MB), a video player supports for most popular formats including avi, flv, mp4, 3gp, mkv, mov and more, with added features such as on-screen volume adjuster and a zoom button.
mVideoPlayer (1.4 MB), offers three modes of video zoom, supports for subtitle, playlist and a video library browser with thumbnails, video info, search and other optional tweaks. A good replacement of Android's built-in video player.
RealPlayer (2.6 MB), enjoy your favorite multimedia content all in one app—either watch a video, listen to music or view a slideshow of photoes. Features include select music by artists, albums, genres or ratings, photo thumbnail previews and various settings. (
Review)
TTPod (5.0 MB), play your music files by titles, artist, albums, genres, folders, favorites or playlists, supporting rich features such as a skinnable player, visualization, 10-band equalizer, auto search and display album art and synchronized lyrics, shake to change songs, sleep timer and basic tag editor. (
Review)
Winamp (6.8 MB), easy to use with a clean user interface. You can play music by albums, artists, songs, genres or playlists, sync files wirelessly with the desktop Winamp, access to Internet radio stations with SHOUTcast, download free music from Spinner or stream it from CDLP. The free version is Ad-supported and has no equalizer. (
Review)
MyMusicOn Music Player (488 KB), a good directory music player with supports for album art and lyric displays, via either online searching for synced lyrics, LRC files or lyric ID3 tags saved in your music files.
3 (Cubed) (895 KB), enhance your experience in playing music with this creative player viewable in Cubed, Wall, Boring or Morph Flow mode, with other useful features inclusive of playlists, a graphical equalizer, widgets, fetching missing art covers and preference settings.
Qloud Media Free (5.7 MB), play your PC-based music, video and picture files on your mobile device everywhere you go, without the need to copy or upload the files as the
Qloud Server on your PC streams your shared folders to your mobile via the Internet connection. Ad-supported.
Flipps (11 MB), formerly iMediaShare, a popular app supports for
DLNA or
UPnP devices and turns your smartphone into a media server to stream your personal and online media to your TV via local WiFi network. It also acts as a media renderer to play back media content streamed from another compliant device.
YouTube (6.0 MB), search, share and view videos from the popular video sharing site YouTube with this official app in a clean user interface, or upload a video to YouTube right away from your mobile device.
AndroVid Video Trimmer (7.0 MB), split a video file into two separate clips, trim away unwanted parts in a video, or grab a video frame in an intuitive and easy-to-use interface. You can also convert videos into MP3 audio files with this app. Some special effects are only for the Pro version.
IMDb Movies & TV (1.4 MB), watch trailers, browse photos, find latest releases, explore popular charts, rate movies and share movie info from a huge resource of more than 1.5 million titles, and 3.2 million celebrities, actors and actresses, directors and crew members.
TuneIn Radio (9.0 MB), listen to local or worldwide ratio station streams on the web, find an extensive selection of local radios, music, talks, sports and podcasts from over 100,000 stations, and preset your favorite channels at ease. (
Review)
A Online Radio (1.0 MB), a complete online radio player for your device to play any channel including mp3, m3u, pls, aac, aacp channels, shoutcast and icecast directories. You can search for channels and save them into your favorite list, plus other useful features including sleep timer.
ZEDGE (2.1 MB), search and preview ringtones by categories, download any you like and set it as your default or contact ringtones, replacing the Android System ringtone which has fewer options. Searching wallpapers for your home screens is included.
See also Wallpaper Changer.
musiXmatch Lyrics Player (6.6 MB), find lyrics of your music while you play it from within the app, identify music through the microphone with the Music ID, or search lyrics from a rich database of over 6 million lyrics in 18 languages.
My Piano (6.5 MB), a superb piano app comes in with studio quality sounds, various intruments and sound effects, multi-touch, optional two actaves, an integrated recorder with save and load functionality, plus a plethora of other features good for beginners and advanced users. Ad-supported.
Magic Piano (17 MB), experience the fun of playing piano with the keyboard in a variety of styles or by tapping on the beams of light to create melodies, share your musical skills with friends, enjoy a large catalog of songs or listen to other players' performances, all in this popular app. Additional songs require in-app purchases.
Pimp My Music (2.4 MB), auto fetch missing lyrics and album art covers in various sizes and edit most common tag fields including artist, title, album, genre, lyrics, track, year, composer and comment. It comes with a built-in player and supports formats including mp3, ogg, flac, aac, mp4, m4a and wma.
Gmote 2.0 (319 KB), turn your mobile device into a remote control unit to browse and play music and video files on your computer—install this app on your device and
Gmote Server on your PC, once it's set up, just sit back in a sofa and enjoy.
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Poweramp is trial , link2 sd and titanium is for root users , and imo task killers are not necessary for android , gmx mail is not in english ... other suggestions are good..thanx
There're two popular schools of thoughts whether you need a task killer for your Android device. One says Yes and the other No.
By design, Android determines for you if it needs to get rid of a process that is not needed by force-killing it, based on its memory management and the apps telling it whether they are running services. (See also Multitasking the Android Way)
Taking the advantage of this design, quite a number of apps don't offer you to close the programs other than pressing the Back button to send them to the background. But there're cases where you still need to actually stop an app without waiting for the system to do so.
Just for example, when I run a game, it always goes back to the stage where I left off. To go back to the beginning stage, I'll need to access the system by going to Menu > Settings > Applications > Manage Applications, and select the game app to 'force stop' it. Or rather, I would run a task killer to do it more quickly than repeatedly going through the many steps.
If using task killer for closing just one or two apps then its fine but mostly people open task killer and press kill all task which does more harm
and most of time it depends on the user...if he/she thinks it will help than he/she will do it regardless any info
You're right about PowerAMP, Link2SD and Titanium Backup but GMX Mail is english and very useful. GMX Mail was elected best in this site.
http://www.techsupportalert.com/content/best-free-online-applications-an...
Thanks for comments...
Den maybe my mistake..when i clicked the link for gmx for android market the screenshot were not in english and in comments alos ppl had complained
The UI of the app GMX Mail is in English so I don't see any problem in using it. Added to the list.
Appreciated your feedback and many suggestions Mesen. TaskPanel XTRA is now replaced with Advanced Task Killer in this list. Any.DO has been commented at this post.
Update: MX Video Player is a good suggestion and added to the list.
Why u still havent tested avast ?
This probably will take us some time to look into as we have more choices of security apps now in the market. Other than Lookout which has been widely used and Avast which was recently officially released as you've mentioned, there're also many others which are worth our attention such as below:
AVG Antivirus Free
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.antivirus
Creative Antivirus Free
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.zrgiu.antivirus
Norton Security and Antivirus
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.symantec.mobilesecurity
Dr.Web Anti-virus Light
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.drweb
NetQin Security & Anti-virus
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.nqmobile.antivirus20
Zoner AntiVirus Free
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.zoner.android.antivirus
Webroot Security & Antivirus
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.webroot.security
Very likely we can set up a separate review category at our site for a more detailed comparison to see how effective these apps are.
If there's goin to be a seperate review then very good...however if u see this http://www.avast.com/free-mobile-security avast has the most features , more features are coming and everything is for free !
also see this chart to see where thy stand in detection
http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=314966
Hi I was trying to download the droid apps and it keeps telling me There are no Android phones associated with this account. Please sign in with a different account.Thanks ivorysoul
See "Missing devices on the Android Market website" and hope that helps.
Please consider adding Kingsoft Office (English) to Home and Office section. I think it is a great office suite. Feature-rich(editing included) and entirely free!
https://market.android.com/details?id=cn.wps.moffice_eng&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImNuLndwcy5tb2ZmaWNlX2VuZyJd
Thanks Ivan for the suggestion. Added to the list.
Gesture launcher (by Shinji)
https://market.android.com/details?id=jp.shinji.android.app.launcher.gesturelauncher&feature=also_installed#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEwNCwianAuc2hpbmppLmFuZHJvaWQuYXBwLmxhdW5jaGVyLmdlc3R1cmVsYXVuY2hlciJd
launch gesture launcher with skyfish launcher free or task changer ads. That's good shortcut too.
I would like to suggest the following
Call Control - Call Blocker
It has a community Blacklist, as well as your personal list. It blocks calls, sms, spam calls, and much more.
Won Verizon's save time app for the last couple of years.
I have used it for a few weeks now ad it works great.
Dear Jojoyee,
I would like to recommend following good apps to ur attention and request u to review them:
Mobisle Notes - for taking notes and making checklist; comes with reminder/alarm.
StartUp Manager - a very good start up manager.
Mobo task Killer (now Easy Task Killer) with Easy Battery Saver plugin - both are too good. Mobo is automatic task cleaner.
AutoAppOrganizer - it is much much better App Organizer listed herein. Interface itself is praiseworthy. Finally, I got the best App Organizer and launcher.
Sanity - is a very good call manager; runs along with the call; comes with call blocking call recording.
Days left - a nice looking widget for reminding a future task/event.
SeePU - shows cpu activity and available memory in notification. Very handy.
Executive Assistant free - is widget which organizes notifications for missed calls, received messages, calender events, facebook notifications under one widget. Very handy and my favorite!!
AndRoot--- M------- - is a good file manager, though it looks like a root file manager but isn't. (Moderated: Not free)
Habit Streak - a handy app to form any habit.
Quick Exit - provides a shortcut in notification to end any app quickly.
Quick Boot - provides very handy options to reboot or shutdown the phone.
Battery Monitor Widget - is a very good widget and app to show important information about battery state and comes with various alarms necessary for battery maintenance.
ShakeOff - provides a quick way to lock the screen just by shaking the phone.
DeviceInfo - provides a quick view of the system information.
Please provide links. Without links, and with so much of suggestions, I think you will understand how difficult it will be for Jojo, and the moderators to search for each and every suggestion.
Dear Sir,
Pl consider the following as I feel they are worthy of being included in the list:
1. AutoApp Organizer - https://market.android.com/details?id=com.utility.autoapporganizer&featu...
2. Mobisle Notes - https://market.android.com/details?id=mobisle.mobisleNotesADC&feature=se....
3. Quick Exit - https://market.android.com/details?id=com.aps.smartbar.quickexit&feature....
4. Quick Boot - https://market.android.com/details?id=com.siriusapplications.quickboot&f....
5. Screen On Toggler - https://market.android.com/details?id=com.malcolm.screenontoggler&featur...
6. Seepu - https://market.android.com/details?id=com.latedroid.seepu&feature=search.....
7. Battery Monitor Widget - https://market.android.com/details?id=ccc71.bmw&feature=search_result#?t...
8. Shake off - https://market.android.com/details?id=com.droiddev.shake&feature=search_...
9. Deviceinfo - https://market.android.com/details?id=com.curvefish.apps.deviceinfo&feat....
10. Executive assistant free - https://market.android.com/details?id=com.appventive.ExecAssist.ad&featu.....
11. Sanity - https://market.android.com/details?id=com.appventive.ExecAssist.ad&featu.....
12. Startup Manager - https://market.android.com/details?id=imoblife.startupmanager&feature=se....
13. Easy Battery Saver + Task Killer - https://market.android.com/details?id=com.easy.battery.saver&feature=sea.....
14. Habit Streak - https://market.android.com/details?id=uk.amimetic.habits&feature=search_...
15. Appkik - https://market.android.com/details?id=com.diune.appkik2&feature=search_r....
Thanks Abhay, much appreciated.
And please, don't call me sir :).
No, PM me and I'll suggest something else :D
Dear Anupam,
I agree with u. But I am a user of the android phone. Being a member of this site, I would like to contribute as much as I can. If I suggest more and more good applications, it will be of huge benefit for the user community of this site. However, as I have mentioned the correct names for each app and Jojoyee has explained, there should not be much of a hassle in finding the right applications. In future, I would suggest 2-3 apps at a time with links as required.
Dear Abhay, we welcome the suggestions gladly, and are ever thankful to the visitors for them. Of course, with the names, one can find them, but still, one has to search, and if there are a whole lot of suggestions, then you can understand, its time consuming to search each and every one of them.
Time is important for everyone. The reason for writing my comment was simple, that the editor does not have to perform time consuming operation for searching and then checking each suggestion. I hope you understand, and thanks for your co-operation.
It's good to have links but when without, it's ok to me if the app names given are accurate. Quite easy to find them via the Search Box from the Android Market page at https://market.android.com/
Thanks everyone for giving many good suggestions and I'll go through them one by one.
Avast for android has been released
kicks all other av's to dust
http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=90818.0
Any.DO
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.anydo&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5hbnlkbyJd
Nice! comfortable for eye and feel cool and clear. Todo that suggest you todo.
and has widget,too,it will be the great todo.
Any.DO looks pretty good, simple and easy to use. I also like the gesture features such as drag and drop to organize, mark completed task by swiping or clear them all by shaking. That said, syncing tasks with Google Tasks didn't work well in that a task folder deleted from Google Tasks still appeared in this app when I tried it .
A similar app Taskos To Do List | Task List seems to have even more features. Syncing task folders with the Google account worked well when tested but the task items were repeated in my Google Tasks after syncing.
Both apps are potential competitors and would have been better if the above shortfalls are ironed out.
You are right! It may become a favorite todo app!
Skyfish Swipe Launcher free
https://market.android.com/details?id=net.trashfeed.skyfishfree&feature=search_result
Perfect Task Switcher
https://market.android.com/details?id=org.rabold.android.taskswitcher&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsIm9yZy5yYWJvbGQuYW5kcm9pZC50YXNrc3dpdGNoZXIiXQ..
Skyfish Swipe Launcher and Perfect Task Switcher both are Great. I recommended launch perfect task switcher by swipe from right edge screen.cool,yeah,you know.hehe.
Golocker - another great app by GO team
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.jiubang.goscreenlock&feature=s...
Milocker - has many more themes than golocker
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.miui.home&feature=search_result
Defender - cool game , very addicting
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.droidhen.defender&feature=sear...
Espier launcher - for those who like iphone like launcher
https://market.android.com/details?id=mobi.espier.launcher&feature=searc...
Xplore - remember this on symbian ?
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.lonelycatgames.Xplore&feature=...
iBrowser - using it for 2 days , very fast
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.tencent.ibibo.mtt&feature=sear...