Gadgetory

hello again ladies and gentlemen I'm Joe handy the Android authority app guy have you just received your first Android phone confused on which apps to get well after the intro will show you our recommendations for 10 apps that all Android phones should have if you're at all interested in what's going on in the news you'll need a good news aggregator our staff picked feedly is the number one option and there's a reason why because it's awesome it's functional and it looks really good it's back-end is also called Normandy and we think the world could use more Mass Effect references you can make it look like Flipboard but act like Google Reader if you're new to Android this is a great way to customize your news experience but even if you've been here for a while it's still a really good app to use if you're looking for something a little more flashy our runner-up in this category was Flipboard and cloud storage is where mobile storage is headed anyway so it doesn't hurt to already have this set up for when it inevitably happens our staff picked for cloud storage was Dropbox the reason for this is that it's Dropbox and it's already one of the best cloud storage services out there you can set your device to auto upload to Dropbox for things like photos so you're already backed up if something goes wrong there's an initial limit to how much storage you can have but through occasional promotions you can actually increase this storage free of charge a runner up in this category is the equally awesome Google Drive music streaming is all the rage these days and Spotify is one of the best music streaming apps out there you can use it for free if you don't mind suffering through a few ads or you can get a paid subscription for all the music you can listen to ad free you can download songs for offline mode listen to single tracks or create radio stations it has a simple interface and even some social networking built in if you use Facebook don't worry though as you can still use the app even if you don't have a Facebook if you're planning on making your Android phone and all Google experience our runner-up in this category was Google Music everyone takes notes one way or another and Google keep was our staff pick for the note-taking app everyone should have it has a dead simple yet colorful and fun interface where you can take all the notes you want to supplement this you can sign in to drive.google.com backslash key if you want to access all your notes on a computer we've reviewed this app a handful of times already so our longtime fans may think we're beating a dead horse here but we really can't rave enough about keep it simple it's powerful it sings to computers what more could you possibly need in a note-taking app if you want something a little more complex our runner-up in this category was Evernote mobile devices have become so powerful that light gaming is really no big deal anymore when we recommend light gaming the votes went to Angry Birds it's a fun addicting game that's already well known the world over on top of that there are six Angry Birds games to choose from seven if you count bad piggies it's really hard to argue with a billion downloads so we didn't really try every game follows the same basic simple premise and there are hundreds of levels to play and master if Angry Birds just isn't your thing our runner-up was Temple Run or Temple Run like games such as one epic night consequently mobile devices have also become so powerful that heavy gaming is no big deal there are a lot of big-name titles to choose from and we chose dead trigger it's a free first-person shooter where you can mow down zombies really who can't get into that the controls are a little complicated but you get used to them over time and the game is easy enough to be fun while remaining difficult enough to be challenging if you want to try something different a surprising number of our staff recommended PlayStation and 64 SNES and other console emulators everyone takes pictures and photography is a pretty widespread profession and hobby lots of people do it and if you want to do photography on your Android device you'll need a photo editing app our choice was Snapseed because it's powerful easy and best of all free you can apply a lot of filters and edit in a number of different ways this isn't as powerful as computer image editing of course but it's definitely among the best if you're in a pinch or on the go if you want something a little more hands-on our runner-up was photoshop touch creating editing and sharing documents is pretty common these days with smartphones and tablets so if you want to keep up you'll need an app that can do that our staff pick was Google Drive the reason is simple it's solid it's stable it's free and if you're a fan of consolidation it can also double as your cloud storage you can only create spreadsheets and documents in the mobile app however these can be shared with anyone edited in real time by anyone has been shared with and it has all the tools necessary to create a really good document if you need more features like presentations we recommend office suite pro like note-taking more and more people are using their mobile devices to keep track of the stuff they have to do so a good task management app can help turn your hectic day into something a little more manageable for this we recommend Wonder it's everything you need in a task management app you can create new tasks add sub tasks and even organize them in various categories so if you have a work folder a home folder a vacation folder etc you can really keep track of your day pretty well you can even sign up for an account for additional features if Wunderlist just isn't what you're looking for our second recommendation is tasks by team tasks last and certainly not least is shopping we buy things all the time online these days so why not do it from your smartphone for this we recommend Amazon its giant selection above average reliability and solid mobile app make shopping on your smartphone easy and enjoyable you can do pretty much all the basic tasks you can on the website you can order stuff you can track packages you can browse around search for products change or one-click buy settings and much more if you don't like Amazon or your country doesn't have it available our second pick was eBay here is everything so you can take a look again usually we do a leaderboard but comparing apps to perform different tasks is comparing apples to oranges so we didn't bother with this one if you want to check them out the links are in the video description usually our app lists are based on things like popularity Play Store ratings and other factors this time that is not the case these apps are what we recommend based on how our staff voted so if you think there's an app that should have been mentioned that wasn't feel free to leave us a comment and let us know once again I'm Joe Hendy the Android authority app 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