Re: Must Have Apps

From	Nigel Wade <nmw@local.domain>
Newsgroups	comp.mobile.android
Subject	Re: Must Have Apps
Date	2016-09-05 13:01 +0100
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On 26/08/16 09:31, Jeff Gaines wrote:
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> I have a Lenovo Phab Plus, the model was made for the Chinese market but I got it (new) for £200 from eBay from an enterprising seller who seems to have shipped a load in to the UK.
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> I have installed Facebook Messenger on it to keep in touch with daughter. Anything good or bad known about this app? In theory it works over the Internet so no charges.
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> I have also installed Pushbullet which links my laptop and 'phone together so that I can send & receive texts from the laptop which is quite neat. Again I think it is free but if anybody knows different I'd like to know.
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> I have used computers since the Commodore Vic 20 and the BBC Micro but since this 'phone is the first that is actually big enough for me to use comfortably I'd be interested by any recommendations for "must have" apps to make it even more useful/usable.
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> My deal with BT gives me free WiFi pretty well anywhere in the UK so I have Internet access most of the time without using mobile data.
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> Thanks.
>

Audio Manager Pro
    setup different audio profiles, with schedules, which allows you to control the level of the 5 audio channels by day/time.
    a widget allows cycling through all the profiles.
    There's a free version which, IIRC, is the same but without the schedule capability.

Power Toggles
    provides a widget which allows you to toggle various settings normally buried several layers deep in Settings:
    WiFi, mobile data, GPS, Blutooth etc.

OS Monitor
    Similar to Linux "top", or Windows Task Manager.
    See which pesky task/app. is eating your battery in the background and hopefully terminate it with extreme prejudice (unfortunately not all tasks can be terminated).

Highways England
    If your sat. nav. doesn't have traffic info.

PowerAmp unlocked
    the "best" music player.

All the BBC apps.

If you have Sky or BT TV then their related apps.

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Must Have Apps "Jeff Gaines" <jgaines_newsid@yahoo.co.uk> - 2016-08-26 08:31 +0000
  Re: Must Have Apps Bob Henson <rh547477@gmail.com> - 2016-08-26 10:15 +0100
    Re: Must Have Apps "Jeff Gaines" <jgaines_newsid@yahoo.co.uk> - 2016-08-26 10:14 +0000
      Re: Must Have Apps Bob Henson <rh547477@gmail.com> - 2016-08-26 11:44 +0100
        Re: Must Have Apps "Jeff Gaines" <jgaines_newsid@yahoo.co.uk> - 2016-08-26 11:15 +0000
      Re: Must Have Apps Roger Mills <watt.tyler@gmail.com> - 2016-08-26 15:56 +0100
        Re: Must Have Apps AL <noemail@none.com> - 2016-08-26 09:22 -0700
        Re: Must Have Apps Walter Briscoe <wbriscoe@nospam.demon.co.uk> - 2016-08-27 08:05 +0100
          Re: Must Have Apps David Taylor <david-taylor@blueyonder.co.uk.invalid> - 2016-08-27 09:24 +0100
        Re: Must Have Apps Daniel James <daniel@me.invalid> - 2016-08-27 13:09 +0100
          Re: Must Have Apps Gordon Levi <gordon@address.invalid> - 2016-08-27 23:54 +1000
            Re: Must Have Apps Daniel James <daniel@me.invalid> - 2016-08-28 14:54 +0100
              Google Keep (was: Re: Must Have Apps) Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> - 2016-08-29 01:32 +0200
                Re: Google Keep (was: Re: Must Have Apps) Chris in Makati <mail@nospam.com> - 2016-08-29 11:39 +0700
                Re: Google Keep AL <noemail@none.com> - 2016-08-29 09:53 -0700
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                Re: Google Keep AL <noemail@none.com> - 2016-08-29 09:54 -0700
                Re: Google Keep (was: Re: Must Have Apps) Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> - 2016-08-30 05:47 +0200
                Re: Google Keep (was: Must Have Apps) Daniel James <daniel@me.invalid> - 2016-08-30 18:47 +0100
                Re: Google Keep The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2016-08-30 12:54 -0700
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                Re: Google Keep AL <noemail@none.com> - 2016-08-31 18:36 -0700
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                Re: Google Keep Alexander Schreiber <als@usenet.thangorodrim.de> - 2016-09-01 14:33 +0200
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                Re: Google Keep AL <noemail@none.com> - 2016-08-30 14:19 -0700
        Re: Must Have Apps "s|b" <me@privacy.invalid> - 2016-08-27 14:48 +0200
  Re: Must Have Apps nospam@thanks.com - 2016-08-26 17:01 +0100
  Re: Must Have Apps Aardvarks <aardvarks@a.b.c.com> - 2016-08-27 09:44 +0000
  Re: Must Have Apps "s|b" <me@privacy.invalid> - 2016-08-27 14:44 +0200
  Re: Must Have Apps "Jeff Gaines" <jgaines_newsid@yahoo.co.uk> - 2016-08-28 07:48 +0000
  Re: Must Have Apps Nigel Wade <nmw@local.domain> - 2016-09-05 13:01 +0100

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