Comments on: Android Apps I Just Couldn’t Live Without

By: Andrew Nattan

Andrew Nattan — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 18:39:11 +0000

I’m interested to see whether or not they’re going to move into Pay Per Call, but other than that I can’t make much of a comment. Not financially viable to get one at the moment.

By: Paul

Paul — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 13:53:28 +0000

What are you feelings on the Google Nexus?

By: Tom Albrighton

Tom Albrighton — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 10:20:07 +0000

Hi Andrew. Thanks for this post, us Androiders have to stick together! I’m going to check out Swift as I also find Twidroid pretty shonky – and withholding lists functionality unless you pay for Pro is the very height of chutzpah.

Although I could probably live without it, Radiant Lite is a great old-school schmup for those who remember dropping 10p pieces into Astro Blaster, Gorf and Galaxians back in the day. If you’re under 35, these words will sound nonsensical and you perhaps should have stopped reading before this paragraph.
.-= Tom Albrighton´s last blog ..Negotiation for freelances | Part 1 of 2: Preparation =-.

By: John

John — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 01:46:16 +0000

Hi Andrew,
I’m one of the developers of Google Sky Map – thanks for putting our app on your list; I’m flattered. I just want to correct one of your comments: Sky Map doesn’t actually need GPS or an internet connection. It needs some means of determining your location and local time. You can enter these manually if you like, but if you do have some kind of data connection (either wifi or cell) it will try to determine them from that. Failing that, it will fall back to using GPS.

We designed Sky Map to not require a data connection as we recognized that the places people would want to use it most might be out in the wilds.
Nevertheless, I agree that it take its toll on your battery though. It does some pretty heavy number crunching which works the processor pretty hard. Hopefully we’ll be able to improve on this in future updates.

Best wishes,

John Taylor