#MOST USEFUL APPS FOR ANDROID TABLETS ANDROID#
The BBC updated its Android news app for larger devices CULTUREīBC NEWS free. It makes good use of the larger screens, and its notifications can be tweaked to your preferences. Keen Twitter users should appreciate TweetComb, which is a Twitter client focused on tablets running the Android Honeycomb software. At its most useful when you dive into its tools to "remix" different feeds into single streams about whatever topic you like. Another social news-reading app, this, which accesses stories from sites using their RSS feeds.
It's a discovery app that promises to 'find Tablified apps so you don't have to'. If this article is a starting point for discovering new Android tablet apps, Tablified Market should be your next port of call. Another news aggregator, News360 gets content from more than 10,000 news sites, promising to learn from your social and RSS accounts what you like to read about, in order to filter accordingly. This catch-all messaging app combines Skype, Facebook Chat and a host of instant messaging services into one, with the option to ping text, photos and voice notes to contacts. Now optimised for tablets as well as smartphones, Firefox offers a useful alternative to the default Android browser, including the ability to sync bookmarks and history with the desktop version. Looking for an Android alternative to Flipboard? Feedly is worth a look, promising a personalised magazine pulling in stories from Google Reader, Tumblr, Twitter, Facebook and other services.įIREFOX free. News360 is a news aggregation app for Android tablets SOCIAL MEDIA / WEBįEEDLY free. Proceed with caution, but please do report back on your experiences with specific devices. We have also opted against restricting the list to apps optimised for Honeycomb-only software, given the existence of a number of tablets running earlier versions of Android.Ī third caveat: Android being what it is, we can't guarantee that all 50 apps will be available or run well on all the devices out there, particularly at the cheaper end of the market.
In both cases, your criticisms and alternative suggestions are welcomed in the comments section. Second, any selection of this kind will be tinged by the personal preferences of the writer. First, this is aimed more at people unboxing an Android tablet for the first time, so some of the suggestions may seem obvious to experienced owners. Shortly after that was published, we began gathering suggestions for inclusion in an Android follow-up, and have spent the months since then drawing up our own longlist of possibles. Hence this roundup, following our separate rundown of the 50 best iPad apps in September 2011. Android devices have a way to go to catch up in terms of overall quantity, but the number of quality apps for Android tablets has been improving steadily. One of the key selling points for Apple's iPad is the more-than 140,000 native apps available for the device.
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