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Trowel 30 Oct 2010 18:15:59 24,512 posts
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I know how much you all love the Stocks app , but for those who actually find it useful you might like to try the app from shareprice.co.uk - free live streaming prices.

brandon-flowers 30 Oct 2010 18:34:48 188 posts
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Birds runs fine on my desire HD

Jazzy_Geoff 30 Oct 2010 18:43:03 8,068 posts
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ironside_online wrote:
It's not the ads that bother me about Angry Birds - it's the flippin' slow down/choppy graphics that come with it. I'm running 2.1 on an Orange San Francisco (the Budget Android Phone of Champions (tm)) and there's glitches all over the shop (no explosion animation being the most obvious). Plus it's frozen on more than one occasion, requiring a Force Stop to recover my phone. It doesn't stop me from playing it all the bloody time though.

Anyone else get these problems?

get a better phone then, you pikey

Deleted user 30 October 2010 22:47:55

i was running fine on my hero with cyanogen 6.1, quite surprised actually

its gone now tho .. *sniff*

PhoenixFlames 8 Nov 2010 19:50:07 9,263 posts
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What's the best FREE video player on android? I'm having a nightmare finding a decent one.

Trowel 8 Nov 2010 20:02:52 24,512 posts
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Rockplayer is a fantastic video player - has a little 'R' in the top corner in the free version is all.

PhoenixFlames 8 Nov 2010 20:04:58 9,263 posts
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Trowel wrote:
Rockplayer is a fantastic video player - has a little 'R' in the top corner in the free version is all.

Yeah, tried that one but can't be doing with the R in the corner, especially when watching films.

Kilters 8 Nov 2010 21:57:46 658 posts
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Try Vplayer.

RyanDS 9 Nov 2010 09:06:36 14,074 posts
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ArcPlayer works great for me. Free and plays everything I throw at it.

terminalterror 18 Nov 2010 23:14:51 18,932 posts
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Instant Heart Rate - you put your finger over the camera lens and it can tell you your pulse from the variation in your skin tone. It is free too

BeheretiK 23 Nov 2010 08:16:36 922 posts
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Whatsapp (http://www.whatsapp.com/android/) is a pretty cool chat app (currently in Beta for Android) with capibility to send media through their servers so saving you cost on texting/mms. It is also cross platform as they have apps for Blackberry, Iphone and Symbian. Pretty good from what I have experienced so far...

Blaketown 23 Nov 2010 09:22:34 5,658 posts
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I already use PingChat for this. Not that I have much of a limit on my texting but a friend has a Blackberry and not many texts so we use that.

Spin_Dr_Wolf 23 Nov 2010 10:11:23 6,170 posts
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crashVoodoo wrote:
i was running fine on my hero with cyanogen 6.1, quite surprised actually

its gone now tho .. *sniff*

Why does everyone seem to love Cyanogen so much ? Is it just because it's Sense'less ?

terminalterror 23 Nov 2010 10:30:19 18,932 posts
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BeheretiK wrote:
Whatsapp (http://www.whatsapp.com/android/) is a pretty cool chat app (currently in Beta for Android) with capibility to send media through their servers so saving you cost on texting/mms. It is also cross platform as they have apps for Blackberry, Iphone and Symbian. Pretty good from what I have experienced so far...

Blaketown wrote:
I already use PingChat for this. Not that I have much of a limit on my texting but a friend has a Blackberry and not many texts so we use that.

Why not just use Google Chat? It is already on your android phone, and doesn't use up any resources (it runs in the background whether you are chatting with it or not), is available on every platform and ties nicely into your contacts.

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Spin Dr Wolf wrote:

crashVoodoo wrote:
i was running fine on my hero with cyanogen 6.1, quite surprised actually

its gone now tho .. *sniff*
Why does everyone seem to love Cyanogen so much ? Is it just because it's Sense'less ?

its everything'less its just stock android with tweaks. no extra fluff taking up cpu time and resources. Also, since he and the others maintaining the code tree update stuff on a faster basis handsets running CM can get the newer android builds before anyone else. Which is why my here was running eclair(2.1) and eventually froyo(2.2) before most others had received eclair.

i'm on a Desire Z now, got it saturday. its already rooted and i've dropped the sense UI from it and put the rom from the G2 on it. its a lot cleaner and theres less crap running in the background. I'm looking at you HTC stocks app.

Blaketown 23 Nov 2010 11:57:42 5,658 posts
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terminalterror wrote:

Blaketown wrote:
I already use PingChat for this. Not that I have much of a limit on my texting but a friend has a Blackberry and not many texts so we use that.

Why not just use Google Chat? It is already on your android phone, and doesn't use up any resources (it runs in the background whether you are chatting with it or not), is available on every platform and ties nicely into your contacts.

I would but her and all her uni mates have bought into PingChat and I can't be arsed to try and instigate a revolution amongst a load of people I don't even know.

RyanDS 23 Nov 2010 12:07:27 14,074 posts
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Angry Birds is making me... angry.

The adverts (Kindle) are now permanent and always stay over the score. They used to come and go.

Fucking annoying.

johnlenham 23 Nov 2010 15:51:48 4,000 posts
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Atleast you can run it

My G1 takes a good 3mins to load it up then it runs at around 1-3fps!

Riggers 24 Nov 2010 12:34:57 12 posts
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Apparently Rovio are working on a version for the lower end Android phones, so hopefully that will run a bit smoother!

Zerobob 24 Nov 2010 13:06:01 3,019 posts
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Angry Birds runs lovely and quick/smooth on my Desire, unsurprisingly

Takes 8 seconds to load the game into the main menu and instantly loads levels from there.

It does seem to need a top end phone to run it though, which is a bit mistifying. I mean, it's only psuedo-3D and no more complex than a Flash game.

Spin_Dr_Wolf 24 Nov 2010 13:14:27 6,170 posts
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Spin Dr Wolf wrote (in teh HTC Devices thread admitedly):
For those of you that don't like the new Angry Birds update, you are not alone, and you can have free Angry birds without ads, without rooting !

Trowel 24 Nov 2010 16:21:56 24,512 posts
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After my initial scepticism about the game (glorified flash game right) I've destroyed Angry Birds while on holiday. Three starring every level and finding the golden eggs became a personal obsession.

The new update (which has added new levels and golden eggs) has moved the ads to the top of the screen, which is visually more annoying - but they're easy to remove manually (out of respect for the devs I won't offer a direct solution, but put it this way, while on holiday I wanted to make sure I didn't get any data charges).

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infoxicated 1 Dec 2010 16:43:54 1,509 posts
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Had my Desire Z a couple of weeks now and got a few things from the market now that I have a feel for it, and I've come to the conclusion that I'd rather pay �5 for an app or game than have it free with adverts.

I've not been sucked in by the whole Angry Birds thing, but my daughter loves to play it and I help her when it's too difficult for her, so I'd buy the game no problem at all rather than have the adverts. Same with the ESPN Sports app - it's really good, but the adverts are just annoying.

King_Edward 1 Dec 2010 20:44:53 11,470 posts
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Froggit wrote:
More Angry Birds goodness for Android: Angry Birds Seasons, which is the crimbo thing (an advent calendar type affair - next elevel available in x hours pah!) and the hallowe'en pack we didn't get before.
All good.

I three starred this way to soon.

Deleted user 2 December 2010 10:41:08

Google have released their own native reader app. No offline syncing yet but it is only v 0.8

Still, it's clean, fast and works really well.

Alastair 2 Dec 2010 10:46:55 24,828 posts
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johnlenham wrote:
Atleast you can run it My G1 takes a good 3mins to load it up then it runs at around 1-3fps!

I couldn't get it to install on my G1. Deleted some little used apps but still no joy. I managed to download it, but it says it doesn't have space to install it.

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Whizzo 3 Dec 2010 22:47:56 44,810 posts
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Dungeon Hunter HD for nowt (do the link through your phone) for 24 hours but I've no idea when the 24 hours started so probably best to do it sooner rather than later.

pauleyc 8 Dec 2010 09:08:47 4,548 posts
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I haven't tried it out myself but there's an OpenTTD port for Android.

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