Three Great Android Apps to Fit Your Budget
This guest post is contributed by Ashyia. With gas buddy on her phone and the best gas credit card in her wallet, she saves at the pump, even when gas is $4/gallon. If you want to write for bdtechie then check the guest posting guidelines
The Android application market is booming, despite predictions otherwise. Some apps are cheap or even free, but not all are worth downloading. Below are three popular apps that cost next to nothing or nothing at all.
1. Tango
The Tango app for Android allows you to make free calls to other Tango users. Better yet, you can make free video calls. According to Gizmodo, a technology weblog, Tango is the clearest way to chat by video on a smartphone.
Many people report that the voice quality and video are better than other popular methods of video chatting, like Skype. Tango also lets users easily switch between voice and video chat, and back again. This app is completely free to download and use.
2. Pandora
Pandora is a music streaming app for Android. It lets you find music by a favorite band, create and save channels, skip songs, and pause. Your radio channels and music preferences can be customized on an Internet browser, then carried over to your phone.
This Android app is totally legal. Part of what makes it legal is that you cannot play a specific song. It acts more like a radio rather than a compilation of songs to play in your order of preference. You can choose what type of songs and tell Pandora to play songs by a certain band, though.
The basic Pandora app is free for everyone. To remove audio commercials, you can upgrade to Pandora One. Most other features of Pandora One, like custom skins and better music quality, are limited to the web browser version. It costs $36 for a full year subscription, which works out to less than 10 cents per day.
3. Gas Buddy
Gas Buddy is an Android app that finds the cheapest gas prices in your area. It has gas station prices for all 50 states, plus Canada. The app also tells you if nearby gas station have gone up or down in price, and by how much. With Gas Buddy, finding cheap gas is easy, even when you are in an unfamiliar city. Users are awarded for updating gas stations with the latest prices. The more points you have, the more likely you are to win a $250 gift card or other prize. These gift cards are usually toward local gas stations. Best of all, the application is free to download.
The applications above are by no means the only good ones. Among the thousands of apps, other great Android apps are waiting to be discovered.
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Fast N Furious: Booting time less than 20 seconds for Window 8
Microsoft has finally allowed a peep into its next version of Windows i.e. Windows 8 and what one can expect from it. With Windows 8, Microsoft plans to get a foothold in the tablet market too. An in depth look into the preview released by Microsoft themselves gives an idea of what is in store. Here are some of the best things to look forward in MS Windows 8 Operating system:
One Single Operating System: The new OS is an improved version of Windows 7 with an additional “layer” or a “shell” as it claims to be optimized for touch screens but also can also run on traditional mouse/keyboard PCs. You can actually switch between the regular Windows 8 desktop and the new home screen very easily. It claims to have a booting time of less than 20 seconds for Windows 8. This will definitely save on time and electricity and do away with the cumbersome wait for the completion of booting.
All New Interface: The new user interface (UI) starts with a lock screen that allows you to change the background. You will be regularly greeted with basic alerts that include emails, events alongside the day and date. The account user screen appears after unlock and can be accessed after swiping up, that leads to a new home screen. In fact the new interface is much like the Metro UI with some interesting tweaks that favor the new interface.
Start Screen: Windows 8 presents you with anew tiled mosaic home screen and the larger live tiles have been designed to display some more information. Most of the apps will be fitted in here. The interface looks as if it is designed for a landscape view.
IE 10: This OS comes with Internet Explorer 10 that has been fully redesigned for touch and is hardware accelerated. The IE10 has tabs along the top and navigation controls on the address bar at the bottom of the screen. Looks like IE 10 is a real Windows app and not just an HTML 5 or JavaScript app.
Revamped Soft Keyboard The touch-centric Windows 8 has a keyboard that can support multiple layouts. One is the standard keyboard and the other is split for thumb typing when you are on the fly. Navigation seems easy with swiping up and scrolling to go through your apps. The best gesture is something called ”Snap” which allows you to switch midway to another app from the present app.
Hardware: The Windows 8 OS is for desktops, laptops and tablets alike and claims to require less horsepower than Windows 7. It will support both ARM and x86 processors. This means that the apps can run on both these processors and this sound quite interesting.e
Final Thoughts: Windows 8 seems quite promising if it can fulfill all what it is meant to deliver. Some truly innovative features such as Snap can allow multitasking with tablets. Some amazing tweaking with the Metro UI and adding of new applications is something to look forward to. If it can run the legacy apps on ARM systems then truly this will blend the old concepts with the new and make computing a pleasant experience for one and all. The Windows can then become a sought after OS with its one OS for all computers modeling.
Writteb by Alia Haley who is a blogger whose thirst for latest gadgets in the market is insatiable. She loves making friends and hence, is very active on the social media sites. She is very fond of notebook computers and is thinking of switching to a new one. If you want to write for bdtechie then check the guest posting guidelines
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