Being overly frustrated that I really couldn’t find things I wanted in the marketplace I started searching around for Android apps on the web and was surprised to find that there are a lot more than what’s available in the market straight on the phone. Doing a little more searching I found salvation through an app called “AppBrain” that you can find in the standard marketplace.
This app works similar to the standard market that’s provided on the phone but gives you access to basically everything out there. Originally when searching for “Skype”, “Skype” was never once listed as a result and I had to use fring to do my Skype-ing on my phone. Fring works great since you can call and do video chatting and such but conversations come across in single message windows so if you’re in a conference with 20 people, you have 20 messages with no way of telling who-said-what-when. That’s off topic so…when using AppBrain to do the search, first on the list is “Skype(beta)”. And it works great! The only downfall of it is no video calling (I’m hoping they’ll fix this soon).
I also noticed that my qik app doesn’t work. I got it to run the first day I got my phone but I don’t think it was working correctly. Now every time I run it I get a “force.close” on it. But guess what? I did a search for qik and found another version. It’s a different icon color from the other but it works. I think I’ll stick with fring for video though…I don’t like running qik and having some random person viewing my feed typing “hey dude say something” across my phone’s screen. Creepy.
A nice feature is you can post a copy of what what apps you have on your site and it keeps you updated. Just set up an account at http://www.appbrain.com and choose “manage my apps” from the menu on your phone. You’ll have to login and from there you can sync your installed apps. Under the “my apps” link on the website you can view the list of what you have installed or choose to post links or embed the list on your own website. Below is a copy of what I currently have installed. I hope to update these in future posts.
werdisturbed’s Apps on the phone
Phone: PC36100
102 total, 102 free (100%), 0 paid (0%), 138MB total size, $0 total price
- Fireworks Live Wallpaper
- Camera 360 Free
- Toss It
- WallMe Lite – Live Wallpaper
- Shake2PlayNext
- Bump
- Memory Trainer
- HOMERUN BATTLE 3D FREE
- Slimeball Speedway (Lite)
- GalaxIR
- Bistro Cook
- Pocket Empires Online
- Dial Zero v1.04
- What the Doodle!? (LITE)
- Qik Video
- Space Physics Lite
- Gmote 2.0
- Bezier – Live Wallpaper
- Finger Bowling
- Music Junk
- Smart Shortcuts
- Antennas
- Silhouette Live Wallpaper
- Aquarium Live Wallpaper
- AppBrain App Market
- WordPress
- App to QR
- Massive Awesome
- Carrr Matey
- Space Man
- ShareMyApps
- Find My Way
- fring – free video calls, IM
- Star Wars Light Saber
- SayMyName Dessert
- TuneWiki Social Media Player
- Nesoid Lite (NES emulator)
- SuperGNES Lite (SNES Emulator)
- Slacker Radio
- Softrace
- Network Discovery
- Lookout Mobile Security FREE
- Dolphin Browser HD
- ZENONIA® Free
- Car Finder AR DEMO
- OI File Manager
- Super KO Boxing 2
- Digital Wall Free Wallpaper
- Throw a Panda (FULL free!)
- Farm Frenzy Lite
- Shoot U! (LITE)
- Jewels
- Bluetooth File Transfer
- TiKL – Touch To Talk (PTT)
- ShopSavvy – Barcode Scanner
- Pandora Radio
- MySpace Mobile
- AppRemover
- Speedtest.net Speed Test
- Edwin
- Stop-Motion – Lite
- Classic Simon
- Mileage
- Tower Raiders FREE
- Winds of Steel Demo
- Blow Up (LITE)
- Key Ring Reward Cards
- Documents To Go 2.0 Main App
- TripIt – Travel Organizer
- MixZing Media Player
- Google Earth
- CallTrack
- Handcent Font Pack3
- Handcent Font Pack2
- Handcent Font Pack4
- Handcent Font Pack1
- Handcent SMS
- cloudList – grocery /todo list
- Robo Defense FREE
- doubleTwist Player
- PhoneFlicks-Netflix Android
- iheartradio
- PicSay – Photo Editor
- ConnectBot
- Advanced Task Killer
- Wikitude World Browser
- TravelCamerAR
- Layar Reality Browser
- Text-To-Speech Extended
- Translator ConveyThis
- Google Maps
- FxCamera
- Fandango Movies
- Google Goggles
- Ringdroid
- Compass
- Google Sky Map
- Shazam
- Google Voice
- Meebo IM
- Zillow Real Estate
- Facebook for Android
