Be Excellent To Each Other

Mine was the original XDA.

The Mrs has a Nokia ESomethingSomething. It's got a terrible resistive touchscreen, but in order to be cooler than a phone with a stylus, it comes with a fucking plectrum on a string. Bizarre.

The Nokia 5800 COMESWITHMUSIC had a plectrum. I think it's part of a range of music phones.

Thinking about it, I think that's the one.

That's what Mrs Z has too.

I had one of those and had no end of problems with it.. the wife uses it now.

I started with a SE P800. It was fucking awesome at the time.

Why the fucking fuck won't wordfeud accept 'fuser'?

There've been a few I've been surprised it's not accepted, but then a couple that it has too.

The main advantage of this over normal scrabble is the ability to try random combinations if you're stuck. Helps

Wordfued name: Zardoz123

Inv plz

Done.

Stupid US dictionary.

Thanks for the heads up. Downloading now.

No "zen" but "zin" okay.

And fairly decent, I'm keeping it for fun but predictive typing makes it slightly redundant.

Wordfued is excellent. 6 games running all with message chat, I feel like Neo.

I've been scouting back over the thread a bit, and so the first thing I'll say is that there's a new version of Angry Birds on the market with extra levels and support for older devices, so if people have had problems before, it might work ok now.

The other thing is the whole "Android is open source, so manufacturers/networks are free to do whatever they like to it" debate.
Over the last couple of days, the CyanogenMod team have made some really good progress in terms of getting AOSP Froyo to run on the Samsung Galaxy series of phones. In doing so, they have unlocked the true power behind the phone, and the benchmarks they are getting on identical hardware does make me wonder why Samsung would bother to put their own software on the phone if it cripples it so much?

As an Android /\00ß, what other apps should I be taking a look at? All I've added to my phone so far is Wordfued and a widget that tracks my data usage.

Zombies Run!, Swype (you'll have to search Google for that), ShopSavvy, SMS Backup (I like it, anyway), Hullomail, Kindle, Google Goggles, Google Skymap, and Barcode Scanner.

Subsonic is a superb desktop - mobile music streamer.

I must insist that you all stop trouncing me at WORDMAKINGGAME.

I got Martini!
And my first word against Zardoz was 'woody'.

Martini is a proper noun*. Wordfeud cheats, or something.

* I assume

Nope. It's a style of drink, not a brand.

Ah, I wasn't sure, ta.

It's a lifestyle.

Eh, Mali?

Which widget for tracking data/call usage did you use? I need one of those.

I use 3G Watchdog which is good.

There's been an update to Angry Birds.

Uppers - There's more levels

Downers - The adverts are very annoying now and difficult to ignore

The bottom line - It's still great.

I shan't update till I've done all the levels I've already got then

Astrid tasks can GTFF though - it hassles me about a task I've done, so I launch it... splash dialogue giving me the option to go to market and update or watch a 10 second timer count down before I can use me software. Deletable offence.

Anyone know a good task manager that doesn't dictate to me how and when I use it/my phone?

Homepipe appears to be a free equivalent, but I haven't really tried it out yet. Subsonic did seem to do the job really well though, so if it was something I found myself wanting to use regularly, I'd probably cough up for that.

Android Agenda Widget is, er, an Agenda Widget for your Android
AK Notepad is a notepad
Handcent as an SMS replacement app
Kaloer clock
Our groceries - share shopping lists (it's handier than it sounds)
ScummVM
ADW Launcher - replacement launcher, but if you've got a HTC with Sense, you're probably better off sticking with that unless you really don't like it.

Don't suppose that works Android<->iPhone?

It's just for data not calls, mate.

It's called Data counter widget v 1.4.1

I'll probably have a look at that 3G Watchdog too.

Yay - Angry Birds installs on my Magic now!

Boo - it grinds my Magic to an almost compete halt so it's pretty much unplayable.

Looks like it does - http://www.ourgroceries.com/overview

Well, you can get it for both, but as it deals with it server-side, I can't see that it would matter if you had two different bits of client hardware.

If you do end up using it, let me know what you think of it.

Wordfeud is crying out for some stats and leaderboards

JustPictures! allows you to browse all your pictures from various online accounts (and photos on your phone) in one place (as long as your happy giving it all your login details).
Although the Gallery already does Picasa integration, so this is only really useful if you plaster loads of photos on Flickr or Facebook.

8pen now has a popup keyboard above the other keyboard, so you can actually see what you're doing.

Yeah I'd love to see a running score of games won and lost.
Me vs Joans would be about
0-10

Mine would be about 0-50, we have two games on the go at once. I think the only person I have beaten is Davpaz.

Gotta play for the TW and DW squares

I know...

So I've been using 8pen all evening and boy.. does it take some getting used to.

The only way I can see it being useful is if you remember exactly where all the letters are, something which we've all done on a qwerty keyboard anyway.

Uppers - It was free
Downers - It's very confusing and quite unnecessary.
The Bottom line - If it ain't broke, don't fix it. Stick with the QWERTY keyboard.

ok 8pen is weird.

I might have to take it off.

Yes, and an 'are you sure' dialogue when laying tiles, so can see how much words are worth before you play them.

Watchdog is indeed good. Looks like Angry Birds now works on my phone. Will try it later.

Angry Birds does work on my phone. Finally I can see what this hen night simulation is all about.

Oooh, loads of rumour buzz about the Nexus 2 on Engadget today, really hope this comes out by Jan, I'm pretty much completely sold on this being my next upgrade!

Do you not get 50 points for using all seven letters? What a swizz.

[edit]40. Cheap.

I'm so close to having "excellent" against Joans