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Recommended Apps on the Market

So I got g1 last night and I love it, downloaded a few apps from market so I figured I would share recommendations for apps I have so far. First tmobile hot spot locater is a must. Also got myspace which is cool but not really needed. Wikimobile is awesome, a must have and any cut program allows you to place shortcuts on homescreen on just about anything on your phone, including battery. Which programs has everyone else found useful, recommend?
Downloaded
Stopwatch
Flashlight
Spelldial - love it!
Bistromath
Ringdroid - mp3 cutter
Pacman
Solitaire
Quickpedia
Yellow book
Anycut
Hotspot locator

I installed:
"ShopSavvy" its great
"AnyCut" Great as well
"T-Mobile Hot Spot Locator"
Locale
PAC-MAN, what a classic
Pro-Football , it's Awesome
I-Map
Video Player
AndNav
Barcode Scanner
College Football
Flashlight
QuickList
WikiTap

Mikey1022 said:
I installed "ShopSavvy" its great and im also reading great reviews about "AnyCut"
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Yes sir it is a great app a must have mikey my man! Starting to think I don't need internet sharing g1 internet is blazing fast!

Anycut: ***** Great little app that makes anythign info a desktop shortcut. Very handy for battery info and network settings
Bonzai Blast**** Amazing and addicting game. Only proble is that it sucks your battery life
WikiMobile**** Does a great job of mobile implementation of Wikipedia. Great for looking up facts on certain things. Try looking up the G1

How long are apps going to be free on the market? Are apps even free?

Updated my first post!

donutman said:
How long are apps going to be free on the market? Are apps even free?
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Apps will be free untill the end of the year, starting Jan then we pay

Mikey1022 said:
I installed:
"ShopSavvy" its great
"AnyCut" Great as well
"T-Mobile Hot Spot Locater"
Locale
PAC-MAN, what a classic
Pro-Football , it's Awesome
I-Map
Video Player
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I installed all of those except I-Map. I also installed these:
College Football
Barcode Scanner
imeem
Shazam
Telegraph
The Weather Channel
Translate
TuneWiki
WikiMobile

compareeverything is my current favorite... most common merchandise is found and prices given- easy to impress others with this program

Has anyone figured out how to change icons for apps on the home screen?

Updated my post #2

We got a android file explorer on the market this morning... Must have...

gospeed.racergo said:
compareeverything is my current favorite... most common merchandise is found and prices given- easy to impress others with this program
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Would you recommend it over shopsavvy? Updated my first post as well, by the time I'm done my first post will take up the first page lol.
As far as the file manager its a good start but can't open most of the files which sucks.

stats555 said:
Would you recommend it over shopsavvy?
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I do recommend Compare everywhere over shop savy. Compare averywhere has more products...

Yos025 said:
We got a android file explorer on the market this morning... Must have...
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Sweet....thanks man I just got it....some people complain about the apps,but they are doing pretty well uploading stuff,consideing the device was relased a week ago.

Yos025 said:
I do recommend Compare everywhere over shop savy. Compare averywhere has more products...
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Cool thanks gonna switch em out right now!

I didn't like the solitare interface. It was a forced landscape, and the card sizing is funky...not the cards themselves, but the symbols/numbers. They should've taken a cue from WinMo and made the hearts, diamonds, clubs, spades oversized so that they're more visible.

Watch the Google I/O 2010 keynote LIVE

http://www.youtube.com/user/GoogleDevelopers
this year they are streaming the keynotes live~ check it out i'm waiting in anticipation the keynote will start in about 15 minutes 11:30 est and 8:30 pst

This time we'll get some Android news.

omg, no sound

Audio's dead
IT'S ON NOW!

No! Give me sound!

Sound is back

Crap steam, but i'll do. Must be being well hammered!
EDIT: Much better not in HD actually.

Not working at all for me, unfortunately. Though might be the new DSL - syncing at 22Mbps but a tiny bit unstable... ;-)

Woah! Android intents!

Looking good

FROYO Android 2.2 was official annouced!

wow google hit a homerun with froyo. they added so much badass stuff i never even thought of.
take that iphone 4.0. my nexus kicks the ipad's ass now.

Let's see, so far we have in Froyo:
JIT
Apps2SD
V8 in browser (speeds up javascript 2x or more)
Flash
Intents (awesome)
Download apps from browser straight to phone OTA
Accelerometer, Camera, etc are accessible to browser apps
Home music libraries are available to phone
Search within app data
App data is backed up to cloud
And a few more things
EDIT: Just go here for a list. I guess not everything is going to show up in Froyo.
http://developer.android.com/sdk/android-2.2-highlights.html
And for the extra nerdy
http://developer.android.com/sdk/android-2.2.html#api

DDM123 said:
Let's see, so far we have in Froyo:
JIT
Apps2SD
V8 in browser (speeds up javascript 2x or more)
Flash
Intents (awesome)
Download apps from browser straight to phone OTA
Accelerometer, Camera, etc are accessible to browser apps
Home music libraries are available to phone
Search within app data
App data is backed up to cloud
And a few more things
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Don't forget HD in youtube
Wow he just gave away free Evo's I'm sooo mad....lol

DDM123 said:
Let's see, so far we have in Froyo:
JIT
Apps2SD
V8 in browser (speeds up javascript 2x or more)
Flash
Intents (awesome)
Download apps from browser straight to phone OTA
Accelerometer, Camera, etc are accessible to browser apps
Home music libraries are available to phone
Search within app data
App data is backed up to cloud
And a few more things
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For a while there he was talking about stuff for the future and not necessarily for Froyo. Or maybe I misunderstood it.

kbeeveer46 said:
For a while there he was talking about stuff for the future and not necessarily for Froyo. Or maybe I misunderstood it.
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Nope, you're right.
Intents, tethering are in Froyo for sure.

OMFG, They are giving out Evo 4G's to all thoes who attended, probably in addition to the Nexus or Droid from the start!

so when is froyo coming?

asdfasd2 said:
so when is froyo coming?
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They didn't say - SDK is up with new features though.

So is the Froyo part over? Because they didn't announce many of the rumors we've been hearing did they?

True about Flash and Froyo

So I was browsing the Internet to see how cool is to have Flash on Android device, I was sure Adobe improved flash due to many many criticizes about it but I was wrong.
I know(actually I think) that Google did his part, and improved speed and usability in Android, but Adobe still needs a LOT of optimization!
In this video you will see following because of installed Adobe Flash:
-Slow page loading(even though Google improved speed in Froyo!)
-choppy performance
-instability
-huge CPU and RAM usage
Android 2.2 (Froyo) Web Browser Test with Flash enabled
In my opinion don't install Adobe Flash Player
Don't get me wrong guys I love Android 2.2 and Google openness, but ADOBE needs to work...A LOT!

What do you expect? It's a beta release.

Rusty! said:
What do you expect? It's a beta release.
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Than they shouldn't release it, it is useless!
Apple was right...I can't believe that is true!

This really bugs me, its FAR from useless. I have used it to play music from the myspace music players, games on kongregate, a liveleak video, and on the burger king website. It works great, if you keep it on demand and not on all the time, it won't even slow down your browsing. If you really think that this is useless, and shouldn't be released, then you are an idiot. It may not work 100% yet, but this is a huge step forward for the Android platform, and I for one am thankful that I have it on my Nexus. If you don't want it, you can uninstall it, it's that easy. Stop being whiny idiots and complaining about how it slows this down or uses too much CPU.

You can go into your settings and set the Flash plugin to "On demand" which essentially switches it off until you browse to a site with Flash content when you will see a play button. Press that button and the Flash will load.
Perhaps that should be the default option, but nonetheless, simple to change and is definitely the way forwards in my view.

i don't browse flash based website all the time, so it doesn't bother me at all. at least i know the mobile browser is fully functional for all websites.

Its Beta for a reason "Testing purposes"

benko286 said:
Than they shouldn't release it, it is useless!
Apple was right...I can't believe that is true!
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Calm down. It's not even hardware accelerated yet. I for one am glad I've got any flash support this far.
If you only wanted something that's 100% failsafe go grab a parchment and quill

I hope the op isn't trolling. Adobe released the beta version for adventurous people to try it. If you don't think it is ready, then fine, just unistall it. No need to jump into conclusion when the final version isn't even out yet. The argument 'then they shouldn't release it (the beta version)' is rather weak because we are talking about a beta version here, which is expected to have flaws here or there...

flash works fine for me...and it definitely doesn't leave my browser sluggish...seems to be faster than the 2.1 browser even with Flash enabled...so I dunno.
Also, the Froyo browser is a fully capable HTML5 browser as well...so no, Apple wasn't right, Google was right...options > no options. I could understand if Google was anti-HTML5 but they are not, in fact as witnessed in the Day 1 Keynote of Google I/O they are one of HTML5's biggest supporters.
They just refuse to abandon the PRESENT to feed the future.

at least we have the option to use Flash.
You can change the plugin settings in the browser to load on demand so it will only load the flash content if u click on it.

Seriously, some people need to learn what "BETA" means. u_u

it's funny.
I was reading this and went to cnn and I was watching that oil spill vid.
And then someone called me. The vid stops and I talk on the phone to a
co worker and then hang up after about ten minutes. After pressing the end call button the video starts back up in the browser.
I thought that was pretty cool.
It's better than I thought it would be, and I'm pretty happy to have it.

NexusDro said:
I hope the op isn't trolling. Adobe released the beta version for adventurous people to try it. If you don't think it is ready, then fine, just unistall it. No need to jump into conclusion when the final version isn't even out yet. The argument 'then they shouldn't release it (the beta version)' is rather weak because we are talking about a beta version here, which is expected to have flaws here or there...
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Exactly - It's a standalone app that can be uninstalled if you so choose to. I may feel differently if it was integrated. Not sure what Google's plans are when the final is released though.

Don't get me wrong guys I love Android 2.2 and Google openness, but ADOBE needs to work...A LOT!

benko286 said:
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You need to understand what the term "beta" means before you word vomit all over the internet.

uberingram said:
you need to understand what the term "beta" means before you word vomit all over the internet.
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uberingram said:
You need to understand what the term "beta" means before you word vomit all over the internet.
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They should call it Alpha..in my opinion it is far from beta-.-

benko286 said:
They should call it Alpha..in my opinion it is far from beta-.-
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Other than huge flash sites its awesome for me. I think its easily almost done.

Yeah initially flash slowed down my browser but once I switched it to ON DEMAND only everything is perfect. The thing I like about android is that I have the CHOICE to use flash if I want. I don't have to let apple choose for me. And when html5 matures and is mainstream I will have to choice to use both.
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This phone lacks vs. G1... for now

I came from using G1 but now bricked due to deathspl... and actually waited for this phone to come. Ran into several problems I picked up on over the months since launch..
Bluetooth seems to be configured depending on headset. For example, using my motorola s9 hd works perfect.. but my jawbone only picks up calls no media support. Where as on G1 it will have full support.. I have another stereo bluetooth but only plays media and no phone support.
Majority of the time I download from youtube.. tubedroid favorite. But I found the hardware plays downloaded videos off sync.. the visual plays then sound comes on half sec or so later. I tested this on other youtube apps and found similar results. Yxplayer seems to play the videos correctly however.
One thing I notice is multi touch seems to support no more than 2 spots.. zoom on browser works but I noticed problems when playing megaman zero on gameboid. Cannot charge shot/jump/dash at same time. I already informed the dev but they say its the hardware..
My 2 questions are. Will future custom roms. Be able to fix these problems. And if so, will I be flamed for posting this in the android development section?

I have had my g1 from before it offically came out and man this phone is 20x better then the g1. Do u know how buggy the g1 was when it first came out especially with the bluetooth. I have no problems using icon bluetooth headset or my moto h690

alluzzion2o9 said:
I came from using G1 but now bricked due to deathspl... and actually waited for this phone to come. Ran into several problems I picked up on over the months since launch..
Bluetooth seems to be configured depending on headset. For example, using my motorola s9 hd works perfect.. but my jawbone only picks up calls no media support. Where as on G1 it will have full support.. I have another stereo bluetooth but only plays media and no phone support.
Majority of the time I download from youtube.. tubedroid favorite. But I found the hardware plays downloaded videos off sync.. the visual plays then sound comes on half sec or so later. I tested this on other youtube apps and found similar results. Yxplayer seems to play the videos correctly however.
One thing I notice is multi touch seems to support no more than 2 spots.. zoom on browser works but I noticed problems when playing megaman zero on gameboid. Cannot charge shot/jump/dash at same time. I already informed the dev but they say its the hardware..
My 2 questions are. Will future custom roms. Be able to fix these problems. And if so, will I be flamed for posting this in the android development section?
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Most of the problems you list, multi touch and bluetooth, could have probably been improved by developers and included into the rom you used. As for tubedroid, if it is an app that doesn't have anymore updates, it's likely that the application was made for use on a G1 and the development was stopped, so of course it would be perfectly compatible for the G1. You have to take in consideration that the G1 has a big group of developers improving it where the slide was released just a bit over a month ago.

Ok lemmie give you a low down :l have you noticed android has been shipping out new phones like its a christmas sale well they dont have time to fix all the kinks so they fix what they seem like is what most people would use and update the frameware later to fix the other problems. And many slide roms improve on the MTS

TakoLuffer said:
Ok lemmie give you a low down :l have you noticed android has been shipping out new phones like its a christmas sale well they dont have time to fix all the kinks so they fix what they seem like is what most people would use and update the frameware later to fix the other problems. And many slide roms improve on the MTS
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You're an idiot, Android is the product of the Android Open Source Project. They do not make the phones. Legally any manufacturer can ship an Android non-Google branded device without Google's consent (albeit, lack of gapps).
Froyo, as every Android release, is coming with updated Bluetooth drivers and will fix many bugs found in Eclair and Donut. Gingerbread most likely will as well.

richierich118 said:
I have had my g1 from before it offically came out and man this phone is 20x better then the g1. Do u know how buggy the g1 was when it first came out especially with the bluetooth. I have no problems using icon bluetooth headset or my moto h690
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I came in late with the G1 so i was able to pick up on roms that fixed much of the problems. I remember I flashed a rom and was upset the bluetooth wasn't working properly. Stupid me didn't realize the rom was still in beta. I just find it so weird all 3 of my bluetooths have different support for this phone.
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Most of the problems you list, multi touch and bluetooth, could have probably been improved by developers and included into the rom you used. As for tubedroid, if it is an app that doesn't have anymore updates, it's likely that the application was made for use on a G1 and the development was stopped, so of course it would be perfectly compatible for the G1. You have to take in consideration that the G1 has a big group of developers improving it where the slide was released just a bit over a month ago.
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I understand this, i just thought it was a good time to point out these flaws for devs to be aware of.... i contacted sirius via email and they told me they'd get on to fixing it... i have no idea if it was automated or something.

to put it in perspective. The G1 was Marilyn Monroe, The Slide is Khloe Kardashian (Kim with her Big Ole Kadunkadunk would have to be the mighty Galaxy S Variant dropping tomorrow).
They both have they're place and are hot in their own ways, but just like the comparison women the slide is is great underneath its outer shell with revamped cpu, room to grow and nice and trim in all the right places.
Sent from my T-Mobile myTouch 3G Slide using XDA App

TomorrowSpace said:
to put it in perspective. The G1 was Marilyn Monroe, The Slide is Khloe Kardashian (Kim with her Big Ole Kadunkadunk would have to be the mighty Galaxy S Variant dropping tomorrow).
They both have they're place and are hot in their own ways, but just like the comparison women the slide is is great underneath its outer shell with revamped cpu, room to grow and nice and trim in all the right places.
Sent from my T-Mobile myTouch 3G Slide using XDA App
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Lol crazy/funnt comparison. Serious note, speaking of cpu... I can't wait to see how for mt3g slide can be overclocked.. I was so ready for the phone I bought it in red and fitted red and orange rubberized hard shells in a sort of iron man theme... too bad doesn't come in gold yellow.

TomorrowSpace said:
to put it in perspective. The G1 was Marilyn Monroe, The Slide is Khloe Kardashian (Kim with her Big Ole Kadunkadunk would have to be the mighty Galaxy S Variant dropping tomorrow).
They both have they're place and are hot in their own ways, but just like the comparison women the slide is is great underneath its outer shell with revamped cpu, room to grow and nice and trim in all the right places.
Sent from my T-Mobile myTouch 3G Slide using XDA App
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HOW DARE YOU COMPARE OUR BEAUTIFUL MTS TO THAT UGLY SLUT! Lol!
seriously though, our taste in women must differ greatly. Marilyn had a nice shapely butt, imo.
I guess I have a thing for the old school women. Anyways... when we get an update for the MTS... the kernel can be hacked and the CPU can be amped up more like it should be. My old G1 is dead even in linpack scores at 3.5 MF with my MTS running slide Mr1 v4. I'm sure the froyo beta would put it ahead at around 4.5-6 MF. I heard of some folks getting like 7-8mf but I'm not sure if I believe that...

I'm getting 8's on linpack every time you should try it its fast as hell
sent from my badass slide running eugene's port of cm6

jriv said:
I'm getting 8's on linpack every time you should try it its fast as hell
sent from my badass slide running eugene's port of cm6
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Eeeek! That's fast! JIT is doing it's job. Man, I wish we could figure out a way to enable JIT on 2.1! I've been working on it tonight with no luck so far.
I tried the old libdvm.so file but just bootloops, lol! That's what's making froyo so damn fast. Plus, built in a2sd isn't working on froyo yet nor camera/camcorder right? I really need stability and the froyo tease won't do anything but make me angry, lol! I know folks are saying it's stable for everyday use but I don't know...

Its pretty stable been about a week for me no random fc's only thing that bugs me is that I can't get flash to work when I take a picture.just do a nandroid and give it a shot I promises you the speed will make you stock with it.
sent from my badass slide running eugene's port of cm6

jriv said:
Its pretty stable been about a week for me no random fc's only thing that bugs me is that I can't get flash to work when I take a picture.just do a nandroid and give it a shot I promises you the speed will make you stock with it.
sent from my badass slide running eugene's port of cm6
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Yeah, the camera drivers definatly are perfected yet. I tried it last night and wow its fast! Even with lwp running with all my widgets. Yep, its twice as fast as slidemr1 v4.... the only bummer is that I couldn't get a2sd to work. I formatted the whole SD to fat32 and still nothing. No partitions either. I guess I could play with it more... flashed back last night because I ran out of time. I might just wait a bit longer for a more stable Rom. But it was fun for sure...

Roman I was talkin about android phones and you don't have to critisize every person in here dude.
r0man said:
You're an idiot, Android is the product of the Android Open Source Project. They do not make the phones. Legally any manufacturer can ship an Android non-Google branded device without Google's consent (albeit, lack of gapps).
Froyo, as every Android release, is coming with updated Bluetooth drivers and will fix many bugs found in Eclair and Donut. Gingerbread most likely will as well.
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Sent From My R..r..r..rooted MyTouchy Sliderz

Best "usefull" Facebook App

This might have been a thread in the past, but i'm not sure... feel free to direct me to the thread lol.
So anyway, i just wanna know what all of you have as a facebook app.. what facebook app has the most to offer that you choose over the others?
I personally use the facebook for android and bloo 1.5
The reasons: facebook for android- I just like the widget because I can publish my status right on my home screen and see the news feed real fast..
bloo 1.5- I use this because of the real good notification updates and of course, the facebook chat..
I know "to my knowledge" that there really isn't alot of "complete" facebook apps out there, i just wanna know what all of your insights are about using facebook.. thanks guys
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I'm happy with the Facebook app. I use Nimbuzz for FB chat.

I don't mean to pee in your Cheerios, but Facebook sucks.

Ryjabo said:
I don't mean to pee in your Cheerios, but Facebook sucks.
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It sucks so bad there's like a billion people on there lol. But I personally don't use Facebook either..

Ryjabo said:
I don't mean to pee in your Cheerios, but Facebook sucks.
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Only if you have no friends.

GldRush98 said:
Only if you have no friends.
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lets not start a flame war. If you don't like facebook, don't use it. If you do like facebook, use it. Some people like iPhones over Android. To each their own.
That being said, back to the topic...
I was wondering this too. The stock facebook app sucks at getting notifications. I was thinking about trying bloo. I don't necessarily need chat (ebuddy for that), just notifications.

Removed due to my stupidity...

Mokurex said:
Let's not start a flame war? You're the one who started it by saying Facebook sucks.
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No he didnt.

rookie1082 said:
No he didnt.
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Oops, sorry my bad, mistaken him for someone else.

itd be nice if we could port the iphone's fb app over to android... its wishful thinking

Zephyron said:
itd be nice if we could port the iphone's fb app over to android... its wishful thinking
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HUH? My wife says the Android Facebook app is MUCH better and a lot faster than Facebook on her previous phone, ipony 3G.

Facebook app on android is trash.
The good news is that apparently zuckenberg has recently begun using and android phone. Maybe he'll be offended enough to get a proper app built.

I'm sorry, everyone. I guess I kinda did start flames with my comment... I just loathe Facebook a.k.a. MySpace 2.0
It's not that I don't enjoy interacting with friends, but I do that with text messages, phone calls, and real life. I mostly don't like Facebook because of:
1. Bloated, ugly interface
2. Constantly changing (not for the better)
3. Completely bullsh** privacy settings
Anyhoo...
JCopernicus said:
Facebook app on android is trash.
The good news is that apparently zuckenberg has recently begun using and android phone. Maybe he'll be offended enough to get a proper app built.
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Yes, it is complete trash. Not all posts show sometimes, your own posts don't show sometimes, posts you've commented on would disappear sometimes, the links to videos and sites don't open most of the time, you can't do a lot of the things you could do on the site, and... I don't feel like going on because I don't use Facebook at all anymore, anyway.
I say that having never owned an iAnything, too. Well, I had an iPod Nano once, but I can't stand iTunes, so I sold it.
Hopefully Zuckerberg will improve the Android app for those that use it.

khaytsus said:
HUH? My wife says the Android Facebook app is MUCH better and a lot faster than Facebook on her previous phone, ipony 3G.
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as the previous posts above mine state, android fb app is trash. the iphone fb app allows you to tag photos, ability to view profile photo properly, swipe through fb photo albums (as opposed to the ****ty arrow buttons for android), event viewing, favorites tab, cant think of the other stuff off the top of my head.
they chose to develop the fb app for iphone more thoroughly than the one for android

i use a combo of android FB for widget, Bloo 1.5 for notifications and Go facebook chat pro.

The best Facebook widget I have used so far is Friendstream which is contained in the Desire Rom port. I have yet to find anything as complete in the market for stock Android. I had high hopes for the app Pure Messenger but it still has a ways to go as it currently does not indicate important info within the title of each post. For instance, a post like "thank you, blah blah blah" will lack the beginning tag Susan>Lisa giving no indication who the post is talking about. The other cool thing about Friendstream is that if you open a post with images, they open directly without going to the web site.
It's really hard to believe that there is nothing decent in the entire market for stock android.

I just use a short cut to the touch site, and fachat for chatting. Haven't cared much for the apps, but don't use facebook as much as others either.

Just downloaded the new update for the facebook android app and its a little better. I still hate that when you click on notifications it sends you to the browser

hdomingu said:
Just downloaded the new update for the facebook android app and its a little better. I still hate that when you click on notifications it sends you to the browser
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Yeah that it does, but at least now it tells you if you have any notifications. That's one thing fixed
I think in order for it to be usable though, it needs to stop sending users to the browser. If I wanted to use the browser, I would (and actually do have it bookmarked for when the app gets too annoying).
I would like to have integrated chat and a better picture uploading interface now. Baby steps haha.

i hate that photo bar down the bottom!!!