HSO's Members Smart "Cell" Phone Apps & App Reviews

[pureinsanity]

Oh yah, its really easy to cheat. google scrabble cheat and youll come up with hundreds of websites that let you punch in the letters you have and give you words!

[Wish-I-Were-Fishn]

That's cool since I'm horrible at scrabble and my son in law its really good. I might have to make several trips to the bathroom with my smart phone next time we play.

[pureinsanity]

That's cool since I'm horrible at scrabble and my son in law its really good. I might have to make several trips to the bathroom with my smart phone next time we play.

Just open a browser on your phone and switch back and forth. I have my home button set up as a hot key to most used programs. I tape it twice and it will bring to me the game, the browser, and whatever else i used recently

[upnorth]

Not sure if anyone else was disenchanted with the Droid email app, but the K9 Email app for Droid phones is waaaaay faster than the app that comes with the Droid system.

[Matt C]

I have heard good things about k9. Standard Droid x mail stinks.

Hows it with battery life? With the almost constant data push is it a big drain?

[upnorth]

You can set the push pull with K9 I have mine set to 5 minutes, but the pull/push is quicker than the droid mail so I don't see an issue .

[DTro]

Are you talking GMail is lousy? Because I always get GMail on my phone before my PC. Maybe it's slower with other servers?

[Matt C]

MSN, NOT Hotmail....on my x is sloowwwww. For me; Gmail is same as you experience Dtro.

I use my MSN account for most stuff however, which is my own laziness for not changing it all to gmail.

[upnorth]

No I don't use the Gmail as I am not using gmail. I have a @mchsi.com account that I use. I heard the Gmail works well.

[CAMAN]

I have zero issues with my yahoo accounts on my droid2, but my gmail is a totally different story. I have all my options set to notify and auto push/pull (whatever they call it) and I have NEVER gotten a notification on my main gmail addy. I have to manually go in and refresh in order to get my emails. I was messing with it a while back and just thought to try something by making a new gmail account, got it setup as a secondary account and it was pushing/pulling and notifying like it's setup to be. Luckily the main gmail account isn't super important, but it would be nice to get stuff automatically without having to manually go in everytime.

I'll have to look into K9

[LMITOUT]

Sounds like you have something in the options set incorrectly, either on your phone or the Gmail account itself. Receiving Gmail on my phone is lightning quick. If I send one to myself from a PC it's delivered to my phone shortly after hitting 'send'.

[LwnmwnMan2]

My Gmail used to work fine until I rooted the X, now it doesn't refresh automatically.

My frontier.com account updates every 5 minutes, which is the work email.

I use gmail for all of the junk email.

Those that are looking for a new baseball game, the company that had Homerun 3d and put out 9 innings.

It's still free, and you control all aspects of the game from pitching, to throwing for the fielders to hitting, stealing and bunting.

It has names of players, you can switch pitchers and positions, and it has season league play.

Just be aware, it wasn't updated too recently. If you use the Twins, you still have Punto.

I know some of you won't get the game, just for that fact.

[Jeremy airjer W]

For those of you playing wordfeud, how many games do you have going at once?

at least 10

[Jeremy airjer W]

Gmail works well for me as well.

[pureinsanity]

He is NOT talking about Gmail. Gmail is going to work great because well it is made for this phone. Upnorth is talking about the other email application that you can use to send and receive emails on your phone. Essentially just like your computer and outlook and your ISP given email address.

Upnorth, I run my work email through the stock email program and have no problem with my phone (droid 2). I will say the only issue I have is sometimes it will download to my phone before my outlook. I have it set up to only send them to my phone when outlook is closed.

[upnorth]

The built in App worked, but it was rat slow both refreshing email and opening a message. K9 runs waaaaaaayyyy faster for me. And no it is for my home account and it is not a gmail account.

[Wish-I-Were-Fishn]

I run gmail on my phone as the default email and my business one on the email app, but it is also gmail. I like having them separated like that so I get separate notifications.

[DTro]

Just so you know, you can run mulitple gmail accounts throught the gmail app with seperate settings for each.

[Wish-I-Were-Fishn]

My fishing advisor is a pretty cool app

[LwnmwnMan2]

Jango

Don't know if it's on iPhone, but I stumbled across it today with my X.

Exact same thing as Pandora, except it's totally free, and there's zero ads. Also, it has unlimited skips, unlike Pandora, where there's a limit of 6 or 7 skips.

[MuleShack]

sounds too good to be true...free, free, free how do they make money?

[CAMAN]

Jango

Don't know if it's on iPhone, but I stumbled across it today with my X.

Exact same thing as Pandora, except it's totally free, and there's zero ads. Also, it has unlimited skips, unlike Pandora, where there's a limit of 6 or 7 skips.

I wonder how they get around the ruling from a couple years ago that requires all that if you aren't a a payed subscriber?

Downloaded it and will check it out. Thanks!

[DTro]

Isn't Pandora free? I've never paid for it.

[Wish-I-Were-Fishn]

Just so you know, you can run mulitple gmail accounts throught the gmail app with seperate settings for each.

Only one icon though correct?

[DTro]

Only one icon though correct?

Yes only one icon, but when you open the program all accounts will be listed and you can choose which one you want to open.