Must have app: Edwin
Full voice control for your Android phone.
Edwin is freely available through the Android Market. It’s a small download.
Opening it offers you a chance to control your phone via voice command. You can say “Turn on Wi-Fi” and it will. No need to go into settings for that. Same to turn off Wi-Fi. Or Bluetooth.
You can also ask it “What is the current weather?” and it will tell you, based on your GPS location. You can ask it directions to the nearest market, or gas, or ask for the spelling or definition of a word.
I love on this video demo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2GBxwua0PQ
where you can ask it: “Translate ‘Where can I buy a vegetarian monkey?’ to French”, and it does!
Edwin is a really great app, it really expands the voice control and usability of your Android phone. I highly recommend it.
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Wine Cellar Review for Android
We review a future competitor
In community, you have options for your own Wine Reviews (which you can post to your Facebook account), “wines From Around the World”, “Top Rated Wines”, “Worst Wines”, “Wines by Country”, “Wines by Region”, and “Search Wines”. Clicking on any one of these areas brings you to their community “http://winecommunity.appspot.com”. A really strong idea that just isn’t getting the traffic they need to really make this app shine. It’s a chicken and egg process here. Do you build the community online via content, then create a mobile app to access it? Do you create the app, and assume it’s adoption will create a community? The answer is yes. Both. Ultimately we checked the traffic of their site and wasn’t able to get any data. In short, that means, there isn’t enough traffic to register on third party traffic sites. Bummer, because overall the idea behind this app is well done.
Ultimately you are presented with their community data for each area. Clicking on “Top Rated Wines” brings you to their community top rated wines. What is also pretty cool is the ability to share your notes and ratings on Facebook.
Overall this is an app that has a lot of potential. They aren’t tied in (as far as I can tell) with a content focused site like Wine Spectator, or other… That is ultimately going to be their struggle. Without deeper data (they are using Yelp and Wiki data), building a vibrant community of reviews, content, and more is going to be a tough sell. We are going to follow this app closely and report on any changes, updates we find that take it to the next level.
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EasyMoney Review For Android (updated)
What’s installed on my Android
I have tried a lot of financial apps across platforms and have been pretty disappointed in the Android offerings. I’ve probably tried about 6-8 different Android expense apps and have settled (for the time being at least) on EasyMoney.
First off, the UI is superior than most on the Android platform and that’s important to me. More important however, is how easy it is to input data. Let’s face it, if the UI is clunky and it takes 15 windows to input an expense, you’re less likely to use it regularly. Because I own multiple phones on different operating systems, I am still waiting for a cloud-based solution much like Livestrong is for fitness that would sync everything everywhere. Alas, that’s not available just yet, si I am using different software on each OS.
Like the better finance apps, EasyMoney allows for budgeting that can be customized to your needs. I have a budget set for Apps across platforms and have been working with $35 a month for Android. Each month it zeros out so I can start fresh. Inputing data is simple and straightforward. Enter the payee, amount, category (which is assignable and editable), type, date, notes and you’re all set.
You can review your accounts collectively or separate. Reporting comes in many flavors and his highly adjustable. You can review expenses by category, daily balance, monthly expenses, monthly income and monthly cash flow. Once reviewing a report, you can easily change your date range for comparisons or further reporting.
*Updated*
Bill Reminder is a strong component of the app. In fact, on the iPhone, there are some apps that only focus on bill reminders. The repeating scheduler works like a charm, and you can also set how many days in advance you want to be notified of upcoming bills. Of course you can also schedule the time to be notified. The cool part is that when you mark it paid, it will automatically list it on the expense ledger. Nice job.
So far so good. Where the program falls short is exporting your data on the free version. However, there’s a paid upgrade that has you covered with backup and .csv exporting. It’s $5.95 and worth it in our opinion.
Overall the program meets my needs near perfectly. Tons of pictures on the next page.
Filed under: Finance •Android Finance •
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