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Sony Tablet owners: What is you favourite Android App or Widget?

Thalamus. — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 19:44:52 GMT

As the Tablet is new I thought we should have a thread so users can share their favourite Apps or widgets that they are using on their Sony Tablet.

So come on people please let us know what your favourite tablet apps's are & why..:smileyhappy:

Feel free to also upload images/links if you wish..:smileywink:

Sony Tablet owners: What is you favourite Android App or Widget?

Aldouk — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 14:22:45 GMT

Rockplayer for playing avi's

Sony Tablet owners: What is you favourite Android App or Widget?

faithx — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 21:51:27 GMT

Bubble shooter :smileyblush:

This is of course until I finish my nights and get to have a proper play with it

Back at Uni on Monday, so will be looking at things to make my life easier........

Sony Tablet owners: What is you favourite Android App or Widget?

anobrie79 — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 11:01:57 GMT

ES File explorer, excellent for accessing content on my home network .

Sony Tablet owners: What is you favourite Android App or Widget?

rich912 — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 21:26:45 GMT

Thanks for that anobrie79 just the app I was looking for to access my home network

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breedBenR — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 22:29:21 GMT

I dedicated one of the homescreens in (landscape) to display

my last private mails, synced calendar, last work email mails, side by side with three widgets

I check private email with gmail, and use its widget , 3 icons wide and all but 1 icon high.

I check work mail, an exchange server, and use the widget, 3 icons wide and all but 1 icon high.

In the middle of the screen, i have the calendar widget, 2 icons wide

The remaining bottom row holds icons to the gmail app, mail app, contacts and bookmarks to the webmail interfaces of some other emails that I use infrequently.

I like the 'keep screen on' button widgets (toggles screen to stay on, or go to sleep)

I like the 'wifi always' widget.

Both for use in combination with DLNA server to stream from tablet to TV.

The Tablet S comes programmed and installed to save battery so much, that it makes wifi go to sleep often if you don't invoke apps to avoid it doing so.

A nice file manager for this tablet is: File manager HD. Very good layout on this size tablet.

QuickPic, to browse the photos on the sdcard of my pocket camera [Lumix]

To see and browse the photos and vids on the external SDcard, I did the following:

- click upper right corner: Settings - Browser: Included folders - Add: [the default SDcard1; confirm add ]

- tapped included folders a second time, Add: [navigated to mnt/sdcard2, confirm add ]

- back out from QuickPic's settings menu

- click upper right corner: New Folder, select those two folders on the sdcard2 that hold my pictures.

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--steve-- — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 23:44:06 GMT

my favorite app so far is bsplayer lite, it was free (always a good start), and it found my time capsule without any problems and played my avi files directly. I had issues with es file explorer having to download the file before play back. only annoying thing is that it insists on creating a thumbnail for each file when you first go to a new folder, if theres a lot of files, it can tak a couple of minutes !

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knight_lancelot — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 16:22:06 GMT

My favorit apps are the following:

qPDF Notes

It can open PDF Files and highlight and underline text and put some Notes in the PDF File as well.

Works great for school and university, when they have their presentations on PDF.

Pocket Informant-Events Tasks

A alternative calendar with more features.

Filemanager HD (Honeycomb)

Opera Mobile web browser

browsing comfort

VNC Viewer

Control your Computer remotely

OfficeSuite Pro 5
- Create and Edit Word / Excel and Powerpoint Documents.

What I am Still looking for is a App that manages Pictures - .jpeg and .RAW / .ARW pictures.

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Huey-Norway — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 18:25:11 GMT

I'm loving nfl gamepass, needs subscrption to nfl network though. That said, the picture quality is amazing. Game: a little addicted to doodle god. Music: spotify does the job perfectly. General interest: I never get bored of standing on the veranda at night with google sky map (i think that's what it's called) in hand, a fantastic AR app.

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heonder52 — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 14:58:01 GMT

What I am Still looking for is a App that manages Pictures - .jpeg and .RAW / .ARW pictures.

Photo Mate can do the trick.

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amillionbytes — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 12:39:31 GMT

Love the IMDB app, and gReader for RSS / Blog reading.

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mpattenden — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 13:50:21 GMT

Crackle when it works:smileymischief:

Sound hound proved very useful recently in identifying some tracks on tape (I know yes they still exist!) so I got them get them digitally for use.

ES file exporer for getting to my NAS

File Manager HD for the tablet

MX Video player - plays just about everything

EDIT: and not forgetting the remote control - which is just brilliant

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bennybuche — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 17:02:02 GMT

I'm a slingbox's happy owner... So I bought SlingPlayer Mobile (for phone) and installed it on my tablet: works just fine! As I have a Slingbox Pro (not HD) I couldn't use the SlingPlayer Mobile for tablets 😕

Otherwise, Ilike the Relay app (it a Zinio alike, but in french 😉

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lemurville — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 16:04:28 GMT

I'm quite partial to PressReader. It's an app for reading newspapers. I know I can read the online versions of papers, but I prefer reading the newspaper version as it's much more visual.

Downside is you have to subscribe at £18 a month. But you can trial it and if you already buy a newspaper regularly it's no dearer. And the electronic paper boy delivers it to your door for you.

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Thalamus. — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 13:33:40 GMT

Thanks to all who have posted information on their favourite apps..:smileyhappy:

Thalamus. wrote:
As the Tablet is new I thought we should have a thread so users can share their favourite Apps or widgets that they are using on their Sony Tablet.
So come on people please let us know what your favourite tablet apps's are & why..
Feel free to also upload images/links if you wish..

Some three months have passed since this thread was created so has anyone found some killer app that they want to share..

Sony Tablet owners: What is you favourite Android App or Widget?

Eddie86 — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 15:26:11 GMT

mx video

ubersocial for twitter

tapatalk for forum browsing

unified remote for controlling pc

atorrent for downloads

that should keep you going

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zabius — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 13:48:47 GMT

I will try to avoid apps that have already been mentioned but my fave apps are...

Asphalt 6 HD (Great racing game - works well on the tablet)
Amazon Kindle (Has replaced my actual Kindle that I owned, syncs all my books from Amazon)
Backbreaker THD (American Football game - Tegra edition, great fun)
ESPN Goals (can see all the latest Premier League Football highlights)
Glow Hockey 2 (Air hockey game - can play 2 people on the same tablet, good simple fun)
GTA III (What can I say... it is Grand Theft Auto... nuff said!)
Guns 'n' Glory (Brilliant Tower-like game based on Wild West)
iKamasutra (hope there isn't any kids presents - xxx)
HomerunBattle 3D - (Best Android Baseball game available)
Where's My Water (fun puzzle game by Disney of all people!)

That's my lot.. for now...

Oh dear.. Man City 0 - 3 Man Utd.... (not good)

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heavygoods — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 23:07:07 GMT

@breedbenr: where did you get the screen on and wifi always toggle widgets??

they sound very useful for the same reason you obviously use them for - easy switching to keep stuff running when streaming over dlna

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jostone89 — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 10:15:02 GMT

My tablet is mainly for business, favourite apps are Sugar Sync and LogMeIn Ignition, both keep me connected to all my files and machines back in the office.

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stowball — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 09:02:06 GMT

Folder Organizer Lite for grouping my apps, games, media, utils etc
Beautiful Widgets for clock and weather
Dictionary.com widget for word of the day
Power Widget for instant access/toggle of Airplane mode, Wi-Fi, Auto rotation, Screen brightness, Always on etc
Twicca widget for quick access to my Twitter mentions, DMs, Favourites etc
Thumb Keyboard. Easily the best, customisable tablet-optimised keyboard
ES File Explorer for browsing my tablet and NAS
MX Video Player for playing videos from the tablet and NAS
ConvertPad for converting everything: currency, sizes, etc
SNESDroid and WiimoteController for classic gaming Nintendo gaming with a Wii Remote