Which are mobile phone apps that you use frequently?

Well, let’s see… There’s Waze so I know how long I’m going to sit in traffic. For some reason I’ve been playing a lot of Game of Drones. Facebook, Google+, Paprika, and Slack are probably the most used.

I use Facebook app, Inbox and Outlook for my email accounts. I have MyFitnessPal to monitor my calories. Chrome. For travel I use Trainline to look up train times and RingGo to pay for parking and Google Maps for bus times and directions. I also use Google Photos. Twitter app is there and occasionally used. That’s about all the regularly used ones.

Communications:
– Facebook
– Gmail
– Google Chrome (for Fluther)
– Facebook Messenger
– Google Hangouts, Hangouts Dialer, Google Voice (sometimes I let my phone service lapse, and use my Google Voice number as backup on a VOIP connection.

Entertainment:
– Pandora
– Pokemon Go
– VLC Media Player
– Google Play Music
– Overdrive (library ebooks and audiobooks)

Tools:
– Google Maps
– Imgur – to share photos on Fluther.
– Shopular – quick access to local store circulars to find deals on things I’m shopping for.
– ES File Explorer
– CCleaner
– RoByte (backup remote control for my Roku box)

The alarm clock?

Buycott – lets me pick campaigns and then scan UPC symbols on products at stores, to see if their companies are contributing to problems or solutions.

Jota Text Editor – gives a Notepad program that can read and create text files, and browse the file structure on the device.

Smart Voice Recorder – good for recording dreams (or talking-in-sleep) because it skips silence.

EpicWin – amusing task list that looks a little like a grindy computer game.

Productivity Challenge Timer – helps me catch myself when I’m getting distracted while trying to work.

My credit union’s app.

Pirates and Traders – best strategy RPG app I’ve found

Trip Advisor – good for finding restaurant reviews
Expedia – as above, and for having data on things booked via Expedia

Parkopedia – map that shows parking spots

Imgur – wasting time or finding cat pictures etc

S Planner
Word
Wechat
Chrome
Google maps
Met Office
Banking app
Traveline

Safari – Web browser
Camera – I like pictures
Fastmail – I like email too
Robinhood – Stock app that is free of commissions
Plex – Media player

That is pretty much it. I charge my phone once a week. I don’t use it much.

Does anyone use their phone to simply talk to people, or is that so yesterday?
These things were so-posed to keep you connected but it seems to me the more these things are used the more disconnected people get than ever.

@SQUEEKY2 :: My sister and her kids prefer texting. They text me and I don’t respond and just call. I can talk much faster than I can type.

I understand that you see phones as scary devices of condensed evil, @SQUEEKY2, but it’s a lot easier to stay connected with my friends through Facebook and text than it is to make 65465846516854 phone calls.

For example, I am getting up to the minute updates on my friend’s kidney transplant surgery that happened today. He is out of surgery and woke up 10 minutes ago. His donor is in recovery and doing well.

Thanks to Facebook, Libby (my friend’s wife) was able to tell over 1,000 people what was going on at the same time. No need to take time away from his side to make one or five or 20 phone calls and hope word got around. She has instant access to her entire support system, to the point where if she needs a latte someone will have it to her in ten minutes’ time.

@Seek when did I ever point out cell phones are evil?
Or I hate technology, and I don’t want a 1000people to know what is going on in my daily life except for Mrs Squeeky and very close friends.
hey and even I don’t punch all those numbers I access the cell phones , phone book go to the person I want and push send.
And if I want to know what is going on example an operation I will call someone close to them and ask.
HOW I do see them as evil is people texting people and ignoring the people they are with.
or having an auto accident because they can’t leave the phone alone.
Or as Mrs Squeeky pointed out the women in her work place using text to gossip about another co worker sitting right beside them.
I will add to those of you that use your phones in a safe many good for you, for those that don’t STOP endangering everyone else just because you just had to text at the most unsafe time.

@johnpowell I agree I can receive a text but hate clicking away at a micro key board.
and @Seek it’s much easier to click a thousand letters then a 14 digit phone number??

@SQUEEKY2

If I want to ask my husband to pick up milk on the way home, yes, it is absolutely superior communication to text – where he can read and reply at his leisure – than it is to call, and either leave a voicemail and hope he bothers to check it, or interrupt his work in order to have a conversation.

He works in construction. I have no inclination to interrupt when he’s talking to a client, or coating a floor (time sensitive work), and if he’s using the Hummell or the edger he can’t hear the ringing over the machine anyway.

If there’s something that is too long or involved to express over text, it is probably not important and can wait until he gets home.

You better believe if I ever call hubby during work hours I’m telling which hospital to drive to.

For social networking I mainly use Twitter

For my news RSS feeder, I use Feedly

For gaming apps lately I’ve been paying Pokemon Go and Final Fantasy V

For online videos of course I use YouTube mostly.

For music I simultaneously use the Music app and MusicTube

If I’m reading on my iPad I use the Kindle app. Will also use the Pages app for writing and sharing documents.

For general web usage the Safari app does the trick for me. I use the default Mail app for email as it has everything I could want.

And for travel information I tend to use the Irish Rail app a lot for the latest train times.

Hayday
Candy Crush
Simpsons Tapped Out
A video downloader app
Youtube
Tubex
Netflix
Pocket
ibooks

Google Texting
Pandora
My credit union’s app to check my balance
Merriam-Webster Dictionary
Pokemon Go