What apps should I get for my new Android Moto X4 phone?
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December 29th, 2017
Two days ago, I entered the 21st century and replaced my flip phone with a smartphone – a Motorola Moto X4. Now I have to figure out how to get the most out of it. I don’t want to play games with my phone although I do have Sudoku.
What apps should I download. – preferably free – that would be useful? So far I have Cardboard (for VR), Firefox Focus (for secure browsing), GPS Status (for GPS info), NFC Tag info (for reading NFC tags).
What else do I need?
What do you enjoy?
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If you like photography, and editing your pictures, Snapseed is quite nice.
Very effective, and simple to use.
Plex you monster. You do have to pay a one time fee of 5 bucks to unlock it.
But I will enable sync for you on my server. After that there will be a download button where you can download anything on my server to your phone. So you can watch whatever while on a plane or driving without using cellular data or wifi.
Fitness apps if you like to walk / run and wanna keep track of it!
Amazon Kindle App if you are ready to read on mobile instead of paperback version!
Fluther
CNN
Fox News
TMZ for cheap thrills
Weather
I use Camscanner often, to copy documents. Microsoft Office Lens is a similar app, but I haven’t tried it because I’ve been happy with Camscanner for years.
Dropbox for syncing files with my PCs.
Keepass password safe. I save the Keepass file to a Dropbox folder, so its available and up to date on all my machines.
Wordweb is a local English dictionary – works offline.
Google Find My Device (not an app) allows you to log into a browser and locate your phone, make it ring, or wipe it.
Prey is a non-Google phone finder/ringer/wiper.
VPN client – If you’re running your PPTP own server, you can connect with built-in settings. Their are OpenVPN clients, but I have not used them.
For a paid VPN service, I bought a lifetime VPN Unlimited cheap when they had a promo.
Yeah Camscanner is good app!!
Oh man! I see I’ll be busy for more than a few days!
These are great!
Another few I think you might like.
Sky Map was a Google app on original Android phones, they let it out as open source. The first augmented reality.
Androsensor”: Shows readings from the myriad sensors in your phone – compass, orientation, acceleration, temperature & lots lots more.
“GPS Test”: See which satellite signals are being received and their strengths.
I do love this list!!! There’s a whole lot of space on this baby.
Please keep the recommendations coming!
I want to double it’s weight! :-)
Something you will find is it can be tough to find a specific app in the Google Play store even if you know the the name – lots of apps with identical or near identical names.
I botched the links on these two. So specifically, here are the ones I Iike.
GPS Test
Androsensor
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