A dangerous app?
I’m new to Android having just got my hands
on a Samsung Galaxy S III. My friend recommended some apps I should check out,
one of which was PowerAMP. I really like the extra bass and volume the app
offers through the headphones. The problem is, the extra bass and volume make
my phone shake/ vibrate and I’m worried it will damage the phone. I have
stopped using Poweramp until I can be assured that it won’t damage my new
handset. Do you think I should be worried?
Samsung
Galaxy S III
We say: It sounds unlikely. Prolonged
vibration could damage a phone, but we’re talking more like industrial levels
rather than something that could be produced by a music app.
Silly question?
My initial reaction to your question ‘what
is the number one function you use your phone for?’ in issue number 13 was,
what a silly question. Obviously the number one function is the pho..., no hold
it, when I come to think about it, using the phone is certainly not the number
one function by a long way.
I have a contract including ADSL that gives
me free calls from my land line so my wife and I who each have a Sony Neo V
only use the phone part of our smartphones when we are separated from each
other when we are travelling and it is paired to our car phone system.
So taking that into account I then set out
to discover what I do actually use my Neo V for. Obviously games, we have both
become addicted to Angry Birds and normally play these types of games when at a
loose end or waiting in queues. Google Maps is utilised a lot for finding where
places are, along with YouTube either to watch something funny, a film clip or
video of a new single. I write a lot so the Word Web dictionary app is often
opened when I need to check on a particular word via the thesaurus, i do use
Skype quite a lot as I have family and friends scattered all over the world but
when I did a count back I realised that I had only made twelve calls in a month
that way.
Sony
Ericsson Xperia Neo V
The media section is also often called upon
to show photos to friends or to listen to some of my iTunes playlists. My
calendar is certainly used daily as I need to check my appointments and also
add others to it frequently, so that has to the number one app for me without a
doubt. Yes my calend... No wait a moment what about the internet. I have Opera
Mini installed and I troll the net frequently each and every day even at home
when I could be using either the desktop or my laptop.
Finally I had found the answer to your
question. The number one function I use on my Sony Neo V smartphone is the
internet browser, Opera Mini.
We say: It is pretty amazing what these
devices are used for, and how, over a short period of time, everyone makes
their device totally unique to themselves. We’re also big fans of Opera Mini
(for those times when we’re looking to cut down on bandwidth usage), as well as
Maps, Mail, the fitness app Endomondo Pro and, most recently, New Star Soccer.
Better than the Z2
In issue 13 you review the Cowon Plenue Z2,
and ask if Android finally have its iPod touch. It already does in the
fantastic Samsung Galaxy player. I was really surprised to not see this with
the existing better than worse than format.
Cowon
Plenue Z2
We say: We didn’t do a better than/ worse
than with our review of the Z2, but the Galaxy Player would indeed have rated
higher.
