Just a run down on some android apps in case I lose my phone and have to re-install. These are all free. I can’t find many educational apps unfortunately:

News

NYTimes – more up to date

USA Today – more graphical

1Cast News – video news stories

Sports Tap

Social Networking Tools

Twidroid – there are too many twitter apps out there

Facebook – comes with Android 2.0 on the droid

WpToGo – wordpress client

NewsRob – google reader client

Utilities

Barcode Scanner – to read QR codes

DockRunner – for the droid if you don’t have a multimedia dock – activates the multimedia interface

Advanced Task Killer – android apps don’t have a quit/exit button

Astro – file manager – read your SD card, etc. – very nice

Digital Clock – smaller clock widget

Gmote – run the gmote server app on your computer and you can remotely control it

Locale – change android settings based on location or other triggers

The Weather Channel – there are some other weather apps & widgets too

Teradesk – store files on the cloud – DropBox app in the works too

Productivity

AK Notepad – there are numerous sticky note / notepad apps

Astrid – there are also numerous todo list apps

Documents To Go – read word, ppt etc.

Evernote has a web-accessible site, too, with a forthcoming android client app

Voice Recorder – app & widget for quick voice notes

Google Apps

Voice – essential – use for voicemail, forwarding calls, etc.

Listen – podcasts

GDocs

Maps – navigation in android 2.0

Market – of course to find other software

Talk – built-in for instant messaging

Educational

Aldiko – incredibly nice e-book reader application

Google Sky Map – incredible app, point it at sky and it shows the stars & planets

Games

Labyrinth Lite – tilt game to get ball through maze

AirAttack – click on planes and helicopters flying overhead to shoot at them

Air Hockey Demo

Craigs Race – tilt to race a little car on a track

Speed Forge 3D – very nice 3D tilt racing game, see this video

PapiJump – tilt game to bounce a ball upwards

Robo Defense

Bubbles – blow on microphone to create bubbles

Music / Video / Photos

Music – built-in app, plays videos too

Youtube – built-in app, plays youtube videos embedded on webpages too.

Qik, Ustream – broadcast live video, and record it

TV.com – app for watching CBS and related videos. NBC has a mobile-accessible website: m.nbc.com

Pandora – listen to music online

Photoshop has an android app now, see also PicSay and others

Picasa photo album support is built-in to android now

Development

ConnectBot – ssh

Miscellaneous

Amazon, Amazon MP3

Bubble – bubble level app

Compass

ShopSavvy

I’m also keeping an eye out for note taking / handwriting recognition apps for a research project:

MyScript – not out yet, but see the videos

Whiteboard – 99 cent app

JotNot and ShareYourBoard – takes a picture of your paper/whiteboard notes and enhances them

other related note taking apps