Games
1. Temple Run
Super addictive, simple and must have game. It’s too easy to play, but too hard to score. Run from demon monkeys, collect coins, buy power-ups, unlock new characters, and make your best score.
2. Fruit Ninja Free
Show your Ninja skills… by cutting fruits in slices to make a high score. Compete with your friends, open-feint integrated, and play online (only in paid version). Different game modes like, Classic, Zen and Arcade.
3. Angry Birds Space
Most popular game on mobile platform, with many versions like Angry Birds Classic, Seasons, Rio, etc. Space is the latest version by Rovio, which has received more than 50 million downloads and many thousands 5-star reviews.
4. Dead Trigger
Meet the zombies, and kill them. Huge size game with great effects, even better on Tegra 3 devices. It has been downloaded more than a million times and received pretty good rating so far.
5. Overkill
Another shooting game, with nice graphics. And it’s easier to play on small screen devices, as compared to other shooting games, because they occupy half of the screen for aim and shoot. Compatible with most of the low-end devices too.
Battery Saving Apps
1. Easy Battery Saver
Highest rated battery saving app, with millions of downloads. The problem with Android phones is, they eat a lot of battery. This app helps you manage it, and increase battery backup considerably.
2. GreenPower Free Battery Saver
It’s compatible with Android v2.2+ and handles the common power-eating functions like, WiFi, 3G/4G, Bluetooth, etc. You can just install and forget it, it’ll work. But it’s recommended to configure it as per your needs to make the most out of it.
Probably the most popular battery management app in Play Store. The UI is great and simple to use. Although the free version has everything an average user needs, but you can always upgrade to premium version and get access to more features.
Photography and Editing
1. Camera360 Ultimate
The best application for clicking great pics, even if your camera isn’t that good. It has many effects and features too. Different shooting modes like, image stabilizer, burst shoot, etc. makes your camera’s photo capturing even better and blur-free.
2. Instagram
It’s an image sharing app, insanely popular and recently bought by Facebook for a billion dollars. There are no extensive and complex editing options. It provides just what you want. Follow other people, other people follow you, view their photo streams, and do a lot more stuff.
3. Adobe Photoshop Express
A light-weight Photoshop for Android phones. It has almost every tool you need to make a picture look gorgeous. You can share the photos easily and access them anywhere from photoshop.com.
4. Skitch
Draw something fun and make the photos you take even more beautiful. It’s does not provide photo editing features like, brightness, contrast, etc. It allows you to make arrows, write something fun or draw something using pencil and brush. You can save the edited images to Evernote or share them right from the app.
Instant Messaging/Chat
1. Skype
Now make Skype-to-Skype video and VoIP calls on-the-go. Don’t miss your near and dear ones with this official app. It also lets you send IM to your contacts.
2. Nimbuzz
Nimbuzz is the most popular service, since years. The main advantage is, it’s multi-platform. It’s available for iOS, Android and other platforms, including Java based phones. You can log-in to Facebook, Google and many other supported instant messengers to chat with all your buddies at one place.
3. WhatsApp Messenger
The SMS-killer application. Received record-breaking more than 50 million downloads and almost 1 million 5-star reviews. It’s a great app to connect with your phone book contacts, share photos, audio recordings, and many useful features. You can even create groups, and have fun.
4. Facebook Messenger
If you chat with your Facebook friends very often, you can install Facebook Messenger. It is basically the official Facebook chat for mobile phones. And yes, group chat is also supported.
5. WeChat
It’s kind of similar to WhatsApp Messenger, but with some extra and unique features. It’s great only if your friends use it too. Well, you can convince them to use it, right?
Social Networking Apps
1. TweetDeckTweetDeck is an app developed by Twitter itself. It lets you see what’s happening on different social networking sites like, Facebook, Twitter and Foursquare in a single app. It’s a good choice if you use more than one social network very often.
2. Seesmic
Seesmic integrates Facebook and Twitter in one app. It supports multiple Twitter accounts, photo preview from Twitpic, Instagram, Twitter, and many more. It has been downloaded more than a million times, and got great reviews by users in Play Store.
3. Facebook
It’s the official app by Facebook Inc. If you don’t want to use third-party apps, this is the only choice. It supports contacts sync and notifications too. Every time you receive a new notification, message or friends request, you can opt in to receive push notification.
4. Twitter
Again, official app of Twitter. It’s pretty good for normal use. You can opt-in to get push notifications for just what you need. Notification when a specific user tweets is also supported.
