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Androiditors, I am going on a road trip tonight after work. What should I install on my phone to make it more fun? (self.Android)

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Damn Netflix for not having a streaming movie app yet.

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[–]gecker 27 points28 points ago

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Nobody wants to admit it, but... a car charger?

[–]pezkiHTC Evo 4g 7 points8 points ago

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If you don't already have it, Google Skymap is awesome.

[–]HonkyTonkHero[S] 2 points3 points ago

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Oh yeah, Skymap rules!

[–]kefs 3 points4 points ago* 

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not only skymap, but check out the Nasa ISS Sighting opprtunities website for your location.. If it's clear out, it's mind-blowing to watch the space station go by.

edit: seems ppl like this, so here's the link.. just select yer country from the dropdown on the left.

[–]fuzzoStock HTC Sensation 4G 17 points18 points ago

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condoms.

[–]HonkyTonkHero[S] 4 points5 points ago

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No way, condoms suck.

[–]azdesign 4 points5 points ago

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Thats what he said

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[–]HonkyTonkHero[S] 1 point2 points ago

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Hmm, what is this?

EDIT: Nevermind, found it here. Thanks!

[–]ethereal_pixie 2 points3 points ago

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Thank you!

I've recently started Geocaching and man is it fun!

[–][deleted] 4 points5 points ago

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Snesoid + Chrono Trigger = Win!

[–]magicducksauce 1 point2 points ago

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or mario rpg ;)

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points ago

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or Gbcoid and Pokemon Red/Blue/Yellow

[–]jorshrod 1 point2 points ago

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Zenonia is great for action RPG on Android, sort of a Zelda + CT merge.

[–]thantikOG Droid x2, GS Vibrant; Lq Gbread, Stock 2.2, Passion V10.5 0 points1 point ago

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I support this too. Not only is it one of the better RPGs out there, but they were cool enough to port over to the Android platform way before a lot of other people.

[–]badalchemist 0 points1 point ago

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This! I'm at the Giga Gaia fight right now...

[–]Circuit23 0 points1 point ago

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hell yes! except that i'm having a hell of a time catching this damn mouse thingy (it has the secret of the dome) with the jinky phone controls... oh well, it's certainly better than nothing!

[–]juken 4 points5 points ago

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The application "Wardrive"

[–]entropikone 0 points1 point ago

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a must when going through new locations :)

[–]shocker4256Transformer, Prime | Droid 1, MIUI -1 points0 points ago

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Can you explain why you would use wardrive? I'm really confused as to its use

[–]juken 0 points1 point ago

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Just fun to map wireless networks out, especially "strange" ones on the highway.

[–]thantikOG Droid x2, GS Vibrant; Lq Gbread, Stock 2.2, Passion V10.5 2 points3 points ago

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Someone really needs to make an MMO where you level up by collecting wifi points, rofl

[–]NiflheimMoto Milestone, CM 7.1 9 points10 points ago

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Dude, all the fun of a road trip is the road trip itself. Forget your phone and enjoy the ride.

[–]HonkyTonkHero[S] 12 points13 points ago

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Ha, it a road trip that includes in-laws, dogs and babies so I need distractions.

[–]CopDoctorAstronaut 8 points9 points ago

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O god. You should download the white noise app and bring a good set of headphones.

Good luck, my friend.

[–]ThisIsADogHello 1 point2 points ago

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What kind of dog?

[–]dontalk2yourself 2 points3 points ago

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The game Alchemy is fun, and will burn up some road trip time. You could always try tethering your laptop to get netflix...

[–]HonkyTonkHero[S] 2 points3 points ago

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No Netflix linux support either...not a happy customer right now.

[–]geruszSGS2 GT-I9100, Rooted stock 0 points1 point ago

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Have you tried it with Wine? (I don't even have Netflix where I live, so It's just a wild guess... might even work.)

[–]lunigma 1 point2 points ago

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Netflix under WINE doesn't work because Silverlight under WINE doesn't work, and that's what Netflix uses.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point ago

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Moonlight with a user agent string change?

[–]lunigma 0 points1 point ago* 

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Moonlight doesn't support DRM which is needed for the streaming, as far as I know.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point ago

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Those motherfuckers. :(

They should implement it anyway. The purpose of DRM is lame, so I have no problem with defeating it.

[–]zachtibGoBuddy 1 point2 points ago

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no idea about wine, but virtual machines work, and was what I used to use for Netflix on Linux. I think I've heard online that running the windows version of firefox in wine can work, though

[–]gregny2002Galaxy Nexus, Stock 0 points1 point ago

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Have any decent DVDs out from netflix atm?

[–]HonkyTonkHero[S] 1 point2 points ago

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I have been reading a lot about Alchemy, I will give it a go, thanks!

[–]jorshrod 0 points1 point ago

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Alchemy is fun... I've unlocked about 75 elements so far, sort of stuck.

[–]LiftingTheVeil 3 points4 points ago

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Trapster - warn and be warned of speed traps, police checkpoints, etc.

[–]vajorie 0 points1 point ago

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kills the battery (way too fast), and is too slow (on N1)... must have some kind of bug...

[–]LiftingTheVeil 0 points1 point ago

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I use a charger in the car. GPS constantly does make the battery hot... SetCPU can be set to underclock when that happens.

[–]Bizurke 2 points3 points ago

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Raging Thunder 2 has kept me busy during many long bus rides. I would try to find stuff that doesn't require a fast (or any) data connection if you are going to be outside of populated areas. You can always just load some movies or tv shows on it as well.

[–]HonkyTonkHero[S] 0 points1 point ago

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I will check out Raging Thunder 2. I would love to load up some movies, but I am stuck at work all day with no data cable, so I am limited to the Android Market.

[–]monsdaLTE Galaxy Nexus 0 points1 point ago

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dropbox - no cables needed. It also makes installing apk's that you download on your computer easy.

[–]HonkyTonkHero[S] 0 points1 point ago

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Hell yes, I have been using dropbox since the beta, and I couldn't go without it. I was really happy to find the app for dropbox in the market.

[–]yawgmoth 2 points3 points ago

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One of my apps: BAC Calc

Not because the app is really that fun but because it will give you an awesome excuse to drink.

/shameless plug

[–]HonkyTonkHero[S] 1 point2 points ago

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Shit, this is awesome. As a raging alcoholic I will be using this on an hourly basis.

[–]imusuallydrunk 0 points1 point ago

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.159 drive in 6 hours????? is that right?! this thingi s broken man i feel fine

[–]yawgmoth 0 points1 point ago

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are you sure you put your information in right? (If you are, in fact, usually drunk you might want bump up the tolerance to 'scotsman')

[–]imusuallydrunk 1 point2 points ago

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probably not im kinda fucked up. i cant just blow into it ?

[–]simianspaceman 2 points3 points ago

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Grooveshark all the way! I had it on my phone on a cross country road trip. It was awesome. The power of the tubes!

[–]HonkyTonkHero[S] 1 point2 points ago

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I was using Pandora, but I am installing Grooveshark now to give it a go

[–]simianspaceman 1 point2 points ago

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you can play individual songs instead of just listening to a station. When i was on my trip it was the old supper buggy version. The new one should be awesome to que from the road.

[–]SnacksOnAPlane 1 point2 points ago

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Shortyz! For crossword puzzles!

Some twitter client, obviously. I prefer twicca.

Floodit.

A podcast aggregator (I use BeyondPod) and the [Stuff You Should Know](www.howstuffworks.com/stuff-you-should-know-podcast.htm) podcasts. So informative, so funny. Also get This American Life, The Moth, and Dan Carlin's Common Sense if you're at all into politics.

The Kindle app, and some books!

Pandora and Grooveshark for music.

[–]HeliosTrickGalaxy Nexus LTE, Droid X, Xoom 0 points1 point ago

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Shortyz is definitely amazing if you dig crosswords. Also BlowUp and Word Drop.

[–]kebernet 0 points1 point ago

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Aww. I'm touched. :P I use Google Listen for podcasts. It isn't perfect, but I love that I can manage subscriptions from Reader.

[–]stoplightHTC Incredible 1 point2 points ago

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I just got back from a week long road trip. These are the apps I found useful:

  • yelp app for finding good cheap food nearby
  • pandora for listening to music on the go
  • open sudoku because I like sudoku and its a good time killer

Also be sure your camera settings save your pictures to your sd card. At least with my Incredible it saved them to the phone and I couldnt figure out how to get them off the phones internal memory without copying all of the pictures to my SD card >_<

[–]HonkyTonkHero[S] 0 points1 point ago

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Downloading the yelp and sudoku apps right now. I wish I had an SD card, but I haven't gotten one for the Captivate yet. :/

[–]geruszSGS2 GT-I9100, Rooted stock 0 points1 point ago

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Music. Lots.

I also recommend Shark or Die, Pirates and Traders, Criticality (if you are into Reversi-like board games) and Droplets 2.0 Free.

Other non-game apps I could recommend: Laputa reader (it has lots of books in the Blazer repository, though their legality is at least questionable (Harry Potter 1-7 for free? C'mon...)) and HumanJapanese Lite (if you want to start learning Japanese... why not? Start it once before leaving, it must download its audio files first!)

[–]monsdaLTE Galaxy Nexus 0 points1 point ago

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For music - subsonic is really cool. Won't really work if your music is on your laptop and you plan on packing it with you.

[–]frickingenius 0 points1 point ago

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Definitely friction. If you have cash it's six bucks for gameboid and rom buddy which is a battery drain, but you can have Pokemon red on your phone.

[–]HonkyTonkHero[S] 3 points4 points ago

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I use DroidEmu right now, it has emulators for SNES, NES, Genisis, Gameboy Advance, Gameboy Color & Gamegear, and lets you download roms from the program its self.

Any advantage to having the separate emulators? And downloading friction right now, thanks!

[–]frickingenius 0 points1 point ago

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no real advantage, it's just the first one i found and it is very stable. But DroidEmu sounds much better I'm going to check it out now.

[–]kefs 0 points1 point ago

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maybe a timelapse app so you can make a few timelapses of your adventures?

[–]gecker 0 points1 point ago

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Yes! an app that takes a picture every 10 minutes and uploads it to your favorite picture sharing website.

[–]noPENGSinALASKAGalaxy Nexus, Stock rooted 4.0.2, Verizon 0 points1 point ago

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Zombies run.

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[–]HonkyTonkHero[S] 1 point2 points ago

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Ah good call. I usually turn it off so folks don't see the seedy areas of town I frequent, but this would be useful.

[–]shocker4256Transformer, Prime | Droid 1, MIUI 0 points1 point ago

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Google tracks does this too

[–]iLamaGalaxy Nexus 0 points1 point ago

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Tracks does this but latitude is current there's no need to stop recording and upload your whereabouts.

[–]middlegeek 0 points1 point ago

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I have enjoyed playing Checkers

[–]smileythomMotorola Bionic stock, nookColor CM7.1 0 points1 point ago

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Wordfeud (Scrabble like game). There's even a post from a couple weeks ago with redditors who want to play.

[–]HonkyTonkHero[S] 1 point2 points ago

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Ahh, I missed that post, feel free to add driftinoutlaw!

[–]ashagari 0 points1 point ago

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Mortplayer, an audio book reader.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point ago

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Falling Ball...that game is addicting...and frustrating

[–]oddlike7 0 points1 point ago

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It's not as cool as some of the other suggestions, but I vote for Kindle. Reading is always a good escape, at least for myself.

[–]davidron 0 points1 point ago

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If you use Google Reader, then install NewsRob to sync your Google Reader feeds. Offline access is useful when you are without reception and bored. http://www.appbrain.com/app/com.newsrob

[–]octacock 0 points1 point ago

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Purchase Radiant

[–]rgawendaHTC Sensation 0 points1 point ago

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IOS4

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Just kidding

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