Cool Apps For The Htc Magic

The HTC Magic is the second smartphone to use the Google Android operating system. One of the great advantages of running a system such as Android is that you can use a number of cool Apps with your phone, which are either built in, or can be freely downloaded from the Android Market. Here are some of the best around:

Metal Detector: Would-be treasure hunters should make downloading this app their first priority. Using the magnet that for some reason is built into the unit, it turns your phone into a metal detector that works surprisingly well. Perfect for finding old cans, belt buckles, and gold doubloons.

Barcode Scanner: This cool app allows you to use the camera on the magic to read bar codes and obtain price information off the internet. Perfect if you are wanting to check whether something on offer in a shop is genuinely a good deal, although it does not work on every bar code.

Trap- a modern update of the old pocket gaming classic. Using the touch screen interface, you can drag your finger across the screen to trap the bouncing balls in an increasingly small corner of the screen. The aim is to segregate the balls in as small an area as possible, with targets for each level.

The game is given an added frisson by the use of the touch screen interface on the Magic, which makes it even more frustratingly addictive. You will find yourself wasting time you did not know that you had!

NRU: This app uses the internal compass in conjuction with the GPS device inside the phone to tell you how to get to bars, nightclubs, and bowling alleys anywhere in the world, which is handy if you get lost on a boozy holiday night out. It would be even more handy if it could tell you how to get to the nearest ATM, but maybe that is asking for trouble!

Google Maps: You do not even have to download this, as it comes pre installed with the phone. It basically turns your phone into a satellite navigation system of the kind that you might have seen taxi drivers use.

The street view option, although marginally less useful, is a lot more fun, as it allows you to virtually wander through real photographed and mapped 3D streets anywhere in the world, simply by moving your phone.

By: Neo Nashville

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