Magic Apps for the HTC Magic
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Category: Arts and Entertainment
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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: Along with Snake, Trap is one of the oldest mobile phone games around. The aim of the game is to draw lines inside a box full of bouncing balls, trying to trap the balls inside a smaller and smaller box as time goes on. If a ball hits one of your lines while you are drawing it, though, you lose a life.
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: This comes pre installed to your apps folder, so there is no need to download it. It uses the GPS and compass devices in your phone to turn it into a fully fledged sat nav system, like the taxi drivers use.
But the really cool thing about it is the street view mode, which presents you with a photographic, 3D version of most major cities, so you can just wander around, virtually of course, any major city in the world, without having to pay the air fare!
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Date Submitted: 6/12/2009
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