GOOD APP: Sensorly, for crowd-sourced local network data
Sensorly is a seriously clever app, and exactly the sort of innovative tool Android was made for. The app measures network connection types and signal strength wherever you are, compiling the data and sending it off to a central server, where it’s collated, chucked over a map and sent out to other users… Read the rest
Get your iTunes music on your phone with MP3tunes – and 50GB of cloud-based storage
We’ve just had an email from MP3tunes, telling us all about its clever way of synchronising your iTunes account with your Android phone… Read the rest
GOOD APP: Clipper, clipboard manager
Yes! We’re long-time users of various clipboard management tools on PC, with the way they conveniently backup all your CTRL+V text-copying action to a file for easy retrieval making life so much easier – and now there’s a decent clipboard tool on Android in the form of Clipper… Read the rest
GOOD APP: BBC News Listen & Tweet
A bizarre clash of the old and the new, this one, with the BBC News Listen & Tweet app combining a live streaming feed of the BBC’s famed World Service radio offering with… a collection of Tweets that mention the BBC… Read the rest
GOOD APP: Columbo Soundboard Deutsch
Come on, surely you’re interested in knowing what the dubbed German version of Columbo sounded like as the show played in continental Europe?.. Read the rest
GOOD APP: PongUr Live Wallpaper background converted to Android clock
Here’s a funny little thing we just dredged up off the Android Market – PongUr. It’s a conversion of the Pong-based animated Live Wallpaper for later models of Android phone, only downsized and converted into a standard clock that works on Android 1.5 and above mobiles… Read the rest
THE APPS WE USE: Airplane AutoSwitch
Airplane AutoSwitch is a very, very non-exciting app, but one that could save your life in a recharge-critical scenario. Airplane AutoSwitch has only the one option screen – from where you set a start and stop time for your phone’s Airplane Mode feature, killing all wireless connections and saving you battery while you sleep… Read the rest
GOOD APP: Sonic Soundboard 1-3
Yes, we know, most of the soundboard apps out there are utterly awful and it’s quite fashionable to “hate on” them – but you can’t go wrong with a nice, high-quality collection of Sonic The Hedgehog sound effects… Read the rest

INQ’s Android phone is an interesting “boutique” piece of hardware, packed with unique interface customisations that go far beyond the headline Facebook integration. We like it a lot.