Anyone who has just bought or received a new Android smartphone or tablet as a gift for Christmas or any other occasion will find an empty cell phone, with some apps already installed by Samsun, HTC or LG, which if they weren't there was better because they are of no use. After putting the SIM card and importing the address book (see how to import the address book to Android), the first thing you do is open Google Play to search for new applications to install. Among the many apps that can be searched and found in Google Play, only a few can be considered obligatory for all or almost all, are those apps that cannot be missing in an Android mobile phone, to be absolutely and immediately to use the smartphone in all its power. Rather than search and dig through user reviews to find the best applications for the various sectors, the apps to have on the new Samsung Galaxy, Xiaomi or Huawei or any other mobile phone / tablet tells you Navigaweb.net and they are divided here by type .
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1) Chat, communication and messages
- WhatsApp is the first app to be installed immediately and to have on any smartphone, be it Android or other. Who already had a smartphone, already knows that Whatsapp is the application to send messages for free using the internet connection. Since it is now used by everyone, you will surely find many friends already registered with whom you can chat freely and free immediately. The Whatsapp app for Android is free for a year, then it costs 1 Euro per year and must be paid through the Google account, with a credit card or a postepay which should not be a problem to pay.
- Telegram is also to be installed, because, as seen, Telegram does many more things than Whatsapp and is useful in many cases, especially when you want a conversation to remain private and secret.
- Viber is another of these applications, with the difference that with Viber you can text and even call mobile phones . It can be a duplicate with Whatsapp, but it is really an excellent alternative to Skype, with lower prices for calls to landlines and cell phones all over the world.
- Facebook Messenger is the app for chatting on Facebook. This application is useful and to have not only for sending messages to friends, but also because Facebook Messenger allows you to make free calls to other users and also to send recorded audio messages. Messenger also has an ingenious feature that allows you to chat with a friend while doing something else, seeing his head as a mobile icon.
2) Photography
On the new Android smartphone you will find a much more advanced camera app, with many options to take photos in any environment and at any time. With Android, however, you can also use other camera apps and edit photos as much as you want.
- Camera MX is the best application for taking photos. Key tools and settings are on the left side of the screen, easily accessible before taking the photo, without having to search for the right option. The application allows you to make incremental exposure compensation, supports different image resolutions, has automatic white balance and focus functions and much more.
- Fotor is, without a doubt, the best photo editing application on Android. It has an extremely intuitive control system to edit photos and just scroll up or down anywhere on the screen to select the tool to use.
- Snapseed, with its easy graphical interface, is the other great photo editing app, by Google.
- Instagram with its 150 million subscribers, is one of the most used social networks, always part of the Facebook circuit. Every photo taken with Instagram can be improved with a filter and shared on Facebook quickly. Instagram now also supports videos.
- Pinterest is an app that is nice to have on Android to browse photos and images of all kinds.
- Google Photos is an app to have absolutely for its way of managing photos. With Google Photos you can make sure that every photo taken is uploaded online, to share it quickly or make a backup.
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3) Music
With Android, not only can you hear the music as you would an iPod or iPhone by loading it into your computer, but you can also listen to streaming music. The apps to have immediately are at least 5:
- Spotify, the app to listen to free streaming music, via the internet, directly from your mobile phone.
- Google Play Music that allows you to listen to songs uploaded from your computer, to your mobile phone, without making transfers. A bit like with Google Photos, you can use Google Music to synchronize the music on your PC and have it automatically also on your smartphone.
- Shazam to always be ready to recognize the title of a song that you listen to on the radio or in any place. Shazam is one of the apps to recognize the title and author of the songs on the mobile phone .
- doubleTwist Player is perhaps the best (but the others are no less) app to listen to mp3 music on an Android smartphone .
- The streaming radio apps to have all the radios of the world on your mobile phone, including the Italian ones.
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4) Videos
- Youtube, of course, is already installed on any Android smartphone and you just need to update it.
- VLC for Android as an app to watch videos of all kinds without problems, which also serves to open streaming videos from the internet on Android. VLC is not the only one however and if you are not satisfied it is worth trying the best apps to watch videos and movies on Android .
- Flash for Android to see videos from streaming sites from the web browser is a plugin to have right away, but not downloadable from the official store (as you can see from the linked guide).
5) Browser, web browsing and news reading
From the list of the best browsers for Android I would say that you must always have at least 4 on your mobile phone: Chrome as default especially if you already use it on your computer, Dolphin Browser to be configured to open sites in desktop version by changing user agent (to avoid paywalls such as Repubblica or Corriere) and which also opens sites in Flash, Firefox because it is Firefox and to allow it to be used by any guests and Opera Mini to navigate even if the internet connection was very slow.
To read the news you can also install news aggregator apps from multiple sites and journalistic sources such as Google News, Feedly (substitute for Google Reader), Flipboard and News Republic.
6) Social network
There are two apps to have right away: Facebook and Twitter.
I want to underline the fact that those who have never used Twitter on their PC because they found it impractical or boring, will find in Twitter a great app to find out about what is happening in the world and next to us.
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7) Utilities, tools and useful apps to have on Android immediately
- Soccer Live Score to know the soccer results.
- Tonight on TV to find out what they do on television every hour.
- Torch to use the mobile phone as a light or, in fact, a torch.
- Yelp and Trip Advisor for reviews of restaurants and hotels always at hand.
- Waze the alternative social GPS navigator to Google Maps.
- 1Weather as a weather app with a widget that displays the current time and weather on the screen.
- Gmail if you use Gmail to read mail
- Google Drive to have Office on your mobile phone or, better yet, on your tablet.
- Rai TV to watch Rai live.
- Alarm clock Xtreme Free as the best app to create alarms and alarms.
- Google Translate to have a translator always available on your mobile phone.
8) The Navigaweb Tech app should always be the first to be installed on an Android phone or tablet, a must-have to read the technology news in preview.
In addition to these, in the next days or when you have time, you can also install many other useful apps listed in other articles such as:
- Best Android widgets for cell phone screen
- Android app for everyday, free multifunction accessories
- Top 10 Android apps worth buying
- 30 apps to improve Android, modify and customize the system
- Best free Android apps for mobile or tablet
- Top 20 free apps for Android tablets
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