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silkman

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I'm getting an S3 having used Windows Mobile for 8 years.
Before I start using it can someone tell me what apps are must have for android phones i.t.o:
1)security if the phone gets lost
2) GPS for South Africa
3) any "must have" apps
4) do I root or not?

Any other advice is appreciated people
 
silkman said:
I'm getting an S3 having used Windows Mobile for 8 years.
Before I start using it can someone tell me what apps are must have for android phones i.t.o:
1)security if the phone gets lost
2) GPS for South Africa
3) any "must have" apps
4) do I root or not?

Any other advice is appreciated people
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1 Avast
2 Navigation
3 Plenty
4 if you want the anti tracking on avast to work even if the phone is wiped, yes.
 
I take it you have other reasons for moving to android. Congrats for managing to stay sane with windows mobile for so long. As a post above stated, you may have picked the wrong time to make the jump. The new Windows Mobile 8 phones made by Nokia and HTC are really decent phones, and that's coming from a 4 year Android user. Enjoy your S3 :)

Must have apps:

Flipboard (If you like all your tech news in one place)
Quickpic (Waaaay better than the phones default gallery)
Skype
Shazam or sound hound come in useful for finding song names
Google Maps has the best turn based GPS IMO
IVONA give your phone a sexy voice :P
Whatsapp

Oh and rooting is not necessary. If you really want to, wait till your warranty is over before messing with roms and stuff. My GS2 that I've used for nearly a year and never felt the need to root or change roms or anything. I used to do that all on my old android phone and the bugs just got annoying.
 
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I really didn't think I would move from Winmo but Android just seems right and the way to go- IMO.
 
Google is being suggested as the best GPS. I am presuming this is based on it being the best free one. There are many other better ones, and by better I mean offline navigation for those times you find yourself without signal or money on your phone.

And there are a number of phone tracking apps that require no rooting - android lost, where's my droid, lookout, prey etc.
 
ClintZA said:
Google is being suggested as the best GPS. I am presuming this is based on it being the best free one. There are many other better ones, and by better I mean offline navigation for those times you find yourself without signal or money on your phone.

And there are a number of phone tracking apps that require no rooting - android lost, where's my droid, lookout, prey etc.
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Yea, the big advantage with avast though is that resetting/wiping the phone will not remove the tracking if the phone has been rooted.
 
I just got my phone yesterday from Vodacom. Will rooting void the warranty?
Is there a way to download the whole of SA for Google Maps and store on SD card?
 
silkman said:
I just got my phone yesterday from Vodacom. Will rooting void the warranty?
Is there a way to download the whole of SA for Google Maps and store on SD card?
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Awesome. :D
Rooting voids warranty.
You can cache it but to do the whole of SA will be quite tiresome.
 
Thanks- ok So I'm not gonna root- but I hate the stock launcher.
What is the best other launcher to get?
 
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Thanks...another thing please, how the heck do I import my .csv contacts without using gmail I tried renaming to .vcf and importing but I keep getting the error that it fails to import.
 
I know SnapPea can import both csv and vcf formats. Cant say if your csv would be the same format tho.
 
ClintZA said:
Google is being suggested as the best GPS. I am presuming this is based on it being the best free one.
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Not really. Google maps + navigation is awesome and does everything a paid for app does plus more.
 
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