25 Best and Useful Free Android Applications

Android is a popular mobile operating system. Recently its latest version Android 2.3 was launched. Android market has a huge list of useful applications for its users. Whether you are a normal user, business person or a blogger you will find useful applications for you. Here are 25 best and useful free Android Applications for the users of Android mobile phones.

1. Palringo

   Plaringo is an application which works with all the popular IM services. You can chat with your friends on all popular IMs like MSN, AIM, iChat, ICQ, Yahoo!, Jabber, GTalk, Gadu-Gadu and Facebook.

2. Virtual Recorder

   

   Virtual Recorder is a high quality voice recorder/player application for android phones.

3. Apps Uninstall

   The application is really useful when you are running out of space on your device. Apps Uninstall let you uninstall the apps in bulk.

4. Android Protector

   WIth Android Protector you can lock individual applications without locking the complete phone. You can show off your phone to others but keep private data inaccessible.

5. Battery Reserve – Power Backup

   It happens with us most of the times that our phone is running out of battery and suddenly it shuts down before we could make any urgent call but if you have installed Batter Reserve application, your device will switch off before it completely run out of battery so you can switch it on later and make a last call to somebody you want.

6. Android Scan

   Scan is an Android application that finds pricing and metadata for anything with a bar code.

7. Sweet Dreams

   

   Sweet Dreams is a revolutionary tool that will finally allow you to go to sleep without worrying about changing your phone settings in order to avoid unwelcome late night calls. Just set your filters (location, movement or sound) and Sweet Dreams will do the job for you.

8. DroidBlock

   DroidBlock allows you to block incoming calls with numbers in blacklist

9. Opera Web Browser

   Opera Mini is the best web browser for mobile phones. It can open your web pages faster than your default web browser and at the same time it also save money by compressing pages.

10. PicSay

    PicSay is the award-winning photo editor for Android. It is used to improve your photos with color corrections, sharpen, and red-eye removal. Be creative with paint, word balloons, and stickers. Or have fun with distortions, cutouts, special effects, and more.

11. Google Translate

    You can use Google Translate to instantly translate text between more than 50 languages. Its features include: Dictionary results, text-to-speech, Voice input etc.

12. OpenHome

    

    OpenHome is one of the best applications available on the Android market. OpenHome can change the home screen of your mobile phone by changing its fonts, skins, background and icon packs.

13. Winamp

    Winamp is the popular music player for desktop computers. Winamp for Android (beta) offers a complete music management solution (2.1 OS & above) featuring wireless desktop sync (Winamp 5.6 required), iTunes library import, & access to thousands of internet radio stations with SHOUTcast.

14. AndroZip

    AndroZip is an android application which is used to open compressed files on your mobile phone. It can open ZIP, RAR, 7ZIP, GZIP, TAR, BZIP2 files.

15. Facebook for Android

    Facebook for Android makes it easy to stay connected and share with friends. You can share status updates from your home screen, chat with your friends, check out your News Feed, review your upcoming Events, look at your friends’ walls and user info, upload photos, share links, check your Inbox, and view posted videos.

16. RealCalc Scientific Calculator

    RealCalc Scientific Calculator is a fully featured scientific calculator which looks and operates like the real thing.

17. Comeks – Fun Photo Blogger

    Comeks can create & share funny Comeks messages online or in mobile. Combine your photos with speech bubbles and add-on stickers and then share in Facebook, bebo, twitter, Flickr, tumblr, email and mms.

18. SMS Backup

    Automatically backs up SMS messages to your Gmail account.

19. WaveSecure

    WaveSecure is a complete mobile security solution that protects your device, data and privacy. With WaveSecure, you can track your phone’s location and who is using it, Lock down your phone remotely, making it worthless to the thief, Backup all your data and wipe out your data remotely.

20. Open Sudoku

    

    OpenSudoku is a simple open source Sudoku game. It’s designed to be controlled both by finger and keyboard. It’s preloaded with 90 puzzles in 3 difficulty levels, more puzzles can be downloaded from the web and it also allows you to enter your own puzzles.

21. YouTube Remote

    YouTube Remote turns your android device into YouTube remote control. You can use it to control videos on TV or computer screen.

22. Tiny Flashlight + LED

    It is an incredibly simple yet very useful flashlight app for android mobile phones.

23. Movie Finder

    Going to see a movie? Use ikamobile Movie Finder to find out when and where it’s playing near you, fast. The interface is designed to be as simple as possible, with three tabs that conveniently slide out-of-the-way to give you more room to browse movies and cinemas.

24. RingRoid

    Ringdroid is an Android application for recording and editing sounds, and creating ringtones, directly on the handset. It works like any other ringtone creator application of computer. Just select the start and end points and save it as your ringtone.

25. Pedometer

    Pedometer is an android app which counts your steps by using the sensors in the phone. It calculates the pace (steps per minute), and can help you maintain a desired pace by speaking to you.

I hope you enjoyed these Android applications.