My top 10 Android apps

1. Angry Birds
Lives up to the hype. Very addictive. Beautifully simple game play.

2. Kindle for Android
It's easier reading books on your phone than you might think. I read the entire Girl Who Kicked the Hornets Nest ebook on my Desire and enjoyed even page. Very cheap books.

3. Aldiko
Brilliant for free books and a really nice library system for storing them. All of my Cory Doctrow reading is done here.

4. Engadget
The gadget kings have the quality app you would expect. Addictive.

5. Pulse
I've posted before about how good this app is. A truly beautiful way of browsing your RSS feeds. It also caches a lot of data, so works nicely on the tube.

6. TweetDeck
 Combines your Twitter, Facebook, Buzz and Foursquare accounts together brilliantly.

7. AppAware
How do you find new apps in the clunky Android Market? AppAware is how.

8. Robot13
Fantastic free comic reader. The comic itself isn't bad either.

9. Galcon
Practice your Adama moves in this old school space strategy game.

10. Watchdog
How do you know which apps are behaving badly on your phone and draining resources? The Watchdog will keep an eye on them for you.

Let's carousel - Alphonso Lab's Pulse app is a great way to organise your favourite feeds

More apps should help us to organise the content that we like from the web. Pulse is a fantastic app that displays stories from your favourite feeds in an innovative and engaging way. Why download apps for each individual blog or website that you enjoy when one app can take care of it all for you?

I like
The image driven story carousels are a great way to organise a large amount of content on my HTC Desire's small screen.  Swiping to rotate the stories has me immediately engaged and discovering information.

Very simple, but strong user journey. Tapping a story takes me immediately into a detailed, but easy to read content page. The carousel related to the particular website or blog that I'm browsing also remains at the bottom of the screen, encouraging me to discover new stories.

Great social media integration. I'm only ever a touch away from sharing stories with my Twitter followers or Facebook friends.

Works very well offline. The majority of the content on Pulse seems to be cached, so you can happily browse through stories on the tube.

Don't like
Limited amount of recommended content when setting up feeds.

It would be fantastic if Pulse recommended other feeds and stories to you, based on what other users where looking at or sharing.



Download Pulse from Alphonso Labs now