The best Android apps this week are here to dispel your Winter blues. The weather’s rubbish, those New Year’s resolutions are either ladling-on exertion or guilt and you’re probably still skint from Christmas. Idling around the Android Market in this post-Christmas dead zone looking for an appular gem isn’t going to be much fun, so leave the task to us and check out our top five best Android apps of the week.
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French Class Not yet found your New Year’s resolution? Why not try to rekindle your knowledge of the French language? Everyone learnt it at school, but do you still know your piscine from your poisson? French Class contains around 3000 words, and 40 articles on grammar. What better way to spend an evening is there than with one of the best Android apps for improving yourself?
OK, so while most of us take on New Year’s resolutions as things to give up mid-February after having made a half-hearted, flaccid stab at them in January, at least this one won’t cost you as much as a gym membership. It’s just a couple of quid.
All Clear Paid One for the cads and bounders in the class, All Clear Paid is a one-click way to clear your call and text message logs. If you’ve been sending saucy texts to someone you shouldn’t have, All Clear could save your relationship, and all for the price of a pint of beer from Wetherspoons. There’s a free ad-funded version available too, if you’re the kind of app buyer that likes to save money for Wetherspoons boozing sessions.
Careful how you go though, as there’s no undo function in this app. This is text message armageddon in app form, so make sure there are no smile-inducing text message saplings that would get eaten up in the All Clear forest fire.
Google TV Remote This is one for the really early adopters. Google TV in the UK is as rare as the fabled white iPhone 4, but it is possible to import, and if the big G has its way, it’ll soon feature in households across our fair country. In-line with Google’s dream of an integrated, Google-branded universe, there’s now a Google TV Remote app you can download for your Android phone.
It’ll let you control your Google TV interface, from changing channels to searching for that long-lost episode of a kids’ TV show your secretly love, from the comfort of your Android phone. To get a dedicated gadget as snazzy, you’d have to splash out hundreds of quid on a Logitech Harmony 1100. Still cheaper than a SIM-free HD Desire HD, but you can’t call your mum on a remote control.
Need for Speed Shift EA’s top racer Need for Speed Shift has been available on iPhone for so long that it has even been overtaken by a sequel, Need for Speed Hot Pursuit, but it only recently rolled onto the Android Market. Better late than never, eh? It’s one of the best Android apps to download if you’re a bit of a petrol head.
Just like the iPhone original, it’s a drop-dead gorgeous 3D racer that includes 20 real-life cars, such as the Lamborghini Gallardo and the Pagani Zonda. Be warned though – although the initial download’s only a megabyte, your phone’ll also need to suck up an additional 150MB download. Give that microSD card a massage beforehand.
The Sims 3 Another EA classic that’s unfashionably late to the Android Market’s gaming party, The Sims 3 lets you create and ruin the life of a virtual victim. Find them a job, make friends and find love if you want to play by the rules, or try and make him/her defecate in his/her keks and put the moves on anyone that comes into the house.
In-line with what you’d expect from a title from a giant publisher like EA, there are limits to the depravity you can get up to in The Sims 3, but finding those limits are what it’s all about, right? One of the best Android apps for casual gamers who’d normally only shell out for free titles.
The best Android apps this week are here to dispel your Winter blues. The weather’s rubbish, those New Year’s resolutions are either ladling-on exertion or guilt and you’re probably still skint from Christmas. Idling around the Android Market in this post-Christmas dead zone looking for an appular gem isn’t going to be much fun, so leave the task to us and check out our top five best Android apps of the week.
Not yet found your New Year’s resolution? Why not try to rekindle your knowledge of the French language? Everyone learnt it at school, but do you still know your piscine from your poisson? French Class contains around 3000 words, and 40 articles on grammar. What better way to spend an evening is there than with one of the best Android apps for improving yourself?
One for the cads and bounders in the class, All Clear Paid is a one-click way to clear your call and text message logs. If you’ve been sending saucy texts to someone you shouldn’t have, All Clear could save your relationship, and all for the price of a pint of beer from Wetherspoons. There’s a free ad-funded version available too, if you’re the kind of app buyer that likes to save money for Wetherspoons boozing sessions.
This is one for the really early adopters. 
EA’s top racer Need for Speed Shift has been available on iPhone for so long that it has even been overtaken by a sequel, Need for Speed Hot Pursuit, but it only recently rolled onto the Android Market. Better late than never, eh? It’s one of the best Android apps to download if you’re a bit of a petrol head.
Another EA classic that’s unfashionably late to the Android Market’s gaming party, 
