Google Sky Map
A stunning app that renders Patrick Moore obsolete, by using your phone's orientation tools to give you an accurate representation of the stars and planets on your screen. Point phone at sky, then learn what constellations are visible and if that's a UFO or just Venus. Even works indoors, if you're not keen on getting cold.
RAC Traffic
An official production of the motoring organisation, the app is dead simple - it guesstimates your location via the mobile signal, then pops up the current traffic alerts for your area. Much better than having to listen to the radio for the odd update about arterial blockages.
Train Times UK
A searchable database of UK train journeys, which lets you set up shortcuts to favourite trip searches and shuffle through live departure timetables for all UK national rail operators. It has a slightly shabby text-based look, but if that's what's required to ensure it works on a patchy 3G network when you're whooshing along the line toward your worringly complex interchange, then so be it. The most recent update adds widget support, so you're now able to watch train departures live from your Home screen.
Evernote
After the Android version of Dropbox, the next best solution for keeping all your 'business' in one place is Evernote - which lets you stash and sync all your text notes, voice memos and files on phone and access them through a desktop computer.
Dropbox
The Android version of the insanely popular stuff-syncing app has arrived, and while it's a little lacking in the sort of fancy auto-syncing options many were hoping for, it still works as expected. Files have to be specifically downloaded to your phone to be edited or shared, which is not quite the automated dream offered by the desktop tools, but it's still Dropbox on Android. Six months ago that was a distant, crazy fantasy.
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