Google Play Newsstand 3.3 - app

Google Play Newsstand is a magazine reader for Android.

You purchase apps through Google Play and they are stored in Google Play Newsstand. It's a simple app to use, but the main limitation is the amount of magazines available.

Google Play Newsstand is optimized for smartphones and tablets so it is not difficult to read pages. The text is easily readable, and maneuvering in each magazine is simple. You can purchase back issues, along with subscriptions to ensure you have the latest issue of your favorite magazine.

Since Google Play Newsstand is connected to your Google account, you can access your magazines from multiple devices.

Google Play Newsstand is a good app only restricted by the number of titles available.

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OruxMaps 6.0.1 - app

OruxMaps has been tested by Softonic, but it still doesn't have a review in English.

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eBay 2.8.0.57 - app

eBay is an online auction and shopping app that helps users bid, buy, or sell items, which brings the best of its popular website to its mobile app.

Shop til you drop

If you're an avid eBay user, this is a must have app. You can access all of your eBay information including watch lists, purchase history, sales pages, and can manage your eBay or just browse and buy items from the site.

eBay provides real time counters so you can place your bid right at the end of an auction. If you've bid on an item or have an item in your watch list that is about to expire, you will get push notifications warning you that the auction is about to end. This is extremely handy for those who can't access a computer to place a bid.

Other useful features that are displayed prominently on the home screen include My Feed, which allows you to discover new items based on categories you've expressed an interest in. There is also a section for deals, a seasonal shop (Christmas, for example) and the ability to follow searches and sellers. This all gives eBay a very social feel to it.

The most important information at your fingertips

eBay has a slick, clean and very visual user interface, which makes browsing for items super quick and easy.The graphics are crisp and clear, which allows you to easily see what you are bidding for. Selling is also really simple. You can either pick categories and enter details or scan a bar code.

When you open an item to bid on it, the listing page looks very attractive and colorful, and it really makes the most of the images. In addition, the price and shipping details are displayed in a large font right underneath with big blue buttons that allow you to watch or buy the item. As you scroll down the page, all the necessary information has been broken down into digestible categories meaning you can easily read it.

The way the menus are organized means any information you need is at your fingertips. Displaying 'My eBay', 'Categories' and 'Sell an Item' in big blocks at the top with pictures of your most recently viewed items underneath helps you quickly access the most important options.

eBay's Android user experience is on par with the web, possibly even better due to how it breaks down the information and the way the buttons are displayed to allow you to always be no more than one click away from what you want to do.

Built with users in mind

This app makes it extremely easy to browse and manage your eBay activity. It has an attractive and intuitive layout, is very easy to use while being a highly-visual app. Overall, eBay offers a great mobile experience, whether you are buying, selling or merely browsing.

Bible 5.3 - app

Flexible, easy to use, and completely portable, Bible is an excellent way to access the Holy Bible from your Android phone.

Search by chapter and verse

Bible is really easy to read. Access the Bible icon from the homescreen and tap the top bar to browse by book, chapter, or version. Choose a verse, touch and hold to select, and then you’ll be able to hit the little arrow in the bottom right to bookmark, share, or copy. You’ll also be able to search for specific references.

Easy access to the Bible

What makes Bible a little bit special is the other features available on the app. Apart from it being really easy to browse your bookmarks, there’s also a Reading Plan feature to help you get a more profound understanding of the Holy Book. Bible also lets you search for Bible Study groups by name or postcode, but this only seems to be available in the US.

Even better, you’ll be able to share Bible passages directly on Facebook or Twitter, or, if you’re offline, read the Bibles you've downloaded to the app. Bible doesn't have that many configuration options, but as long as the basics cover your needs, it’s a great app.

Streamlined study

Bible the best option around for Bible study on the go.

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My Wallets 3.1 - app

If you want to control your expenses and income, and always know how much was spent and received in the past day, week, month or year, this program will be a good helper to you. You can find out how much you spend money every day. You can create a variety of wallets and cards to control the balance of cash, balance on credit card in a safe or in the bank. You can create groups and sub-groups that can help you find out which area is the largest nursing or parish funds. Also, you can view a variety of graphic statements of your savings.

- Keeping purses adding icons. - Managing groups, sub-groups, etc. With the addition of icons. - Keeping parishes and loss bound to wallets and groups. - Conducting money transfers between wallets. - View the report daily, weekly, monthly and yearly. - View the schedule of change of day, week, month and year. - View the report on expenses and incomes with a grouping for a selected period. - View the report on expenses and incomes with a partition on the wallets for the selected period. - View a pie chart of expenses and incomes with grouping for a selected period. - View the total expenses of the parish and loss for the chosen period. - Import and export database to a file. - Set a password for entry the program. - And etc...

Real user comments: - More simple and easy application. - Nice apps. Easy to use - Great app. Handy tool thanks - Very good. I like it - Good so far. I think it's a very good app. Very easy to use and get to know. No complaints so far. - Very easy. Really easy to use. There aren't any complications to get crazy about on this app. - Very good I have been searching for simple app to track my expenses. I found this app it's really simple but works fine. And etc...

This application will be an assistant for all users. Just as most suitable for people who do not know what happens to their money savings.

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Microsoft Excel for Android tablets - app

With Microsoft's push to prioritize cross-platform services as well as be a mobile-first company, it's become very important to provide programs on iOS and Android, instead of trying to convince users to adopt software on Windows and Windows Phone.

As part of this strategy the company has delivered Office apps (Word, Excel and PowerPoint) for iOS and an Office Mobile suite for Android phones. Now the company has released a touch-optimized beta version of Word, Excel and PowerPoint for Android tablets.

Late to the party

Given that Google's office suite has been out for some time, Microsoft is lagging behind in the touch-optimized productivity suite market, but it the company is hoping to find success from the many people who have already bought into its ecosystem.

Currently Excel for Android tablets (along with Word and PowerPoint) is only available for ARM-based Android tablets with a 7" to 10.1" screen, 1GB RAM and running KitKat (4.4.x). But Microsoft is working on expanding it further, specifically to Intel-powered tablets, as well as those with different screen sizes and running Android Lollipop 5.0, the latest version of Google's mobile operating system.

In the beta version, there is no need to have an Office 365 account to download these apps; a Microsoft email address is enough to sign up to this 'Freemium' version.

Lacking in features

Unsurprisingly, Excel for Android tablets is not as fully featured as its desktop sister version. In fact, it feels like a very cut-down version, with only the most basic features included. So what can you do? You can format text, insert tables, pictures, charts and comments; and change the way you view the spreadsheet. While the most commonly used formulas have been included, there are a few features that make using Excel easier that haven't been included. This includes the ability to search for a certain type of formula and to create a formula from a certain selection, such as the top row or left column.

There are also no page layout features, image editing options, and you can't import data from other sources or perform any automatic conditional formatting.

Excel for Android tablets also falls down on its collaboration functionality.You can email a sheet as an attachment but not enable a document to be edited by multiple users at the same time.

But, on a positive note, you can sync your OneDrive and Dropbox accounts, allowing you to open documents from and save them to the cloud (as well as your device, if you prefer). Support of other cloud services would be useful.

Familiar ribbon interface

If you're already familiar with Excel (Office 2007 and onwards) then the ribbon interface will be very recognizable and you'll be able to easily flick between menus in the slick interface without problems. The sometimes overwhelming features and menus have been condensed with only the most important ones included, which makes it a lot more simple and straightforward to use. And also a lot quicker to find what you want. For example, I often struggle to remember where freeze panes is in the desktop version but it's very obvious in the Android tablet version.

If you're a power user and you want to create complex formulas quickly then Excel for Android tablets is not the ideal way to do it; desktop is still king in that respect.

Navigation horizontally and vertically is very smooth. But one major problem is that the keyboard takes up most of the screen when entering data, making it very difficult to see all the information in the spreadsheet. That makes Excel for Android tablets much better suited to bigger screens, or portrait view if entering data. The touch control isn't precise, which makes adding and editing formulas tricky.

The jury is out

Because Excel is used for such as wide range of functions and users (from the most basic to very advanced calculations), it was always going to be more difficult to get a touch-optimized version right. Excel for Android tablets is likely to be hugely frustrating to power users because there are some common features missing. For casual users, the design of the menus means that features are so much easier to find than in the desktop version and you aren't overwhelmed by the mountain of complex options that you never use.

It's important to note that this is only a beta version and Microsoft will likely have improved usability and added options by the time of general release. But whether this is enough to poach users from Google Sheets and convince its desktop Office users remains to be seen.

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Microsoft Word for Android tablets - app

With Microsoft's push to prioritize cross-platform services as well as be a mobile-first company, it's become very important to provide programs on iOS and Android, instead of trying to convince users to adopt software on Windows and Windows Phone.

As part of this strategy the company has delivered Office apps (Word, Excel and PowerPoint) for iOS and an Office Mobile suite for Android phones. Now the company has released a touch-optimized beta version of Word, Excel and PowerPoint for Android tablets.

Late to the party

Given that Google's office suite has been out for some time, Microsoft is lagging behind in the touch-optimized productivity suite market, but it the company is hoping to find success from the many people who have already bought into its ecosystem.

Currently Word for Android tablets (along with Excel and PowerPoint) is only available for ARM-based Android tablets with a 7" to 10.1" screen, 1GB RAM and running KitKat (4.4.x). But Microsoft is working on expanding it further, specifically to Intel-powered tablets, as well as those with different screen sizes and running Android Lollipop 5.0, the latest version of Google's mobile operating system.

In the beta version, there is no need to have an Office 365 account to download these apps; a Microsoft email address is enough to sign up to this 'Freemium' version.

Key desktop features included

Unsurprisingly, Word for Android tablets is not as fully featured as its desktop sister version. But Microsoft has brought the most commonly-used features in the desktop version of the program over to the Android tablet touch-optimized offering.

You can format your text, insert objects (such as pictures, text boxes and links), change the layout, track changes and alter viewing options. With the last option, the ability to switch between read and edit view is a highlight, as Word is not just about creating and editing documents, but also about consuming them. The read option borrows from the Kindle by allowing you to change the background of your documents from the traditional white to sepia or black (for night view).

If you have the OneDrive app on your tablet it automatically syncs the data (you can add both personal and business accounts). You can also add Dropbox or your SharePoint site, as well as opening documents stored locally on your device. Documents can then also be saved in the cloud again in any of these locations.

One really important feature that is missing at the moment is the ability to collaborate with others on the same document - something that is included in Google Docs. This is the biggest omission in this beta version, but there is also no option to export as PDF, no find and replace feature, and spell check wasn't supported on my device (Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0).

The familiar ribbon interface remains

If you're already familiar with Word (Office 2007 and onwards) then the ribbon interface will be very recognizable and you'll be able to easily flick between menus in the slick interface without problems. The fact that there aren't as many options and menus will please many users who struggle to find the feature they want in the increasingly feature-heavy desktop version and prefer to stay with the drop-down menus in pre-Office 2007 versions.

However, it's not all smooth sailing. Manipulating images is a clunky process. Firstly, not all pictures can be uploaded. The reason for this is not apparent, although it seemed to be linked to the device location I tried to upload them from. Then there are no image editing options - all you can do is move the image and resize it.

When you have more than one document open, it doesn't seem to be possible to move between one and the other, meaning you can only work on one Word file at a time.

Word-processing dominance beckons

Considering that Word for Android tablets is only a beta version it has a large amount of features (already more than Google Docs) and is pretty bug-free. Although there is much work still to be done to configure it for different sized tablets running on Intel with different versions of the Android operating systems.

Given that it sports a familiar look and feel to the desktop version but with alterations to suit a touch screen, Microsoft has a good chance of getting a foothold in the market in a similar way to its dominance in the desktop word processing market.