The Eee Pad Transformer - the world's first tablet with a quad-core Tegra 3 processor
If you’ve recently picked up an Eee Pad Transformer Prime or any other Android tablet then you’ll know that there are hundreds of apps on the Android App market and finding the best ones for tablets can be a daunting task.
To help, we’ve picked out a few of our favourite apps – to help with studying or for fun – and listed them here. Check ‘em out and let us know if we missed any of your top picks.
#1 Tablet Market
The Tablet Market lists all tablet-specific Android apps in one easy and convenient place
If you’re tired of scanning through hundreds or thousands of apps to find the ones designed specifically for tablets then this is the app for you. The Android Tablet Market is the most convenient way to narrow your search, grabbing all of the tablet apps and putting them in one place.
Search for apps by category then simply click the icon to link to the Android Market to download. The Market gets updated often with the most recent apps displayed up top.
Download Tablet Market
See also: Tablified Market
#2 Springpad
Springpad makes it easy to take quick notes and lists then view them later
Springpad is hands-down the best app to keep track of all your to-do lists and school assignments. Quickly add “to-do” lists, notes, tasks, recipes, photos and more. Like a planner for your tablet, Springpad then lets you scan through everything you need to get done in one easy interface.
Add tags, check off your to-do list as you accomplish each item, flag notes with upcoming due-dates, or filter by category – Springpad is a fully functional planner for all your stuff.
Download Springpad
#3 WeatherBug for Honeycomb
The most accurate and timely weather app available
There are tons of weather apps for Android but in terms of getting a snapshot of the full week ahead this is our favourite. While the Accuweather app may be slightly more attractive to look at we think that having to scroll through to find the full forecast just doesn’t make sense.
What we really like about this app is that everything you want to know is on the screen or just one touch away. Open the app and you’re greeted with the current conditions, high and low of the day, amount of rain, and wind direction and force. Below that you get a high and low for the next 7 days complete with a graphic representation of the forecast for each day.
Tap on the current conditions to see expand details like sunrise and sunset, pressure, and how the precipitation for the day compares to the average.
Download WeatherBug for Honeycomb
#4 Recipe Search
Find and organize your favourite recipes
If you’ve just moved away for the first time for school then the Recipe Search app is a must-have. Pick a category (we recommend Chocolate Desserts) and you’re instantly greeted with hundreds if not thousands of tasty-sounding recipes complete with a shopping list, measurements, and a step by step guide.
When you find a recipe you like you can bookmark it for quick reference later. There’s also a great “What’s new” section including the day’s top recipes, latest reviews, and more.
Download Recipe Search
#5 Movies
The #1 app for movie trailers, showtimes, and critics reviews
Although we love IMDB (the internet movie database) we have to concede that for new flicks the Movies app by Flixster Inc is far better.
From the app you can watch trailers for current and upcoming movies, see critic’s reviews (including Rotten Tomatoes reviews), share your own ratings, and find showtimes once you’ve made your selection.
Each movie page includes a synopsis, photos from the movie, information on the cast, critic and user reviews, and more. If you missed the movie in theaters, you can browse the same information for DVD-releases (minus the showtimes of course).
Download Movies
#6 OpenTable
Find a restaurant near you and make a reservation right from your tablet
Hungry? Find a place to eat in record time with OpenTable. Tell this app find search ‘nearby’ and it will populate a map with every restaurant in the area complete with prices, food type, and distance.
To help you pick a place to eat you can expand the view for each restaurant to include its menu, profile, and reviews – there’s even a note often with the best places to park in the area.
The best part of this app though is that once you’ve picked a place to eat you can reserve a table right from your tablet! Pick your time, fill in your details, and you’re on your way.
Download OpenTable
Is there an app you love that you don’t see on this list? Let us know in the comments. See also: The Top 5 Android Tablet Apps for Students
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writepad is a great app for school. i can type or draw graphs i used polaris for last semester of economix, next semester i am using writepad
Tablified Market should have made it on the list. Its way better than tablet market since it actually has a search function. Other than that, a good list.
Thanks for the tip! We’ll check it out.
My wife’s Slider arrived in the mail today. Waiting impatiently for my Prime. She didn’t need to be on the bleeding edge of technology to type up her class reports…She just wanted to get trade off her EeePC 1000HE for something “with a touch screen and curvy sides.”
If it’s got all that Bloatware then maybe I should Cancel my pre-order & wait for the Nexus Tab … some, who ordered from the same store on the same date, already have received their orders …..
I’m also waiting shipping on these units.
I Am Very disappointed that my wife and I won’t get to unwrap both of our transformer primes for christmas. We both bought them, and wer’re both going to be scrooged Christmas morning! What is Asus going to do to make this up to the loyal customers? not to mention we have over $1000 tied up waiting for these units to ship!
The Transformer Prime pre-orders are being fulfilled currently – already a good chunk of people have received their units. If you are still waiting for a pre-order to arrive the wait shouldn’t be much longer but it really depends on individual reseller shipments.
For general availability we’ll have way more units available come January in-store.
But, when will they be hitting NewEgg, I have a gift card for a Prime that’s collecting dust?!!
I don’t recommend you get the eBook- the toenbxok has a ebook app, and you can buy ebooks from its store.good and free android apps“double twist” sync your itunes songs to your android“Drop box”- move files wirelessly from your pc to your phone“Unified remote”- use your android as remote for your computer- play movies, view your files, etc.“YouTube mate”- download YouTube videos(sometinge gets rmoved from market, you can google it though)“IP webcam”- use your phone/tablet as a webcam“Algeo”- a scientific/graphing calculator similar to a TI 89“Dolphin Bowser HD”- one of the best android internet browsers“Adao file manager”- manage your phones files“tv. com” watch tv programs using wifi“tune in radio”- listen to the radio….“Where’s my droid”- never lose your phone/tablet again, just send it your attention word and the volume maxes out and even receive its location on gpsfree android games- this also depends on how good your phone is, some of the lower end phones cant use them (mine isnt that great)lane splitter- traffic racingdeath worm (demo)- play as a giant worm and terrorize peopleasphalt 5- high graphics racing gameangry birds- it think you know .dragon fly- like the iphones version of tiny wingsatilt labyrinth- guide a ball through a maze by titling your phonewinds of steel (demo)- flying shooting gamefruit sliceAlien invationOffice jerkWhere is the redcubes- like cube runnerabduction- like doodle jumpfall-downspeedx Fun random apps“google sky map”, know the position of stars using augmented reality“google googles” search the web my using images“shazam/hound sound” record a piece of a song and shazam will tell you the name, artist, etc. of the song“circle launcher”(widget)- store more apps if running out of room on home screen“funny jokes” great jokes, by community… (secret community? lol you’ll get it.)“screen filter” using your phone in the dark
So… Asus likes WeatherBug… yet they bundle Asus Weather with the Transformer and make it a widget that cannot be uninstalled that constantly runs and tries gather location information (turning on the GPS receiver and using battery) regardless if the widget is active or not… and it has known issues working properly anyway (the whole rotation updating thing).
Just so we’re on the same page.
AccuWeather is only a widget – not a fully functional app with forecasting and complete weather information – which is why we like WeatherBug.
If you want to disable AccuWeather from updating then you can click on it and set the Update Frequency to manual.
I just found it a little funny. Thanks for the tip though, seems a little strange you have to disable a widget even if you’re not using it though…
Getting fed up with all the bundled stuff being put into updates. When I bought it, it didn’t have nearly the amount of crapware… root FTW.
why do you guys like this? there is so many cipeod version of Ipad such as Apad , Epad . I would rather buy an Ipad even though its much more expensive.