Our Groceries - synced shopping list so we each know what to buy in the shop.
Bus Checker - tells you how long til the bus arrives, accurately. The opposite of a watched pot. Presumably worthless in Amuricah so find a gas price checker instead.
Most other apps I use often are built in or all but, twitter/Facebook/Instagram etc. I've many more but so rarely needed that I can't remember what. Google keep works well enough for my notes, got a task manager thing called Tasks I think, blah blah.

Games: new star soccer, ridiculous fishing, spelltower, rymdkampsel, hill climb racing, canabalt, toki tori... Well worth keeping an eye on humble bundles.

I'm kinda not very impressed with Android. I mean, the tablet does what I wanted it to do (which is basically play films and let me check email in bed) but beyond that I've found virtually nothing compelling to do with it. An amazingly high proportion of the games and apps on Android are fucking awful.

That aside, I'll second Hill Climb Racer. And I use AntennaPod for podcasts which is ... fine.

I think all platforms are that way really.  Once you get an app store with a couple hundred thousand apps or a million or whatever it is there are bound to be a lot of shit apps in there.  But I've felt the same way you do, I had a first gen iPad, a nook, and a first gen Kindle Fire.  I've sold them all because of not using them.

Is this the racing game you are talking about?

That's the one. It's surprisingly compelling.

That's the one. It rates a 10 on the compelling scale.

And yeah kinda. But I think mobile in general is far worse than, say, PC. Even the good stuff on mobile is pretty shit/limited/pointless/hobbled in some way.

(On Hill Climb Racing you want to unlock the dirtbike and moon as quickly as possible, that's where the fun really starts)

Why the fuck isn't a roll cage one of the upgrade options?

Dead Trigger & Real Racing 3 are good games on the Nexus.

Ooh, I see there's a Dead Trigger 2 out. Dl it now.

+1 for Real Racing 3.

Wow, it needs to download a GB! I clearly don't play enough games if this is normal.

Yeah it's a beast.  :L Not sure why it needs to be so big, but it's got a bunch of racetracks from all over the world. The backgrounds aren't super-detailed or anything.

It's pretty good, less entertaining than e.g. NFSPU but not too bad. Although you are warned that you lose points for stuff like banging into opponents and running off the track, you can still win by doing those things and driving very very recklessly (provided you don't completely spin out). As you rank up though the opponents get a lot tougher and you can't waste too much time on shit like that.

DT2 is OK so far though I seem to be in easy/training mode. Graphic are good, levels perhaps a little more narrative & complex. All in all a welcome reboot.

Not sure what has happened but I've just installed it on my tablet and seem to be very rich

Pieratted version?

Nope, from the play store. All legit as far as I can tell.

Running a custom ROM but I'd be surprised if that was the cause.

Whoah!

Just launched it to see if I was going to get lucky and discovered it's in the middle of a gig download.