Hello IM!

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Hello IM! is an AOL Instant Messenger Android application. It enables users to customize their IM experience. Users can set custom ringtones for up to eight buddies, enable or disable the LED and vibrator for notifications, change the LED color and display a pop-up window when you receive an instant message. Users can also view their buddies online status and their icon, change their presence status with custom status notifications or set away messages with just a few taps on the screen. While chatting with their buddies, users can insert emotion symbols in their text messages by choosing from an emotion gallery. With the G1 phone, users can also easily send geo location messages which can be viewed on a Google map. With instant messages, users can forward or e-mail text messages or e-mail entire conversations as well as open web links, phone numbers and e-mail addresses within the text messages.

Power Manager Full

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This application adds NEW power settings to the phone (e.g. how long the screen is on during a call, if device stays on while the keyboard is open, etc.) and allows you to quickly view and change other phone settings depending on different conditions (e.g. turn off the GPS when the battery level drops below 30%, lower the brightness of the screen when on battery power, change the screen timeout if on A/C power, etc.)
It comes with a set of predefined profiles and automatically starts working after installation. Unless you want to change any of these definitions or use advanced features nothing else has to be done after the program is installed.

You can change individual settings (e.g. WiFi) by clicking the buttons on the panel at the top of the screen or you can change several settings at once by using a profile. Profiles define what settings should be modified and can also contain triggers that indicate if they should be applied automatically (e.g. when on A/C power, when on battery power, when the battery drops below a certain level).

NOTE: THE MONITOR MUST BE ENABLED IN THE STATUS PANEL FOR PROFILES TO BE APPLIED AUTOMATICALLY.

This application comes with predefined profiles for the most common conditions. These profiles can be changed or deleted by either long pressing on the profile name or by selecting the profile with the track ball and clicking on the menu key. You can also create additional profiles and shortcuts on the desktop to a specific profile. Power Manager also gathers statistics as the device changes power states. These statistics and can be written to a CSV file on the SDCARD (in the power_manger sub-directory) and can then be loaded into a spreadsheet application (e.g. Excel) to perform analysis (e.g. determine if your battery does not last as long it used to, or if an application is affecting your battery life).

QuickOffice for Android

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QuickOffice enables viewing of MS Word (.doc) and Excel (.xls) files stored on the G1 phone memory card or Gmail attachments. The application supports zooming, quick scrolling, and automatic orientation adjustment using the G1 phone sensor. For MS Word documents, it auto wraps text to avoid horizontal scrolling. All formatting, tables, and images are displayed. Telephone numbers, hyperlinks, and email addresses are all linked to the Android dialer, browser and GMail applications respectively. For Excel spreadsheets, it allows viewing standard Excel spreadsheets and resizing rows and columns. A basic file manager is included which allows users to view files, rename and delete them as well.

Overall complaints from users who have purchased the application include: won’t open MS Word 2003 documents, no PDF support, no editing documents (just a viewer), no PPT support.