With the advent of smartphones such as iPhone, the term ‘apps’(short form for ‘Applications’) became popular. It is interesting to note that there are more searches conducted on Google for ‘iPhone apps’(250000+) than just ‘apps’(110000+). And today, the toughest competition, being offered to iPhone App Store is Android market.

With quality preferred over quantity in Android Market, the Android Market’s  app count(which is over 65K in case of App Store) may not be as exuberating as App Store’s but the app quality speaks for itself.

Today, we have filtered the Android Market, to present you 17 Super Utility Android apps, which aren’t coded for fun(such as Farting apps) but for some good purpose, providing great utility if you have got an Android Phone or planning to buy one.

We have listed the android apps in reverse priority to keep you interested till the end.

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Android App #17: Absolute Fitness

Developer: Aqua Eagle LLC

Description: This android app, Absolute Fitness, allows the user to self-monitor and manage the food intake, workout, body proportion and dietary goals. It provides an extensive food and workout database alongwith advanced features such as diet planning, scheduled stats, charts, meal analysis reports, facility for online backup of generated data. It almost like keeping a personal fitness trainer in your pocket.

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Android App #16: Real Estate Droid

Developer: Awesome Android Apps

Description: Real Estate Droid is your pocket assistant for dealing with real estate properties. It lets you find homes for sale and provides you the price details of the property near your location. You can also look up information about the neighborhood with live location updates. You can figure out the numbers with mortgage quotes from real lenders and also make use of a ‘loan calculator’ in case you require it.

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Android App #15: Hotels near me

Developer: BlueMediaLab

This android app will serve a purpose when you are away from your home and quickly want a hotel near your present location. You can search for and book hotel rooms from your mobile phone itself, with discounted room prices than usual. “Hotels near me” app is probably the first GPS hotel finder, made for Android platform. It covers over 66000 hotels in 71 countries and supports more than  21 languages.

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Android App #14: MyBackup

Developer: RerWare, LLC

Description: As smartphones are becoming as capable and useful as laptops & PCs, it is advisable to backup your call logs, contact list, applications, bookmarks, text messages, phone settings, app shortcuts, alarms etc, just like you backup your desktop PC stuff. In case of any data loss (phone reset), or if your phone gets stolen/lost, you will be able to restore your phone data and settings on your existing/new android phone. This android app has many features such as Scheduled Backups, Data viewer, Support for a TrackDog among few others.

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Android App #13: Power Manager

Developer: XPhone Software Inc.

Description: This android app helps you achieving extended battery life by letting you manage the power usage of your Android phone. It adds new settings to the phone (e.g. screen timeout during a call, etc.) and allows you to quickly shuffle phone settings, depending on various situations (for instance, low battery).

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Android App #12: Document to Go

Developer: Dataviz, Inc.

Description: Documents To Go android app is one easy solution to view, edit & create Microsoft Word & Excel files on Android phones. It can be used with Gmail & other email apps to download, view, edit, save & send attachments. It supports all versions of MS Office(upto MS Office 2007).

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Android App #11: US Traffic

Developer:  Better Android

Description: It’s a useful app that shows traffic report around one’s neighborhood. It can save you a lot of time if you’re unsure about traffic situation on your regular route and you use this android app & decide to take some alternate path rather than the clogged route. But this app is currently limited to US cities only.

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Android App #10: Fast Local Search

Developer: Alan Lee

Description: This android app helps you locating local services near your present location. Suppose, if you are looking for a restaurant near you, or a coffee joint  or a mechanic to fix some car problem of yours, Fast Local Search for Android can be put into action. It can be used to search for places to eat, shop, drink, relax or any similar public utility service.

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Android App #9: Pintail

Developer: Tom Gibara

Description: In case, you lost your android phone, you can simply find its location with an SMS. Pintail is an android app that replies automatically with the phone’s current location in the form of a PIN protected message. It is more helpful for letting family and friends easily find out where you are by sharing your PIN number with them: They just need to send an SMS and Pintail would reply your location to them.

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Android App #8: Twidroid

Developer: Marban & Zimmermann

Description: It’s likely that you’re already on Twitter and love twittering while on the go. If that’s the case with you then you would want this app for sure. Twidroid is a twitter client application on the android platform with features such as native photo posting, location support, fully integrated notification system and twitter buzz.

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Android App #7: Period and Ovulation Tracker

Developer: Tom Gustafson M.D.

Description: Period and Ovulation Tracker is a useful application that allows women to enter their period every month and predict approx. start of next period, approx. fertile window and approx. date of ovulation. Predicted dates come out to be precisely accurate as more datas is entered in the app. App is generally referred as “P & O Tracker”.

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Android App #6: Compare Everywhere

Developer: Jeffrey Sharkey

Description: CompareEverywhere is meant to help you shop intelligently using your android phone. You just need to scan the product barcode to instantly check on the web if that “listed price” is really what you should pay. You can also find user reviews to find out if the claims by the product are real or fake. It also keeps track of shopping lists and wish lists.Here is an Informative video about this app.

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Android App #5: Snaptell

Developer: Snaptell, Inc.

Description: Take a snap from your Android phone of anything you want more info about, such as book, movie DVD or video game etc or scan any product barcode, if possible. Within couple of moments, Snaptell will get you links to Google, eBay, YouTube, Wikipedia, IMDb & penty of other sites that are probable to carry any information about the snapped item. Snaptell can be useful when you’re shopping at some store and want to find quick product info, or want to compare prices, just want to buy stuff from your Android phone itself or simply for seeking product reviews.

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Android App #4: Google Finance

Developer: Google, Inc.

Description: ‘Google Finance’ fits into your pocket in the form of Real time stock quotes and portfolio android app. This app syncs with your Google Finance portfolios, allows you easy access to financial charts and makes you view the latest market and company updates. Currently, this app supports US exchanges only.

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Android App #3: Meebo IM

Developer: Meebo

Description: Meebo is a unified IM application that supports all popular services such as AIM, MSN, Yahoo, MySpace IM, Google Talk and few other IM applications. This app brings you Meebo on Android. Your IM chat history will be saved forever, and can be accessed from anywhere by logging in at www.meebo.com.

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Android App #2: StarTranslate

Developer: StarObject

It’s a complete translation solution within a single android app. It comes with a translator, dictionary, voice translator, text translatorand also lets you translate SMS. You can anytime search for any word’s definition in dictionary as well. It supports mulitple languages supported including but not limited to arabic, hebrew, thai, hindi among others(language support is based on Google translation service)

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Android App #1: Layar

Developer: SPRXMobile

Description: Layar takes you into an exciting futuristic world with the use of Augmented Reality. It superposes a layer of digital information about the place, location, scenary, building or anything under your video camera focus and displays it while you see it through the video camera. The app requires enormous efforts to map the location visuals with the digital info on the web and that’s the reason for its limited applicability(within Netherlands only).

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