Best Android apps of the week ~ GoAndroid

Are you craving our regular best Android apps of the week feature? We’re as dependable as clockwork, and far more reliable than an Android 2.3 update schedule. Yes, we’re back once again with a run-down of the apps all you Android fans should be checking out.We have one for the gamers, one for the gamblers, an app for you readers and even one for those of you that like a spot of booty shaking of an evening. Get your fingers primed, your SD card de-cluttered and your battery charged, because here they come…

As ever, it’s a good idea to have the Barcode Scanner app installed on your Android blower before you attempt to snatch these, some of the best Android apps known to mankind. You can just point your phone’s camera at the QR codes below and BLAM! – instant linkage.
Sony Reader
Now that the Amazon Kindle has finally broken into the mainstream gadget-loving audience’s most-wanted list, Sony’s eReader range is starting to look a little unloved. And expensive.

Now you can get the eReader experience right there on your Android phone for free, with the just-released Sony Reader app. Like the Kindle app, you can buy books from the Sony store, but you can also read your own ePub and PDF format eBooks. It’s not a bad little reading package either, letting you add your own bookmarks, change the font size and highlight parts of the text. In fact it’s one of the best Android apps for ebook reading you’ll find.

It’s not often that Sony gets to play the underdog card, but with Amazon looming over it like a ruler-wielding school bully, it’s where the tech giant has found itself this time.

William Hill
Like a cheeky bet every now and then? Does the idea of putting a Monkey down on a Double Carpet when watching the nags get your heart racing? You should hunt down the new William Hill app from the William Hill site or Getjar.
One of the best gambling apps out there, it’ll let you place bets, and manage your current bets, on over 40,000 events and matches. The one thing that ruins the odds of you being able to satisfy your betting desires with the William Hill Online app is that it requires an Android 2.2 device.

If you’re not yet up-to-date with current-gen gaming, you can also use the Official PlayStation app to read up on PS2 and PSP games. One of the best Android apps yet for console gamers jealous of all the Xbox Live love on Windows Phone 7.

Spectral Souls
Here’s a surprise-and-a-half. Spectral Souls is a massive Final Fantasy-style adventure that’s available for Android, but not iPhone. This is no cheap indie game cobbled together by two students living with their parents either – it was released for Sony PSP way back in 2006.

Official PlayStation
Chasing achievement points or trophies is the hobby of many a gaming geek, and now Sony’s finally come up with a way to let you Android-owning PS3 fans keep up appearances with your mates all day long.

Perhaps it’s for the best though – imagine what the other half would say if you accidentally bet a grand on The Tourist winning movie of the year while your phone’s nestled away in your pocket.
The Official PlayStation app won’t let you play LittleBigPlanet 2 on the bus, but it does let you keep an eye on your friends’ PSN profiles, and check out what trophies you still have to hunt down.
At around nine quid, you’d better don your JRPG fanboy hat before buying, but with hundreds of hours of gameplay claimed by the publisher, it’s not exactly bad value. In fact not only is this one of the best Android apps yet for gamers, this is probably the biggest Android game ever, in more ways than one. You’ll need at least 1.5GB of SD card storage to download this bad boy, so forget about trying to nab it over a 3G connection.
We doubt whether thousands will flock to buy Spectral Souls given the price, but it offers proof that high-end games can work on Android. One of the best Android games yet? Probably…
T-Pain’s Booty Symphony
Leave your taste at the door, discard that sense of decency, because it’ll do you no good with this T-Pain’s Booty Symphony app. It’s a good-taste vacuum.

It comes with three songs, from artists signed to T-Pain’s own label. Select a song and the screen will fill with ladies’ derrieres – all covered up with national flags, T-Pain Porn isn’t on Android, yet. Tap a gluteus maximus and it’ll add another element of the tune to the mix, as well as treating you to an ass-shaking video clip.
Something tells us this isn’t how Mark Ronson composes his remixes, but then this is T-Pain, not Pro Tools. Get that finger a tappin’ and those booties a shakin’.