Quick Uninstaller for Android is Sadly Necessary
By: @HilzFuld
If you have been paying attention to the online buzz as of late, you have surely heard the name Nexus One thrown around. Google announced its much anticipated mobile phone just two days ago, and the hype it has generated brings me back to when a certain other phone starting with the letter I was announced. However, as exciting or not exciting as the Nexus One is, Google actually announced something else that excited me more.
Yesterday, Google addressed the main drawback of the Android OS for the first time, and said they intend to fix it in the coming months. I am not referring to the tiny and annoying keyboard on most Android phones. I am not even referring to the lack of an Exit option on most Android apps. I am even willing to ignore the “small” number of apps in the Android market. I am referring to the fact that like RIM’s devices, Android phones allow you to install apps on the phone’s memory alone and not on an external SD card. BlackBerrys are actually even worse with the ability to install apps only in the phone’s application memory and not even on the 1GB of internal memory, but that is a discussion for a different time.
Android is here to compete with iPhone. iPhone’s biggest advantage besides its UI is its tremendous number of available apps and the ability to install an almost endless number of them on the phone. Is that too bold of a statement for you? Well what better proof than the fact that Apple spends their entire marketing budget on the famous “There’s an app for that” campaign. They barely focus on the UI, almost never talk about the phone’s features, capabilities, and ease of use. So, if Android is going to compete in this space, Google is going to have to enable app storage on external memory cards. Either that, or add a heck of a lot of storage capacity to the existing Android phones.
At the end of the day, most Android users, myself included, download apps from the market, and end up deleting half of them due to lack of storage on the phone. However, the actual deletion is an annoying and cumbersome process. Quick Uninstaller presents you with a clear list of all the apps on your phone and gives you the ability to delete them in two simple steps. The app looks just like the folder on the Android OS that shows you all your installed apps, but in reality, when you click on one of them, you are asked whether you want to uninstall. It makes the whole process a lot faster and easier.
However, that is not it. Quick Uninstaller also allows you to back up all the apps on your device as well as restore them after deletion. The interface could not be simpler with the options of the app being sorting the apps alphabetically, backing up and restoring apps, as well as viewing them in different ways such as a list or grid. There you have it, a simple yet very useful little app.
Of course in an ideal world in which you could install all the apps you desired, there would be no need for such an app. Unfortunately, almost nothing about Android implies that we are in an idea world. Well, not until Android 2.1 at least.
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