Ask NerdGirl: Android App to Notify App Price Drops, SoundHound ∞ vs. SoundHound, Removing Carrier Apps without Rooting?

by n3rdg1rl Mar 6, 2011 9:30 AM – 4 Comments

Ask NerdGirl today asks and assists with finding an app that notifies app price drops, what’s the difference with SoundHound ∞ and SoundHound Free, and any way to rid carrier bloatware apps besides rooting?

Hey NerdGirl,

I was an iphoner for about 3 years and moved to android about 1 month ago. I wonder if there is a site/app where I can know when apps in the market will get price drops. For example, app offers, if a $0.99 app get a price drop and will be free for 24 hours – such as the www.appshopper.com for iPhone apps. Is there such a site/app for the Android market? I checked the AppBrain but it does not have a wish list for example so it will send us notifications/email each time an app in my wish list will get a price drop.

Is there any app for that?

Thanks,
Iseif.

Iseif, AppBrain does have this feature, from the “Filter” menu there is a “Price reduced” however it wont notify you every time a price drop. Also Appsfire has “Price Drops” in their Streams feature, however, does not have notifications for it.

What are the “Special Features” of SoundHound Infinite vrs Free?

They are allowing unlimited ID’s now for the free version (http://www.soundhound.com/index.php?action=s.press_release&pr=22)

I can see they will keep your history of searches and No Ads.

Other than that – not much information on what the “Special Features” actually are. :-/

They changed the free to allow unlimited ID’s, only difference is paid version allow ad-free experience and home screen widget.

Any advice, besides rooting, to get rid of bloatware automatically installed by the carrier on the handsets? I’ve got a number of applications that I don’t use that were carrier provided and I’d like to free up space in order to have apps that I actually use.

Thanks, Kathleen!

Kathleen, unfortunately rooting is the only way. :-/

Keep sending those questions to nerdgirl@androidtapp.com!

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4 Comments

By Brian Hanifin on March 6, 2011 at 1:52 pm:

If you just want to hide apps from your Launcher menu, alternate launcher LauncherPro allow you to hide apps, and Go Launcher allows you to move apps into subfolders (i.e. “Unused”). No that won’t free up space, but it does remove some clutter from you ever growing app list.

You should suggest AppBrain provide a price drop service! They absolutely track price drops (check out the history at the bottom of an app page). It would be easy for them to add that service.

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- By Brian Hanifin on March 6, 2011 at 1:58 pm:
  
  I just made the suggestion via AppBrain’s Twitter account.
  
  http://twitter.com/BrianHanifin/status/44486613115482113
  
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By AppFeed on May 13, 2012 at 11:19 am:

Reply is a bit late, but I made an online service that does what you need:
http://www.appfeed.net

with this online service you add the apps you want to track, get an rss/atom feed url, that gets updated when the app is updated or price drops.

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- By Bloodbought on November 20, 2012 at 12:16 pm:
  
  Great, but can you make it so it emails you when the app price changes?
  
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