Your Android phone is a portable entertainment center. You’ll find apps for syncing your media library, playing your own music and video, streaming radio and online video, listening to podcasts and audiobooks, watching TV, reading books and magazines — even controlling your desktop media remotely from your phone.
1. Best Media Syncing App: doubleTwist
DoubleTwist helps you buy and sync music from Amazon’s MP3 store, iTunes, and any other music, video, or photo files that live on your desktop. It will even convert videos to the right format to watch on your device. Just drag and drop to take all your media with you.


2. Best Music/Video Player: TuneWiki
In addition to the media player that comes preloaded on your phone, the Android Market has many apps to enhance your listening or viewing experience. TuneWiki is the best of them, offering an intuitive interface for your music library, access to Internet radio through SHOUTcast or Last.fm, lyrics search, music maps, Top 50, playlists, and more. To make your experience more social, you can share your tastes and status via Blip, Twitter, or Facebook.

3. Best Remote Control: Gmote
Gmote turns your Android phone into a remote control for the media library on your computer. Once you’ve installed the Gmote server on your computer (a small download with an easy setup), just launch the app from your phone, enter your password, and immediately gain wireless access to iTunes, your photo library, and any other folders you define. Then, use Gmote’s on-screen navigation to play tracks on your computer. As of the 2.0 release, you can even stream songs through your phone’s speaker.

4. Best Personalized Radio: Pandora
Pandora is your own personalized radio, playing just the kind of songs you’re interested in and helping you find new artists with similar styles. Create a unique station for each of your distinct musical tastes and tune in to whatever you’re in the mood for. The more you listen, the better Pandora learns what you really like, providing even more targeted suggestions.

5. Best Personalized Radio: Last.fm
Last.fm is a very close second to Pandora, and it connects with a variety of other media players and apps through plug-ins. In fact, you’ll find plenty of users who swear by Last.fm over Pandora, making the decision of which app to use largely a result of personal preference or which online service you might already use.

6. Best Streaming Radio: Rhapsody
The best on-demand streaming music service offered by Rhapsody. For a monthly subscription, you’ll get immediate access to millions of songs to match your whim. Rather than buying tracks or albums to remain in your collection permanently, Rhapsody gives you all the tunes you want, right now.

7. Best Podcast Player: Listen
Google’s Listen podcast manager finds, organizes, and streams all of your favorites in one place. Search for new programs, subscribe to channels, and download fresh shows as they’re available. When you get behind on episodes, create a queue to remind you of the stuff you want to catch up on when you have some downtime.

8. Best Audiobook Player: Audible
Audible designed an app to work well with audiobooks, which you want to bookmark, listen to in chapters and pick up where you left off. Audible has released its Android app as an open and free beta (Audible account required, obviously), which gets the audiobook experience right.

9. Best App for Watching TV: SPB TV
SPB TV allows you to take your own TV programs wherever you go. The free “lite” version is shown here, but you’ll probably want to splurge for the pay version ($9.95) to get more channels. There’s even a picture-in-picture feature, which is handy if you’re not sure which program to watch.

10.Best App for Watching TV: TV.com
TV.com has a great selection of quality programming than any other mobile TV app for Android, and everything is presented on a smooth and watchable interface. If you’re looking for shows offered by the CBS-owned TV.com, this app presents plenty of clips and a number of full-length episodes from CBS (including CBS News and CBS Sports), CW, Showtime, CNET, and more.

11. Best E-book Reader: Aldiko
Aldiko gets mobile book reading right, with an eye-pleasing, customizable format. Aldiko will read any ePub file, which you can import yourself or download through Aldiko’s online catalog.

12. Best Magazine Reader: Issuu Mobile
Issuu Mobile offers a great interface for reading magazines, getting news feeds, organizing a periodical library, and managing subscriptions. Its selection is somewhat limited at the moment, but the technology is developed well enough that it could eventually become your go-to digital newsstand.