I just bought my new android mobile phone and I would like to see some suggestions about useful applications for everybody that lives in Switzerland.
Applications that can help somehow a swiss everyday life, especially for swiss reality.

What do you suggest?

I've got Apple, not iPhone, so not 100% sure whats out there. Must have is the SBB-App if you use trains. Its excellent and you can also get tickets through it. ZVV also has a good app.

GPS tracks exist for both Apple and Android and is downright brilliant. Free detailed topographic maps (the same you buy in paper in the store) for the entire country!

Search.ch or local.ch for your Phonebook needs, Quite reliable.

WetterAlarm is also really cool. At the moment only iOS but they are working on the Android version. You can subscribe for your region (home, work, preferred skiing etc) and then select what updates you wand. they then send you free push messages if there is a wind, raind snow, ice etc alert.

Swiss Tourism has a whole range of apps for iOS - i'm sure also some for Android. Some are very good, such as the Winter Apps, giving you an overview of the snow in all ski areas. Also some of the city guides can be very useful. They have a swim app for summer but I found that I tend to just jump in the Lake outside the house rather than look for a patch of water somewhere far away with my app.

There is a number of competing traffic apps. On iPhone, TCS (Toruing Club), SRF (Television/Radio), Swiss Traffic (ind.) and ViaMichelin all want to tell you where there is a traffic jam.

Most banks have apps telling you where to find ATM's. There are also some ATM apps which have all of them. I think local.ch can do that too.

SwissPost is good for looking up prices and opening hours. Migros and Coop also want to tell you when and where to shop. They also have their online shops via apps.

Starticket / Ticketcorner have apps to sell you tickets (and display then at the entrance) and I think sunrise, orange and swisscom now all have apps for you to see your current bill and data useage etc.

Havent checked with all of those whether they are also Android but more and more they will be.

Saving one of the coolest for last, codecheck has a wicked app where you can scan any bardoce from products out of just about every supermarket and it will tell you what the ingredients are of the thing in your hands and if some of them will kill you, or have killed OrangUtans or Dophins and if they might give you cancer or whether African kids have been exploited for it. Very cool and the best way to drive your family mad at the sunday morning breakfast table and making sure that they won't eat half the stuff any longer thats in your kitchen. Have fun!

sbb app - essential!
blade buddy pro/spare parts pro - for customisation
color dict - for translation
droidgram timer - for general use
search.ch - for the weather
20 minuten - read articles online
whatsapp - message people for free
tapatalk - to browse EF

Here's what I use that hasn't been named yet:

- cineman: cinema listings
- teleboy: tv listings (you can watch some stations and record 2hrs for free)
you probably only need one of the two because you can switch from one to the other within the same app

- sfstream: link to some tv shows
- local.ch phone book
- toppreise
- Smartshopper: let's you track and compare special offers from the main Swiss supermarket chains
- Schweizer Wetterradar
- ZVV Fahrplan

An app that probably hasn't been mentioned for travel is Öffi - excellent directions search, brilliant favourites that can be turned into widgets and good network maps.

-Skyscanner
-SwissTraffic
-Tankguide
-Dolphin Broswer
-App 2 SD
-Google Navigation
-Netqin Phone Security
-MindWallet (password storage)
-PicasaTool and Quickpic for your photos
-Go Launcher for desktop customisation

if you want to learn basic Swiss (Swiss-German) then this app is for you:
uTalk Swiss http://tiny.cc/ghomi

Swisscom's TV guide app lets you record programmes on your home box from anywhere.

Locus is really good for hiking, and you can download vector maps of Switzerland to use offline.

Usgang.ch is good if you're into clubbing.

Öffi has a widget that shows the next five departures from your nearest bus/tram stop.

1. Opera browser
2. Compass
3. Swiss weather radar
4. Advanced task killer -- If you want to save on battery, kill the apps which you are not using but are running in background.
5. FxCamera -- Camera with effects.
6. QQPlayer -- To play all kind of videos.
7. 3G watchdog to monitor GPRS/EDGE/3G data usage.
8. Facebook!!!

What do you guys say about an app for EnglishForum ? I am ready to contribute.

Here's my list:

- ACS (Automobil Club der Schweiz - in case your car breaks down)
- Touring Club der Schweiz (TCS) - ditto
- BAZ (Basler Zeitung)
- Teletext Schweiz
- ricardo.ch
- Blick
- homegate.ch
- groupon
- carparking schweiz (shows the number of free parking lots)
- leshop.ch (buy food online)
- spotify (music streaming app)
- simfy (music streaming app)
- fly Schweiz (the furniture store)
- sport.ch (sport news)
- Gesetze.ch (collection of Swiss laws)
- buch.ch + thalia.ch (book shops)
- good news (concert tickets / info)
- Öffnungszeiten (shop opening hours)
- cineman (cinema guide)
- App der Schweizerischen Post (shows postomats etc.)
- Ikea Katalog
- Radio Swiss Jazz (radio streaming)
- Radio Swiss Pop
- coop@home (food shopping)
- PeakFinder Alps (identify mountain peaks)

- ICAM (great app!, for security and if you have pets, connects to your pc/notebook (needs webcam) via the internet/network and allows you to keep an eye on your home using your iphone, also includes motion detector)

Thanks to that ZTE San Francisco craze we had in EF, I became an android fan. I realized just now that Its been a year since then and I continue to adore my prized ZTE SF. Here are my daily swiss life essentials hopefully not yet listed.

1. Navigon - GPS Navigator
2. Viber - free voice/text messaging with android and ios phones without the need for the a friend request/accept - A whatsapp with voice.
3. Yahoo Mail - great at mail notification, better than gmail.
4. GPSfix - utility to quickly find and fix at those sats before starting the navigator app.
5. Smarter Alarm - wakes me up with a mild ring and a digitized voice saying the Date, day and Time. the local weather condtions and forecast, a few headlines from google news, the top 3 emails headers from gmail, calendar appointments for the day from google calendar.
6. Dropbox - this is a must. sync files with other computers/devices. I could quickly type up a shopping list on my laptop and drop it to the box before I leave home.
7. Keepas - password safe, I have the same on my laptop synced thru dropbox with my android.
8. TeamViewer - a desktop remote control, control my home desktop from anywhere, can view my home cam or start a download on home pc while away from home.
9. 3g watchdog - Monitors your data usage and alerts you of qoutas about to be reached. Great for my 4.95chf/120mb/month lebara prepaid data.

Wouldn't you rather wake to some quiet music, someone tapping you gently on the shoulder or kissing you on the neck, the smell of coffee brewing...