The Apple App store is by far the largest and most successful of the application stores offered for mobile phones. After the success of the Apple App store Nokia, Google, and Palm launched their own app stores. A new development platform called Appcelerator Titanium has been announced that will allow devs to design for the [...]
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Google I/O Contest Winners!
Congratulations to Fritz269, baolongnt and peted20! These users have been selected as the winners of our Google I/O Developers’ Conference contest! Each will receive one registration code to register to attend the Google I/O contest in San Francisco, CA. They were picked because their favorite Android memory and their reasons for going to the conference [...]
DataViz Documents To Go, free RoadSync beta released
DataViz have launched a version of their Office file editing app Documents To Go for Android. Promised back in December, Documents To Go can open Microsoft Word and Excel files and attachments, as well as allow editing and creating of them, up to and including Office 2007 files. Rich formatting is supported, such as bold, italics, underline, [...]
Handwriting Android Style
Those with bad handwriting beware (or those trying to read it rejoice). Diotek have announced their first handwriting recognition software for Android.
Exclusive review: TeleNav GPS Navigation Service for T-Mobile G1 Android phone
T-Mobile G1 owners will soon be able to use the feature-rich TeleNav GPS Navigator. TeleNav made the official announcement this morning that their award winning software will be released on February 24th via their website, and will be available in the Android Marketplace later this year. Android Community was given the opportunity to test out [...]
Google Latitude location-sharing app hitting Android
Google have released Google Latitude, an update to their Mobile Maps app which adds the ability to share your location with other users, track friends’ movements and trigger calls, emails and IM conversations with them directly from Latitude’s user interface. Available for Android devices now, G1 users in the US will be receiving Maps v3.0 [...]
Android Community Week In Review – Week 5 2009
This week saw a few big stories for the Android platform, the most anticipated being T-Mobile’s official announcement of offering more Android-based handsets in 2009. A specific number was not given, but HSPA capabilities on these handsets are almost a given, with T-Mobile’s stance that they will have 3G data networks available in 300 cities [...]
Android Market App Destroying Phone Data
According to the application reviews from the Android Market, the app “MemoryUp Personal” is destroying personal data when installed onto an Android handset. There are reports of e-mail accounts being spammed, adware installed, and SD cards being erased – all linked to the installation of this app. This has sparked several discussions about the appeal of [...]
Last.fm For Android Launches
Last.fm has announced the availability of their internet radio streaming app on the Android platform. It is available in the Android Market now for download, or by clicking here. Similar to Pandora radio, Last.fm learns your music tastes as you listen, and suggests new music that it thinks you may like by inserting songs in between [...]
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