With an open source platform such as Android, there are going to be other sources for application downloads. One site that has started offering downloads for Android rather quickly is Phoload. Free games anyone? Continued……
Posted by Jessica Dolcourt
One of the most striking things about this early batch of Android apps is how many excellent freebies there are. Ringdroid is yet another sophisticated, intuitive freeware app that will prove a boon to T-Mobile G1-toting ringtone-lovers.
Ringdroid lets you create ringtones from MP3, WAV, and ARM files you load onto your phone [...]
By Jacqueline Emigh, BetaNews
During a pre-launch event for customers and the press in New York City last night, Randy Myerson, a T-Mobile senior product manager, told BetaNews that the Android-based G1 is still on track to ship on October 22 — and that, by the time it does, the number of third-party apps in Google’s [...]
If Google wants its Android-based phones to unseat Apple’s iPhone as the top touch-screen handsets, it will have to offer cool apps. On the G1, T-Mobile customers will be the first to check out about 50 available applications. T-Mobile says that all apps are free until 2009. Here’s a look at some of them. Continue…….
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By Jason Ankeny
Google will offer consumers free trials of mobile applications available on its Android Market virtual storefront according to Andy Rubin, who spearheads Android efforts for the web services giant. In an interview with BusinessWeek, Rubin said the free trials are just one of the significant differences separating Android Market from Apple’s rival App [...]
Posted on 01 October 2008 by Shawn Brown
With Android, applications can integrate features, data from other applications and information through web API’s, as well as use all of the hardware sensors on the device such as the camera, GPS, accelerometer and the compass. This feature is entitled Applications Without Boarders.
Zebra Crossing is a fantastic example [...]
Applications for T-Mobile’s G1 Google Android-based mobile phone are already hitting the market. Visa will release a mobile-payment service for Android, while games and shopping apps have also been readied for Android. The flood of apps for Google’s Android highlights the shift toward mobile Web use, and the G1 will accelerate the trend.
The first Android-powered [...]
