Android Apps Alert Vol. 1 (#androidapps)

Looking for apps in the Android Market? Good luck. The Android Market is growing faster than it is improving, so finding that next great app is a challenge. Androinica.com encourages users to tweet great apps with the #androidapps tag on Twitter, which we plan to incorporate into periodic notifications of new, updated, or useful apps.

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Android Apps Alert Vol. 1 (#androidapps)

App Review: Express News World is a great Android reporter

Newspaper readership is on a steady decline, but the need for news hasn’t fallen as much as paper sales. Readers have just turned to websites and mobile phones to stay informed. Express News World is an Android app that strives to fill in the gap and keep people aware of current events and breaking news.

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Android at Google I/O News Roundup

Google Android fans have learned a few things about Android and its accessories at Google I/O. The first thing we learned – we should have been there if we wanted to get our hands on the HTC Ion, a free, unlocked version of the HTC Magic (Sapphire). Plenty of sessions and geekery occurred that may

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ThinkFree adds complete Office productivity suite applications

Android has another entry into the field of applications supporting the Microsoft Office suite. California-based company ThinkFree, Inc., has announced that it will soon unveil its suite of Android apps that replicate the Office experience. Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents can be used in ThinkFree Write , ThinkFree Calc, and ThinkFree Show. The apps support

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Nearby Intersections on GOOG-411

It is amazing how much information can be displayed on even the smallest map, yet we sometimes forget that geographic content is not always available visually. If you’re out and about, you can call GOOG-411 and get local information about businesses. Now we’ve made it even easier to orient yourself without a map in front of you: call GOOG-411, ask for ‘details’ , and in addition to the address and phone number of the business, we’ll also point you to the nearest street intersection or adjacent streets. You can try it now: call 1-800-466-4411, look up ‘Google in New York’, ask us for more ‘details’, and we’ll tell you that our Chelsea office is ‘near the intersection with West 16th Street’. Unless you’re a seasoned New Yorker, this might very well save you from walking up or down a few blocks. The nearby intersections are available for most businesses in the US and Canada. They are derived automatically by an algorithm written on 20% time by Googlers in New York and London. Tell us other ways you would want to use this new feature — we hope to expand it to other products soon! Posted by Vincent Vanhoucke, Research Scientist and Arnaud Sahuguet, Geo Product Manager

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Spotify Android app gets video preview

Spotify is a music service that streams music to computers with little buffering time. It has a catalog of several million songs, and will be available to certain Android users to stream music — even if they are offline. Spotify makes millions of songs, playlists, and user-created libraries available through subscription or ad-support. In its attempt

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More HTC Hero videos, and even leaked ROM, emerge

A promotional video for the HTC Hero has found its way to the Internet, as did a ROM that allows G1 owners to port the Hero’s build to their phone. First seen in videos posted last week and again in another post a few days later, the Hero has caught the eye of Android fans

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Cupcake update underway, what’s cool about it?

Cupcake is coming. For real this time. If you haven’t already installed Cupcake manually, you’ll be happy to know that a number of T-Mobile USA subscribers are reporting getting an over the air update for Android 1.5. The update is going out randomly, so don’t check your phone every five minutes to see if it

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HTC Hero video promo [Updated]

We don’t know where it’s from, and we don’t know who made it, but a promo video for the HTC Hero has shown up online.  Demonstrating a gloss-red Hero seemingly running the new “Rosie” GUI , the video shows the phone going online, accessing the Android market and generally flaunting its OS capabilities. The “Rosie” homescreen, with its distinctive new clock and control bar along the bottom of the screen, makes several appearances.  The multiple homescreen pages, plus widgets like music control, are also shown, before the video demonstrated mapping and motion-sensitive controls. Finally, there are a full seven HTC Hero devices, each in glossy candy-colors: pale green, pink, yellow, red, black, turquoise and white.  Anybody know any more about the origins of the video? Update: The original video was taken down; here’s a copy: [Thanks Jiri!]

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HTC Hero video promo [Updated]

HTC Hero video promo

We don’t know where it’s from, and we don’t know who made it, but a promo video for the HTC Hero has shown up online .  Demonstrating a gloss-red Hero seemingly running the new “Rosie” GUI , the video shows the phone going online, accessing the Android market and generally flaunting its OS capabilities. The “Rosie” homescreen, with its distinctive new clock and control bar along the bottom of the screen, makes several appearances.  The multiple homescreen pages, plus widgets like music control, are also shown, before the video demonstrated mapping and motion-sensitive controls. Finally, there are a full seven HTC Hero devices, each in glossy candy-colors: pale green, pink, yellow, red, black, turquoise and white.  Anybody know any more about the origins of the video? Click here to view the embedded video. [Thanks Jiri!]

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