EA will release three games, Tetris, Bejeweled, and Monopoly, for Google’s Android platform. Here, a user shows off Pac-Man on an Android-powered phone.
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Electronic Arts announced Wednesday three games for Google’s Android mobile phone platform.
The publisher said that Tetris will be …
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If you want to hear songs on your Google Android phone, open up the default player or pull up TuneWiki. If you want to hear songs play on your computer without ever putting down the Google Android phone, get Gmote.
Gmote is a free application that turns your Google Android …
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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 …
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CompareEverywhere can map retail stores nearby.
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ShopSavvy, Barcode Scanner (by the ZXing team), and CompareEverywhere (an Android Challenge winner) are three free shopping applications for Google Android poised to help you find the best deals in town and online.
At their core, they’re nearly identical, using the …
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(Credit: CNET)Does it strike anyone else as odd that Google has left some basic capabilities to third-party Android developers? Video playback in the day where multimedia is king seems like such an obvious application to perfect and include on a platform with a lot to prove, yet the only …
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The music player on the Google Android G1 phone isn’t bad, but can it scroll lyrics while the song plays, download you new songs for free, and play music videos?
All that is packaged into the free TuneWiki music player, a much more complex and ambitious Android app than …
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A LOLdog I made using PicSay.
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PicSay’s stated purpose is to e-mail or text annotated photo messages to friends, but there’s nothing stopping you from using the free program as a makeshift photo editor.
PicSay is a simple application made especially for Google Android, but it’…
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(Credit: Google)WikiMobile Encyclopedia has been around for awhile for the BlackBerry and Windows Mobile Pocket PC, so it’s no surprise to see it formatted for the Google Android G1 phone.
Just as advertised, WikiMobile Encyclopedia crawls Wikipedia.com for articles, offering up predictive search queries as you type …
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Cab4Me Light finds your a ride in portrait and landscape modes.
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Why isn’t there ever a cab around when you need one?
The free Google Android application Cab4Me Light makes finding, scheduling, and calling cabs to your side virtually brainless. Cab4Me Light’s interface is simple and …
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(Credit: Google)BreadCrumbz (beta) is another one of the new Android apps I like. I got a run-through of the free multimedia directions app a few months ago with the developer, and I gave it a spin on my own here in San Francisco. BreadCrumbz uses GPS, Google maps, and …
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