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Slacker Radio App Comes To Android Market
5:00PM Dan Nosowitz | Slacker finally brings its excellent streaming music app to the Android Market, adding optimised support for current Android hotshots the Droid and Droid Eris. It’s available now, in either a free “lite” or a paid premium version. [Slacker]
Phones
LG GW620, Its First Android Phone, Gets Official
9:03PM Danny Allen | LG may have over 10 WinMo phones planned for the next year, but that hasn’t stopped it testing out the Android waters. This QWERTY-slider (previously known as “Etna”) has a 3-inch touchscreen, 5MP autofocus camera, Wi-Fi and GPS. More »
Software
Pandora App Now Available In Android Market
2:28PM Dan Nosowitz | It isn’t even up on Android’s site yet, but a tipster just informed us that Pandora for Android is available in the Android Market. More »
Software
Android Market 1.6 Update Finally Brings App Screenshots
12:30PM Dan Nosowitz | Android 1.6 Donut will also see an update to Android Market, and while it’s not a major change, it’s certainly a welcome one. The most important change: Developers will soon be allowed to upload screenshots for their apps. More »
Software
Android Market Update Notifications Are Broken
4:39AM Matt Buchanan | This confirms what I suspected this weekend: Android Market’s automatic update notifications are broken. In the meantime, if you’re affected, you have to go to individual app pages to see if there’s an update for the app. At least, that seemed to work for me. [Phandroid]
Games
Guitar Hero Coming to Android Phones
5:00AM Sean Fallon | Guitar Hero has been available on other phones for a while now, but far be it from Activision to pass up an opportunity to cash in on a big platform like Android. More »
Software
Fusion Voicemail Plus App Is Visual Voicemail For Android
9:15AM Adrian Covert | T-Mobile may not have an official Visual Voicemail service for customers, but PhoneFusion plans to change that—for the Google G1, at least. The app, which was previewed today at the Under The Radar Mobility Conference, is currently available on the Palm, Windows Mobile and Blackberry platforms, and works in a similar fashion as the VV apps on the iPhone and Instinct; the name, number, date and time for each of the messages in your inbox appears on the screen as a list of entries. As far as Android specific details go, there’s not much info on the app except that it will appear in the Android Marketplace by the end of the year. [NewsBlaze via IntoMobile] More »
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AndroidBoy Gives the G1 Some Overdue Emulation Fun
11:45AM Adrian Covert | OK, a Game Boy emulator might not be in the same league as an NES or SNES emulator, but seeing as it’s the first real emulator for the Android platform, G1 owners will have to take what they can get at this point. Available in the Android Marketplace now, the AndroidBoy control scheme looks like that of the first iPhone NES emulator, with virtual controls at the bottom of the screen. The lack of an on-screen D-pad, however, has me assuming the trackball is used in that capacity instead. In any case, if you needed a reason to revisit Game Boy classics such as Kirby’s Dreamland or Link’s Awakening, I think this will do just fine. [IntoMobile] More »
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Caller ID For Android Adds Location Detection To Your Incoming Calls
9:40AM Jason Chen | Caller ID from WhitePages is an add-on for the default Android caller ID that enables location detection. The service tells you two bits of info whenever someone (whether they’re on your contact list or not) calls: the approximate city the number belongs to and whether or not it’s a landline. The app seems to work pretty well for the first (it got my phone’s area correct), but wasn’t smart enough to know that it wasn’t a landline I was calling from. Still, a pretty useful app for those weird numbers you get sometimes. Available now on the Android Marketplace. More »
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