Developers are reporting a mass delisting of Android tethering apps from the App Marketplace, after being informed that such apps breach the Developer Distribution Agreement. That’s your cue for righteous indignation, internet!
Beyond scanning a barcode and finding you the best deal either online or in nearby brick-and-mortar stores, ShopSavvy can now tie into major retailers’ inventory systems to see if things are actually in stock.
Remaining minutes and texts, a bill summary, online payment capabilities, and support information are a few of the features in T-Mobile’s first official Android app, released today to thrifty G1ers everywhere.
Anyone who bought the $US400 unlocked developer G1 is in for a nasty surprise: Google, citing piracy concerns, won’t allow those handsets to access paid Marketplace apps.
BGR reports that the first few paid apps have infiltrated the bohemian mobile development commune known as the Android Market, just one week after the submission gates were opened.
Policy details regarding paid apps on the Android Market have come to light—the most notable of which being the fact that you have 24-hours to return an app if you are not satisfied.
Considering that the HTC Dream, Australia’s first Android-powered handset, hit shelves the same time Google announced that paid apps were coming to the Android Market, you’d be forgiven for hoping that the two events would blend together into one homogeneous announcement of tasty app goodness. Sadly, this is not the case.
In the second big GPS-on-Android related tidbit today, Google released My Tracks, a cool app for logging a route of any kind via GPS and saving it to Google Maps.
Chalk up another mark in the things-Android-can-do-on-the-G1-that-certain-other-phones-can’t list: GPS maker Telenav is bringing a slick-looking turn-by-turn navigation app to the G1 this month.
