It’s hard enough for developers to build apps and make money with the iPhone due to very low prices that the fierce competition has caused.  A large percentage of apps cost 99 cents, and 20% of that goes to Apple.

The saving grace is the huge number of iPhones in the market and the fairly well organized and promoted App Store.

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New Droid owners (and other Android junkies) rejoice!  eReader announced tonight via their weekly email newsletter that eReader for the Android platform is now available.

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In early October, we mentioned that Missing Sync was coming for Android. Now, the beta version has been made available by Mark/Space, the makers of Missing Sync.

Missing Sync beta for Android is available on both Windows and Mac platforms. It supports and has been tested with the most popular current Android handsets, including the T-Mobile G1 and myTouch 3G, the Motorola CLIQ, the HTC Hero, the Droid, and many others.

Missing Sync beta for Android is available for free while in beta from Mark/Space. Make sure you read the known issues before you get going. You may want to wait until a later beta if any of the issues scare you.

Missing Sync beta for Android, by Mark/Space

Sometimes it’s the simple apps that really make a difference.  That is what Toshl for Android does.  Toshl is a simple expense tracker.  It doesn’t have a tone of options and it’s not really designed for putting a expense report together for a business.  However, what it is good for is tracking personal expenses.

There are basically only two tabs.  First is the Timeline.  This shows your expenses you have already entered in descending order.  The most current expense is at the top.  At the bottom you have a add expense button.  Tapping that gets you into entry mode. Continue Reading

One of the most popular programs to test Internet speed on a desktop computer is Speedtest.net. Now you can test your mobile upload and download speeds directly on your Android phone!

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Photoshop.com Mobile took everyone by surprise when it was released by Adobe for the iPhone. Imagine my surprise as Adobe recently released the same program for Android!

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When out and about, sometimes you got a few minutes to kill.  SPBTV for Android phones can help you use up a few of those minutes with a little mindless entertainment or a news update from overseas.

SPB TV is an application that streams live TV from the Internet directly to your phone.  It has a nice interface and some of the streams even have a on screen guide to what is coming up next.

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With Android 2.0’s release imminent on the Verizon Droid and the SDK available it was only a (short) matter of time before someone ported over the yet to be released OS to the original T-Mobile G1. In my experience most of these ROM ports are rough around the edges and if you REALLY REALLY want the best Android 2.0 experience you’re best bet is to buy a device with Android 2.0. Until the official Android release here’s a video to satisfy your curiosity and take you on a pretty complete tour of Android 2.0 on the T-Mobile G1.

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Attention Android owning basketball lovers — listen to every NBA game live, watch video game recaps, review live scores, get real-time team and player stats and more. This is all available with the $9.99 NBA Gametime 2009-2010 application for Android available for download now. Compatible with T-Mobile myTouch 3G (OS 1.5+), T-Mobile G1 (OS 1.5+). Versions are also available for iPhone and BlackBerry in their respective application stores. This is the perfect application for watching sports while you’re supposed to be doing boring stuff like working.

There have been rumors surrounding the Android 2.0 SDK for a while now, but it had not yet been released to developers. We knew this would be coming soon, since the Verizon Droid would be launching next month and is reported to run Android 2.0. Well, the wait is now over.

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One of the advantages of having soft or virtual keyboards is that they can change depending on a given context. While Android has had this ability since virtual keyboards were introduced in the operating system in early 2009, it was improved with the Android 1.5 release released in mid-2009.

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In talking with people that send text messages (SMS), one of the most frequent things I hear is that they wish they could save some of their SMS messages. Many of them have lost their messages forever if their phone is damaged/replaced/upgraded, or they run out of room and are forced to delete them. There is a very useful application for Android called SMS Backup that helps you save your SMS messages to Gmail so you can keep them forever.

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On the newly announced Accessibility at Google site, there was a blog post highlighting the application Talking RSS Reader for Android. Talking RSS Reader for Android is an application which reads your Google Reader articles to you.

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DataViz RoadSync for Android, a Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync client that has been in beta in the Android Market for the past six months, has now been released.

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Users of mobile smartphones of almost any platform are familiar with Astraware games, due to their high quality and variety of platforms games are available for. Handmark recently released Android versions of Astraware Solitaire, Astraware Boardgames, and Astraware Sudoku.

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