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With total apps surpassing 20,000 this month, the gap in size—and consequently, quality—between the Android Market and the iPhone App Store is finally starting to close.
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The Android Market continues to grow. On the heels of yesterday's addition of Yelp comes National Public Radio's NPR News app, expected to hit later this month. It'll also be using Android to do things its iPhone counterpart simply can't.
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Slacker finally brings its excellent streaming music app to the Android Market, adding optimized 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]
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, 5-megapixel autofocus camera, Wi-Fi and GPS.
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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. Apparently it works great, "even on an EDGE network,."[Thanks, Matthew!, image from Androinica]
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.
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Google Voice, the sweet service that lets you redirect calls, transcribes your voicemails and way more, is finally coming to smartphones—but only Android and BlackBerry, for now. iPhone users, you can go have some coffee while you wait.
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Why does the iPhone get its own app roundup every week? W-w-what about the rest of us? WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO DO WITH THIS SMARTPHONE? We should explain.
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It's been less than a year since Apple launched the iPhone App Store, but now virtually every mobile OS is showcasing its own take on the mobile application storefront. How do they all stack up? More »
If you rejoiced at Google's re-rollout of the one-phone-number-for-life Grand Central service as Google Voice, you'll be pretty happy about GV—an app that can place outdoing calls using your universal number.
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It didn't take long for Android's built-in WebKit browser (that performed well in our recent mobile browser Battlemodo) to see a little competion in the form of Opera Mini 4.2—the ubiquitous and lightweight software that's installable in some form on just about every mobile platform that can run Java apps. A beta version was released for Android today, and we put it through a quick test.
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