Show Notes
- Keyboards – One of the nice things about Android is the ability to have multiple keyboards you can switch between.
- SwiftKey in Beta – Uses a predictive engine
- ThickButtons – The buttons actually change shape based on prediction, so that they get larger and easier to hit.
- Launchers and Tools
- LauncherPro Beta – Alternate launcher with regular updates, good support, bottom dock. (Custom Transparent Icons/Docks) – Plus version launched for $3 US on the developer’s website because Uruguay doesn’t support paid apps.
- Quickdesk Beta – Quickdesk is a not a home replacement. You can double tap the home button to bring up a transparent homescreen anywhere, including within another application, allowing quick access to widgets and such. From Faruq Rasid, who also is responsible for HelixLauncher.
- RockPlayer – Free version, and $10 version that eliminates ads. Offered in optimized versions for various processors. For all those formats the stock video player doesn’t support, such as MKV, DIVX, XVID, etc.
- Android Market Now Open for Business in Korea
- Droid X and Samsung Vibrant Full of Bloatware – Are apps outside the stock Android apps that cannot be installed going to be a problem for Android?
- Prepaid Android Phones – The only one is Boost Mobile. But the Motorola i1 is only 1.5.
- SIPDroid, PBXes, and Free Dial-In
- Free Dial-In is made profitable by CLECs. A Competitive Local Exchange Carrier benefits from regulations that require larger carriers to connect with it. So if the CLEC owns a phone number, they have to be paid a fraction of a cent for calls that connect to these numbers. Thus, in volume, they can use their unused numbers allocated to them to make this money.
- Handcent SMS
- 3G Watchdog
- Trap
- NESoid – Nintendo Emulator
- Doggcatcher the Android Podcatcher
- BeyondPod
- Meritline A2DP Receiver
- Tortoise HG
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