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Another exciting week of the Android Buffet Podcast. We have interesting statistics this week.
Show Notes
- Android Market to add paid app support in additional countries. We’re not sure which yet, but they should be coming in over the coming weeks.
- Android Enterprise Adoption Gains Ground on iPhone & Blackberry(courtesy ThisAndroidLife) – As of August, 16% Android(a 4% gain), iPhone 31%, Blackberry 66%. The article attributes a lot of this to 2.1’s Exchange Support.
- IGR Whitepaper on Preloaded Apps: The Hype and the Reality
- Android Guys is suggesting that Amazon might be the perfect company to get into the Android app store market, and is certainly considering something in the mobile space.
- Google Releases Gmail Update in Market, continues to decouple its services from ROMs. Improved message replies, access to quoted text, limited support for Priority inbox. Requires Froyo.
- UMA Technology for Android from Kineto – UMA lets you use an existing wi-fi access point as a standalone femtocell. This could be great, but requires carrier approval. They could, like their home femtocells, use the GPS on the phone to lock it into US use.
- Evo OTA Update
- Tablets…
- Mozilla’s Seabird Smartphone –
- Twidroyd 4 update – adds in live previews in landscape mode and a variety of other UI improvements.
- Swiftkey out of Beta
- Complete Guide to Android – A e-book/printed book introducing Android.
- Higher Quality Sound Recorders
- Hertz, the Wav Recorder (Install via AppBrain)
- PCM Recorder Lite (Install via AppBrain)
- Followup from Josh Pollard on To-Do Lists
- Recommendation – Got To Do Lite (Install via AppBrain, full version GBP2.00) – Based on Getting Things Done Workflow, and integrates with Toodledo site.
- Call Block Unlimited (Install via AppBrain) – Automatic call blocking for known spammers, offers send to voicemail and pick up and then hang up.
- Jorno Bluetooth Keyboard, preorders $70
- Freedom Pro Bluetooth Keyboard
- Developer’s Corner
- Why is Visual Consistency Important? – Android UI Utilities Project – Offers unified design for Android apps (Direct Link to Project)
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