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Today, we pay tribute to the first birthday of the Motorola Droid, the smartphone that launched a thousand imitators.
Show Notes
- Happy Birthday Droid – November 6th was the day last year where we first met Droid.
- Sesame Street gets into the App Game. “There’s an App for That.”
- Messages
- Voicemail
- Kevin Kline – Jere, just wanted to let you know I used Unrevoked to root my EVO. It worked great and YouTube has a couple of videos. Less than 10 min. I then installed tether and now I’m free. That is about all I’ve done…chicken. I wish Guru was rooting an EVO so we could follow him. Love you Guys. Hey, how about Android Buffett and Android App Addicts do a combined podcast each week. That would give us 2-Exceptional Podcasts we can have each week.
- Platform News
- App News
- Popular Game Developer Zynga announced it would be working on Android Games. It’s first release will be Zynga Poker.
- Update to the Facebook App includes Places and Groups, two of Facebook’s latest features.
- Twitter for Android Updated – Speed increases, visual improvements, Tweet details page.
- SetCpu Updated – Support for backup of profiles, support for new HTC kernels.
- Top Games and Apps as of October accordingto Distrimo –
- Free Apps – Pandora, Google Maps, Advanced Task Killer, Facebook, T-Mobile My Account
- Paid Apps – Beautiful Widgets, Weatherbug Elite, DocumentsToGo Full Version, ESPN Fantasy Football 2010, Weather and Toggle Widget
- Free Games – Solitaire, Jewels, Paper Toss, Live Hold’em, Sudoku Free
- Paid Games – Robo Defense, Jewellust, Armored Strike Online, Homerun Battle 3d, Abduction: World Attack
- Jere’s App: mySoundBoard ($3.99, Install via AppBrain)
- ShootMe Screen Grabber for Root (Install via AppBrain)
- CallTrack (LifeHacker Article, Install via AppBrain) – Logs phone activity to Google Calender
- Developer’s Corner
- Advocate Bios and Developer Event Pages (Intro)
- Google adds Recent Changes Field to Market. Recent changes are linked to each app version, so with each update, you must submit items to the recent changes field. We recommend that each recent changes update is specific to the app version; previous changes will not be displayed to the user at this time, but may be visible in the future.
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