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This Week in Android #3 with Jeremy Almond

TWiA #3 with Jeremy Almond

Featuring Jeremy Almond of Socialguides.

The co-hosts included Amanda Coolong of TechZulu, Nicole Cozma of Android Guys, Aaron Brazell of the WordPress Bible, Jeff Ammons.

The big news this week included some talk on Android 2.1, which is out, only on the Nexus One for now. Read on for the rest of the news.

The app of the week was Socialguides, an Android app that, simply put by Jeremy Almond, the CEO of Socialguides, is a “Twitter meets Yelp” application. He showed us around the application, a location based client which uses Twitter, which will come out within the coming weeks. You can tweet #TWIAndroid with the word socialguides for a preview of the application.

The panel had plenty of fun using the new “Android Cam”, a camera angle that allowed the viewing of an Android phone’s screen.

News:

  • The discussion turned to how important multi-touch was, with some saying that the audience for Android may not be as driven to see multi-touch.
  • Mark wondered why European applications were on average 49% more in price.
  • Apple asks developer to remove all Android references from the application description.
  • The WordPress application for Android came out this week, which is good for blogging on the go. However, most will still want to use a computer to blog.
  • The Nook, Barns and Noble’s E-Book reader, which runs on Android, got a OS update. The new update, among other things, speeds up the process of opening a book on the device.
  • Samsung announced that the M100 will run Android 2.1.
  • Nicole and others discussed how the sales of the Nexus One are not improving. Nicole talked about how this might be due to the fact that customers can’t get their hands on the phone before they buy it. According to some, the Nexus One sells 20,000 units per week.
  • A topic talked about was Flash, and the competition between the iPhone, which does not have Flash, to Android, which does. Mark mentioned Robert Scoble’s article on this and asked the question “Will Google save Flash?”
  • In addition, Nokia, which runs the Symbian OS, made the Symbian OS open source. This lead to a brief discussion wondering if the OS was a threat to Google.

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