Featuring Tom Conrad, CTO of Pandora.
The co-hosts included Ashley Esqueda, Jeff Ammons of Mahalo, and of course, Mark Jeffrey.
The big news this week were the purchase of Palm and its effect on Android and HTC’s patent infringements.
The app of the week was Pandora. Pandora recently released an Android application, and the CTO of Pandora came on to talk about the release. The application is free in the Android Marketplace, and lets you listen to and stream music for free, using algorithms to create customized playlists for you. Tom Conrad stayed for the entire show, commenting on the news as well as the application.
Ashley will be at The Comedy Store in LA at 8pm, and Jeff showed off the GameGripper for his phone.
News:
- The Droid Incredible has sold out, and will not be available until May 4th.
- The Android Marketplace has reached 50,000 applications.
- The Nexus One won’t be coming to Verizon, but has come to Vodafone.
- Upcoming Samsung Android phones will carry Yahoo services.
- According to AdMob, Android usage has overtaken iPhone.
- Flash coming to Froyo (Android OS version), according to Andy Rubin.
- One can now purchase applications in the Android Marketplace using PayPal.
- Custom keyboards for HTC Android phones.
- The Google Image Search application has been updated for Android 2.1 or higher.
- Layar is working on paid “maps” in the virtual reality.
- Samsung is rumored to announce the Google TV at Google I/O.





