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The people at Codepoke had an app which did exactly the same thing. They removed it from the app store a while ago.

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The people at Codepoke had an app which did exactly the same thing. They removed it from the app store a while ago.

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I believe "War Games" said it best; The only winning move is not to play the game.

The people at Codepoke had an app which did exactly the same thing. They removed it from the app store a while ago.

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The people at Codepoke had an app which did exactly the same thing. They removed it from the app store a while ago.

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I believe "War Games" said it best; The only winning move is not to play the game.

The people at Codepoke had an app which did exactly the same thing. They removed it from the app store a while ago.

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Wow, talk about fanboyism right?

-Carrier lock. Apple has a much harder hand on walled gardens, what with not even allowing "competing" apps very often, and we all know how belowed AT&T is. Plus, Nexus One/S anyone? My S had no branding whatsoever, no carrier lock, I have built-in tethering and wifi tethering, I can choose any app that I could possibly like without any restriction.
-Android is at approximately 360,000 apps (Androlib), while iOS is at roughly 390,000 (148Apps). If you think an 8% difference is enough to make Android the most evil thing ever, just go have fun with Jobs then. I like how 8% is "vast", though, especially considering this is just from the official Android Market.
-Less polished user interface? Matter of taste I guess. I find the Android interface very attractive, and fragmentation is a term invented by deniers. It was called "flexibility" before that. Flexibility to choose how your OS looks and feels, flexibility to pick your applications, launcher, theme, flexibility to do things that the developers might not initially have thought about, flexibility to make your device your device. The fact you can easily develop apps for Android without having to jump through hoops is a bonus, as somebody who knows how to code but has no interest in publishing apps.
-I don't exactly know why you're trying to make Apple look like the underdog here, because they clearly are not. Furthermore, I've never, ever seen anybody considering both rooting good and jailbreaking bad. Either they see both as acceptable/good, or they see both as bad. You're just cherry-picking negative reactions to jailbreaking and positive reactions to rooting to make your case, which is fallacious.

So I'll let you have fun with your conspiracy theories and go back to customizing my Nexus S. Ah, the possibilities!

I also have Flash Your QR on my phone, to this end.

And, says Google, there is some effort to standardize contents, including MECARD (vCard but shorter markup).

Here is a list of Myournet's apps and their package names (to avoid false positives). These are all his apps, not only the ones pulled.
Source: http://www.androlib.com/r.aspx?r=Myournet - although this will be purged quite fast I suspect.

: com.spider.man
: com.droiddream.fallingball
_Falldown : com.fall.soft.down
_PewPew: com.droiddream.pewpew
APP Uninstaller: com.app.aun
Advanced Currency Converter: power.power.rate
Chess: com.free.chess
Dice Roller: com.dice.power.advanced
Falling Ball Dodge: com.dodge.game.fallingball
Falling Down: com.fall.down
Funny Paint: proscio.app.nick.ypaint
Hilton Sex Sound: com.sexsound.hilton
Hot Sexy Videos: hot.goddchen.sexyvideos
Photo Editor: com.editor.photoenhance
Scientific Calculator : com.advanced.scientific.calculator
Screaming Sexy Japanese Girls: com.sex.japaneese.girls
Spider Man: powerstudio.spiderman
Super Guitar Solo: com.power.SuperSolo
Super History Eraser: Super.mobi.eraser
Super Ringtone Maker: com.super.mp3ringtone
Super Sex Positions: com.droiddream.lovePositions

For some reason, Chinese characters are not displayed in the post, but hey....

I am a little at a loss depending on what site you read the sources differ vastly http://www.androlib.com/appstats.aspx for example posts 240,000 applications that's over double that mentioned in the article. I would love some real figures as the conclusion for this article just seems bonkers. Even if the figures are true 100,000 vs 350,000 how many programmers can Google hire to release applications to make up the shortfall, development takes time and effort even for a pretty basic application...and these are developers producing applications for Android now that Google does not pay for. The resources needed are insane. Its interesting that the other conclusion is Google is going for quantity over quality. That is not going to work. We are talking applications...there is a numbers game...but people talk about that damn bird game all the time, or google goggles, 250,000 torch/wallpaper/quote is not going sell android..Google could use application developers in a variety of ways, building development support network, code snippets, game engines, quality first party applications maybe for Google TV/Google Pads, advisers for creating RAD development tools

"Yes, it's much better to have a single organization that can decide for me what apps I can decide to buy and sell. One that can block apps for any reason or no reason at all."

And yet over 70,000,000 iPhones have been sold since 2007 all at $200+ (compared to free Android phones with contract) and there have been thousands of iPhone developers that have become millionaires due to app sales while even Angry Birds struggles with Android fragmentation with over a dozen Android devices Angry Birds will NOT work on.

I appreciate the spunky Android upstart trying to compete with the big dog iOS but Android has some huge obstacles to overcome if even major players like Angry Birds is frustrated with Android and EA offers 60+ iOS apps but only a dozen Android games.

This is what you're talking about:
http://www.androlib.com/android.application.com-access_company-graffiti-jjziA.aspx

As an ex-TealScript user, this is a very sorry thing to be using: it's Graffiti 1, it's not customisable in any way, it still takes up half the bloody screen, and as you say is hard to use with a sausage-sized stylus.

What did catch my eye was around 3:44 in the video -- the part where they say that you really only need the dot or central ring -- it would be very awesome indeed if this turns out to be a transparent keyboard that can be shown over the actual UI. I'm keeping an eye on this, but I don't dare hope.

Or just give me TealScript for Android...

This is what you're talking about:
http://www.androlib.com/android.application.com-access_company-graffiti-jjziA.aspx

As an ex-TealScript user, this is a sorry thing to be using: it's Graffiti 1, it's not customisable in any way, it still takes up half the bloody screen, and as you say is hard to use with a sausage-sized stylus.

What caught my eye was around 3:44 in the video -- the part where they say that you really only need the dot or central ring -- it would be very awesome indeed if this turns out to be a transparent keyboard that can be shown over the actual UI. I'm keeping an eye on this, but I don't dare hope.

The HTC evo already has an HDMI out which you could hook a proper monitor to, wifi for home networking rather than using the cell network, and USB + bluetooth which could in theory* charge the battery, connect keyboard, mouse, printer, scanner and most other modern peripherals. Local storage would be a little limiting, but network and cloud storage are becoming ubiquitous. MP3s? Most of my friends just stream music from Pandora as it is. Movies? Youtube, Hulu, Netflix et all. Pictures? Many cameras can upload directly to flikr or photobucket. Your internet connection down? Remember, your computer is now a phone with Wi-max. In fact, most people won't even need a wire to bring internet in IF the cell carriers have appropriate data plans. All that would be needed is a dongle and appropriate software to manage it all.

The reason I say "in theory" is because there may be issues running the phone as USB host... I don't know enough about the implementation of USB to know if this would work. I assume it would be possible to work around this with a USB hub that masquerades as the root and simply passes incoming info to a driver on the phone, but again, I could be wrong here.

In the office most companies are probably going to stick with the boxy desktop or at least laptop form factor for quite some time. However, I fully expect that by the time I need to replace my current personal computer, all the functionality I need will be available in a phone form factor. Whether I choose to abandon the personal computer completely for the mobile platform will be an aesthetic choice and have little impact on my lifestyle. At that point one of the biggest deficiencies for home use may be games... but the mobile form factor is even beginning to handle its own there. Capcom doing a decent job of combining the technologies behind Zombie Run and Invizimals would breathe new life into the Resident Evil franchise. Same with any other FPS. MMOers could grind their character outside of their proverbial "mom's basement" maybe choosing to "dock up" solely for group raids or exploring new areas.

And a decade or two down the road? I'm not going to speculate that far. We may have direct neural links by that point and then the whole interface thing becomes moot. Or maybe our society will have crashed and a handful of computers are maintained only as a reminder of the days of yore.. Or we will have reached utopia and computers will no longer be useful for augmenting our thinking power. Or, more likely, something in between those three. Ehh... who am I kidding about a decade. We'll know in about 794 days.

I've used AndroLib for this in the past. Not the best, but a bit better at least...

The dilemma: protecting developers' investments, and revenue stream, while keeping an open platform.

From (note: there's no reason to read the article I'm about to link, it's badly laid out with terrible ads and I'll quote the title) another article:

Android Skins, "Crapware" Protected by Open Source Principles, Says Schmidt

Please note, I could not find where Schmidt said these exact words but there was some sentiment of this in his interview. And there's some truth to it.

Truth be told, I'm a little wary of applications on my Android based Motorola DROID. I have seen the skins apps and am curious how one maker gets licenses for Zelda, Minnesota Vikings, Justin Beiber and all other kinds of imagery when they sell these skins. This sort of questionable content makes me wonder what other questionable things are being engaged. Likewise, I'm also a little wary of a lot of the free games I play. One in particular is the Solitaire Free Pack which, as it so turns out, I am a big fan of the ~40 variants of solitaire they offer. I also would like to use the Kindle application on my phone. There's just one problem: it wants my Amazon account login and password.

You know, it's not that I don't trust Android, Google or Amazon ... it's the other apps I've unwittingly installed willy nilly on my phone while bored or drunk on the metro. You'll probably be able to assure me that there's no way another app could access the disk or memory space of the Kindle app but it just seems unsafe. I would not find iOS all that much more reassuring but I'm pretty sure I'm not alone in the paranoia of storing account information inside my phone -- or even repeatedly typing it in.

I don't have any proof that it's a real security issue and I hope apps somehow get very restricted memory and disk spaces but I think Google has a little further to go on security as well as offering developers a way to recoup losses. Since it'll undoubtedly be DRM like their early attempts, I hope it's stressed to be opt-in and not advised.

I mean surely after 10 or 20 reincarnations of the same useless fart app gets released, it will be obvious that Apple's marketplace is too bloated to be useful...

Yeah, instead they'll just make their fart apps from Android.

droidFart is THE premiere fart application for the Android operating system.

Or if you are more into the Bieber craze you can get the Bieber Fart App.

The jobcentre plus app was also released for android

Out of interest (and because you seem like a rational debater), could you enlighten me on the subject of the Apple app store's rating system? I'm an Android user myself, and I don't know how things are in Apple land. In the Android Market, you can rate apps with 1-5 stars (1 being 'poor', 3 being 'average', and 5 being 'excellent').

You see, I would like to investigate if app stores could be better compared on quality rather than quantity. It seems to me that it would be better to have one thousand apps with a high average rating, than a million apps with an appalling average rating.

There are some Android Market ratings available, although I'm sure more detailed ones can be gotten hold of. I do note that only one fifth of all rated apps have a single star, and two fifth have the highest rating. This is based on nearly 900.000 ratings, but I do not know the ratio of rated vs. unrated apps.

I fail to see what relevance Apple (much less Steve Jobs personally) has here. This is about hacked user accounts. This kind of thing is an unfortunate fact of life, keeping in mind that social engineering attacks take up the majority in security breaches. There's only so much Apple can do to mitigate this, and I don't see that they missed anything.

Heck, if anything, Apple's "walled garden" model - for all my dislike of it - is most efficient at dealing with these kinds of abuses. When malware authors have to go to the effort of hacking user accounts to get their crap shoved at users, you know they're tight against the wall already. In comparison, with Android, you just call yourself "Googe" (note spelling) and upload your malware directly.

(How do I know it's malware? I haven't installed it, of course - but when all their apps, including a non-multiplayer five-in-a-row game, request "full network connectivity" and "location information" permissions on install, you know something's fishy; the fake company name is just icing on the cake.)

The irony is that I can't even use Market feature to report it as malware, or at least write a 1-star review with a warning, because you can only write reviews/complaints once you install the app...

Companies including RIM, Nokia, Microsoft and Apple should watch out for Android with its Linux roots. Development appears to be fast. At this speed their lunch is at risk.

What appears to be holding Adroid is "bad" publicity on battery life, the poor organization of the Android Market including poor quality apps and the [subjective] poor user experience on high end phones.

As a matter of fact, the state of the Android Market is severely anaemic because whereas apps in this market are said to number about 75,000 now, having a look over here does not show any figure near that!

To make matters worse, there is no provision for searching for an app whose name you might not remember well. What surprises me is that the market is owned by a company (Google) which boasts of the greatest and best search engine in planet earth! Think about that for a moment.

Now before I get flamed, I know there is AndroLib. What I am talking about are efforts by the search giant Google.

They got the figures by mining information from each app via the Android Market, or through one of the many aggregator sites like this one. Permissions are publicly listed, so that's how they came to their figures.

But yeah, it's incredibly misleading. The user is warned on install and at the bottom of the application's description in the Market.

What good is developing an Application if nobody can find it?

Perhaps you've heard of the Android marketplace.

It's not locked down like the Itunes store. You can browse it here, here and here. Androlib even has QR codes that you can scan with your Android phone that will take you directly to application in the Android Marketplace.

To be honest, I don't trust iWhateverApp

Because no phishing applications made it past the ever watchful censors at Apple?

NoThankYou.jpg to gateway only security. I'd rather have on-device security which informs me which services (API's, but in simple terms like "can send SMS", "accesses your contacts/personal data" or "can write and delete from the SD card"). Even third party APK's do this (because it's part of Android, not the thrid party software).

So stop spreading FUD and others stop modding up FUD.

Support remote desktop? I work in an enterprise environment and have found the feature very useful when away from my desk.

I'm in the same position (networking/support) in an SME. I have a Motorola Milestone (Droid for you yanks) which performs the task admirably. RDP Lite performs well even over VPN on 3G (for the most part, as always its dependent on your 3G signal), the full version is only 10 of your US dollars. Android also has VPN, which the Iphone lacks, granted it's only for PPTP/L2TP/IPSec VPN's as Cisco and Nortel haven't made clients for them. Tested on Server 2003 64 and 2008 32/64.

I bought a HTC Dream in February last year because I spend so much time working at other peoples desks and the boss started to complain that I took hours to answer his emails.

For Android, there is an RDP client for $10 which does that (or a $20 "enterprise" version which has SSL support).

Works pretty well in my experience, especially on Android phones with a trackball (all of them? at least all HTC ones, so far as I know), because that gives you precise control over mouse cursor - Windows UI, especially on such a small screen, is hard to work with in touch mode without a stylus, unless scaled up significantly.

Actually, I always wonder how they do it on iPhone. I know there are RDP clients there, but they only have touch to simulate mouse, which must be a pain.

For Android, there is an RDP client for $10 which does that (or a $20 "enterprise" version which has SSL support).

Works pretty well in my experience, especially on Android phones with a trackball (all of them? at least all HTC ones, so far as I know), because that gives you precise control over mouse cursor - Windows UI, especially on such a small screen, is hard to work with in touch mode without a stylus, unless scaled up significantly.

Actually, I always wonder how they do it on iPhone. I know there are RDP clients there, but they only have touch to simulate mouse, which must be a pain.

Android market supposedly suffers badly from piracy. Boo hoo hoo evil pirates, not giving money to developers who deserve them.

I downloaded Maverick Lite recently. I decided it's a cool app and wanted to buy the full version.
Until then I was puzzled by lack of paid apps in the market. Now I saw "Maverick Pro" not found.
I checked, double checked and found:
Only 12 countries support paid apps and mine is not one of them. I checked, Maverick Pro was only available through Android Market, not any other online store of Android apps.

I faced two options:
1. download a torrent of paid apps for Android, and install the .apk from SD card.
2. root the phone (voiding warranty), install "market-enabler", back-up the current SIM Id, spoof it with ID of one of providers that offer paid apps, then purchase the app from app store.

Guess which one I choose...
The second one. Yep, I hacked my phone and purchased the app legally.

same here, basically i was led to piracy by the powers that be.
1. Apple wont accept my credit card because its from an African country hence itunes is pretty much useless for me, no music purchases, no apps.
2. Microsoft wont allow me to purchase any recent Xbox360 titles online and download them regardless of having xbox live (not that i play online due to the lag), Ofcourse ebay does exist but who ships to africa?
3. Amazon would ship within a reasonable duration but it would cost me $70 to get the next $59.99 game.
4. Paypal only allows me to deposit so its not even worth it
Finally the solution: Torrenting + Last FM

Am off to chip my console,goodbye xbox live hello $5 game titles

Android market supposedly suffers badly from piracy. Boo hoo hoo evil pirates, not giving money to developers who deserve them.

I downloaded Maverick Lite recently. I decided it's a cool app and wanted to buy the full version.
Until then I was puzzled by lack of paid apps in the market. Now I saw "Maverick Pro" not found.
I checked, double checked and found:
Only 12 countries support paid apps and mine is not one of them. I checked, Maverick Pro was only available through Android Market, not any other online store of Android apps.

I faced two options:
1. download a torrent of paid apps for Android, and install the .apk from SD card.
2. root the phone (voiding warranty), install "market-enabler", back-up the current SIM Id, spoof it with ID of one of providers that offer paid apps, then purchase the app from app store.

Guess which one I choose...
The second one. Yep, I hacked my phone and purchased the app legally.

Here's an Android app that provides two-way sync between your Android Calendar and any CalDAV server.

- have a web interface available. Seriously, that's a no-brainer.

Umm, the entire store is HTML, the marketplace application is just a HTML browser with very limited options. Try using Androlib to search it from your PC. Androlib is not the only site like this but it is the best IMHO.

- let me order the results by ratings, downloads, date, publisher and name.

Umm... you can already order by downloads, ratings and release date. The marketplace application searches by name then publisher by default. If you're looking for specific publisher (Nitrodesk for example) you just type in that name.

You have used the Android Marketplace before haven't you.

- Allow me to recommend apps to friends and contacts. Or allow me to set my download privacy so that friends and contacts can see what I installed.

And have people like you spam me with crappy applications recommendations day and night. Nothankyou.jpg.

As for the privacy thing, I have to ask, Are you mad?

You could always use email, you can send a link to other android phones that will open in the marketplace. I know that Android has a top notch Gmail client installed by default.

- Provide a staff pick

No.

We have a user rating system, I don't want someone with a vested interest pushing rubbish applications at me. Besides this Android already lists a few of the most popular applications at the top of the marketplace, this seem to be a random selection of higher rating applications. 4 out of 4 of those are already implemented in one way or another. I have doubts that you've even used Android.

http://www.cyrket.com/ http://www.androlib.com/ http://www.appbrain.com/ http://www.androidzoom.com/ Just to name a few... Sure, one by Google might be nice.

I have it on android, and its free! http://www.androlib.com/android.application.com-farproc-wifi-analyzer-jFCm.aspx
HTC Hero

This http://www.androlib.com/android.application.jp-jig-fukuno-dvorak-jAwp.aspx link seems to have some sort of Dvorak on Android program.

"It sounds to me like Google lost alot of good will with such a high unsubsidized price."

They lost me. After many, many stories about free google cell phones supported by ads how can anyone not be disappointed by the $500 price?

I really don't see how Google thinks they'll sell any. $500+ is a huge bite, and $180 puts it in competition with $199 iPhone 3GS, so if you're deciding between the iPhone and Nexus price really isn't a factor. Couple that with 126,000+ iPhone apps vs 20,000 Android apps and the fact many Android apps don't run on lower-end Android phones doesn't inspire someone to purchase a Android phone.

Google seems to be shooting themselves in the foot, it would take a phone with lots of developer support to topple the iPhone. Only way to get developers is to show them the $$$$ like the iPhone does. Google needs to get the developers paid and make them millionaires like the iPhone does

Have you actually seen the iPhone app store? There's like 50 different fart button apps.

Funny that, look at this list of exactly 50 fart apps for Android.

*Checks calendar* Yup, it's 2009. VOIP still not possible on my smartphone...

There are several SIP applications for Android. The best I've used is Fring which integrates part of skype, MSN, Gtalk and a few others. There is also SIPDroid but this is hit and miss with Australian VoIP providers.

It will be 2010 shortly and only we elitist open source people will enjoy VOIP on our mobile devices.

*Checks calendar* Yup, it's 2009. VOIP still not possible on my smartphone...

There are several SIP applications for Android. The best I've used is Fring which integrates part of skype, MSN, Gtalk and a few others. There is also SIPDroid but this is hit and miss with Australian VoIP providers.

It will be 2010 shortly and only we elitist open source people will enjoy VOIP on our mobile devices.

Well, or any other mobile phone OS, obviously. However, there is KeePass based on 1.0 for Android (as you can see on the KeePass website itself, and here: http://www.androlib.com/r.aspx?r=keepass). Also, there's OI Safe for Android, which does the same thing: http://www.androlib.com/android.application.org-openintents-safe-qwq.aspx

Well, or any other mobile phone OS, obviously. However, there is KeePass based on 1.0 for Android (as you can see on the KeePass website itself, and here: http://www.androlib.com/r.aspx?r=keepass). Also, there's OI Safe for Android, which does the same thing: http://www.androlib.com/android.application.org-openintents-safe-qwq.aspx

It's called "Talk to Me" by Flaviu Negrean, and it currently supports speech-to-speech translation from English to Spanish, French, German and Italian. Works well on my Android 1.6 phone. http://www.androlib.com/android.application.info-fidogames-apps-talktome-zwnB.aspx

The Android Market has around 25000 apps, I believe, so I certainly don't feel left out in the cold as an Android user.

It's actually about half that number. Not saying there's nothing out there for Android, but let's stick to the facts.

"No proximity sensor or other mechanism for disabling the touchscreen while on a call."

There's an app for that.

What's even cooler with these Japanese mobile phones, is that you can even take picture of Japanese text, it will read it and convert it to text, which you translate over the internet. WTF doesn't the rest of the world that this technology!?!?

Because "the rest of the world" doesn't have an Android phone yet?

If you do, just get the Barcode Scanner app and you're set.
Wanna read Japanese characters? Get Lliane Japan.

What's even cooler with these Japanese mobile phones, is that you can even take picture of Japanese text, it will read it and convert it to text, which you translate over the internet. WTF doesn't the rest of the world that this technology!?!?

Because "the rest of the world" doesn't have an Android phone yet?

If you do, just get the Barcode Scanner app and you're set.
Wanna read Japanese characters? Get Lliane Japan.

Unlimited calling is already possible on Android phones. As I already mentioned in another thread, there is now a free application called Crolix Communicator that allows free VoIP calls from one Android phone to another. It uses XMPP/Jingle to do that. Check it out, it's available on the Android Market: http://www.androlib.com/android.application.crolix-communicator-jADw.aspx/.

There is now a free application called Crolix Communicator that allows free VoIP calls from one Android phone to another. It uses XMPP/Jingle to do that. Check it out, it's available on the Android Market: http://www.androlib.com/android.application.crolix-communicator-jADw.aspx/.