According to engadgetmobile.com there’s a new release of the Android SDK available v0.9 so whats next 1.0 ? Usually 1.0 means We are out of beta version. Some of the changes are adding a new widgetified (big old clock: present!) and flickable homescreen, a handy (and speedy) tab to pull up your apps, plus a media player, camera, and handful of other noticeable design tweaks. Android have never looked so promising

Have a look for yourself @ the video.

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HTC’s Android-based Dream phone may not support push-based work mail or ship as soon as expected, according to electronista.com. The device only supports push e-mail through Google’s own Gmail service and that support for Microsoft’s Exchange service isn’t known at the moment.

The phone may take advantage of Google’s dominance of web advertising to lower the cost of the device; those who volunteer to allow ads on their phone may see discounts either on the initial cost of the device or for their monthly subscription fees. These customers will see ads that are based not only on interests revealed through apps but also through the phone’s location. They also suggest the handset may not be available until near the Thanksgiving in November.

Source : electronista.com

The long rumored HTC Dream aka “The Googlephone” or “The Gphone” received FCC approval. The handset is listed as type, “Dream’ with a model of “DREA100″ it also appears with a WiFi Interoperability Certificate touting 802.11b/g WiFi. If indeed this is the long awaited Android phone, then T-Mobile, HTC, and Google are free to announce in September with an October launch as originally planned.
Source : engadgetmobile.com

T-Mobile will be the first carrier to offer a mobile phone powered by Google’s Android. The phone’s release date depends on how soon the FCC certifies that the Google software and the HTC phone meet network standards. Executives at all three companies are hoping to announce the phone in September. The deal is expected to be exclusive making it the only Android phone available in the US this year.

Source : nytimes.com

XLive is a 3-in-1 Internet tool. It has an integrated RSS reader, multi-protocol messenger as well as email client with SSL support. XLive has a launcher where you can select one of three featured modules.

XLive features:
* Chating withs friend using different protocols (ICQ, GTalk).
* Reading news via RSS feeds.
* Sending and reading e-mails via IMAP, POP3, SMTP and SSL protocols.

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Scrambled Net is a port of the KDE game “knetwalk”. Scrambled Net detects the screen size of the device it’s running in, and configures the board appropriately. Portrait and landscape phones are handled automatically. Tile rotation is smoothly animated; highlighted tiles show the user’s progress.

The game is designed to be usable with 12-key keypad or QWERTY keypad, or by tapping the screen.

The game has 5 difficulty levels; the first 3 use different board sizes; then wrap-around is introduced for “Master” level; then “Insane” level adds invisible cells. In case you’re wondering, yes, I can solve “Insane” puzzles, usually in 10-12 minutes on a large (HVGA) phone.

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SeaThreePO utilizes Google’s GTalk translation bots to provide a simple translation service. As the author says “Its translations aren’t great, but would probably do in a pinch. They’ll likely improve as Google improves its translation bots”.
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Android Blackjack by Kenneth Riggio is a variation of the most popular casino card games in the world to the Android mobile platform. The author ported this program in attempt to learn about the new mobile platform. Thus there are some exceptions popping here and there, but it’s rather playable.

Blackjack (also known as Twenty-one, Vingt-et-un (French for Twenty-one), or Pontoon) is one of the most popular casino card games in the world. Much of blackjack’s popularity is due to the mix of chance with elements of skill, and the publicity that surrounds card counting (keeping track of which cards have been played since the last shuffle). More about the game and the rules you can learn from Wikipedia.

There is also a Spanish version of the game available. It was translated by Spanish enthusiast as the author provided the sources.
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CurrencyViewer is an Android application, which is intended to reflect the most current state of currency exchange market. It is not only a converter of currencies, but is also the full source of information which is presented in a convenient way to the mobile user. It is able to obtain current currency rates from the selected web-source and then display the rates of selected currencies to the user. It is handy once you have selected the currencies you need rates for against the chosen base currency – you do this setup only once and then just continue using that profile to view new rates. The application is able to store settings for several profiles, so that it would be convenient for you to switch between different sources, base currencies and sets of selected currencies to view rates for.

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TwitterDroid 0.1.2 lets you read and publish to your Twitter, it’s a kind of port of Twitterific, the excellent application for MacOS X. TwitterDroid 0.1.2 is an early alpha stage software but it’s already functional — you can read the latest 20 tweets from your friends and publish a post to your own timeline. The app still lacks configuration, robustness and notifications. Anyway. it’s worth trying.

Features
* Log into any Twitter account and save preferences
* Display expanded tweets of your friends timeline
* Post a tweet to your timeline
* Display a waiting spinner when sending and fetching tweets
* Refresh the tweet list
* Catch connection errors and display an alert
* Use the black theme of Android

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