“We developed Trimble Outdoors for the G1 to give Android enthusiasts an easy, convenient and affordable solution for outdoor navigation,” said Rich Rudow, managing director, Trimble Outdoors. “With Trimble Outdoors, G1 users can harness the power of GPS right from their phone to make the most of their trip. And there’s less to pack because no other equipment is needed. Just grab your phone, head to the trail or waterway, and go.”

Trimble Outdoors allows users to get maps of their locations, track routes with a GPS breadcrumb trail, and mark and edit waypoints along the way. The application also features a digital compass displaying the user’s coordinates, speed and heading.

“For the Android phones – and the entire growing smartphone market – Wi-Fi is a key part of the user experience,” said Jonathan Mendelson, general manager of mobile and product management, Boingo Wireless. “With the fast Boingo network, you can now do more on your Android phone with faster uploads to YouTube and Picasa, quicker email downloads and a better Web experience with Wi-Fi speeds, wherever you are in the world.”

The Boingo application is available in the Android Market, and at http://www.boingo.com/download.

[via Android Community]

eBuddy for Android features include:

• eBuddy ID - one log-in to access all your favorite IM networks
• Ability to run in the background
• New message notifications in the Android status bar
• Emoticons for every IM network
• Buddy list grouping, profile viewing and account management
• Ability to receive offline messages
• Compatible with Android 1.1 and 1.5 (Cupcake)

“eBuddy Mobile Messenger has been downloaded over 20 million times and is one of the world’s fastest growing mobile IM services with over 5 million unique monthly users,” states Jan-Joost “JJ” Rueb, CEO and co-founder of eBuddy. “We believe the global market for Android-powered phones and applications is primed for exponential growth, and we’re excited to give eBuddy users and Android enthusiasts around the world access to eBuddy whenever and wherever they want!”

“In the rapidly expanding mobile marketplace Android is a great platform for USA TODAY,” said Matt Jones, vice president of mobile strategy and operations for Gannett Digital. “USA TODAY continues to develop innovative mobile products and services and the Android application is an excellent way to extend our reach to the latest emerging platforms.”

USA TODAY for Android offers the following features:

• Headlines - Browse and read stories from News, Money, Sports, Life, Tech and Travel. Articles can be shared via email, text message or Twitter, and are automatically saved for later reading.
• USA TODAY Snapshots - Scan through USA TODAY Snapshots, and vote on an interactive poll question for each. Review responses from all users and filter the results by state and city.
• Scores - Review the latest sports scores for NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL, college football and college basketball. College scores can be filtered down by conferences.
• Weather - Get current weather conditions, up-to-the minute regional radar and the five day forecast at your exact location via GPS. Review national weather maps including Doppler radar, temperature and precipitation forecasts.
• Photos - Flip through the day’s best images from news, sports, celebrities, science, travel and weather or play them back as a slideshow. Share favorite images with friends via email.

“With the Android platform quickly gaining popularity, it’s important that critical functionality for mobile users, such as document viewing, is developed,” said Gregg Fiddes, vice president of sales and strategic partnerships at Quickoffice. “We are excited to make this feature available to T-Mobile G1 users with the launch of our award-winning software. We’re committed to providing our office productivity solutions across leading smartphone operating systems, and look forward to launching more features and functionality for Android later this year.”

Quickoffice will be available in Android Market for an introductory price of $7.99. Visit http://www.quickoffice.com/quickoffice_android/ for more information

Using the Last.fm application, users can listen to streaming radio stations such as personal recommendations, similar artists, and genre-specific tracks. Users can also share tracks with their friends on Last.fm and stream other users’ stations. The new ‘Background Playback’ feature enables users to listen to Last.fm’s streaming music while accessing other programs, such as email, without interrupting the music experience.

Last.fm users can view an on-the-go version of their personal music profiles that includes mobile versions of Last.fm Charts page and Artist pages, with biographies, tags, similar artists and top listeners, all optimized for the Android platform. Users can access Last.fm’s Events listings to browse artists on tour, search for events, view Last.fm recommendations and view mapped directions to music venues.

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As well as being able to make low-cost international voice calls, Truphone customers can also easily Instant Message their friends across a variety of networks including MSN, Yahoo!, Google Talk and Twitter from within one Android application. Customers can also call friends anywhere in the world on Google Talk for the price of a local call, and similarly will soon will be able to Instant Message and call their friends on Skype.

“We want to make it as easy as possible for people to have conversations with their communities around the world in whatever form they choose,” said Truphone CEO Geraldine Wilson.

She continued: “We passionately believe in devices like the Android and iPhone which offer easy user access to applications through the Android Market and the App Store. The G1 and the entire Android platform is an obvious and important distribution channel for us.”

Truphone is now available on Android, the Apple iPhone, the Apple iPod touch, Blackberry and Nokia devices.

The Android version offers all the core Loopt features including background location updating which enables users to receive alerts when a friend is nearby. Users can also switch between map modes for a satellite view of their friend map or to monitor traffic delays. Beyond sharing their location and status information with friends via phones, Loopt users can also easily share their information with popular Web services such as Facebook, MySpace and Twitter or personal blogs and Web sites.

“From the start, our goal has been to build a ubiquitous interoperable network in which customers don’t have to worry about who has what provider or mobile device,” said Sam Altman, co-founder and CEO of Loopt. “This focus is combined with a commitment to delivering compelling consumer location services and effective privacy standards.”

[via Android Community]

Acting as a social network and instant messenger integrator, BuddyMob allows users to:

• Post a range of text and geo-tagged multimedia content to their live feed
• Simultaneously cross post to all their favourite social sites
• Keep up to date with friends’ live feeds from other social networks such as Twitter
• Chat to friends using the complete integration with instant messenger applications such as MSN and GoogleTalk
• Find out where friends are and what they are doing using GoogleMaps
• Receive location alerts when friends are close

Available on Android-enabled phones, BuddyMob currently integrates with Twitter, MSN, GoogleTalk and Jabber. The company is currently working on integrating other IM services and many more social networks such as AIM ahead of commercial deployment.

The Documents To Go mobile office suite will provide Android phone users with the ability to view, edit and create Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint files as well as view PDF files. The RoadSync application syncs with Outlook email, calendar, contacts and tasks using the Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync protocol.
No word yet on exactly what features if not all will be supported with Android.

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