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Zillow launches new Android real estate app tomorrow

Zillow.com, “the leader in mobile real estate” will be launching a US real estate searching app that uses GPS to pinpoint consumers position and provide information about local homes. The application shows an aerial view  of home price estimates, homes for rent, homes that were recently purchased, and much more. Zillow says that their iPhone [...]

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Android apps don’t make money…except for one that’s bringing in $13k a month

The Android Market has a negative reputation for providing economic rewards, but one developer has found a way to secure a few bucks – $13,000 a month. Edward Kim created Car Locator as a side project while vacationing with family. His app records and navigates back to GPS location of a car, and originally earned about [...]

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Tips: Here’s a much easier way to control Google Voice depending on location

The Android world was abuzz yesterday with a tutorial to have Google Voice know which phones to ring depending on location. The tutorial had a great premise but was flawed by its set-up and dependence on Locale. Though I’ve loved Locale since its inception and considered it to be a top Android app, it now [...]

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Garmin-Asus Android phone is a GPS device that happens to have a phone

Garmin-Asus has done the “we’re coming to Android” dance for more than a year, but the music has finally stopped with the announcement of the Garmin-Asus Nuvifone A50. Centered on GPS navigation and location-based services, The A50 is the first Android-powered phone from the Garmin and ASUSTek joint venture. The A50 features turn-by-turn directions and voice [...]

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Nav4All shuts down, provides warning sign to developers

Nav4All is dead; at least for the foreseeable future. The multi-platform, multi-language, navigation software with 27.5 million users in 56 languages has to stop working after 5 years of operation. The app has earned more than 250,000 downloads in the Android Market, but all of those users will have to switch to a new navigation [...]

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Motorola’s Motoroi Coming To U.S. In March

It looks like the Droid will soon be replaced as Motorola’s best Android phone because the feature-rich Motoroi is expected to hit the U.S. market in March. The handset is essentially a keyboard-less Droid with an 8-megapixel camera and a Xenon flash. The promo video (embedded below) indicates it has a touch-to-focus ability, and the [...]

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Geodelic releases app to more users, aims to be YouTube of geo-content

Geodelic, makers of the popular Android app Sherpa, have announced that a similar version of their flagship app is now available as “Geodelic” to Android phones. Previously an exclusive to the T-Mobile-tied G1 and myTouch, Geodelic is open to Android and iPhone users on multiple carriers in multiple nations. The “Sherpa” name will continue to [...]

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Android Apps Alert 12: Search and speak in a slow week

Looking for the best Android apps? Good luck finding them on your own. But if you do stumble across apps people will love, let the world know. Androinica.com encourages users to tweet great apps with the #androidapps tag on Twitter, and we plan to incorporate that into our weekly notifications of new, updated, or recommended [...]

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NDrive launches Android GPS app with turn-by-turn navigation

The Android GPS navigation market is becoming a crowded field, and NDrive has announced that it has will join the crowd with the release of its app into the Android Market. Previously seen on iPhones, NDrive has debuted on the Android Market to compete with Google Maps Navigator and several other GPS apps. NDrive provides turn-by-turn [...]

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Waze launches new holiday contest, language feature, and Foursquare support

I’ve always been impressed by the way that Waze has turned its GPS app into a game. They’ve held several contests and games designed to encourage people to drive around and gather road data, strengthening the driver-sourced maps along the way. Today, Waze added another game for the holiday season, along with support for new [...]

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