Coinciding with T-Mobile G1’s beginning of shipment is the launch of the Android Market that’s Google’s version of the Apple App Store. The Android Market will sell applications for the Google Android operating system, of course, that will no longer be mean just the G1 in the near future.

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At the BlackBerry Developer Conference, RIM announced a number of things including the release of developer tools for BlackBerry applications and, of course, the launch date for the Application Storefront.

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The new version of RIM developer tools and simulators for the company’s newest products—the Bold, the Storm, and the Pearl Flip—are now available. The BlackBerry Java Development Environment v4.7 can now be downloaded from the official BlackBerry website.

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There are so many feature-rich phones these days that it’s hard to decide which one to get. A tactic used by companies to sell is to encourage the development of application native to their device so that people would be encouraged to buy them. The perfect example would be, of course, Apple’s iPhone App Store.

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At the CTIA 2008 trade show, RIM announced a glut of new applications the company has christened “lifestyle apps.” These new apps perhaps demonstrate the Canadian company’s efforts to compete with the iPhone head-on.

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It’s not like Windows Mobile users have a hard time finding apps for their handsets. After all, with around 20,000 apps floating around, several merchants are out there selling them. Microsoft’s mistake, however, is not capitalizing on these applications.

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The very first Google Android device is yet to be released, and even now, although we know it to be the HTC Dream, details are still cloaked in secrecy. Nevertheless, with this announcement, we’re hopeful that the launch of the first Google Android phone will be right on track; that is sometime later this year.

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A rumor debunked? I think not. A few days ago, news circulated that Apple has the power to switch off applications (which they’ve already paid for) from people’s iPhone 3Gs, if they deem the apps malicious. It didn’t take long for the “rumor” to be debunked. But guess what—Steve himself confirmed what’s now termed as the “kill switch.”

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If you’ve been buying applications from the App Store ’til now, better hope Apple doesn’t consider it anything bad or risk getting it wiped out of your phone. Yep, an issue raised recently has something to do with Apple erasing already installed applications on working Apple iPhone 3G units.

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At the recently concluded WWDC 2008, Wall Street analyst Gene Munster interviewed a few app developers subsequent to the announcement of the 3G iPhone. Half of Munster’s interviewees said they’re going to focus on developing apps solely for the iPhone and the iPod Touch.

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