After months of lagging behind Apple and Nokia, Google’s mobile operating system Android is finally playing catch up by offering Facebook and Pandora Apps on the Android Market. These two high-profile applications should help Android gain some lost ground in the smartphone scene.
The Facebook application will finally let Android users use the massively popular social networking platform to interact with their friends. Users can now view their news feeds, write on their friends’ walls, upload photos, and most other things they can do with Facebook on PC’s. In addition, Android users can also add a Facebook widget on their home screens that lets them directly call their Facebook friends who have their phone numbers on their profiles.
Facebook claims that it has over 65 million mobile users, and the number is expected to rise as mobile phones continue to gain popularity as stand-alone computing devices.
The popular radio application Pandora also made it to the Android Market this week, and it gives Android phones a potential edge over Apple’s iPhone in the sense that it can run in the background. Android users can now listen to music tracks categorized by artist or genre, and even give tracks a “thumbs up” or “thumbs down.” The Pandora application is free for Android users, but the application is only available in the United States.
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