GDocs approximates the original formatting of documents.

Since Android is a Google product, the absence of an app for viewing and editing documents and spreadsheets from Google Docs would just be wrong. That’s where Art Wild’s GDocs comes in, allowing users to view spreadsheets and to create, edit and view word processor documents from their Google Docs account.

When you’re viewing a document or spreadsheet, a reasonable approximation of the original formatting is preserved (considering the small screen); editing is strictly text-only, though.

While you probably won’t want to write your life story on your phone’s tiny thumb-board, you can probably touch up that report for work or write up some notes for that short story you’ve been mulling over.

Imeem Mobile

Imeem Mobile offers a variety of ways to listen to music.

You can play music off your phone’s SD card or stream music over the Internet with Imeem’s mobile player.

Imeem offers several ways to listen once you’ve created a free user account: Upload tracks from your computer and listen to them under the “My Music” tab, create on-the-fly radio stations from music similar to your favorite artists using the “Search” function, or listen to featured stations put together by Imeem’s staff and other users.

The best part? Imeem will continue to play in the background while you use other applications.

Locale

Much more than a simple location-based app, Locale from Two Forty Four A.M. LLC is a scriptable, location-aware settings manager. This may not sound all that exciting, but don’t let its simplicity fool you.

Defining a condition that will trigger an action with Locale.

With Locale, you can set up conditions that trigger user-defined actions — for example, automatically dimming the screen when the battery gets below 20%, or texting your friends when you get to a specific location, or turning off the ringer at specific times of day.

A wide range of triggering events are available — battery level, dates, times, GPS coordinates and calls from specific people can all be used. Settings or events that can be triggered include pop-up notifications, turning Wi-Fi or Bluetooth off or on, sounding a chosen ringtone, sending a text message or tweet, lowering or raising the volume, or even changing the home screen’s wallpaper.

Some third-party programs even integrate with Locale, increasing the available options — for example, a to-do list program could make your shopping list available whenever you go by the store.

Twidroid

The king of the Twitter apps for Android is Twidroid.

It seems like every platform has a half-dozen Twitter clients these days, but on Android, Twidroid from Ralph Zimmerman and Thomas Marban is the reigning king.

In addition to the usual ability to send tweets, view replies and direct messages, and follow or unfollow people, Twidroid integrates with Android’s browser so you can tweet links to pages you find interesting; captures GPS information to tweet your location or to geotag tweeted photos; and offers a selection of URL shortening and photo hosting services.

It’s all wrapped up in a clean and stylish interface that’s easy and fun to use.

iMusic

Do you happen to listen to a lot of music while you’re on the move? Sure it your battery will be depleted faster but you can always carry that charger with you at all times and recharge the phone at the office. And you should consider getting an extra battery too especially since we’re just about to show you a music-related application for Android phones.

i Music brings you unlimited music to your Android device. You can choose between various genres and browse through a few million songs until you find your favorite tracks. The app will even let you stream your favorite music so you won’t have to download it right away. Just make sure you have an unlimited data plan available so you won’t have to pay extra for listening to the tracks you love!

Google Mobile

Google Mobile provides easy access to Gmail, Picasa, Google Maps, Google Sync and more.

Access the entire suite of Google’s mobile-friendly services in one place with Google Mobile. A single interface gives you one-stop access to Google’s Gmail and Maps applications (the latter of which can integrate with your built-in GPS tool, if your BlackBerry has one).

It also includes links to Web services including search, Google News, Google Reader, Google Docs (which is read-only on mobile devices), Picasa photos, and your Google Notebook, all of which open in your BlackBerry’s built-in Web browser. Google Mobile also includes the Google Sync service, which allows two-way synchronization between your BlackBerry’s built-in calendar and the Web-based Google Calendar.

TuneWiki

TuneWiki shows you song lyrics as the song is playing.TuneWiki is a replacement for Android’s built-in media player, offering a number of nice features. Most notable is the lyric scroll, which pulls lyrics off the Internet and scrolls them along with the song.

Other features include integrated Last.fm and Shoutcast radio streaming, YouTube video search, and community features like popular song lists and “music maps” that let you see where people are listening to the same song you are.

Facebook
A smartphone is not complete without a Facebook app. The Facebook-sponsored application offers a lot of features. You can do almost everything on the Android app that’s possible on the full version of the site. What’s cool is that you can even add a notification widget to your home screen.

Fring
Fring is a must-have Instant Messaging (IM) app that you can use to chat with your whether they are on Yahoo Messenger, AIM, Google Talk, MSN Messenger, and other supported protocols.

Evernote
One of my favorite iPhone apps has come to Android. Evernote is not your ordinary note-taking application as it will let you sync text, photos, audios, and files across different operating system  minus the hassles.

HTC has just issued a press release about that giant patent lawsuit Apple has filed against them. There’s no details yet on how exactly they’re going to respond legally, but from a PR perspective the key points are that they “disagree with Apple’s actions” (uh, duh?) and will “fully defend itself.”

“HTC disagrees with Apple’s actions and will fully defend itself. HTC strongly advocates intellectual property protection and will continue to respect other innovators and their technologies as we have always done, but we will continue to embrace competition through our own innovation as a healthy way for consumers to get the best mobile experience possible,” said Peter Chou, chief executive officer, HTC Corporation.

HTC then delves into their storied history with smartphones, laying claim to a long list of firsts in the smartphone world that seem to be more about re-establishing their cred as innovators and not copiers than about hints at what sorts of patents they might counter-sue with. They note that they started designing the XDA back in 1999 and have delivered over 50 different smartphones to date. In other words, HTC has been in this game longer than Apple has and they won’t let some pesky lawsuit prevent them from continuing to innovate.

Full press release after the break.

HTC DISAGREES WITH APPLE’S ACTIONS

Seattle – March 17, 2010 – HTC Corporation today outlined its disagreement with Apple’s legal actions and reiterated its commitment to creating a portfolio of innovative smartphones that gives consumers a variety of choices. Founded in 1997 with a passion for innovation and a vision for how smartphones would change people’s lives, HTC has continually driven this vision by consistently introducing award-winning smartphones with U.S. mobile operators.

“HTC disagrees with Apple’s actions and will fully defend itself. HTC strongly advocates intellectual property protection and will continue to respect other innovators and their technologies as we have always done, but we will continue to embrace competition through our own innovation as a healthy way for consumers to get the best mobile experience possible,” said Peter Chou, chief executive officer, HTC Corporation. “From day one, HTC has focused on creating cutting-edge innovations that deliver unique value for people looking for a smartphone. In 1999 we started designing the XDA

The O2 XDA by HTC was the first 3.5-inch color touch screen smartphone in the world in 2002. and T-Mobile Pocket PC Phone Edition The T-Mobile Pocket PC Phone Edition by HTC was the first 3.5-inch color touch screen smartphone in the United States in 2002., our first touch-screen smartphones, and they both shipped in 2002 with more than 50 additional HTC smartphone models shipping since then.”

The industry has recognized HTC’s contributions through a variety of awards including Fast Company’s 2010 Top 50 Most Innovative Companies and MIT Technology Review’s 2010 50 Most Innovative Companies. The GSMA also recently awarded the HTC Hero as the “Best Phone of 2009.” Some of HTC’s technology firsts include:

• First Windows PDA (1998)
• First Windows Phone (June 2002)
• First 3G CDMA EVDO smartphone (October 2005)
• First gesture-based smartphone (June 2007)
• First Google Android smartphone (October 2008)
• First 4G WIMAX smartphone (November 2008)

In 2009, HTC launched its branded user experience, HTC Sense. HTC Sense is focused on putting people at the center by making phones work in a more simple and natural way. This experience was fundamentally based on listening and observing how people live and communicate.

“HTC has always taken a partnership-oriented, collaborative approach to business. This has led to long-standing strategic partnerships with the top software, Internet and wireless technology companies in the industry as well as the top U.S., European and Asian mobile operators,” said Jason Mackenzie, vice president of HTC America. “It is through these relationships that we have been able to deliver the world’s most diverse series of smartphones to an even more diverse group of people around the world, recognizing that customers have very different needs.”

For more information on HTC’s history of innovation, please visit: www.htc.com/history.

About HTC

HTC Corporation (HTC) is one of the fastest growing companies in the mobile phone industry. By putting people at the center of everything it does, HTC creates innovative smartphones that better serve the lives and needs of individuals. For more information about HTC, please visit www.htc.com.

Nexus One from Google Coming to Sprint; Availability Date Announced Soon – Press Release

Sprint is continuing to improve their line-up of Android powered devices. This will make the third official Android device in their arsenal, behind the HTC Hero and Samsung Moment. Rumors are, of course, that at least two more phones may come this year. One with WiMax.

This year is shaping up to be an explosion of handsets on multiple carriers which should be reason for excitement. Competition is always good in the market place. As more carriers introduce the Nexus One, it will be a great look at how the same phone delivers and performs on various networks.

So, Sprint customers, are you getting this phone when it comes out? Or do you wait it out for the “Supersonic” or “Legend/Hero2″?

FAQ:
Q: It inserts ‘?’ instead of characters to the SMS
A: Go to options-sms and change encoding from 7bit to SC2. Unless you’re on CDMA version. CDMA SMS is very limited and does not support unicode unfortunately though email/pin and other will work.

Q: Can I have more symbols
A: You have to install “East Asian Language and Input Support” in bb desktop manager.
Those Asian fonts have all unicode characters required. This applies to 5.0 OS mostly. Older devices may lack some symbols.

Q: Why cannot I see colored smiles introduced in v2.0
A: Those colored smiles works exclusively in BlackBerry Messenger 5.0.0.57 so make sure you update your BBM first if needed.

to trial version download

Features:

• Integrates to any application
• Several categorized tabs for easy characters access
• 250+ Colored Smiles (BBM5)
• 200+ Country Flags support (BBM5)

Minimum Requirements:

• OS 4.2.1

Display Dimensions
240×240, 240×260, 240×320, 320×240, 360×480, 480×320, 480×360
Operating System
4.2, 4.3, 4.5, 4.6, 4.7 Non-Touch, 4.7 Touch Screen, 5.0 Non-Touch, 5.0 Touch Screen

Hootsuite, one of the most recent Twitter clients to come to Android, just announced it acquired the Swift Twitter app. Many users noticed the interface of Hootsuite to be quite similar to Swift App, for those that have used both clients, so the acquisition doesn’t come as an extreme surprise to most. With the developer on board fully now, hopefully we will continue to see updates to the application, and see what other features they are able to incorporate.

While Hootsuite is slightly more geared towards a business type feel with scheduled tweets and a few of there other features, Swifts simple yet feature-loaded interface is one that many are sure to prefer. [HootSuite via Android Guys]