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In Pictures: 15 Killer Android Apps for the G1

If Google wants its Android-based phones to unseat Apple's iPhone as the top touch-screen handsets, it will have to offer cool apps. On the G1, T-Mobile customers will be the first to check out about 50 available applications. T-Mobile says that all apps are free until 2009. Here's a look at some of them.

Tom Spring, PC World

G1 Turns a Cell Phone Into Geeky Golf Gear

Golfing gear just became more phone friendly, with the debut of the GolfPlay Android application. Using the G1's GPS mapping technology, GolfPlay can display a 2D map overview of courses as you play on them. It also allows you to access historical data such as course scoring and the distance between holes. GolfPlay creates a social network that you can join to exchange course impressions and scores.

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Launch of the Android Era

Launch of the Android Era

With T-Mobile's G1 phone now on sale and applications for Android available, the iPhone has some real competition.

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