First, a recap: Google has been building a mobile-phone team ever since the acquisition of mobile-gadget developer Android in 2005.

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Android app developer TuneMe has used mobile signup ads to build an email database of app users to promote and cross sell their apps.

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As a mobile app developer I love my android device and use android over apple however I develop more for apple then I do for android.

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In July, I wrote about one part of this evolution where mobile games developer Social Gaming Network launched the first game ever to let iPhone and Android users play each other in real-time.

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He has spent the past month racing to finish an application for Google's Android Developer Challenge--a contest to build cool programs that will run on the nascent mobile platform.

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