Android apps touch the 20k mark (courtesy : androinica blog)

It is truly remarkable how popular has Android become. Its exceptional ability to welcome any application made for it is a very rare trait of a software.  Truly difficult is the numbers to count, but hats off to Android.com that monitored closely each application to the market to help us know the exact number of apps made for Android. Wait the story doesn’t end  here. Android has also revealed some statistics to make us realize how much devoted are people working for building new apps for Android with each passing day. Statistics declared a staggering 20,023 apps available for download. A very good news is that a majority of these apps are free to download. Actually you can download approximately 62.2 percent of the apps available for download and only 37.8 percent are to paid. For precise statistics click here. May you find the right app for your Android.

Android 2.0

Android 2.0

Android 2.0 has kept on the pace of adding new and exciting features that make this OS a sizzling commodity for palm top enthusiasts.

Contact features

• Multiple account addition with email and contact sync.
• Sync adapters to help developers create additional sources of data
• Easier & quick access to contacts then ever.

Email

• Supports exchange
• Multiple email accounts can be browsed through one page

Messaging

• SMS / MMS search ability
• Time limit setting to delete an old message after a predetermined time line is set for it.

Camera

• Built-in flash support
• Digital zoom
• Scene mode
• White balance
• Color effect
• Macro focus

Android virtual keyboard

• A new and improved key board version has been introduced to ease at the ergonomics
• Multi touch keypad support to ensure no letter misses when you type with two fingers
• Smart dictionary that learns from word usage and also suggests contact names automatically

Browser

• Easy to navigate and put in url browser for ultimate user experience
• Bookmarks web pages with thumb nails
• Built in support for HTML 5
• Supports API & SQL
• Has cache to support offline usage of applications
• Built in Geo location to provide information about the device’s location
• Supports <video> tag even at full screen resolutions

Calendar

• Provides infinite scrolling for agenda view
• Indicates attending status for each event
• Even invites guest to any event you want

Pure advanced technology features

• Better supported software infrastructure for accelerated graphics performance
• Blue tooth 2.1
• Two newly added blue truth profiles Object Push Profile (OPP) and Phone Book Access Profile (PBAP)