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Here’s a brief review of all the Android-based games (and apps) I downloaded from the Android Market and tried while reviewing the T-Mobile G1 phone.

They are presented in alphabetical order to help make it easier to find in the Android Market. While a few are demos with fuller versions you can purchase,  all of these are free to download and try with most being free to keep. The applications are at the bottom of this post and I’ve taken screen shots of almost every game and app listed.

Click through for a list of 39 games and 10 applications for the T-Mobile G1 phone…

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Check out the gallery: Screen shots of games and applications on the T-Mobile G1 phone

Product: T-Mobile G1
Price: $179.99 ($399.99 minus $220 instant rebate)
Rating: One thumb up, one sideways; 81/100; B-; * * * out of five.
Pros: A great phone with lot of groovy uses. Mini trackball works wonderfully for games, decent graphics for a phone and nice sound. Also has motion-sensitive controls, touchscreen, mini keypad and GPS that can be incorporated into games. A lot of free games in the Android Market.
Cons: Touchscreen requires full finger pad contact and sometimes slow to respond. Accelerometer is touchy and mini keypad is hard to see. Battery can be exhausted fairly quickly.
Overall: Do not get this to use it as a game device. G1 owners will, however, enjoy many good and inexpensive games that make use of the mini trackball and proper use of the touchscreen, making it better than the average phone for mobile gaming.

The T-Mobile G1 is a mixed bag when it comes to mobile gaming. It’ll play all of the regular games but also promises so much more with the touchscreen, accelerometer motion controls, built-in mini QWERTY keypad and mini track ball. While it’s certainly better than your average cell phone when it comes to gaming, it still has a few annoyances that keep it from being truly amazing.

Click through for the full review…

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Check out the gallery: T-Mobile G1 Photos

When Google unveiled Lively to the masses, they made clear that the reason for its launch was to allow players to meet new people and experience new means for online expression.

That project sounded eerily similar to that other online space, Second Life, and if one were to observe the two side by side, the resemblances between the two would be near uncanny.

However, unlike Second Life, a project whose continued existence continues to affirm that people enjoy escaping reality, Google’s Lively project is now considered dead, to be effective December 2008…

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FROM GADGETELL - Every little bit helps when it comes to saving the planet.  Go green with Ecorio, an application for Google Android that calculates your mobile carbon footprint.
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Google and T-Mobile let the world oogle its newest creation today (September 23, 2008), the T-Mobile G1, the first Android-enabled phone with (according to the press release) “full touch-screen functionality and a QWERTY keyboard with a mobile Web experience that includes the popular Google products.“ It’s obviously meant to compete with the iPhone but, then again, what new cell phone isn’t?

Also according to T-Mobile’s press release, the Andorid phone will offer gaming capabilities but specifics - game buttons, game titles, developers, etc. - have not yet been officially announced.

PCMag does point out that there are currently 8 games that can run on Android currently available in the Android Market…

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FROM GADGETELL - The US has been having tough times lately on Wall Street.  Meanwhile, it’s rumored that the “tech giants” may not be following suit (that’s a good thing).  Google, Microsoft, and IBM are expected to report their second quarter (Q2) 2008 earnings later today… MORE »

Google is everywhere, and it is only growing. Its next step is video game consoles/handhelds - but wait! It’s already on its way! The official Playstation.Blog has announced that version 4.00 of the PSP firmware is on the way, and it will include a Google internet search option in the XrossMediaBar (XMB).

So if you want to search for or see a webpage, you won’t have to go to the PSP browser and type in “www.google.com” or whatever the web address is. You can just go to the Google Search icon, type in what you want to find and then search. For people who absolutely hate having to type in web addresses in the PSP’s browser, this new addition will make things marginally easier. It also remembers your last 20 searches, so you can search through those instead of re-entering information.

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On January 30, 2008, Microsoft offered Yahoo Inc. $44.6 billion to merge both internet companies according to a story published in Reuters.

By merging, the businesses will be able to compete with the current popular web company Google Inc. According to Game Daily writer James Brightman, this would be the biggest merger since Time Warner Cable and America Online in 2000.

Apparently, Microsoft offered Yahoo $31 per share in cash and stock, which means that in return, Yahoo would agree to allow Microsoft to dominate the banner ads often used by corporate brand advertisements, which are known to attract up to 500 million visitors to the site. Yahoo and Microsoft are popularly used for their headline and financial news, sports and entertainment; but as far as a search engine, more people use Google.

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Google announced yesterday (July 18, 2007) that it plans to market advertisement space in web based games and later on in PC and console based games. The announcement was part of this week’s Casual Connect game convention in Seattle. Google also put to rest rumors that they would be entering into any other sector of the video game industry. The in-game advertising will be handled by the company recently acquired by Google, Adscape Media.

I won’t beat around the bush here - I think this is a terrible idea. Advertising is what ruined radio and now it looks like…

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