Digital Trends

If getting a phone without any third-party applications is like getting a toy without batteries, then Google’s Android Developer Challenge was like giving onlookers handfuls of sweet, sweet AAs and nothing to put them in. Developers turned out in drove to delivers scores of creative, interesting and sometimes off-the-wall applications for an operating system that didn’t even exist on any commercial phones yet. But now that the first Android-based phone, the T-Mobile G1, is just around the corner, we revisited their creations to whet our appetites. Here are the top 10 upcoming Android apps we can’t wait to load up on the G1:

10. Beetaun

Ever stumble upon a hidden gem in your city that’s just begging to be discovered? Beetaun allows users to tag locations around a city, then browse through maps of what other people have found interesting. Unlike GPS units where points of interest are stores and other brick-and-mortar locales, Beetaun tags could be anything from a particularly picturesque viewpoint, to a farmer’s market, to a story about something that happened at a place. We dig the off-beat possibilities. (link)