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That's precisely the issue. Things like this and the brilliant "turn the phone over to mute it" and "shake the phone while locked to view a text, then shake again to lock it" are simply to brilliant and obvious at the same time to put together for most of us. At this point, "...we don't know what is..." more obvious and brilliant than these things, but hopefully this platform will continue to deliver the obvious and yet make the developers some money for Cheetos, or whatever these freaks eat. :-)]]>Aug 29th 2008 12:52AMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/08/29/android-developer-challenge-winners-announced/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/08/29/android-developer-challenge-winners-announced/Aug 29th 2008 2:40AMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/08/29/android-developer-challenge-winners-announced/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/08/29/android-developer-challenge-winners-announced/Aug 29th 2008 4:21AMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/08/29/android-developer-challenge-winners-announced/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/08/29/android-developer-challenge-winners-announced/Aug 29th 2008 10:05AMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/08/29/android-developer-challenge-winners-announced/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/08/29/android-developer-challenge-winners-announced/http://code.google.com/android/adc_gallery/]]>Aug 29th 2008 11:00AMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/08/29/android-developer-challenge-winners-announced/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/08/29/android-developer-challenge-winners-announced/Aug 29th 2008 11:33AMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/08/29/android-developer-challenge-winners-announced/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/08/29/android-developer-challenge-winners-announced/Aug 29th 2008 11:09AMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/08/29/android-developer-challenge-winners-announced/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/08/29/android-developer-challenge-winners-announced/
Maybe they'll get prices form other application users, a'la GasBuddy, which would be fine, but restrict that functionality to popular items at popular stores. ]]>Aug 29th 2008 5:57PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/08/29/android-developer-challenge-winners-announced/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/08/29/android-developer-challenge-winners-announced/Aug 29th 2008 11:31AMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/08/29/android-developer-challenge-winners-announced/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/08/29/android-developer-challenge-winners-announced/
It's killing me that it's not out yet.
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Well, I still do have at least one more idea that might be feasible although with not as much usage as Locale.]]>Aug 29th 2008 4:10PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/08/29/android-developer-challenge-winners-announced/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/08/29/android-developer-challenge-winners-announced/
The plug-in would be like a database of places for "recommended" changes of settings. For instance, if you were to go to see an Opera, your phone would automatically know that it is recommended to put your phone on silent, or even to be turned off. The administration of these settings would have be centralized and somebody would have to administer it, but I think it would be pretty cool and a good extension of the program functionality. There could even be different levels of recommendations (like a top level could be trusted) that a user can then select which ones to apply automatically.]]>Aug 29th 2008 4:16PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/08/29/android-developer-challenge-winners-announced/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/08/29/android-developer-challenge-winners-announced/http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/06/12/0310200&from=rss).

I agree, CompareEverywhere & GoCart are too similar. Also, Marvin (www.marvinreloaded.com) looks like an awesome app that encompasses most of the ones in the top20, but unfortunately didn't make top20.

SplashPlay (www.splashplay.mobi) also looks like a very real solution to the problem of wanting to learn any instruments and would give Guitar Hero a run for their money. Looks like google withdrew BlueTooth support, so that may explain their final placing.

Perhaps the next $5Mill round will showcase even better apps once the SDK becomes stable.

p.s. i think CompareEverywhere runs scripts to crawl key sites for relevant data, so you're ma 'n pop shop selling a tin of beans, won't be accessible, not until RFID tags linked to a community server of sorts, becomes reality.

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