All the apps can be downloaded via the Android Market.

• Automatic Task Killer: Automatically kills persistent tasks that pop up when you screen is off. Reduces plenty of battery life.

Social Networking

• Seesmic: One of the best Twitter apps around. Seesmic just edges out Twidroid, which is also a fine app on its own for Twitter.
• Facebook for Android: Installed by default to access Facebook, what else?
• PingDroid: Uses the ping.fm service and is extremely useful for posting status updates to your Facebook & Twitter accounts simultaneously
• foursquare: foursquare is a location-based social networking service that allows you to check-in to the places you are at & find out where your friends are, what they are recommending and so forth.

Games

• Bebbled: Click to remove bubbles of the same colour!
• Jewels: This is the closest you can get to Bejeweled on Android. Absolute must have till Popcap realizes that Android users cannot be ignored.

I’m sorry I don’t have more games to recommend – gaming on phones have never been my thing… give me a proper controller anytime!

Music

• Shazam: Never ever knew what was that lovely tune you always hear on the radio? Shazam tells you what is the song; I’ve found countless classics with it!
• mSpot: Sharing your music library on the Cloud comes true with mSpot. Now you can bring your music out without even plugging your phone to your computer!

Google Buzz for Mobile is available if you visit http://buzz.google.com on your iPhone or Android phone, and once again Google has given first priority by updating Google Maps. Google Maps 4.0 for Android was released just after news of Buzz broke, and now supports Buzz and is available in the Android market.

Personally, I haven’t had the opportunity to see it in my Gmail yet, and Google is promising to roll it out in the next few days: “We’re still rolling out Buzz to everyone, so if you don’t see it in your Gmail account yet, check back soon.” Trying it out on my Nexus One, my initial thoughts were – it’s Twitter with location-based enabled (something Twitter has already run tests on), albeit one with a poorer connection and that I couldn’t find anyone nearby (!) Therefore, insufficient reason to use it unless you have friends all using it too, which is all the more unlikely when most of them would be on Facebook or Twitter instead.

Let’s just hope it doesn’t fall into gutter as did Google Wave (where at one point of time a Wave invite could have drawn US$2).

About Google Buzz
Google Buzz is a social integration tool by Google, designed to integrate into the company’s web-based email program, Gmail. Shared links and messages show up in users’ inboxes. Buzz focuses on integrating photos, videos, and links as part of the “conversations” aspects of Gmail like conversation threading. Buzz allows users to choose to share publicly with the world or privately to a small group of friends each time they post. Buzz is currently integrated with Picasa, Flickr, Google Reader, and Twitter.

Personally, having tested it on my Nexus One, it’s a breeze to use. It allows for moderation of comments, basic editing of posts, adding new posts, etc. Simply put, it does what it needs to do for someone maintaining a blog on the go.

It is currently available in the Android Market, search for “WordPress” or scan the image below using a QR scanner on your Android phone.

Features include the ability to:

• Configure and manage multiple blogs
• Comment moderation including the ability to reply to comments
• Create and Edit Posts including categories, tags and photos
• Create and Edit Pages
• Get notified of new comments in the Android notification bar

Users of the popular wpToGo app for Android will feel right at home in WordPress for Android 1.0, as the source from wpToGo has been used as the foundation for the WordPress app. wpToGo will be discontinued as all development efforts move forward with the Open Source WordPress for Android app.

1. Search for ‘Pinyin IME’ in the official android market and install it.
2. Goto Settings > Language & Keyboard > Tick Google Pinyin
3. When composing message or email, long press in the context area
4. Edit text > Input method; select the Google Pinyin input method
5. 你现在可以开始用 中文写作!