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Rovio have posted a quick video of their excellent game, Angry Birds running on Android (A Motorola Milestone to be exact).

Angry birds is one of my favourite games on the iPhone/iPod touch and it’s great to see it coming to Android. A must buy for anyone with an Android handset!

Opera’s bandwith saving browser has been approved by Apple and is now availabe for download.

The browser connects to Opera’s servers which compresses websites server side and the compressed site is sent to the phone.

This can result in vastly improved browsing speeds when browsing using a slower GPRS or Edge connection and even helps full on 3g connections!

Available now in the Apple app store.

I saw this app mentioned in the comments of an article recently and the comment sparked my interest when it said that bTunes was just like the iPod app from the iPod touch and iPhone.
In the video below you can see the similarities between the two.

Its pretty good but is missing things like coverflow. One useful enhancement it has is the ability to go to the next or previous track by simply swiping on the album art left or right or double tapping on the album art to pause and resume playback.

It also features a homescreen widget and lockscreen controls so you have plenty of ways to control playback. A good app overall and it is available on the android market.
Sources: bTunes, Android Market

Opera today have submitted their iPhone version of Opera Mini to Apple for approval on the app store and have posted a video of the advantages of their server side compression at work on an EDGE connection.

With an impressive 5 pages loaded to Safari’s one page on EDGE, it really does show how the browser will benefit those with low signal. Opera have aslo posted a competition where you can guess the approval date and the closest guess will win an iPhone! Some are seeing this as Opera putting pressure on Apple to approve it swiftly and to stop them from denying it altogether as Apple will undoubtedly get some bad press if it is rejected for a trivial reason.

Head on over to the competition page (if you hadn’t earlier) to submit your guess to try and win an iPhone 3G

Source: Opera

Here is an interesting keyboard replacement for Android, it’s called ThickButtons and it dynamically changes expected keypresses to fatter keys.

It’s not a bad keyboard replacement and works quite well but I did feel I was a little slower when typing as I had to adjust to the moving keys as they enlarged.

The app is available on the Anrdoid Market for free. Scan the QR code below or search for “thickbuttons” on the Market.

Source: AndroidGuys

I’ve just uploaded a video of Raging Thunder 2 racing game from Polarbit running on the Nexus One.

It’s the best Android game I’ve seen so far and plays really well! It’s available on both Apple’s App Store and the Android Market.

More: Raging Thunder II

Yesterday, the BBC announced that they are to release an application on three different smartphone platforms.

Core public services BBC News and BBC Sport to be repurposed for a wide range of smartphones, including iPhone, Blackberry and Android mobiles

The BBC today announced that it is to offer a new range of applications that will deliver BBC Online services to a range of mobile devices

The apps will be released on the iPhone in April with BlackBerry and android applications to follow on later in the year.

Sources: Phandroid, BBC Press Release

AndroidTapp have posted an entry about a very clever way to offer their weather channel application on the Android Market.

QR code on the bottom left

More info in the link below!

Source: AndroidTapp

An official WordPress app is now available on the Android Market.
It’s based on wpTOgo (an app I posted about before). I’ll be giving it a good testing as I post more content here. This is my first post on the app if you’re interested and it is working fine on my Archos 5 so far.

More info in the article below with download links too!

Source: Phandroid