Vodacom is offering the Sony Ericsson X10 Mini for R99!
(+30 MB Data included)

Found the full special in here!

Here is the PhoneArena review of the Sony Ericsson X10 Mini,

the only downside seems to be the lack of a QWERTY onscreen keyboard.

Look at the video below the review to see how someone is using

SmartKeyboardPro to give X10 Mini a full QWERTY Keyboard.

Google Chrome to Phone Extension is a project consisting of a Chrome Extension, Android App, and supporting AppEngine server that enables users to send links from their Chrome desktop browser to their Android device using Android’s Cloud to Device Messaging service.

Features:

• Send links to browser
• Google Maps links launch the Google Maps app.
• Selecting phone numbers in Web pages, launches the dialer with the number pre-populated.
• Selected text populates the Android clipboard (long-press on text boxes to get paste option).

Note: Android 2.2 required. Chrome to Phone is powered by the Android Cloud to Device Messaging (C2DM) service, which requires Android 2.2 or later.

via chrometophone – Project Hosting on Google Code.

Look at the Blog entry

App Inventor is a new tool in Google Labs that makes it easy for anyone—programmers and non-programmers, professionals and students—to create mobile applications for Android-powered devices. And today, we’re extending invitations to the general public.

via Official Google Blog: App Inventor for Android.

YouTube – AppBrain fast web installer.

doubleTwist, the ‘iTunes for Android’ software that lets you sync your media files with dozens of devices, including Android phones, is one step closer to being a full-fledged solution for media sync on Android. The company has released a native Android application, available on Android Market for free, which offers users a polished media player capable of playing both audio and video.

via doubleTwist Launches A Slick Media Player For Android Devices.

Springpad makes it easy to save ideas and information you want to remember. Save notes, tasks or lists; scan product barcodes, take photos or geolocate businesses nearby. We automatically organize and enhance what you save with useful links and offers. Everything syncs with springpadit.com for instant and universal access.

via springpad: a free personal organizer and online notebook.

Along with our regular updates of the Android platform, we like to build example applications that showcase best practices for UI features and behavior patterns, to help our 3rd party developers create even richer applications.For example, the Twitter for Android application that we worked with Twitter to design gives you, the 3rd party developer, a working example of how you can customize and build an application that’s both fun and highly functional. This blog post is meant to showcase these patterns along with some recommended implementations as you start to develop your applications around them.

via Android Developers Blog: Twitter for Android: A closer look at Android’s evolving UI patterns.

Access your Dropbox on the go

All the contents of your Dropbox are available for viewing. You can even stream music and movies in your Dropbox straight to your Android.

Upload files and sync them to your Dropbox

Upload photos from your Android and email its public link to a friend in less than a minute.

Share links to files in your Dropbox

Yes! Any file in your Dropbox!

Available now in the Android Market!

via Dropbox – Dropbox – Online backup, file sync and sharing made easy..