TORONTO, Aug. 19 /CNW/ - SIRIUS Canada, the country’s leading audio entertainment company, today announced the launch of its official satellite radio app for Android-powered smartphones in Canada.

The SIRIUS App, available for free at http://www.sirius.ca/android allows SIRIUS Canada subscribers with android-powered smartphones to stream more than 100 channels of SIRIUS Satellite Radio’s leading news, sports, entertainment and commercial-free music content over cellular and WiFi networks. Android users who are not yet SIRIUS subscribers will be able to sign up for a free 14-day trial.

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Google’s Android Market is criticized for spam, piracy and inadequate security, but there is another big issue that is hindering the application store’s growth.

That snafu is paid applications, or the lack thereof in Android Market. Android developers can sell apps to consumers through Android Market in only 13 countries.

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The recent debut of the following smartphones:EVO 4G,Droid Incredible and the other Android phones is compelling more people to be interested in learning exactly what an Android phone can do. The biggest problem is trying to figure out exactly which apps work on these new Android phones.

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AT&T’s latest Android smartphone, the HTC Aria, has dropped in over at Android Community, and they’ve been sharing some first impressions and a hands-on photo gallery.  A compact 3.2-inch HVGA smartphone running Android 2.1 with HTC’s Sense UI, the Aria has the same distinctive style of the HTC HD mini and apparently runs fairly decently on its 600MHz processor.

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Is Verizon Wireless ahead of the curve, by marketing all of its Droid phones as one brand? There’s the Motorola Droid, the HTC Droid Eris, the HTC Droid Incredible and two more Motorola Android phones that Verizon will add to its franchise next month. With so many products, all powered by Google’s Android software, is the strength of each manufacturer’s brand diminished, or is the benefit of joining forces so enormous that it doesn’t matter?

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I’ve definitely come to rely on Google’s turn-by-turn voice navigation to guide me through some twists and turns of California’s coastline. Starting Wednesday, Canadians and some Europeans will similarly be able to ditch their satnav systems and fire up their Android phones instead.

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Now that Apple’s Steve Jobs has confirmed the previously leaked details of the company’s new iPhone 4, the question is, can a merely upgraded iPhone stave off a wave of Android smart phones?

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Let’s start things off with a disclaimer – I love Android phones. Last year I left the iPhone and switched to Android largely because of the amazing usefulness of Google Voice, and only Android devices truly let you take over your phone with a Google Voice app and have the perfect experience. I have extensively tested nearly all Android phones to date.

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Next August, it will be 2 years since Google first announced Android Market, its mobile application store. First opened to users in October 2008, the company needed until February / March 2009 to add priced application support to Android Market for both developers and users in the US and the UK.

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When Android first debuted on the HTC Dream (also known as the G1) back in October of 2008, it was deemed an “iPhone Killer.” While it didn’t quite slay Apple’s handset, it was the first step in a revolution against the tyrannous iPhone. The initial Android platform bested the iPhone OS on several levels, but lacked some key functionalities that the iPhone could provide. Since then, Android has grown – not only meeting all of the functionalities of the iPhone, but besting it in nearly all aspects from an extensive list of devices to a growing Android Marketplace.

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KT, the second-largest mobile carrier, announced it will release a Google-designed smartphone, the NexusOne at the end of June and it will have a porting of the latest Android operating system, “Froyo,” which was first introduced on May 20.

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Andy Rubin, chief architect of Google’s Android platform, recently sat down and discussed the future of Android. The biggest topic of the conversation was fragmentation. Rubin’s answer on the subject is spot on.

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Android has officially hit the big time now that sales of its devices exceeded the Apple iPhone over the past quarter. Android’s rise is fairly remarkable for an operating system that only just launched in the fall of 2007.

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With the dropping of the Google Nexus One plans for Verizon and Sprint, it is pretty obvious that Google’s phone store experience had rather limited success. Today Andy Rubin posted on the Official Google Blog that Google is moving the Nexus one to retail locations (no actual stores yet announced) and will eventually stop selling handsets via the web store.

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In addition to being a delicious frozen treat,  Froyo is also the codename for the next major version of Google’s Android mobile operating system. We knew it was going to be fast and feature Flash support, but now, according to TechCrunch, Android users have something else to look forward to: USB tethering, which will let you share your phone’s internet connection with your laptop, and the ability to turn your phone into a wireless hotspot.

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Starting today, Google Maps for mobile has a few new ways to help you and your friends quickly get to where you’re going whether you’re on 4 wheels or 2 (or maybe even 3). With Google Maps 4.2 for Android you can now get biking directions on the go, start Navigation from your Home screen, share places with friends, and more.

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Smartphones running Google’s Android operating system have begun outselling Apple’s iPhone both in Korea and overseas.

A total of 28,900 Android-powered smartphones were sold in Korea in the first week of this month, according to handset makers and telecom providers on Tuesday.

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Nearly two years after launching an iPhone app, Mint.com has arrived in the Android Market.  The personal finance tool has seen a great deal of success since launching it’s Web-based tools, helping to re-define what it means to have a finance tool that can be self-managed and optimized.  The company, which has since been acquired by Intuit, has further expanded its mobile presence, taking advantage of a few Android-specific features.

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One of the most glaring omissions from the Android market has been a high quality, free Twitter client.  Not anymore.

Announced this weekend on Twitter’s Blog, the official Android Twitter App goes beyond the scope of traditional third-party apps with hooks into other programs and the AndroidOS.

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There’s some good news for our phans who can’t use Google Checkout in their countries (or aren’t particular fans of it): PayPal has found a way to incorporate its payments system with Android and will soon be offered as an option in the Android Market.

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