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Android users are getting a new feature tomorrow

By | August 11, 2010, 9:09pm PDT

Summary: New Google-branded app for Android to be announced tomorrow–get your guesses in now.

The internet was buzzing with news of Google holding a “small event” tomorrow (Wednesday). Now it seems that PC magazine has confirmed that Google will announce a new Android feature tomorrow at the event. According to PC Magazine, citing a Google spokesperson, it will be a small event that will result in a Google blog post.

So, what could this new Android feature be? It’s probably something small, but perhaps it could also include a sneak peak of the next UI coming to Android?

We previously have experienced Froyo rolling out on a number of devices, so there’s no telling what Google might be showing off tomorrow.

Before Google confirmed it was Android-based, I was going to throw out that maybe Google was re-skinning its web-based Gmail, G-Calendar, etc., suite. Now I’m thinking more along the lines of Google announcing a mobile / Android version of one of its many latest acquisitions.

Any ideas? There’s plenty of room left at GoogleLabs.com, where Android only has 12 of the 42 spots occupied currently.

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Joel is a serial entrepreneur with his most recent business, CronkSoftware (cronksoftware.com), focusing on consulting and building games and applications for mobile devices. Joel has consulted for Microsoft’s Windows Mobile division and advises other companies on how to incorporate mobile into their existing brands and products. Joel purchases many of his devices and others are sent for review on a 30-day loaner basis and then returned to the supplier. If any devices are provided as “keeper” Joel will clearly disclose this in his reviews.

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Joel Evans

With more than a decade of mobile, Internet and wireless experience, Joel specializes in taking existing brands, technologies and services into the mobile and wireless space. Joel is currently serving as the Managing Director of Cronk Software, Inc., a company he founded to offer full-service, end-to-end mobile strategy, design and development services.

Joel is the former founder and "Chief Geek" of Geek.com, a website praised by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, and others as one of world's best sources of information for technology professionals and enthusiasts.

Joel also serves as a technology expert for a number of well-known publications and regularly advises corporations, analysts, journalists and bloggers on what the future of technology will bring. He brings decades of relationships with leading game publishers, online communities and publishers, along with both hardware and software product management and delivery expertise. Joel can be found online as "JoelGeek" and you can follow him on Twitter @JoelGeek.

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