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Location apps feature in Android’s first developer contest
The source said the selected projects each received a first-round award and that later judging would follow the expected arrival of the first Android handsets. Examples included attaching feedback to map points, mapping routes from photographs, social geographic content and location tracking.
Details in the 2008 account
A developer also stressed usability in competition with Windows Mobile and Symbian. These are early platform-contest details and forecasts, not a statement of present Android features or app practices.