The 10 best Google Android applications

The 10 best Google Android apps Late last year, Google announced that it would give US$10 million worth in prizes to software development companies to develop innovative and useful applications for its open source mobile Android platform. Roughly nine months later, Google has announced the winners, and the applications they've selected help users do everything from calling their nearest taxi cabs to comparing sale prices at different stores to calculating their carbon footprint. This slideshow will detail what the applications do, how they work and how they can hopefully make your life easier.