The Android OS has proven to be a very competitive product, and has shown everyone that it is most definitely here to stay. The past year has seen an explosive growth rate of new mobile devices (including smart phone and MIDs) using this operating system. The latest version 2.2 (codenamed Froyo, which stands for Frozen Yoghurt 
, has brought a lot of bug fixes and software updates that make Android even more stable and user friendly.
Today, practically anyone who needs a mobile device can easily opt to buy one that is based on Android without fearing any incompatibilities, lack of updates and apps or difficulties of operation. Android 2.2 is a perfect competitor to iPhone’s new iOS 4, which comes pre-installed on the iPad and the new iPhone 4, and has the same (and even more) features.
Sure, you could buy Apple’s new iPhone 4, but a lot of people will find that spending $1000 to get it now (without a contract) is too much, especially when there are better and cheaper Android alternatives like the Nexus One, which has the same specs and costs twice less.
Anyway, there are a lot of great apps on the Android marketplace that will suit anyone, from movie buffs to startup entrepreneurs to Internet marketers and Web Developers . Below is a list of great Android apps that any Internet marketer, web master, affiliate or blogger will definitely find useful.
Affiliate Stats
This is the go to Android application if you have an account at Neverblue, MaxBounty or ClickBooth (all great affiliate networks) and want to check your stats when you’re on the move. The app connects to the networks directly using their APIs via secure HTTPS connections, and doesn’t send any data out, so you can be sure your information is safe. This is a must have app for any affiliate marketers who have accounts and are actively using the above networks.
Affiliate Stats-Android Apps
If you are involved in any kind of online activity, you are most probably already using Paypal to send and receive payments. Paypal is practically the default payment option on the Internet, being used by more than 300 million people worldwide. With the official Paypal app for Android, you can send and receive payments and view statistics right on your phone wherever you are. Now you can pay your designers, developers and writers wherever you are or receive and check the payments if you provide said services.
PayPal-Android Apps
SEO Stats
Any self-respecting Internet marketer and webmaster should be concerned about their site’s SEO and SE rankings. The SEO Stats Android application allows you to check the status of your sites and articles on various Search Engines and social networks. For example, you can view the SERP position of your newly posted How to article from wherever you are, in real time (as you may know, Google now uses real time rankings, so your article can get to the front page for a keyword in an hour or so).
SEO Stats-Android Apps
If you are a web master, whose task is to manage a site, or an affiliate marketer who creates and tests landing pages, you are most definitely using an FTP client to perform the tasks. AndFTP is a free FTP, FTPS and SFTP/SSH client for Android, which can really help you if, for example, you are freelancing and want to show your client a new theme, but are not in front of your computer or if you prepared a few landing pages and need to swap them at regular intervals to see which is converting better.
AndFTP-Android Apps
Twitter has become a prominent player in the online social networks industry. They have actually managed to create their own niche of micro-blogging with very frequent short updates. Affiliate marketers are now making a killing in this relatively new environment with very few competitors. If you still haven’t gotten into the game, you should really try to. Twitter has just recently released their official Android app, and it has become the best one almost instantly, mainly because of their tight collaboration with the Google Android teams. Besides providing free Twitter services like tweeting and uploading pictures and videos, Twitter for Android allows you to sync your Android calendar’s data with Twitter’s API information, so you can have the bio, description, phone and picture of the people you are following transferred into your phone and vice versa (and constantly kept up to date, of course).
Twitter for Android-Android Apps
Web analytics is an integral part of doing any kind of business online. The traffic your site receives converts directly into its success most of the times. DroidAnalytics is the best Google Analytics client around, and it provides almost any details and reports you want (they’re also fully configurable and customizable). With it, you are able to check the number of visitors, conversions, page views and clicks from literally anywhere in the world.
DroidAnalytics-Android Apps
The Android marketplace features great and useful apps for everyone, and as you can see from the list above, even people that are engaged in online business activities like bloggers, affiliate marketers and web masters can benefit from owning an Android-based smart phone or Mobile Internet Device, and the fact that Android is open source and a lot of apps are completely free makes it a winner.
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