Use your Android phone’s built in GPS to track all your outdoor fitness activities. Runkeeper tracks your path on a map, distance, duration, speed, elevation, pace and calories burned.

Download RunKeeper for free from the Android Market.

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Let’s talk about enhancing your music experience on your Android phone.

TuneWiki is like a music video karaoke jukebox with a dash of community for that extra flavor. Very delicious!

TuneWiki Android Features:

• Listen to music stored on your Android
• View your music from Artists, Album, Song, or Playlists
• View lyrics while the song plays
• View top 50 songs of the day, week, or month. Great for discovery new tunes
• Search for songs from YouTube
• Change the language of the lyrics
• See what other TuneWiki users are listening to on a map

TuneWiki Video Demo:

Download TuneWiki from the Android Market for free.

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Here’s another app that tries to give recommendations based on your location and things you like.

Aloqa gives you real-time recommendations based on your personal preferences and location from your Android phone. After you download the app you can add “channels” of interest to Aloqa. There are some pretty cool channels too like the Pizza Channel, Events Channel, Facebook Channel and more.

Now wherever you go you can discover new restaurants, events, businesses, music, and activities nearby. The app can even alert you if a Facebook friend is close by.

Aloqa Android Demo:

Download Aloqa app for free from the Android Market.

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Have you ever wanted to be a member of the Ghostbusters team? Now you can with SpecTrek.

SpecTrek is an augmented reality ghost hunting game that uses the phone’s GPS navigation. The gameplay (or exercise) works like this, start a game and hold the phone flat to view a map and the ghost location, your job is to navigate by walking or running through the map and track it down.

When you get to within distance of the ghost hold up your Android phone to get into Camera mode to view, scan and capture the ghost. The Ghostbusters would be so proud.

What a brilliant game, no wonder it was a Android Developer Challenge 2 winner. Hey developer, do a version where you track down zombies and you need to shoot them in the head to stop them.

There’s a free version and a $1.99 full version, get SpecTrek from the Android Market.

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Free version

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Do you want to keep tabs on your spouse? Or monitor your kids who might be up to no good? Are you ready for the truth?

Mobile Spy is an application that runs silently in the background to keep a watchful eye on the unsuspecting Android phone user.

The Mobile Spy app stores the entire text message along with phone number associated with it. Inbound and outbound numbers are recorded along with the duration of the conversation. That information is also quickly uploaded to the users account so even if that information was erased you will still have records of them through any web browser.

GPS data along with links to Google Maps of the location is also recorded if GPS it’s enabled on the Android phone. It does all this while remaining in stealth mode.

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Mobile Spy pricing is based on subscription:

• 12 months – $99.97
• 6 months – $69.97
• 3 months – $49.97

Mobile Spy for Android Phones

One of the hottest apps on the iPhone has been the GPS applications from Navigon and TomTom which turns the phone into a portable navigation device.

Of coarse Google’s not just gonna sit there and let the iPhone get all the action, Google announced their own GPS app for the Android 2.0 platform called “Google Maps Navigation”. The app will turn Android phones into a personal navigation device.

Google said that the GPS app will have all the bells and whistles like any other GPS apps such as turn by turn voice assistance, 3D views, and automatic rerouting.

So how much would you expect to pay for Google’s GPS app? How about absolutely free. GPS apps on the iPhone costs $80 or more.

Google Maps Navigation features:

• Searches with text – type in a business name and get the address.
• Search with voice – say where you want to go.
• Get Traffic details – color coded screens to tell you how the road conditions are on your route.
• Satellite View – get high resolution images of your route.
• Street View – get images from Google Street View as you get close to your destination.

Check out Google’s GPS app in action:

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Sky Map is now an app for Android phones which you can download from the Android Market.

The app uses GPS, compass data, date and time to identify stars, constellations and planets.

Check out the video after the break to see Sky Map in action.

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