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If you haven’t heard of it yet, now is the time to check it out. Quite possibly the hottest new app for Android just released it’s live public alpha Tuesday night. Waze is everything you like about your Twitter, your radar detector and your GPS thrown into one sweet application. Waze works by constantly updating a live map with notifications from other Waze users. Essentially, this lets you know before you even get there if there are speed traps, police, construction problems, heavy traffic, and other accidents and incidents. Check out the official site and blog for further information.

The Google Android Market is now live. What’s the Android Market? It’s sort of like the App Store for the the iPhone. But for cellphones running the Android OS. Right now, that means the T-Mobile G1. Because the G1 isn’t locked down as tightly as the iPhone, you’re free to install applications that don’t come from the Android Market. Handango and MobiHand have already launched their own Android stores with free and commercial software.

But if you prefer to go through the official channel, the Android Market now has about 50 applications including WikiMobile for mobile access to Wikipedia, SplashPlay for learning to play the guitar, and iSkoot for making Skype VoIP calls on your Android phone. There’s also a weather map program called iMap and a mobile client for streaming music service iMeem.

There are still far more applications for iPhone, Symbian, Palm, or Windows Mobile devices than there are for Android phones. But considering today is day one, these are already some pretty impressive apps.

All of the apps available in the Android Market today are available as free downloads. Starting Monday, developers will be able to upload their own software after paying a $25 application fee. And next year Google will allow developers to sell commercial applications in the Android Market.

[From: DownloadSquad]