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I’m thinking that something is brewing on Android market.  Yesterday afternoon I noticed that order of many apps in the “Productivity” category had changed drastically.  The last I checked, at least one of my apps – Hire*A*droid is missing comments entirely (it had about 350). A quick search on Twitter yielded some entries indicating that paid apps started to appear on international markets as well as some apps mysteriously disappearing from the Market altogether.

I’m wondering that with “Apple thing” finally over the time has come for the big Froyo and market push?  Is Google set to deliver on all these wonderful promises that got us all excited just two weeks ago. What do you think?

More importantly, have you noticed any changes on the market?

We previously covered Goal.com Mobile here around a month or so back but  felt it somewhat necessary to remind you guys and gals about this free app.  For those of you getting geeked up over the World Cup, we recommend checking out the updated version of this title.  A special tab has been added to the application which provides plenty of up-to-the-minute coverage of the events.

World Cup tab features:

• Top news with corresponding photos
• Live Scores with play-by-play details
• Player ratings
• Teams with schedule and lineup details
• Fixtures and Results by day
• Group Stage with team standings
• Knockout Stage with the final tournament schedule
• News articles can be emailed to friends or shared via Twitter or Facebook
• Users have the ability to customize which teams and news feeds they are most interested in
• Access information anytime, anywhere with offline reading
• The most comprehensive news coverage provided by a team of 550 reporters, including 10 based in South Africa for the finals

There’s no denying that the hot Android keyboard of the moment is Swype.  Pre-loaded on a handful of devices (Cliq XT, myTouch 3G Slide), it is one of those apps that stays with you.  Once you’ve had a chance to use Swype, all other keyboards feel slow and rather vanilla.  Fortunately for some, Swype has released a beta of their app to a lucky group of testers.  Today sees them announcing a new version of the beta and adding a load of improvements and tweaks.

Below is a list of changes found in this version of Swype beta.  Some are going to be more noticeable than others.  Take for instance the automatic apostrophe insertion for words like won’t, don’t, and wasn’t.  Personally, I am very glad to see that make the list.  Others, like bug fixes are generally hidden from plain sight.

• Added better context sensitivity for the “magic button” (go/search/enter/smiley)
• Added automatic apostrophe insertion for contractions (e.g. won’t, don’t, wasn’t, etc)
• Added the Italian language dictionary
• Improved sensing of field type to prevent the display and addition of passwords to the UDB (user dictionary)
• Improved suppression of auto-spacing in fields such as URLs and email addresses
• Updated the built-in dictionary to include several common words that were previously missing
• Rewrote some settings descriptions to be more clear on their functionality
• Fixed licensing issue causing “Limited Functionality” errors when rebooting devices running Android 2.0 and later
• Fixed licensing issue causing some users to receive an “Incorrect ID” error when installing Swype
• Fixed a bug where manually typing some words with word-prediction enabled would cause Swype to crash
• Fixed a bug which caused some words added to the UDB to erroneously override other words when word-prediction is enabled
• Many other minor bug fixes!

Hopefully we’ll be seeing swype come out of beta and released as a standalone app/keyboard replacement.  How much would you be willing to pay for swype on your phone?