Google Earth

Explore the world from the palm of your hand with Google Earth.

Use Google Earth to fly around the planet with the swipe of a finger. Explore distant lands or reacquaint yourself with your childhood home. Search by voice for cities, places, and businesses. Browse layers including roads, borders, places, photos and more.

For tablet users on Android 3.0 (Honeycomb), you can now enjoy a new Google Earth experience optimized for the large screen. With a new action bar, you can get easy access to search, reset-to-north, my location, and layers. Also, you can now explore the same photo-realistic 3D buildings that have previously only been accessible with the desktop version of Google Earth. Visit the Statue of Liberty in New York, the Taj Mahal in India, or the Sydney Opera House in Australia, all in their full 3D glory! To view 3D buildings on your tablet, just select ‘3D Buildings’ from the layer menu.
Android Market

USA TODAY on Android Tablet

Latest news, scores, weather, stocks and photos from USA TODAY on Android Tablet

The nation’s news. Now on the Android Tablet, Updated 24/7.

The latest news, scores, weather, stocks and photos you’ve come to expect from USA TODAY and now available in a beautiful new way, on the Android Tablet. Staying informed has never been this quick, easy or enjoyable.

- Read stories from USA TODAY’s News, Money, Sports, Life, Tech and Travel sections. Enlarge images and watch related videos. Download all stories to read offline; ideal when traveling.

 Android Market

Kindle for Android

Your Android tablet is a wonderful e-reader, and the Kindle for Android application brings Amazon.com’s collection of more than 750,000 digital books directly to your device. The app lets you purchase books any time you have wireless connectivity and read whenever you have battery life. Many classic books are free, and best-sellers start at just $9.99–less than what you’d pay for a print version in a bookstore. You can preview books before buying and read them on multiple Kindle devices, thanks to the app’s Whispersync technology, which transfers bookmarks and other annotations between devices.

Android Market

Pandora Internet Radio for Android

 

A variety of cool, free Internet radio applications exist for the Android platform, but none offer the same quality music catalogue and customization options as the free Pandora for Android app. Pandora is easy to setup and use: Create and account, log in, simply pick an artist or band you like and the application creates a custom “station” based around that artist, with similar tunes, selected by other like-minded listeners.

Android Market

Amazon Appstore for Android

Google’s official Android Market is a great place to find quality Android software, but the true app connoisseur always appreciates new options. Amazon’s Appstore is one of, if not the, best Android Market alternative-at least for “non-rooted” devices. It provides a number of unique features and offers, including a new, normally paid app for free every day, and a cool Test Drive feature for trying out new software.

Amazon Appstore for Android free on Amazon.com

Poynt for Android

Poynt is the only mobile, local-search application for Android you’ll ever need. The app uses your current location, based on GPS or user-input, to find the closest businesses, retailers, restaurants, gas prices, events and much more. Poynt offers a dedicated weather section, too. You can find local movie theatre listings and purchase tickets via Android. And the app integrates with your Google calendar and address book so you can quickly add contacts or events.


Poynt from the Android Market

Amazon MP3 and Cloud Drive for Android

Amazon MP3 for Android is a must-have application for all mobile media enthusiasts. With simple navigation and a clean user interface, Amazon MP3 for Android makes it easy to find and purchase the songs and albums that you seek, over Wi-Fi or your cellular network. Free “Songs of the Day” mean you can frequently download new music without ever dropping a dime. And “Daily Deal Albums” are always available for $5 or less. The app also gives you access to all of you Amazon Cloud Drive music, via a cool, mobile Cloud Player interface.

Amazon MP3 from the Android Market

Twitter for Android

Any and all Twitter users with Android devices should download the most popular Twitter app on the Market: the official Twitter for Android app. The software boasts an intuitive and visually appealing interface&though not exactly optimized for tablets. More advanced, feature-packed apps exist-like Seismic for example-but Twitter for Android provides all the basic Twitter functionality you’ll need for free, with no ads.


Android Market

Dropbox for Android

Dropbox, a cloud-based storage service, makes it quick and easy to share files between Web-connected devices, including PCs, tablets and smartphones. Dropbox apps exists for all major mobile platforms, and you get 2.0 GB of free storage just for creating an account-more if you recommend the service to others. You simply load up your Dropbox with content, launch the Android app and everything within your Dropbox is available to you via tablet. You can also upload new content while on the go.


Android Market

IMDb Movies & TV

One of the few quality tablet-specific apps in the Android Market right now, the Internet Movie Database (IMDb) app for Android tablets is the perfect tablet companion for the movie and TV aficionado. Find movie show times, watch trailers and rate films using the app’s slick UI. Read and write reviews. Search the massive IMDb collection of 1.5 million movie/TV titles and profiles for over 3.2 million celebs, directors and other show biz types, and much more.

Android Market

Various Angry Birds Titles

Unless you choose to reside in the ground beneath a large stone, you’ve likely heard of the phenomenon that is Angry Birds. Born on the iPhone, but eventually ported to most major mobile platforms, Angry Birds is the most popular mobile game ever-and it’s free on Android, though you’ll have to deal with a few in-app ads. Launch different types of birds in attempts to topple obstacles, foil your various adversaries and save your unborn avian-spawn from total demise. If the first version isn’t enough for you, Angry Birds Seasons and Angry Birds Rio are also available for free download.

Download Angry Birds, Angry Birds Seasonsand Angry Birds Rio via the Android Market