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• Microsoft's (yes, them) Ford Sync in-car feature is a very cool way to connect your Android phone to your car. And heyitsthatguy has a couple of helpful hints to get things set up.
• How's your Droid Eris doing after the recent over-the-air update? Some users are reporting things have slowed a bit.
• Are you a former Palm Pre owner? We've got a couple of threads just for you.
• Apps, apps and more apps. Talk 'em up here.

Happy holidays, merry Christmas and all that jazz, everybody. Here's to hoping you all found a little green robot under the tree this year. For those of you new to Android, welcome! Glad you're with us!

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Now, back to our fruitcake. Happy holidays!

After a bit of a false start this morning, Christmas has come a day early for you radio lovers out there. Clear Channel Radio's iheartradio app is now available in the Android Market for phones running Android 1.5 and above. That's the Motorola Droid, HTC Droid Eris, HTC myTouch 3G and the Samsung Moment. With the app you get:

• Streaming broadcasts from almost 400 U.S. radio stations, including digital-only stations such as erockster, Pride, Christian Aguilera Radio, Eagles Radio and the White House Brief.
• Frequently updated traffic reports available for several major markets including New York, L.A., Chicago, San Francisco and Houston.
• You can set a station to play automatically when you launch the App
• Lyrics, album art and more

More at iheartradio.com. You can download the free app now in the Market. Happy listening!

Let's play "Are you Smarter than an Analyst." Simon Khalaf, CEO for analyst Flurry Inc., which studies apps and their use, says the Android Market could have 100,000 to 150,000 apps by the end of 2010. Currently, there are about 16,000 apps in the Market.

We previously asked for your predictions, and above is where your predictions fell. Twenty-seven percent of you also predicted 100,000 to 150,000 apps, and 75,000 to 100,000 was just behind at 25 percent. So congratulations, you're all now official analysts!

[Business Week via Android Guys]

As you know, the second week of the Smartphone Round Robin is going strong and if you're wondering where Android is this week, well it's in the hands of NokiaExpert's Matthew Miller! Matt is putting Android through the paces and offering unique viewpoints that only a Nokia user can. We're sure that he'll bring new ideas and insight while using the Android platform so be sure to check out his hands on video!

You can also help out Matt in our Android Central Forums. He's started a thread that's asking us Android users a ton of questions regarding our favorite smartphone OS. If you're new to Android, his thread would probably be where you want to start. And remember, every day you make a post in that thread this week you're entered to win a free Android smartphone from Android Central! (details here)

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• The Beautiful Widgets drama continues as HTC once again has asked to "review" the latest version, and that means our thread regarding the widgets continues to grow. Be sure to keep up with the latest information in this thread here.
• If you own an Android device, chances are you like to be able to customize things. And that's exactly what all of you Moto Droid owners seem to be doing. Share your home screens in the thread: Post your Screen!
• With so much hype surrounding the Nexus One, why not jump in our forums and discuss it?
• If you had to choose one single Android application, what would it be?

See you on the forums!

Google today responded to the FCC's FTC's request for more information regarding its purchase of AdMob, the mobile advertising company. And, as expected, they're putting a positive spin on the delay that's holding up the $750 million deal.

As we said when we announced the deal, we don't see any regulatory issues with this deal, because the rapidly growing mobile advertising space is highly competitive with more than a dozen mobile ad networks.

That said, we know that closer scrutiny has been one consequence of Google's success, and we've been talking to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission over the past few weeks. This week we received what's called a "second request," which means that the FTC is asking for more information so that they can continue to review the deal.

Hey, time is money. And Google certainly has more than enough of both. [Google via MacRumors]

Update: Yes, we know the FCC is not the FTC. We're lucky we didn't call the darn thing the HTC. :-/

The rumors are building ahead of CES, and the latest involves LG, Sprint and a little 4G standard called WiMAX. The long-rumored LG Prada 3 reportedly could be an Android device. [MobileOSNews via Slashgear] Or, it could be a Windows Mobile device. [Information Week via WMExperts] It all depends on who you ask right now.

Either way, an actual WiMAX phone will be a pretty big deal. So we're just gonna have to go to Vegas and see for ourselves. Besides, Brooke Shields will be there. We just can't pass that up.

For you folks who are big into Photobucket, there's now a free Android app for you. With it you can search PB's library, get easy access to image URLs from your phone, and you can upload multiple files in the background. The app's now available in the Android Market. [Photobucket via AndroidOS.in]

You knew this was eventually going to happen. An official version of Tetris, from EA Mobile, was just released and it takes full advantage of the Motorola Droid's gorgeous screen.

With smooth animations along with some pretty decent music and sound effects, you have yourself a version of Tetris that competes with the best of them. Sadly, there is no multiplayer mode, but you do get three challenging single player modes -- Marathon mode, Ultra, and Forty Line.

This is a very polished version of Tetris, although I noticed the controls at times seemed a little clumsy, especially at higher levels. Hopefully an update will fix this. The other negative is that you can not use the Droids directional pad. Now perhaps I am being a bit harsh, because at the end of the day it is Tetris, and it's addicting.

Tetris is now available in the Market for $4.99.