The new android market split us android owners into two camps, those who love it and those who hate it. There doesn’t seem to be anything in the middle. Me? I love it. I think it looks cool, looks up to date and you gotta love swiping to navigate right? The darker colours also appeal to my emo side.

Although Google Music is still in beta, and limited to the USA, we have always been able to get access from outside of America by using a proxy to sign up. Google have just today started providing existing users with invites into the service. If you get one of these invites, you can sign up and start using Google Music without having to use a proxy.

If you do this, you still need to grab the Music beta app, which is still only available within the USA. However, you can grab the apk from here and install it directly onto your device to start using it right now!

Google yesterday announced a new Android market, and I think I speak for us all when I say it was completely unexpected! The new market is quite beautiful and a huge change from the previous iterations. It comes with the new elegant style Google seems to be pushing out to all its products. Take the jump for download details to get this on your phone now!

This updated app looks absolutely fantastic. If you ever wondered if an android tablet was good enough to replace your notebook, wonder no more! It has extensive MS Office suite editing and creation facilities, and looks damn nice at the same time. One catch, it’s available for honeycomb only and it’s not cheap (about a tenner or $$14.99). That price is only available for a limited time however, before it shoots up to $24.99. might be worth buying it now for your future tablet in that case.

Opera Mobile 11 is the latest android browser release from Opera. Its quite possibly the smoothest browser at scrolling through webpages on an android phone due to the tech Opera implements. One of the negative points is there is seemingly no way to change the user agent to something other than mobile. The user agent is used by the websites you visit to decide if they should serve you the mobile version of their webpage or the full desktop version.

Debenhams have just released their official android app to the market. Some of the cool features this free app brings is the ability to scan a barcode within the store to see more detailed information about the product as well as exclusive special offers.

Sounds like a great app if you shop there regularly. Debenhams currently delivers to UK, France, Germany, Spain, Sweden, United States, Australia and New Zealand, so if you live in one of those countries this may interest you.

This article was written by self-confessed gadget junkie and android user TonyP. You can find out more by following his twitter account @TonyP_UK.

There’s a lot of questions being asked about using LauncherPro, so here’s my LauncherPro FAQ that I hope provides most of your answers.

Android is the operating system (OS) on your phone, yet what most people see on their screen isn’t actually Android – it’s a User Interface (UI, often called a ‘launcher’ or ‘home replacement app’) that sits between the OS and you and presents the OS in a better looking, user friendly and customisable way. HTC Sence is a UI, so is Motorola’s Blur and Sony Ericsson’s Timescape, for example.

One of the best things about Android is how easy it is to customise just about every aspect of your phone, and replacing the UI is probably the most significant change most people can make. There are a couple of replacement UI’s available on the Market, and this Guide is for one of the most popular, LauncherPro, and is based on using it on a Desire with HTC Sense.

This article was written by self-confessed gadget junkie and android user TonyP. You can find out more by following his twitter account @TonyP_UK.

There’s a lot of questions being asked about using LauncherPro, so here’s my LauncherPro FAQ that I hope provides most of your answers.

Android is the operating system (OS) on your phone, yet what most people see on their screen isn’t actually Android – it’s a User Interface (UI, often called a ‘launcher’ or ‘home replacement app’) that sits between the OS and you and presents the OS in a better looking, user friendly and customisable way. HTC Sence is a UI, so is Motorola’s Blur and Sony Ericsson’s Timescape, for example.

One of the best things about Android is how easy it is to customise just about every aspect of your phone, and replacing the UI is probably the most significant change most people can make. There are a couple of replacement UI’s available on the Market, and this Guide is for one of the most popular, LauncherPro, and is based on using it on a Desire with HTC Sense.

So yesterday Kongregate released their first Android app to the market, and it was pretty damn good. It basically gave you access to over 300 FREE flash games. The app itself acts like a sort of catalogue, you browse to the game you want to play, and can either download it to play offline, or in some cases just play it online. The games have been optimised for mobile it seems, and the ones I have tried work really well, especially on the 7″ screen of the galaxy tab! You will need to have adobe flash installed to be able to play these games, so do bear that in mine as the app won’t work with older versions of android. Follow the jump for installation instructions!

Wow, a completely new android market has arrived. Its pretty stunning compared to the old version thats for sure. It looks a lot smoother and more polished, I’m quite impressed! Take the jump for instructions on how to install!!