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Rumours that the Blackberry PlayBook will play nice with Android apps have been rattling around recently and a video has emerged showing an almost official confirmation from RIM that plans are afoot.

Recorded at Mobile World Congress, the video shows the Blackberry PlayBook and a RIM rep can be heard saying: “We will also support Android apps when we release the Dalvik engine on top of QNX.” The Dalvik engine would allow Android apps to be run on top of the native QNX OS on the Blackberry PlayBook. Take a look at the video after the break and let us know in the comments: should RIM allow Android apps on the PlayBook?

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The Blackberry PlayBook could arrive with the Android Marketplace according to Businessweek, which says its talked to several well played sources about RIM’s upcoming slate. how the Android apps will make their way to the Blackberry PlayBook’s QNX OS isn’t clear.

The move may be made possible with a virtual machine like the Alien Dalvik solution we saw earlier this week but that would mean apps would run noticeably slower than apps on a native Android tablet. The other issue is whether Google will actually certify the Blackberry PlayBook to place nice with the Android Marketplace. This one could get interesting…

Out TBC | £TBC | RIM (via Businessweek)

Best Android apps of the week

December 7, 2010 11:01 am by
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This week’s best Android apps have a festive twist. The arrival of December doesn’t only allow folks to put up the decorations guilt-free and developers to churn out Christmas shovelware. It also robs the rest of us of our right to complain about all this non-denominational Winter Festival nonsense.

That November joy of complaining as mince pies and overpriced selection boxes start appearing on supermarket shelves disappears. Do the same thing in December and your true identity will be revealed – as a miserable old so and so. It’s a good job we got more than our fair share of moaning done last month then…

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The official Twitter Android app is out now but unless you’re packing a phone running Android 2.1, you’re out of luck. The official Twitter Android app, Twitter for Android, is free in the Android Market right now but if you’re not lucky enough to have a handset with Android 2.1, what are you missing?

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Best Android apps: top 10

March 19, 2010 3:00 pm by
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Android apps are spawning so fast it’s getting hard to pick the best. We’ve scoured the aisles of the Android Marketplace to pick some of the best Android apps going while trying to avoid recommending the Android apps you should already have on your homescreen (Facebook for Android for instance). Read on for our selection of the 10 best Android apps.

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Android apps have been given away for free up until now, largely because Google hasn’t implemented any kind of pricing scheme or payment methods on its Android Market site. This could be about to change.

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