Google has released a dedicated app for their Google Docs service. It used to be a web app, but now it can be installed through the Android Market and has everything a standalone app has, down to the homescreen widget.

Using the online editor of the Google Docs app you will be able to open, view and edit documents from your Google account. You’ll also be able to share docs with your contacts straight from the app.

There is a dedicated homescreen widget for the app, which gives you three main options opening your starred documents, creating a new document and taking a photo for upload. The application, naturally, lets you upload documents from the phone to your Google account.

Using OCR technology the Google Docs application will be able to convert photos with text on them into editable documents. What that means, is you can ideally scan documents straight with the phone snapper.

Amazon has just announced that they have launched a version of their Kindle application thats optimized for devices running Google Android 3.0 Honeycomb operating system. For the 17 of you who own such devices, we are pretty sure you are jumping up and down right now. In all seriousness, Amazon is hitting it out of the park with their Kindle strategy. They let you buy a book once, and then let you read it on a wide range of devices, syncing your position within a book when switching between smartphone, tablet, and PC/Mac. As always, the application is free, all you need to do is search for Kindle in the Android Market and off you go.

"We have taken all the features customers love about Kindle for Android, and created a beautiful new user interface and a seamless shopping experience tailored to the look and feel of Honeycomb tablets," said Dorothy Nicholls, Director, Amazon Kindle. "As always, Kindle customers Buy Once, Read Everywhere, so Kindle for Android is the perfect companion for the millions of customers who own a Kindle and a way for customers around the world to download and enjoy books on their Android phone or tablet even if they do not yet own a Kindle."

Bump has finally released version 2.0 of its famous data exchange app for Android smartphones. No longer will you enviously look at your iPhone buddies bumping contacts and photos in a snap. You can join the party, too.

The new version of the application is faster and more reliable while also allowing you to go through history and check all the files you have shared with other Bump users. Moreover, this latest release does not require a physical connection you can bump stuff even if you are miles apart, complete with instant notifications. Finally, Bump said this is just a start and that in the next several months we should expect even more features being added to the application.

NNG has started revamping its iGO iPhone navigation apps with iGO Europe edition first getting the so called primo update. Available as a free software update to existing iGO Europe edition users, the application works on a completely made-over engine and delivers over 100 new features and enhancements, including a brand new UI.

Among the features included in this release, we highlight:

• Google local search
• Advanced Text-to-Speech (TTS Pro)
• Green routing for lower CO2 emissions
• Real junction views in 3D
• 3D digital terrain
• Driver Alerts replicating road signs
• Historical Speed data for faster routes

Moreover, there are other premium features such as 3D city models, Live Traffic service, Premium POIs and Premium voices, which can be added through in-app purchase. Commenting on the news, NNG’s interim CEO Peter Balogh said: "Our flagship navigation software, iGO primo, already powers millions of Personal Navigation Devices and automotive units worldwide. By popular demand we are now bringing the performance, speed and stability of this product to the iPhone and are confident that our success with this next-generation navigation product will continue in iTunes."

EA seems to be in a holiday spirit. Some of its games for iOS are getting a price cut of up to 80% for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad owners in the UK and its giving away a free iPad 2 to users in the UK, France and Germany, who just need to answer 3 video questions on Facebook.

The discount begins today and the company has dubbed this promotion the EAster catchy ain't it? Among the games to be featured in the discount are Dead Space, Fight Night Champion, Tiger Woods PGA Tour 12 and more. Some of those games will be sold with a discount of up to 80% like the FIFA 11, which normally sells for almost 5 quid, now costs only 0.60p.