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Asurion AddressBook unlocks Android’s social media potential

Source: VentureBeat

Oct 26, 2009

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A new application called Asurion AddressBook launches on the Android Market today, opening up new ways to use social media on the phone — and instantly making the iPhone look even more outdated for not running applications in the background and its lower app integration. Asurion AddressBook can be downloaded here.

At its core, the application is an address book that integrates various app feeds, just like the Palm Pre, Motoblur, or what Friendfeed does on the web. Still, these services offer only a very limited level of integration between social network profiles and address books. You have to link them manually, and after that you only get status updates at best. You still have to go to each individual social networking site to view more or respond to updates.

By contrast, AddressBook for Android enables a much richer level of experience. For example, it gives the user access to full profile details, complete Facebook news streams, posted photos, links, notes, status updates and the ability to respond from within the app, including wall posts, comments, VoIP c

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