There may not be quite as many apps around for Android as, say, the iPhone but Android Marketplace is catching up fast – here’s our pick of the best Android apps around right now…

Wikitude is among the top 50 applications!

Use your Android phone’s camera as a lens on the world with this augmented reality app. Point your phone at landmarks and Wikitude will display facts and figures, let you plot routes and plan your wanderings.

You can find the whole ranking here.

4. Augmented Reality and the package as social media
On June 26th, as we celebrated the 35th anniversary of the UPC, a very basic but now ubiquitous technology, I had never heard the term Augmented Reality. But as the year progressed, magazines including Esquire put AR issues out on the newsstand, applications like sixthsense, wikitude, yelp with monocle, and scanlife were launched, and retailers began to experiment with its functionality in their stores. We were blown away by the implications for package design, and reported on this technology on Nov 7th, and Nov 11th.

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