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Smartphones let a person work while on route to their next destination or while waiting somewhere for a scheduled appointment. A mini office exists in your Android smartphone that is every bit as productive as being at your desk.

Here are 10 Android apps for productivity when you need to get some work done:

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Quick Office Pro

A functional app, Quick Office Pro puts Microsoft Office products on your phone. It is the most comprehensive and connected suite available for Android. You can get access to MS Word or Excel documents remotely or create new ones. The connected file manager lets you share files with Google Docs or Huddle to name a few.

Droid Edit

A functional app for those who are into programming source code. Droid Edit offers a free text editor feature. It comes with syntax highlighting for Python, Ruby, Javascript and many more. It can create network sockets. Best of all, it has infinite undo and redo.

TripIt

It offers survival from the avalanche of details you have to deal with during a business trip. It puts all your trip information—flights, reservations, maps, tickets and schedules of meeting—in a quick access, linear fashion that briefs you on what will transpire on your busy day.

Documents to Go

This practical app lets you work from your smartphone with Microsoft Word, Excel, Powerpoint and Adobe pdf supported files. Documents to Go lets you edit documents or create new ones. Once finished, you can open and send attachments by email or Gmail.

Key Ring

A reliable app, Key Ring lets you scan all those company cards for discounts or coupons. Scan the bar code and your phone becomes a digital card which retailers can scan with their devices. Other features include a special-offer notification and a note program for making lists.

Talk to Me

This app makes international communication a bit easier. Its speech recognition software in 15 languages lets you translate a phrase from your native language to a foreign one. It then outputs a voice in that language.

Google Voice

A practical app, Google Voice creates a phone number and lets you make cheap international calls which are then transcribed for later viewing. This app has text messaging and voice mail as well.

Seesmic

For the social bees, Seesmic lets you manage your social networks. You can see updates or notifications of your trusted social networks at once, since Seesmic stacks the messages and puts the latest message on top.

Sprite Droid Back Up

An app that keeps you organized, Sprite Droid Back Up keeps your phone data safe. It gives you the choice of device, storage card, box.net or Dropbox back up.

Instagram

Finally, Instagram for Android!—though Android-users-slash-photography-hobbyists still have to wait a little longer as this app is still on it’s way to the Android market.

Aside from sharing photos in a stream, Instagram also has custom-designed filters and borders to creatively change the user’s images any way he wished. With the instant sharing feature, one can upload his professional-looking upshots to any social media sites.

Try out these 10 Android Apps for productivity and make your life a little easier, anytime and anywhere you want it.

If you have had a chance to check out the latest entry from Dell, you have certainly been impressed by it. While Dell might be best known for producing primo quality computers, they also produce devices which have cell phone type capabilities, as well as straight computers. In this case, they have teamed up with T-Mobile to produce the Dell Streak 7, billed as the first 4G tablet. This hybrid of computing power and connectivity has never been seen on this kind of scale.

Naturally, 4G is the latest and greatest, and can download things like you would not believe, but this Internet tablet itself is the really impressive part. Not only can the Dell Streak get onto this ultrafast network, but it also runs on the Android 2.2 operating system, which allows support for other operating systems later on as they get developed. Being able to eventually upgrade a tablet of this nature (which has more of a phone feel to it) is something which has never happened before, and it says exciting things about the future longevity of the product.

Another great thing about the Dell Streak lies in its computing power. Not only does it have 16 GB of storage space, which means being able to store a lot of phone numbers, plus a healthy supply of e-books and music files, but it also lets you use Adobe Flash, so you can look at all kinds of websites which mobile devices have always had to shy away from in the past. When it comes to being able to open almost any kind of websites, this is also pretty exciting.

10 Android Apps to Increase Productivity