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Missing Google Features on Android

It kind of bugs me that I don't have amazing access to all Google products on Android. I want my Android phone and tablets to be extentions of each other and all of my other computing environments. That does not happen though, mostly because of missing apps an mobile websites. A few notable tools that are missing: Google Bookmarks: I read a lot of stuff on my Android devices, and Android has amazing send to capabilities. I cannot easily save things to Google Bookmarks though. There is a third party app, but it does not work with the way security is setup on my account. Google should really have a built in way for me to send links into Google Boomarks. Google Docs: not much to say here that has not been said. Google needed apps for working with Google Docs 18 months ago. No that Docs has expanded to offer far more flexible file storage that lack of a tightly integrated file management application is very disappointing. I have hundreds of files in have uploaded for bob the go access. Blogger: I am writing this via my account on Posterous. Google does not offer a dedicated client for Blogger, and the web UI does no work either. There are many options for posting to Blogger, but I have lost too much work due to untimely app crashes. Posterous is nice and stable, though it lacks some nicer formatting options. I really hope we see improvements in Google service access on Android soon. Hopefully developers on the Docs, Bookmarks, and Blogger teams are working on Apps now.
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