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In addition to the rest of the changes made to the Android Marketplace today, Google went on to introduce two giant changes to the way things are run in the Android Marketplace. One of them being the ability for each developer to set their own prices in each currency available. Before, this was automatic, the price being automatically converted for whichever currency the purchaser was using. The other fat change was that developers will now be able to make in-app sales. This is big news when you consider what’s going on with Kongregate on Android and the Apple App store stopping some book services from selling in-app.

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With a single click, they thusly were connected through video chat. After a short bout with attempting to find a user by the name of “Lady Killer,” later revealed to be Cee-Lo Green, the user on stage and his friendly other-screen ally were able to connect visually. It’s revealed that, in the classic manner, the user’s image is tiny in the lower right of the screen while the person they’re talking to takes up the entire remainder. This functionality appears to work instantly and smoothly. The video quality isn’t perfect, but the video works so well and functions so fast, we’re willing to forgive, for now. After the video chat demo, a CNN rep steps on stage to show his and their wares. The Vice President of Mobile for CNN speaks up and out of a CNN app that will be launching for the Honeycomb tablet in the near future. This is a giant gallery-aesthetic app that appears to work very smooth, flicking back and forth between stories, showing live coverage of news via the tablet.

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Flowing through items like the Music app, YouTube, and Google’s book store are shown to be working miraculously well, looking amazing sliding back and forth, up and down. All of this done with Render Script, an element on the developer side of things designed to give devs the ability to create new and amazing graphics and user interface features never before possible. Another app shown to feature the capabilities of this new Honeycomb 3D rendering environment was Google’s body app, showing all the parts of the body, taking away or adding layers as you wish, moving smoothly to show you what’s going on in your body, and which bone you’d like to describe as broken to your doctor.

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