To download android applications users need to launch android market in the application menu. Following are the 30 best applications available to users for free.

AIM – AOL Instant Messenger client for android. Data sent through network. No SMS fee. Support for smileys and chat bubble styles.

Adroid-rss – A fully functional reader created to learn the new Android platform SDK. It’s an ongoing effort to better understand and embrace the Android design philosophy, welcome comments and additional contributors.

Twidroid – Twitter client on the android platform. Provides a preview of forthcoming release, which will extend the current product line and includes features such as: multi-account support, video posting, desktop widget, bit.ly support, follower listings, interface themes and others.

Loopt – Phone as a social compass -connects with friends and the places in a jiffy and instantly share photos, comments, and cool places.

FBabble – Stay in touch with friends on Facebook. Features include real-time chat, uploading photos, changing current status and even automatic tweets to your Twitter account.

Opera Mini – Aids in browsing the entire Web on the phone, saving time and money. It compresses pages up to 90%, making web browsing fast. Synchronizes bookmarks, history, notes and more between the computer and mobile phone.

10001 Cocktails – Browse and search most popular alcoholic and non-alcoholic drink recipes on the phone at shot-cocktail-recipe.com web site. Add fresh drink ideas and drink reviews and save favorite drinks to personal list.

ChompSMS – With a great UI, chat style SMS bubbles and touch-screen keyboard. Color customizations and T9 predictive touch-screen keyboard to be released soon.

Note Everything – A notepad application to create different types of notes in one application, including text-, paint-, voice-, checklist- & photo notes. Notes can be organized in folders and shortcuts can be created on home. Send notes, search, encrypt, reminders and use live folders all in one Android UI.

Voice Recorder – This application is a handy voice recorder. The data is recorded to an SD card. Available the following items on the Voice Recorder – send a data as attached file via Gmail – timer & background recording – search by TITLE and DATE – register to ringtones.

Lyric Search – Searches Lyrics for any song by artist or song title on LyricWiki.org. Also, copy and paste lyrics into sms, email, or other applications, and save lyrics or buy the song on Amazon mp3.

Comeks Fun Photo Blogger – Create and share funny cartoon images. Take and filter photos, add stickers and text bubbles on them. When done, share the funny image on Facebook, Tumblr, Flickr, Bebo, Twitter or Comeks.com. Also can be send as an email or MMS.

Pickup Lines – With this application share the best pickup lines and view and rate the ones others have added. And send funny lines to friends.

Save MMS – This application allows to save pictures, audio and video from MMS text messages directly to the memory card. Attachments are stored in the “SavedMMS” directory and are automatically accessible from the Pictures and Music apps.

Last.fm – A personal radio station on the phone- choose an artist or genre and build a perfect playlist with the aid of this application. It provides a fresh feature of favorites and new discoveries powered by millions of Last.fm users sharing the music they love. Songs can be skipped and details about concerts can be found.

MultiReader 0.6.1 – Text-to-speech application, which reads documents. It  speaks the text document and include file formats – text, PDF, Word, RTF, PPT.

My Tracks – Record GPS tracks and view live statistics while hiking, biking, running or participating in other outdoor activities. Once recorded, share tracks with friends, upload them to Google Spreadsheets, and visualize them on Google My Maps.

Ringdroid- Edit any MP3 on the phone or record a new sound and turn it into a ringtone, alarm, or notification. The only graphical waveform editor you’ll find on a phone!

OI File manager – The OpenIntents file manager allows to browse SD card, create directories, rename, move, and delete files. It also acts as an extension to other applications to display “Open” and “Save” dialogs.

Thesaurus – Retrieve the synonym for every word. If available get antonyms, related terms, similar word and user suggestions too. Tap one of the results to start a quick new search for that term. As well it keeps a history list of search terms.

WikiMobile Encyclopedia – A walking encyclopedia, now at fingertips. With WikiMobile, carry 2+ million Wikipedia articles, including pictures. Faster and uses just a fraction of the network data vs. the Android browser. Download free for a limited time!

Google Sky Map – A star map for Android. It turns Android-powered mobile phone into a dynamic window on the night sky. When the phone is elevated into the night sky, a map of the brightest stars, constellations, and planets in the sky will emerge.

Meebo IM – A free IM program that supports AIM, MSN, Yahoo, MySpace IM, Google Talk, Jabber and ICQ. Sign in using a Meebo account and chat history will be saved forever, and can be accessed from anywhere by logging in at www.meebo.com.

Ringo Lite – A ringtones manager helps to set unique ringtones and SMS tones for each of the address book contacts.

Mobile Banking (from Bank of America) – Check available balances, pay bills and transfer funds all while traveling. Locate ATM and banking centers with GPS. No address input required. Download now, for one-touch access to finances, instantly.

StarTranslate (Translator and dictionary) – Voice translation – Translate text – Translate SMS – Copy/Paste to any application – History – Swap translations – Get word definition in dictionary Many languages supported including: Arabic, Hebrew, Thai, Hindi. It is based on Google translate service.

Sharetones for Android 1.1 beta – Get ringtones on the phone based on songs already being owned.

ShopSavvy – Scan barcodes with the phone’s camera and compare internet and local prices.

CraigslistChecker – With this application finding a new personal requirement (car, house,etc) is on fingertips. Also enables to save favorite searches and set them as alerts. Email the save listings to friend & family in an instant.

Yellowbook.com Mobile Search – A free mobile search application featuring voice recognition. It helps in finding any local store or plumber and other services in a jiffy.