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Google Earth on Android

admin — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 05:56:24 +0000

Google Earth on Android looks to be a killer application. Too bad you need the newer devices to run it. Time for an upgrade maybe?

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Motorola Devour – A Smartphone Based on The ANDROID Framework | Top Tech Reviews

admin — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 05:49:33 +0000

The latest user of the open source ANDROID after HTC – Motorola looks to unveil its latest smartphone “devour” later this quarter – speculated to be announced sometime late February – March this year. It makes use of the ANDROID operating system.

Motorola has added its latest feature – the MOTOBLUR in this smart phone. It will be the second smart phone from Motorola to feature this addition. Motoblur is a widget based system that combines various social networking websites – facebook, orkut, myspace and twitter providing an integrated interface for users. This means that users could make use of MOTOBLUR to log in to all their portals simultaneously alleviating the need to log in to these websites separately. One however needs to create an account with MOTOROLA to make use of this feature.

Read on via Motorola Devour – A Smartphone Based on The ANDROID Framework | Top Tech Reviews.

Slacker Adds Automatic Music Caching to Android, Blackberry | Epicenter | Wired.com

admin — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 05:45:30 +0000

Cellphone streaming represents the ultimate combination of convenience for consumers and business model flexibility for online music companies, but there’s one big problem: data connections, in the U.S. anyway, aren’t up to the task of streaming hours of high-quality music in a row without dropouts. And as more people begin streaming media to smartphones, the problem will only get worse.

The solution — pioneered by Slacker on its own hardware, embraced by Spotify, and promised by Rhapsody — is to cache music on the phone so that you can still listen to your collection even without a fast data connection.

Read on via Slacker Adds Automatic Music Caching to Android, Blackberry | Epicenter | Wired.com.

Apple’s Ban On Risque Apps Helping Google – WSJ.com

admin — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 05:41:54 +0000

SAN FRANCISCO Dow Jones–Apple Inc.’s AAPL recent decision to more tightly control programs sold through its popular App Store may push developers towards archrival Google Inc. GOOG, a move that could give the Internet giant momentum as it stakes its place in the smartphone market.Last week, Apple started removing sexually suggestive and risque programs, even though it had previously approved them. Since Thursday, roughly 6,000 apps, about 3%, have been deleted from the App Store, according to the App Shopper Web site, which tracks the online store’s sales.Apple’s decision has roiled the broader community of app writers, who are concerned the consumer electronics giant’s abrupt policy changes could jeopardize their revenue. Some are now considering whether to diversify their businesses by writing apps for Android, a Google-developed mobile phone operating system that is catching on.

Read on via 2nd UPDATE: Apple’s Ban On Risque Apps Helping Google – WSJ.com.

Google Maps Navigation for Android 2.0

admin — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 04:58:41 +0000

Since 2005, millions of people have relied on Google Maps for mobile to get directions on the go. However, there’s always been one problem: Once you’re behind the wheel, a list of driving directions just isn’t that easy to use. It doesn’t tell you when your turn is coming up. And if you miss a turn? Forget it, you’re on your own.

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Today we’re excited to announce the next step for Google Maps for mobile: Google Maps Navigation Beta for Android 2.0 devices.

This new feature comes with everything you’d expect to find in a GPS navigation system, like 3D views, turn-by-turn voice guidance and automatic rerouting. But unlike most navigation systems, Google Maps Navigation was built from the ground up to take advantage of your phone’s Internet connection.

Read the entire news post via Official Google Blog: Announcing Google Maps Navigation for Android 2.0.

Android 2.0 Official Video Displays New Features

admin — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:26:57 +0000

Official video of Android 2.0 features released on the Android Developers channel at YouTube.

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See more at…

Androiddevelopers’s Channel

The Google Android party has begun | CTIA Fall show – CNET Reviews

admin — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 09:14:46 +0000

After two years of waiting, Google Android phones are finally hitting the market en masse.

In the past couple of months, nine devices using Google’s mobile operating system have been announced, including the Motorola Cliq, which goes on sale in November, and the new Samsung Moment, which was announced Wednesday at the CTIA Fall 2009 trade show here. The pipeline is full of more Android devices, some of which have been confirmed and some that are still rumored to be in development.

“We are seeing a lot of interest in Android here,” Kim Titus, a spokesman for Samsung, said Wednesday at the CTIA trade show, where the company is showing off its two Google Android handsets–the Samsung Moment and the Samsung Behold II. “I think these devices have an opportunity to become strong cross-over devices appealing both to business customers as well as to consumers and prosumers.”

Continued via The Google Android party has begun | CTIA Fall show – CNET Reviews.

YouTube – Android 1.6 Official Video

admin — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 02:27:47 +0000

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Looks like some excellent and needed improvements coming to the platform.

Google Shuts Down Android Dev Site

admin — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 00:38:19 +0000

Google has ordered a custom Android developer to stop distributing his software because it includes the search giant’s proprietary applications such as YouTube, Gmail and Maps.

The programmer of the CyanogenMod ROM was served a cease-and-desist order because Google took issue with the software for modifying and distributing its applications.

CyanogenMod ROM is an Android modification created by developer Steve Kondik that offers all the same functions of the standard-fare mobile OS, but also provides bundled applications, faster runtime and additional features that can’t be found on conventional Android.

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via Google Shuts Down Android Dev Site – InternetNews.com.

Pandora Arrives on Android

admin — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 05:16:36 +0000

Pandora comes to Android.

It’s HERE! Pandora on Android!

From the horses mouth…

“It’s a new era for radio. Personalized, mobile, and free.

Pandora Radio is your own FREE personalized radio now available to stream music on your Android phone. Just start with the name of one of your favorite artists, songs or classical composers and Pandora will create a “station” that plays their music and more music like it.”

Now get over and download what will surely become one of the most popular applications on android.

Pandora Radio