tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31659376592919271352023-09-26T23:45:55.388+10:00Android World NewsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger231125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3165937659291927135.post-88793316324643408862011-02-11T10:54:00.000+11:002011-02-11T10:54:27.362+11:00Androids attack: Google Nexus S to hit Australia<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q-JSg53A3nM/TVR6J-8WCSI/AAAAAAAALMU/APuWMpCitZg/s1600/nexusS.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left:1em; margin-right:1em"><img border="0" height="380" width="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q-JSg53A3nM/TVR6J-8WCSI/AAAAAAAALMU/APuWMpCitZg/s400/nexusS.jpg" /></a></div><br />
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The second Google-branded smartphone is about to hit Australia as analysts predict the search giant's mobile platform will surpass iPhone sales in Australia within a few years.<br />
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The Google Nexus S, released in the US and Britain in December last year, will be sold in Australia "soon", according to Vodafone which has clinched a global distribution deal. Those interested in buying one are being asked to register their interest on Vodafone's website.<br />
Meanwhile, Sony Ericsson confirmed it would be launching its Android-based Xperia Play - dubbed the "PlayStation Phone" - on February 13. Support for Android is exploding with new phones soon to be launched by Motorola, Samsung, HTC, LG and Acer.<br />
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The Nexus S, manufactured by Samsung, is the successor to the Nexus One, which launched around the world in early 2010 but only reached Australia in small quantities in July last year.<br />
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The Nexus S is the first Android phone with a built-in near-field communication (NFC) chip, which opens up a raft of new applications such as the ability to pay for items by swiping your phone on a shop scanner. NFC, which has only been running in limited trials in Australia, has been reported as a feature of the next iPhone model.<br />
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The device is manufactured by Samsung, whereas the Nexus One was built by HTC. It runs version 2.3 of Android (dubbed Gingerbread) and offers a 4-inch super AMOLED screen, 5-megapixel rear-facing camera for photos, front-facing VGA camera for video chat, 16GB of built-in storage and 512MB of internal memory.<br />
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Vodafone Australia did not reveal pricing or a firm sale date for the Nexus S, which is based on Samsung's Galaxy S.<br />
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Foad Fadaghi, telecommunications analyst at the Australian firm Telsyte, said he expected Google's Android platform to "match or exceed" iPhone sales in Australia by 2013.<br />
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"We expect Android will have a market share of 18 per cent by the end of this year," he said.<br />
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"Nexus S represents even further improvements of the Android platform with version 2.3. It addresses the top end aspirational market and is suitable for existing Android users wanting an upgrade."<br />
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But Fadaghi said he expected most of the growth in the Android platform would come from cheaper mid-range handsets sold on pre-paid SIMs.<br />
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Mark Novosel, telco analyst at research firm IDC, said the Nexus S, being a Google-branded phone, would receive software updates faster and offer a "pure Android experience" without other vendors' custom user interfaces.<br />
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But the Android phone Novosel is most excited about is the LG Optimus 2X.<br />
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"Being the first dual-core processor smartphone, its extremely responsive and the screen has a wide viewing angle and very vibrant colours," said Novosel.<br />
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"LG's Optimus Black will also be one to watch, its slimmer, lighter and promises outstanding outdoor visibility with an extremely bright screen."<br />
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Novosel said he expected Android to become the number one smartphone operating system in Australia by the middle of this year, but in terms of a vendor-by-vendor comparison Apple would likely remain in first place.<br />
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Google has added new features to Android in recent weeks to help it catch up with iPhone, including an Android Market web store that can be accessed from PCs and in-app purchasing, allowing app developers to sell new content and upgrades from within their apps.<br />
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But this move suffered a slight setback after security firm Sophos warned that the Android Market website could be used to install malware on users' phones.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3165937659291927135.post-18072655171467460182011-02-11T10:50:00.000+11:002011-02-11T10:50:28.490+11:00Anger with Apple pushes firms to Android<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-tck8vVl_Cqc/TVR5dS_TrFI/AAAAAAAALMM/1o9h3OJdzkE/s1600/android_apple.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left:1em; margin-right:1em"><img border="0" height="189" width="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-tck8vVl_Cqc/TVR5dS_TrFI/AAAAAAAALMM/1o9h3OJdzkE/s400/android_apple.jpg" /></a></div><br />
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The hardline approach taken by Apple towards media companies selling apps through its iTunes Store could push crucial content partners into the hands of competitors such as Google's Android.<br />
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Android has been rapidly gaining on iPhone and a slew of new Android phones and tablets are due out in Australia this year from vendors including Motorola, Samsung, HTC, and LG.<br />
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IDC telecommunications analyst Mark Novosel predicts Android will overtake Apple's iOS to become the number one smartphone platform in Australia by the middle of this year. From preliminary IDC findings, by the end of last year Android accounted for about a quarter of all new smart phones shipped.<br />
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Apple is now strictly enforcing rules stipulating that all newspapers and magazine subscriptions for the iPad be offered through the iTunes store, ensuring its 30 per cent cut of all subscription sales, as well as that of the app's initial purchase price.<br />
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Apple is also asking subscribers if they want their information to be shared with publishers, which could see them lose access to important data.<br />
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In Australia, publishers have had their apps rejected for exploiting loopholes that allow them to sell subscriptions and accept payments without giving a share to Apple. Sometimes apps are rejected without an explanation.<br />
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With Android, publishers have far more control over their apps and do not have to give a cut of revenue to anyone. But until Android cements its lead, publishers have no choice but to dance to Apple's tune if they want a share of the App Store's spoils - more than $1 billion was spent there in 2010, according to investment bank Gleicher & Co.<br />
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Some publishers around the world have said they feel betrayed by Apple's hardline approach as their support for the iPad helped ensure its success. The European Newspaper Publishers' Association was among the first to complain, saying it feared newspaper publishers would lose access to critical information about readers of their digital editions.<br />
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Media companies are busily developing apps for Android-powered phones and tablets to ensure their content gets out on to other devices.<br />
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But despite their desire for strong competition to Apple, local executives have stopped short of publicly criticising the company, which they rely on to approve their apps.<br />
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"Both publishers and consumers will benefit from a competitive tablet market. That will stimulate innovation and pricing competition," said Fairfax Digital CEO Jack Matthews.<br />
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"We want to make sure we are developing for multiple platforms so that we can encourage that competitive environment." News Ltd declined to comment.<br />
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Patrick Lo, global CEO of home networking giant Netgear, encapsulated the private fears of many media executives at a small lunch gathering in Sydney last month.<br />
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He said content providers were very "wary" of Apple as the closed model of iTunes meant they were forced to pay a "ransom" to the company for selling their content on the service.<br />
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"Steve Jobs wants to suffocate the distribution so even though he doesn't own the content he could basically demand a ransom," said Mr Lo.<br />
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However, Graham Clarke, CEO of the Australian app developer Glasshouse Apps, said Apple was within its rights to impose strict rules over iTunes as it built the mall, so to speak.<br />
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"I've never had a qualm with Apple's 30 per cent [share] - I think they earn it a few times over," said Clarke, pointing to the millions of potential customers Apple opens up for app makers. "The opportunity would just never have been there without the App Store ... they handle so much of the process so all that developers have to do is create a great app and put it on the App Store and Apple handles the rest."<br />
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Google’s newest iteration of its Android phone OS will include a wallet that lets you use your phone to make payments by tapping it against a cash register, CEO Eric Schmidt revealed Monday.<br />
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“This could eventually replace credit cards,” Schmidt said.<br />
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Android 2.3, codenamed Gingerbread, will be released in a “few weeks,” Schmidt said on stage at the Web 2.0 Summit conference in San Francisco. Schmidt showed off how so-called Near Field Communication would work using an unnamed smartphone he called an unannounced product. Using the software from Android and a NFC chip in the phone, Schmidt was able to “check in” to the conference, launching Google Maps, by touching the phone to a conference sign that had a built-in antenna.<br />
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(For geeks, there was little doubt Schmidt was showing off the Nexus S, a device thought to be made by Samsung as the successor to the original Nexus One. Unlike most other Android phones sold, the Nexus S will run the stock Android OS with no carrier modifications, making it the perfect phone for app developers and tinkerers.)<br />
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Near Field Communication sounds fancy, but it’s the same technology build into debit cards that can be used to make a payment by bumping against a reader at a store or gas pump. Android 2.3 devices that have the right on-board chip will be able to make payments using stored credit card numbers or other payment systems such as PayPal.<br />
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While U.S. geeks have long hungered for their phones to take the place of plastic credit cards, the NFC technology is not likely to replace credit card companies. In fact, Schmidt said those companies are excited about Near Field Communication because they think it will reduce fraud.<br />
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Despite running its own payment solution called Google Checkout, Google will be aggregating many payment systems, not trying to replace them, according to Schmidt.<br />
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“Ultimately, it is a personal, secure and aggregating technology,” Schmidt said.<br />
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Schmidt says he’s bullish on mobile and says it will be a core focus for Google.<br />
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“I don’t think people figured out how much more powerful the mobile devices would become than desktops,” he said, referring not to their processors, but to their ability to keep a user connected to the net everywhere and use location to customize the net.<br />
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Schmidt imagines a future where mobile users who opt in to getting notices and suggestions will have local merchants sending targeted deals their way. Companies with smart algorithms and knowledge of your likes and dislikes (such as Google) can send you suggestions — such as where you might like to go for a coffee, or even remind you that you needed dental floss and there’s a drugstore around the corner having a sale on it.<br />
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There’s a lot Google could do with mobile if it knew more about users’ friends and family — their so-called “social graph,” but right now, that data is mostly locked up in Facebook, Schmidt said.<br />
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“We think that link structure has great value,” Schmidt said “This kind of information is generally open so that its owners can move it around. I’m worried, as a general statement, that business structures are causing people to keep too much information private.”<br />
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“It’s possible to build these businesses using open protocols,” Schmidt said, clearly referring to Facebook’s Open Graph protocol, which data-portability advocates say is more about keeping people tied to Facebook than being open to all comers.<br />
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"I have here an unannounced product that I carry around with me," Schmidt said on Monday while pulling a touchscreen smartphone from a jacket pocket during an on-stage chat at a Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco.<br />
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"You will be able to take these mobile devices that will be able to do commerce," he continued. "Essentially, bump for everything and eventually replace credit cards. In the industry it is referred to as tap-and-pay."<br />
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The near-field chips store personal data that can be transmitted to readers, say at a shop checkout stand, by tapping a handset on a pad.<br />
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Schmidt hid markings that might reveal which company made the mobile phone, and playfully stuck with referring to it only as an unannounced product.<br />
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Google worked with Taiwanese electronics titan HTC to make the Nexus One handsets it released in January in a high profile entry into the booming smartphone market.<br />
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Nexus One smartphones built on Google's Android platform won raves for their capabilities but weren't a hit with buyers.<br />
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In a country where mobile phones are generally tied to specific wireless carriers - Apple iPhones with AT&T, for example - Google took a novel approach by selling the Nexus One without ties to, or subsidies from, any carriers.<br />
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Google eventually abandoned selling Nexus One handsets only online, switching to marketing the smartphones in real-world stores.<br />
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"I don't think people understand how powerful these things are," Schmidt said of smartphones. "This is a really good day for mobile."<br />
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Secure chips in handsets thwart fraud better than credit cards, he contended.<br />
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Google will rely on an online payments processor to handle the mechanics of purchases made using the chips in the new phones.<br />
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A tap-and-pay component should complement increasingly common location-based features that let merchants alert smartphone users to bargains available at nearby shops.<br />
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"I said there would never be a Nexus 2," Schmidt quipped. "Nothing about a Nexus S."<br />
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Google has been dipping into its war chest to buy technology startups seen as "gems" and to attract and retain talented workers.<br />
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Google recently gave pay raises to all of its employees worldwide, according to Schmidt.<br />
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"This is a war for talent," he said of the move. "It was a very nice day when everybody got raises."<br />
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When asked about the thrashing Google took in an array of countries after "Street View" imaging vehicles collected private data from wireless networks, Schmidt said the firm was conforming to standards in different regions.<br />
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"We learned with Street View and all of these things that you can't rush these products out," Schmidt said.<br />
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"The fact is that society is going to have to confront all sorts of uncomfortable questions ... as technology moves forward."<br />
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Some lines should not be crossed, such as building face-recognition or real-time tracking technology into services such as Street View, he noted.<br />
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Schmidt expected television studios to warm to Google TV, an offering that combines the internet and standard television programming.<br />
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"The industry concern seems to be that we are taking a dumb television and making it smart," Schmidt said of the effort to get studios to route content to sets equipped with Google TV.<br />
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"The concern is this enormous revenue stream to dumb TVs will be routed to the Internet. I think that is wrong. I think people will watch more television."Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3165937659291927135.post-68518380022978048252010-11-01T13:06:00.000+11:002010-11-01T13:06:43.101+11:00Nexus Two To Be First Native Android 2.3 DeviceThe Nexus One was the very first phone to get the upgrade to Android 2.2, so it makes sense that the Nexus Two will also be a flagship phone for a new Android operating system. If new reports are to be believed, it'll be the first to have Android 2.3, AKA Gingerbread, pre-installed.<br />
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The device, which was designed and manufactured by Samsung instead of HTC in collaboration with Google (like the Nexus One), will be officially unveiled November 8 at a pumped-up media event in Times Square. I4U will be on hand at the event to provide all the full details once they become official.<br />
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But for now, we're getting word that Android fans should be happy to hear. By incorporating Android 2.3, that would mean the new OS is complete and ready for deployment. Updates to existing Android phones should hopefully not be too far behind.<br />
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Other early details about the Nexus Two suggest it will have a 4-inch AMOLED or Super AMOLED display, a 1.2 GHz processor, 5 MP external camera and 1.3 MP front-facing camera, as well as 16 GB of internal storage and 512 MB of RAM.<br />
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It'll pack a powerful punch to the Android market, as those specs are more powerful than we've seen on any existing Android phone to date.<br />
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Again, the Nexus Two will be officially christened at an exclusive, balls-out New York City spectacle, and we'll be there to get all the juicy details. Stay tuned.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3165937659291927135.post-66126569507221761922010-10-31T12:09:00.003+11:002010-10-31T12:11:48.230+11:00HTC Desire HD hits Australia in November<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Q-JSg53A3nM/TMzBIEYcGZI/AAAAAAAAKfg/nbSmYHsktqA/s1600/HTC_Desire_HD.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="321" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Q-JSg53A3nM/TMzBIEYcGZI/AAAAAAAAKfg/nbSmYHsktqA/s400/HTC_Desire_HD.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Available early next month ... HTC Desire HD</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
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Last night Vodafone revealed that the Desire HD would be available for $0 upfront on a $59 a month plan with a two-year contract. It will also be available around the same time on 3 mobile but specific plans have yet to be announced.<br />
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The Desire HD is an update to the original Google Android-based Desire launched earlier this year, which many critics said was superior to the iPhone 3GS.<br />
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Telstra, which was for a time the exclusive carrier for the original Desire, pushed the Android platform heavily and tomorrow Vodafone will throw its weight behind Android with a major marketing campaign for the Desire HD. This will include a "Vodafone Android Island Party" attended by leading Australian music acts.<br />
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Google's Android platform has a smaller market share in Australia than the iPhone but several manufacturers, including HTC and Samsung, as well as the mobile carriers, have strongly backed it. By Christmas, the iPhone, Android and Windows Phone 7 platforms will be engaged in a cut-throat battle for smartphone supremacy.<br />
"The over-arching message is really that Android is giving power back to the telcos," said Telsyte mobile analyst Foad Fadaghi.<br />
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"It's giving them the opportunity to operate the way that they used to operate before the iPhone came around. Telcos want to own the customer, they want to have a greater slice of the value chain, they want to have their own app stores, and they don't want to be locked into the Apple way of doing things. That's why you're seeing the massive push from all of the carriers."<br />
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The Desire HD, an Android 2.2 handset, features a huge 4.3-inch touchscreen display (compared to 3.5-inch on the iPhone 4), an 8-megapixel camera, 720p video recording, a 1GHz processor, an aluminium unibody shell and Dolby/SRS sound support.<br />
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The phone comes with a new version of HTC's user interface overlay, Sense, which includes a number of small tweaks and access to a new suite of online services dubbed HTCSense.com.<br />
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HTCSense.com, which can be accessed from a PC, has some similarities to Apple's Mobile Me, allowing users to find their phone on a map if they lose it, trigger it to ring loudly, lock the device, erase all data, forward calls to another number or leave a text message for the finder of the phone.<br />
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A complete history of calls and text messages, even those that have been deleted from the handset, can be accessed at HTCSense.com, as can a range of wallpapers and plugins.<br />
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The new HTC Sense features a new navigation tool called HTC Locations, which includes turn-by-turn navigation and a compass that helps with orientation when users are on foot.<br />
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Like Nokia's Ovi Maps, the maps can be stored on the phone so users don't have to have an active data connection to access them. Through HTCSense.com, users can mark landmarks or specific locations on the map and have this data automatically sent to the phone.<br />
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Through a partnership with Kobo, users can access a range of e-books to read while also being able to highlight passages and add notes. Another new feature, HTC Fast Boot, promises to power the handsets up within 10 seconds.<br />
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There is also an improved camera app with photo editing tools allowing users to add effects such as fish eye and sepia.<br />
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Videos, photos and music stored on the phones can be played wirelessly on TVs that support DLNA home networking technology. Those without DLNA-enabled TVs can buy a dongle adapter.<br />
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Meanwhile, Vodafone, attempting to pre-empt findings from the Australian Communications and Media Authority's customer service inquiry, announced a major overhaul of its customer service capabilities today.<br />
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This includes a call back service to avoid customers having to wait on hold, new Vodafone and 3 handset service centres around the country that can do repairs within an hour and an online self-service application that lets customers better track their spending.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3165937659291927135.post-71429871058135597522010-10-24T23:00:00.001+11:002010-10-24T23:00:47.224+11:00Video allegedly shows Android 3.0's TV-like screen shutoffWhat is believed to be the first video (below) showing a handset powered by Android 3.0 (Gingerbread) has surfaced on Thursday. Courtesy of Phandroid, the video may not be much more than the blurry photo spotted on Monday, but it does show a piece of the OS that's more refined. Upon powering off, the screen "zaps" out not unlike an older tube TV shutting off.<br />
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In addition, Android Market users from 32 countries will be able to buy apps, with the addition of Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Hong Kong, India, Ireland, Israel, Mexico, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Singapore, Sweden, and Taiwan.<br />
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Official blurb <a href="http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2010/09/more-countries-more-sellers-more-buyers.html">here</a>.<br />
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Hardware specs<br />
Android 2.2 running TouchWiz 3.0<br />
7-inch TFT LCD with 1024 x 600 resolution (WSVGA)<br />
Weighs 380 grams<br />
1GHz Cortex A8 processor<br />
16GB or 32GB internal storage<br />
microSD expansion for up to 32GB additional storage<br />
Front-facing 1.3 megapixel camera and rear 3 megapixel camera with flash<br />
4,000mAh battery<br />
3G data / voice (there's a speakerphone and Bluetooth for phone calls, but no earpiece)<br />
5GHz dual-band 802.11n WiFi<br />
Standard back color is white, carriers might offer different colors<br />
Full HD video playback<br />
There's a 30-pin dock connector on the bottom that allows for HDMI, USB, and docking accessories (a car dock at least is planned)Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3165937659291927135.post-22272599700573773242010-07-13T12:21:00.000+10:002010-07-13T12:21:05.350+10:00Man Raises Money to Send Android Phone to Space<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Q-JSg53A3nM/TDvMva3X2dI/AAAAAAAAKHY/qNARuqRUoEk/s1600/Astdroid.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Q-JSg53A3nM/TDvMva3X2dI/AAAAAAAAKHY/qNARuqRUoEk/s1600/Astdroid.jpg" /></a></div><span id="goog_1116475430"></span><span id="goog_1116475431"></span>A total of 66 backers have pledged over $2,000 to help send the first Android phone to space.<br />
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The Astdroid project hails from Danny Pier, a 25 year-old self-described computer nerd who turned to Kickstarter to raise funds to get an Android smartphone into space.<br />
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Pier believes that he can outfit a weather ballon with an HTC Evo, and use its camera, transmitter, computing power and GPS technology to track the phone’s journey into space.<br />
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Funds will be allocated to finance the expenses of the weather balloons, recovery parachutes, helium and other supplies. Pier will also write an application for the device that will take photos and videos of the journey, as well as automatically transmit the device’s location for tracking purposes.<br />
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Pier’s ultimate goal is to prove that it’s not difficult to send a smartphone in to space, capture the journey and retrieve it once it returns to Earth. He will document his successes and failures along the way using social media. Pier hopes his endeavors will encourage others to follow his lead.<br />
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Score another win for innovation at the hands of Kickstarter’s alternative fundraising application.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3165937659291927135.post-71723754215451052942010-07-12T21:59:00.001+10:002010-07-12T22:00:44.400+10:00Google announces Google App Inventor, a simple-to-use DIY app maker.Today Google announced a simple-to-use DIY app maker called Google App Inventor. <br />
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Google App Inventor brings Android development to non-programmers, employing a design scheme that relies on visual blocks rather than writing pages of code, the App Inventor -- In true Google style, still in Beta, of course -- has functions for just about anything you can do with an Android handset, including access to GPS and phone functionality. <br />
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I can imagine this would be fantastic in classrooms.<br />
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more information here: <a href="http://appinventor.googlelabs.com/about/">http://appinventor.googlelabs.com/about/</a><br />
complete this form to apply for access: <a href="https://services.google.com/fb/forms/appinventorinterest/">https://services.google.com/fb/forms/appinventorinterest/</a><br />
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</div>Google plans to push its Android mobile software in India and China and is exploring ways for developers to make more money from applications, stepping up competition with Apple and Nokia.<br />
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To attract programmers to its Android operating system, Google may offer tools that help them sell subscriptions, virtual goods and other items from within applications on mobile phones, Andy Rubin, vice president for engineering at Google, said during an interview.<br />
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The company also aims to put its Android system on lower-priced phones made by Huawei and LG in parts of Asia and Europe, where it is taking on Nokia, the mobile market leader.<br />
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“The down-market opportunity is about to happen,” Mr. Rubin said. “It’s actually quite a revolution.”<br />
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Google is trying to get more of its software on mobile devices, opening up new opportunities to sell advertising, its main source of revenue. The total mobile ad market will grow to $13.5 billion in 2013, from less than $1 billion last year, according to the research firm Gartner.<br />
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Google lags behind Apple in mobile applications, which are a growing platform for ads and are helping to breed customer loyalty to devices. Android users have about 65,000 applications available, fewer than a third as many as Apple, which has more than 200,000.<br />
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Google is taking steps to hasten Android’s growth. By increasing its presence in new markets like South Korea, Google managed to drive up the number of users who activated Android devices to 160,000 a day in June, from 100,000 in May, the company said. The majority of the sales of Android-based phones were in the United States.<br />
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Gartner predicts that Android will pass Apple’s iOS system by 2012 to become the world’s second-most-popular mobile operating system behind Nokia’s Symbian.<br />
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Among the incentives for application developers, Mr. Rubin said, are making it easier to accept payments within the applications themselves or to sell subscriptions.<br />
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Most Android developers still make money from placing ads within their applications or from one-time fees. That makes it harder for them to earn as much as their Apple counterparts. Of the $4.4 billion that consumers will spend on application downloads this year, Apple’s App Store will receive at least 77 percent of the revenue, according to Futuresource Consulting in Dunstable, England. The Android Market application store will collect 9 percent.<br />
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While businesses like eBay’s PayPal already allow payments to be made within their Android applications, dealing with multiple companies increases the complexity, Mr. Rubin said. Since starting its in-application payments tool May 19, PayPal has been downloaded by more than 1,000 developers, said Osama Bedier, a vice president at PayPal. Most of the developers came from China.<br />
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In connection with efforts described by Mr. Rubin involving Huawei, a Chinese maker of wireless equipment, and LG of South Korea, Huawei released four Android phones and an Android-based tablet device in February.<br />
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Getting more of Google’s software on phones in China has the potential to increase ad revenue to help offset sales Google might lose if the Chinese government refuses to renew the company’s license to operate its Internet search engine there.<br />
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Smaller Chinese manufacturers, which account for about 10 percent of the global supply of mobile phones, are also adopting Android, seeking to gain market share with lower-priced devices.<br />
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Many pin their hopes on MediaTek of Taiwan, which supplies chips for lowcost phones sold in Asia, Africa and South America. The company has joined the Open Handset Alliance, the group that promotes Android, Google said. Devices based on MediaTek may cost carriers as little as $70 each, said Carolina Milanesi, an analyst at Gartner.<br />
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Today, the least expensive Android phones cost carriers about $200, while low-cost Symbian devices run to about $170, she said.<br />
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As more lower-priced phones reach the market, more carriers will offer the devices to consumers free.<br />
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That approach will help position Android against Nokia. While Nokia controls only a fraction of the U.S. market, it is the leading phone maker globally.<br />
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“As Android develops, the main vendor who is going to feel the pressure is Nokia,” Ms. Milanesi said.<br />
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In the first quarter, more than 41 percent of smartphones shipped worldwide were powered by Symbian. Almost 16 percent used Apple’s operating system and 10 percent ran Android, according to ABI Research, a consulting firm based in New York.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3165937659291927135.post-75509135761481557322010-07-01T17:10:00.000+10:002010-07-01T17:10:24.637+10:00Google's 'superphone' launches in Australia<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q-JSg53A3nM/TCw94ME11JI/AAAAAAAAKEE/DQcMLF-b-ek/s1600/google-nexus-one3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q-JSg53A3nM/TCw94ME11JI/AAAAAAAAKEE/DQcMLF-b-ek/s320/google-nexus-one3.jpg" /></a></div><br />
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Google's much hyped Nexus One 'superphone' finally went on sale in Australia today with Vodafone Hutchison Australia snapping up the exclusive online rights to sell the handset.<br />
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The Nexus One will be available on a “first-come, first-served” exclusively through VHA's website for $0 on a $79 cap over 24 months.<br />
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The Nexus One is a Google-branded handset created in partnership with Taiwanese manufacturer HTC to showcase the Android eco-system, but its release has been overshadowed by flood of other high performance Android phones such as the HTC Desire.<br />
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Google closed down its US online store in May created especially for the smartphone after failing to market the device via the web, leaving analysts and technology bloggers questioning whether this might signal the end of the Nexus One.<br />
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In spite of this, Google last week released figures that revealed its Android operating system was winning ground from the likes Apple and Microsoft, with 160,000 new Android handsets being activated every day around the world, and over 65,000 apps now available to download from its market.<br />
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The Nexus One runs on version 2.1 of Android which is voice enabled and includes Google maps, interactive wallpapers, and enhanced social networking switching capabilities.<br />
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The handset is also expected to be the first phone to get the Android 2.2 (Froyo) update when it is launched.<br />
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VHA also announced today it would increase monthly mobile data allowance across most of its Vodafone and 3 contract plans with “anywhere from double to ten times the current data allocation, depending on the plan,” it said.<br />
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“It's great to be delivering even more value at a time when prices continue to rise on most other everyday items,” said John Casey, director of marketing.<br />
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Coinciding the with VHA announcement, Telstra cut the price of caps on its HTC Desire to $49 and $79, and increased the download limits to 200MB and 500MB respectively.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3165937659291927135.post-6024144594410383782010-05-03T20:28:00.001+10:002010-05-03T20:28:54.902+10:007-inch tablet from Aigo says hi! Look at moi!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Q-JSg53A3nM/S96kul6b21I/AAAAAAAAJL0/9MOu6ggA7F4/s1600/aigo-n700.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="219" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Q-JSg53A3nM/S96kul6b21I/AAAAAAAAJL0/9MOu6ggA7F4/s320/aigo-n700.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />
According to new details surfacing in China, this 7-inch tablet from Aigo / Patriot will hum along on a 1GHz ARM Cortex A9 processor and feature NVIDIA's Tegra 2 graphics chipset.<br />
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There's also 512MB of DDR2 memory, an 800 x 480 pixel multitouch display, 4/16/32GB of inbuilt storage, a USB socket, microSD slot, HDMI output, inbuilt WiFi, optional 3G WWAN, audio in / out and a 3,120mAh battery. Android 2.1 will be the OS of choice.<br />
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.. More details when available.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3165937659291927135.post-66990974247880348642010-04-25T12:40:00.001+10:002010-04-25T13:02:42.991+10:00Awesome Nexus One soft case<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Google-Nexus-Pure-Crystal-Smoke/dp/B0007PRGNC?ie=UTF8&tag=andwornew-20&link_code=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969" imageanchor="1" target="_blank"><img alt="Google Nexus One Pure Crystal Slip (Smoke Grey)" src="http://ws.amazon.com/widgets/q?MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&ID=AsinImage&WS=1&Format=_SL160_&ASIN=B0007PRGNC&tag=andwornew-20" /></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=andwornew-20&l=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=B0007PRGNC" style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important;" width="1" /></div><br />
Perfect case for those that want a decent amount of protection for their Nexus one goodness, without the bulkness of some cases. This seems to be one of the better soft cases on the market at the moment.<br />
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Still feels like the Nexus-One with the case on which is unusual for most. Cut outs are perfect. Good if you keep your phone in your pants pocket because you dont have to struggle to pull it out. <br />
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Spend the extra ten bucks and get this case other than the cheap plastic one.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3165937659291927135.post-66007352188311455712010-04-25T09:36:00.000+10:002010-04-25T09:36:09.789+10:00Paypal to offer In-App Purchases on Android & iPhone?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Q-JSg53A3nM/S9N_-KTuN1I/AAAAAAAAJIs/sNn2y05eZJU/s1600/paypal.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Q-JSg53A3nM/S9N_-KTuN1I/AAAAAAAAJIs/sNn2y05eZJU/s1600/paypal.jpg" /></a></div><br />
Apparently during an informal meeting at its Amsterdam headquarters, Paypal has announced it will be facilitating In-App Purchases in iPhone and Android applications.<br />
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According to Paypal Benelux Country Manager Dennis van Allermeersch, Paypal has managed to come up with a solution that is acceptable to Apple, Allermeersch noting: “We have found a way, Apple is OK with it”.<br />
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Android users will also be able to use Paypal as a payment method in the Android Market, adding an alternative to Google Checkout transactions.<br />
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At the time of writing there are very few details explaining how Paypal’s new service will work. <br />
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Paypal will apparently launch their In-App payment service in Q2 to the US, Canada, UK, France, Italy, The Netherlands and Australia.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3165937659291927135.post-87967960785718929202010-04-23T12:43:00.000+10:002010-04-23T12:43:51.719+10:00Dell Looking Glass tablet : Tegra 2, coming your way in November<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q-JSg53A3nM/S9EIvg31Z4I/AAAAAAAAJIo/w5bSzBQxxKM/s1600/dell1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="136" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q-JSg53A3nM/S9EIvg31Z4I/AAAAAAAAJIo/w5bSzBQxxKM/s320/dell1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />
It was already rumoured that Dell was working on larger tablets, and tonight's huge leak brought us tons of info on the Looking Glass, a seven-inch big brother to the Streak 5 that's due out in November. <br />
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For starters, it's running Android 2.1 on a Tegra 2 processor, with an optional TV tuner module so you can watch ATSC or DVB-T programming on the seven-inch 800x480 display -- the same resolution as the Streak.<br />
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RAM is pegged at 4GB, with another 4GB of flash for storage and an SDHC slot for up to 32GB of expansion, and there's a 1.3 megapixel camera.<br />
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Apparently, Dell plans to fashion this thing out of a slice of "curved glass," topping out at 11mm thick with a 3.5-inch WVGA LCD, 850 / 1900 / 2100MHz HSPA, a 5 megapixel autofocus cam with image stabilization and smile / blink detection, 512MB of RAM and ROM with microSD expansion up to 64GB, WiFi, TV-out, 3.5mm headphone jack, Bluetooth 3.0, and a Qualcomm MSM7230 core humming along nicely at 800MHz.<br />
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The MSM7230 is part of Qualcomm's next generation lineup of midrange smartphone cores, a series that looks to bring Snapdragon-class performance to the masses with HD video out capability and -- hopefully, anyway -- the performance you'll need to make Flash 10.1 fly.<br />
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Dell plans to load this bad boy with Android Froyo, presumably with the same kind of custom skin that it'll start pushing with the Streak series this year; we're seeing references to a so-called "Stage UI," and we think that's what it is. This one's mentioned for a first quarter '11 release on AT&T and globally.. sometimes thereafter.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3165937659291927135.post-7456640097263000722010-04-23T12:30:00.000+10:002010-04-23T12:36:28.799+10:00Dell Thunder surfaces, sporting Android 2.1 with 4.1-inch WVGA OLED<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q-JSg53A3nM/S9EFgzDJUtI/AAAAAAAAJIY/VEVV-Ua8GPg/s1600/dell-thunder-top-2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="302" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q-JSg53A3nM/S9EFgzDJUtI/AAAAAAAAJIY/VEVV-Ua8GPg/s320/dell-thunder-top-2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />
It's like Dell's making up for lost time with smartphones: while "Lightning" is the company's answer to Windows Phone extravagance, the Dell Thunder that's leaking out alongside sports Android 2.1, a 4.1-inch WVGA OLED screen and a heavily custom Dell "Stage" UI on top, which seems much different (and classier) than what we've seen on the Streak or Aero.<br />
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It apparently ties into Facebook and Twitter for social networking, and taps Swype for a touchscreen keyboard replacement, along with grabbing just a pinch of HTC's Sense good looks.<br />
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Dell's document also claims this has Flash 10.1 for watching web videos, along with a mention of an "integrated web video Hulu app."<br />
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Under the hood we'd guess there's the same Snapdragon chip that's powering the Lightning, but we don't have specific specs. There is supposed to be an 8 megapixel camera, however, and the phone will be sold in AT&T and world-friendly HSDPA versions around Q4 of this year, with an LTE model to follow near the end of 2011.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3165937659291927135.post-44329477136780062202010-04-22T21:57:00.001+10:002010-04-25T09:39:15.551+10:00Android 2.2 on the horizon.. ?<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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According to website logs, Google is actively testing Android 2.2. Better known as Froyo (<b>fro</b>zen <b>yo</b>gurt), the future release is showing up in web logs from those visiting sites. <br />
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What 2.2 will entail hasn't been discussed by Google, but it should have a number of important additions despite the small version number. Among the steps may included an attempt to reduce Android fragmentation by making it possible to update some OS components without needing entirely new firmware. It should also provide the necessary underpinnings for Flash 10.1.<br />
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Many of the less critical changes should still improve performance and could bring new OpenGL ES 2.0 graphics features, free up RAM and solve problems with the accuracy of the touchscreen on phones like the Nexus One. Many features in the Nexus One may actually be hidden until future Android releases come out, Google's Erick Tseng said at CES.<br />
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The most likely release window for Android 2.2 is May 19th, when Google starts its I/O conference. The event in the past has included significant Android news.<br />
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Google has been on a relatively aggressive update schedule and has been adding large feature updates even with minor upgrades. The add-ons have been critical to the successes of phones like the Droid but, in the current architecture, has left many Android phones running outdated platforms and being locked out of certain apps.<br />
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Chief rival Apple is believed to have benefited from taking direct control of both hardware and software by giving every recent device the same features at the same time. The strategy is known to have spurred on the creation of the Nexus One.<br />
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Some of the rumored features for Android 2.2 include:<br />
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The feature set for Android 2.2 was frozen long ago, but it remains mostly unknown. Google decided last year that they would no longer publish public roadmaps for future versions of Android. Based on the information we can gather, it appears Android 2.2 will mainly focus on performance enhancements.<br />
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The JIT compiler has already been confirmed by Google and we expect to find out new details during Google I/O, which starts May 19. Android engineers will be leading a discussion that informs devs how to test and tune their apps to work with the new compiler.<br />
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Additional free RAM should come thanks to the new Linux kernel being used in Froyo. Google is moving from 2.6.29 to the newer 2.6.32 which makes it possible to address the extra RAM. This has already been done in custom ROMs like CyanogenMod so expect this feature for sure.<br />
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It has long been rumored that Froyo (or a future build) will add new APIs to the Android NDK which will let Java devs have full access to the OpenGL ES 2.0 library.<br />
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Flash 10.1 is coming in the first half of the year. It is entirely possible it could be tied to a future Android firmware and be included with an OTA update.<br />
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We have already addressed the HTC touch sensor issues. It sounds like a future software update could be used to clean this up a little.<br />
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Multicolor trackball notifications are definitely coming. Android hackers like ChainsDD have already unlocked this feature for users of custom ROMs. Google advertised the multicolor trackball during its launch of the Nexus One, but the feature was cut from the final Android 2.1 build.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3165937659291927135.post-20202574412713034952010-04-21T08:48:00.006+10:002010-04-21T09:02:36.986+10:00Ford’s SYNC AppLink Brings Android and BlackBerry Apps to Your Car<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q-JSg53A3nM/S84wPpx3sRI/AAAAAAAAJGo/el40ZRuJu1s/s1600/ford-logo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q-JSg53A3nM/S84wPpx3sRI/AAAAAAAAJGo/el40ZRuJu1s/s200/ford-logo.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>Today Ford released SYNC AppLink, a downloadable software upgrade for Ford SYNC systems that will allow hands-free voice control of popular applications for the Android & BlackBerry smartphones. The first car to get SYNC AppLink support will be the 2011 Fiesta which will be available later this summer.<br />
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In January Ford announced the next version of the Ford SYNC system, MyFord Touch which incorporated, amongst other things, in-car internet connectivity (when parked). When MyFord Touch was announced, Ford also said it would support third-party mobile applications for a seamless connected experience. Enter SYNC AppLink.<br />
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Pandora, Stitcher and OpenBeak are the first SYNC-enabled mobile apps that will be available. Using AppLink, BlackBerry and Android users can access and control their applications using their voice and in-dash car controls, rather than having to connect a phone to an line-in jack and fumbling with the phone while keeping an eye on the road.<br />
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Furthermore, Ford is launching a new <a href="http://syncmyride.com/developer">Mobile Application Developer Network</a> so that Android and BlackBerry developers can build in SYNC support for their applications. The possibilities for this sort of integration are tremendous. Just imagine the potential of leveraging a geolocation app with an in-dash navigation system.<br />
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Check out this video that shows Ford SYNC AppLink in action with Pandora and Stitcher:<br />
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While there are adapters that you can purchase to better integrate the Pandora and smartphone experience for third-party head units, this is one of the most seamless examples of app-to-phone integration that we’ve seen on the factory level.<br />
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Check out this extended demonstration of Pandora using SYNC AppLink:<br />
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AppLink will roll out to other models in the SYNC ecosystem next year.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3165937659291927135.post-61436496240073606922010-04-17T22:44:00.000+10:002010-04-17T22:44:05.490+10:00Dell's 7-inch and 10-inch Streak tablets leaked<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Q-JSg53A3nM/S8mrjGDQv3I/AAAAAAAAJGM/2eTTKsgdTYo/s1600/dell_streak_tablets.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="110" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Q-JSg53A3nM/S8mrjGDQv3I/AAAAAAAAJGM/2eTTKsgdTYo/s320/dell_streak_tablets.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />
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It looks as if a 7-inch and 10-inch Dell Streak tablet is on the horizon. Apparently the "coming soon" we heard earlier regarding the Aero's release date on AT&T really means "June."<br />
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Later this "summer," the phone will be joined by the Streak 5 for those who prefer a more capable mobile. As for the 7-inch Streak? Look for it to launch (presumably with or without AT&T support) late in 2010, while a 10-inch flavor follows in "early 2011."Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3165937659291927135.post-67739078926124246332010-04-17T22:29:00.002+10:002010-04-21T09:09:12.936+10:00Dell Aero coming to At&T in the USA<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Q-JSg53A3nM/S8mnj3xyOQI/AAAAAAAAJGI/0KCW99M5qhw/s1600/23mar10dellaero355.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Q-JSg53A3nM/S8mnj3xyOQI/AAAAAAAAJGI/0KCW99M5qhw/s320/23mar10dellaero355.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />
Dell's first entrant into the US smartphone market with a renamed Mini 3 called the Aero for AT&T. There's some serious Android UI skinning going on here, promising Picasa, Flickr, Facebook, YouTube, and Twitpic integration right out of the box.<br />
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Allow me to introduce the InTouch Max’s big brother, the LG LU2300. <br />
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With a 1GHz processor as standard it packs enough of a punch to compete for the affections of android smartphone users with the likes of the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 and the HTC Legend.<br />
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Features:<br />
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<ul><li>3.5inch capacitive touchscreen</li>
<li>1GHz Snapdragon Processor</li>
<li>4 line landcape slide QWERTY keyboard</li>
<li>DivX support</li>
<li>Wi-Fi</li>
<li>DMB Tuner</li>
<li>5 megapixel camera complete with geo-tagging</li>
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The word on the street also says that it has a commitment to Augmented Reality, with built in AR apps as standard.<br />
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It is due for release in Korea in April or May this year and we can only hope that it is such a big hit that it is given a wider release soon.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3165937659291927135.post-37560360620350602562010-04-11T22:11:00.001+10:002010-04-11T22:12:23.513+10:00More Android phones to hit Aussie shores in the next few months..<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Q-JSg53A3nM/S5oQ0njsu2I/AAAAAAAAIgs/3PhhGYgzv9A/s1600-h/australian_flag.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5447685195415993186" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Q-JSg53A3nM/S5oQ0njsu2I/AAAAAAAAIgs/3PhhGYgzv9A/s400/australian_flag.png" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 319px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" border="0" /></a><br />This month sees the launch of a new wave of Google phones in Australia. Most run the much-improved Android 2.0 OS.<br /><br />First in Android's new wave is Motorola, which hopes its Google phones will spur a return to the glory days of the stylish, slim RAZR and, a decade before, the original Star Trek-style flip phone.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Q-JSg53A3nM/S8G60dXAN8I/AAAAAAAAJFU/lLBUyVmXaS8/s1600/motorola-dext-smartphone.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Q-JSg53A3nM/S8G60dXAN8I/AAAAAAAAJFU/lLBUyVmXaS8/s320/motorola-dext-smartphone.jpg" height="291" width="320" border="0" /></a></div><br /><br />This week sees the launch of the Motorola Dext and Backflip on the Optus network.<br /><br />Both complement the now-mandatory touchscreen with a compact QWERTY keypad. The Dext is a more conventional slider, while the Backflip uses a hinge to position its screen at a lean-back angle suitable for watching videos or even using as a bedside alarm clock.<br /><br />Despite using a mid-range 530MHz processor and running last year's Android 1.5 operating system, the Dext and Backflip are snappy performers with their own appeal beyond the Android OS itself.<br /><br />That's because both sport a customised interface known as Motoblur. This puts the social networking services of Facebook, Twitter and MySpace right on to the phone's home screen.<br /><br />Instead of having to log into individual apps for each service to read messages, post updates and browse uploaded photo galleries, widgets on the Motoblur home page provide live feeds that are updated constantly over the 3G network.<br /><br />Motoblur also integrates messages from these social networking sites, plus emails and SMS texts, into a single view.<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Q-JSg53A3nM/S3u74lBrAFI/AAAAAAAAIZI/MAfyaltUvqw/s1600-h/htcdesire-660x736.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5439147555666198610" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Q-JSg53A3nM/S3u74lBrAFI/AAAAAAAAIZI/MAfyaltUvqw/s400/htcdesire-660x736.jpg" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; height: 400px; text-align: center; width: 359px;" border="0" /></a><br />This month Telstra will release its first Android smartphone, the HTC Desire, which will use its Next G network. The Desire ticks every box on the techno-lust list. There's a powerhouse 1GHz processor, the over-fresh Android 2.1 operating system, a five-megapixel camera, FM radio and a brilliantly crisp 9.4-centimetre AMOLED (active-matrix organic LED) screen. Unlike the iPhone and some other smartphones, the Desire supports Flash, so you don't have to miss out on most of the streaming video clips on news and entertainment websites.<br /><br />HTC has also planted its own Sense user interface onto the Desire. Sense comes with dozens of classy widgets, integrates each contact's Facebook and Twitter details into your address book and includes a Friend Stream app that combines feeds from Facebook, Twitter and Flickr.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Q-JSg53A3nM/S8G7shyC9-I/AAAAAAAAJFY/66Jx3D-LBg4/s1600/sony_ericsson_xperia_x10.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Q-JSg53A3nM/S8G7shyC9-I/AAAAAAAAJFY/66Jx3D-LBg4/s320/sony_ericsson_xperia_x10.jpg" height="320" width="298" border="0" /></a></div><br />Also sitting on the Android launch pad is Sony Ericsson's Xperia X10, which will arrive on Vodafone and Three in early May.<br /><br />The Xperia X10 matches the HTC Desire with its 1GHz processor but ups the digital camera to eight megapixels, with snaps and video clips shown to best effect on the 10.2-centimetre screen.<br /><br />Sony Ericsson's Timescape user interface ties together social networking updates with emails, phone calls and text messages but it's more akin to the Motoblur home screen than the top-to-tail experience of HTC Sense.<br /><br />By mid-year we'll also see the palm-sized X10 Mini, which has a 6.3-centimetre touchscreen and, in the X10 Mini Pro version, a tiny slide-out keyboard.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Q-JSg53A3nM/S8G8VTHzhyI/AAAAAAAAJFc/NVyOcITQH0g/s1600/Samsung-Galaxy-S-580x580.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Q-JSg53A3nM/S8G8VTHzhyI/AAAAAAAAJFc/NVyOcITQH0g/s320/Samsung-Galaxy-S-580x580.jpg" height="320" width="320" border="0" /></a></div>Also poised for a likely mid-year release is Samsung's second-gen Android handset, the Galaxy S. This is another phone packing a 1GHz powerplant and a 10.2-centimetre screen but the enhanced Super AMOLED screen has to be seen to be believed. It's not just brighter but the colours have more density and punch, while also less reflective of sunlight and drawing less power (which means longer battery life).<br />Things are really starting to heat up!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3165937659291927135.post-29203926254035226702010-04-07T22:31:00.000+10:002010-04-07T22:31:40.191+10:00LG LU2300 Android phone gets some pics, possibly coming soon<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q-JSg53A3nM/S7x6tBQGgCI/AAAAAAAAJEM/24kf1gDhlFk/s1600-h/LU2300-2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="192" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q-JSg53A3nM/S7x6tBQGgCI/AAAAAAAAJEM/24kf1gDhlFk/s320/LU2300-2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Q-JSg53A3nM/S7x6uBjfxdI/AAAAAAAAJEQ/keizMOwLIbY/s1600-h/LU2300-hand.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="192" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Q-JSg53A3nM/S7x6uBjfxdI/AAAAAAAAJEQ/keizMOwLIbY/s320/LU2300-hand.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Just to add to the slew of sexy Android devices that have appeared recently, it appears that we finally have some pictures of the LG LU2300 Android handset. This phone has been rumored for awhile now but now we get to see what this beauty looks like.<br />
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The LG LU2300 runs Android 2.1 w/ the “S-Class UI” (LG’s own user interface), a 3.5″ capacitive AMOLED touchscreen (800 x 480), 5MP camera capable of HD video, a roomy 4 row landscape keyboard, and a 1GHz Snapdragon on board.<br />
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According to all the talk it may only be available in Korea for now with not much evidence that it will make it’s way to the US. However, PocketNow is speculating that it could be released under the “C710 Aloha” in the States.<br />
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LG hasn’t done too much with Android so far so it’s good to see that they are coming with a powerful device. While it is no Samsung Galaxy S, the LU2300 looks like it could be a contender. The next few months are looking like they're going to be filled with amazing Android handsets. No wonder all those consumers are thinking Android.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0