Friday, December 31, 2010

Wish u a happy New Year

Lets pray for the happiness, prosperity and peace in 2011.

Sunday, December 26, 2010

Google's Nexus S shocks Google engineers with its outer atmosphere performance.

The team from Google are happy and have been taken by pleasant surprise after Nexus S, the Official Google's second phone, was found working even fine even at the earth's outer atmosphere - at 60,000 feet.

The tiny Androids strapped to seven payloads to test the outer limits of Nexus S were carried into the Earth's outer atmosphere using weather balloons, the Daily Mail reported.

Thursday, December 16, 2010

Sony Playstation app for android coming soon.

Sony, makers of gaming console Playstation, is going to launch free iPhone and Android apps for Playstation likely to be at early 2011.

According to the company, the first versions of the apps will come to the UK, France, Germany, Spain, Italy and The Netherlands, with more countries expected soon.

Saturday, December 11, 2010

New, improved android market on its way.


Recently some of the high end droid users have found a new tab added to their android market which fueled that some thing in android market is at cook.

So the cook was true :P, as we may see new and improved android market in the coming weeks or by the end of this month for devices running android v1.6 +.

Friday, December 10, 2010

300,000 android activation per day : Andy Rubin

Google is making merry with more than 300,000 Android activation per day. This latest info comes via tweet from Android creator Andy Rubin.Andy Rubin said Dec. 8 that there are now 300,000 Android phones being activated each day.

According to ComScore, Android OS market share makes up 23.5 percent of U.S. smartphone sales, trailing Apple at 24.6 percent, and RIM at 35.8 percent.

Euro zone get HTC Legend FROYO update.

Get the Froyo............. HTC via its twitter account have officially announced the availability to upgrade to Android v2.2 (FroYo) for the HTC Legend smartphone located in Europe.

Pre order your Notion Ink's adam Tab now......(Now US only)

According to me, the most awaited android tab..... many analyst calls iPad killer is now can be pre-orderd. Ya, its Notion Ink's adam tablet which runs of android OS.

At present US can preorder, the rest of the world have to wait a week or so....

Price of adam's variants:
  • LCD Wi-Fi version: $375.33
  • LCD Wi-Fi+3G version: $425.33
  • Pixel Qi (transflective display)
  • Pixel Qi (transflective display)

Cheers!!! LG optimus Android to get v2.3 updates.

After receiving critical feedback from Tech sites, LG goes back on its words of not upgrading optimus one variants to recently released v2.3 update. Now, comes up statement that it will definitely upgrade its phones.

Optimus One variant, including other series can now have tasty Gingerbread.

In damage control, company apologized for its earlier denial, where it incorrectly argued that none of its Optimus phones could handle Android 2.3 due to requirements. "We sincerely apologize for the confusion and misunderstanding that was caused regarding this issue," LG wrote.

HTC HD2 capable of Android 2.3?

Xda-developers show the excitation of release of Android 2.3 with their updated list of phones running Android 2.3, Gingerbread.

At present in the list there are 9 phones, including HTC HD2. Other includes HTC Droid Eris, HTC Hero, HTC Hero CDMA, HTC Desire, HTC Wildfire, HTC EVO 4G, HTC Incredible and HTC Sapphire.

Nimbuzz 2.0.2 app for android makes HD voice call.


Nimbuzz is the first popular multi-IM services to offer HD voice calls on android.

Latest version, Nimbuzz 2.0.2, featuring peer-to-peer calling system which skips call routing to the servers and instead makes a direct connection between two mobile devices. With this new feature, there is a reduce in connection delay and dropped calls drastically, and improves voice quality. With real-time HD status indicator tells you on which connection you are(3G or Wi-Fi_ automatically.

Zynga's Mafia War on android by the end of this month... Next Farmville?

Popular online Game makers Zynga's Mafia war, which rouse to certain level via facrbook soon gonna try it luck at the android phone. David Ko, current SVP of Mobile at gaming superstar Zynga, said that Mafia wars gonna enter the Android Market in this month.

Poker by Zynga already on the Android Market, so what will be the next to android gamers?

David ko tell the revenue from these games will be decided in the future.

Monday, December 6, 2010

Google's Nexus S specifications.

The first smart phone with pre-installed Google's latest android OS v 2.3 (Gingerbread) is Nexus S, manufactured by Samsung.

Its really big day for android as Gingerbread v2.3 SDK is now available for download.


At last At last the Gingerbread android v2.3 is out for the developers worlds. Thought it was expected to be expected to be launched in mid November at Web 2.0 summit. Though Google CEO Eric Schmidt show what the v2.3 can do at that event.

Nook color e-book reader hacked to run Android OS, reversed engineered :P[Video]

Amazon's kindle competitor, Barnes and Noble's e-book reader is hacked.......

Nook color is powered by 800MHz processor, 512MB of RAM and a 1024 x 600 pixel display with capacitive touchscreen, priced for just $250. Now instead of reading e-book, now you can transform it Android tablet.

HTML5 and Flash are the two major addition for the coming Opera browser for Android.

According to Opera team member Pavel Studen blog post, next version of opera browser for android will accommodate two major features playing HTML5 video and other being Adobe Flash Player plug-in.

"New Web technologies aim to replace it, but Flash will be around for some time. If you have Flash player installed on your phone, Opera will support it," said mobile team member Pavel Studen in a blog post.

Opera Mobile browser for Android is still in beta so lot more work is to be done, written in the C++ language, not the Java as major other app does.

Src: [my.opera/blog]

Gingerbread v2.3 may be out today, Notion ink claims big day for android on Dec 6.

Andy Rubin, founder of Android is going to address D:Dive Into Mobile Conference in San Francisco today. So what may be the big deal?

Woohaaaa Gingerbread v2.3 is expected to be announced today by him at conference.

Why today (Dec 6) ?

Samsung Galaxy Tab shines million times.


Samsung is enjoying the success with Android OS, after Galaxy S smart phone now its Galaxy Tab which Samsung claims to have sold more than million Tabs.

No details were made available regarding the region which gave the highest sales but thanked the holiday season for achieving the million mark swiftly.

Saturday, December 4, 2010

SkyGrid, business news aggregator come to Android.


SkyGrid, a business news aggregator, comes to Android arena.

SkyGrid’s app allows you to add filters to news streams, which lets you know the most happening news.

With its patented algorithm, SkyGrid measures what news is spreading the fastest across the world, and brings that content directly to its apps.

Checkpoints for android gets Kickstarted.


CheckPoints is a mobile shopping rewards app that lets consumers choose their own rewards.

CheckPoints is rapidly growing mobile shopping app competing with Shopkick and Barcode Hero on the iPhone, getting its first 100K users in one month.

Second Gingerbread teaser, this time the Sony playstation phone .

This the Sony playstation can keep quite untill it come out of its shell. I think i loving all the attention its getting. Cant say who is behind it :P.

A video on Sony playstation phone named Zeus is out and out again, this time on popular video sharing site Youtube showing its Android interface clearly showing the version of the Android, v2.3 i.e., Gingerbread .

Notion Inc's Adam is going to announce some interesting on Dec 6.

Updates form the Notion ink's Blog.

Rohan is happy with progress. He says that Adam is done with FCC, all 6 variants have passed EMI tests. Claims to expand in its portfolio.

CEO Roshan hints something BIG on December 6, hints to showcase the power of Adam-android.

Lets see what would it be .....

Android Market gets sorted, adds new tab.


Looks like Android Market is getting well organised. Some Android users see something new on Android Market.

Android Market adds new section/tab for ease operating while browsing apps. This new tab suggest an app similar to the app you are browsing. At present this is said to be confirmed to some android phones only.

Friday, December 3, 2010

Google's Chrome Team publishes invitation for Dec 7, Sneak peak of Chrome netbook keyboard.


Google's Chrome Team had announced an event in San Francisco on December 7th.

At this event they might be revealing its much hyped browser OS, i.e., Chrome OS which is made to run on netbook , in addition to the launch of the Chrome Web App Store.

Tech site Engadget publish how the Chrome OS netbook keyboard may look like. This pic was taken from an Inventec presentation.

Thursday, December 2, 2010

Knowingly or unknowingly, Google Hong Kong teases out Gingerbread v2.3


Woooo this time the world got to see the Gingerbread running on phone, crystal clearlly. May be it done it knowing or unknowingly. The teaser is on fire in the Web.

In a voice search video tutorial from Google Hong Kong, Gingerbread appears to be a Nexus One.