Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Google refreshes it's mobile search, announces search by image and voice search for desktop.

In order to make mobile search easy, fast and efficient, Google announced two new features for mobile search. The first being the search for the places around you by introducing new shortcuts to commonly searched local categories, like restaurants, coffee shops and bars, in the form of icons on the mobile google homepage.

Thursday, April 14, 2011

Soon you might be enjoying only one type experience accessing twitter.

Soon we may gonna see change in twitter policy which may be like monopoly thing. Twitter had suggested the apps developer to stop making an apps accessing to twitter. Twitter Inc wants their official app to be gateway to access twitter.

The move is widely seen as an attempt by Twitter to take control of the service to boost ad revenues and improve commercialisation.

Saturday, March 5, 2011

Eric tried his level best to woo Nokia for Android.

As we now know that Nokia, the leader in phone market who is facing tough times in holding its market place, join hands with Microsoft's Windows 7 Mobile, expects to increase hold on phone market.

Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google said, Google tried hard to win Nokia over to its Android mobile platform before Nokia decided to throw its lot in with Microsoft.

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

At MWC 2011, Google's CEO Eric Schmidt declares Android as the Market Leader.

At Mobile World Congress 2011 in Barcelona, most of the Buzz is on HTC and Android. This year, at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, hundreds of Android-powered devices were on show.

Google's chief executive Eric Schmidt declared his company's platform to be the market leader.

"It is the fastest growing mobile ecosystem," he told delegates.

Mr Schmidt said that 300,000 Android-based phones are being activated each day, and more than 170 Android compatible devices are on the market.

Google will make ICE CREAM with Ginger and Honey.

At Barcelona, MWC '11, info regarding the next version of Android was made by Google’s CEO Eric Schnidt.

At Mobile World Congress(MWC) 2011, Eric told delegates that they are going to combine both Honeycomb with Gingerbread to form Ice Cream, the next android version after Honeycomb.

Saturday, January 29, 2011

Few days more for the Android v3.0, good news for the Tab's makers.


Android v3.0, optimized for Tab generation may be out open in less than 3 days i.e., may be Feb 2. Earlier, Google released the preview SDK for Android 3.0 developers.

Motorola CEO Sanjay Jha said, the Honeycomb may be coming at the end of February or in early March (if things went bad). Remember??? Motorola XOOM, the first tablet that will feature the Honeycomb showed us how Honeycomb will look like.

Android Data Stealing Vulnerability discovered.

Is your android not yet ready to protect your phone data ??? Yes, according to revelation by a security researcher. One researcher found out a way to exploit a loop hole to bypass into your phone and that can be used to steal data.

Xuxian Jiang, an assistant professor at North Carolina State University, discovered the bug while working on what he described as an Android-related project. The flaw, he wrote in an advisory, impacts Android 2.3 and is of the same nature as a vulnerability uncovered last year by researcher Thomas Cannon on Android 2.2.

Saturday, January 8, 2011

Google to fix bug soon which redirects message to random recipient.

The glitch in Android OS which got noticed last year will soon be fixed, says Google.

This bug mistakenly sends text messages to the wrong people(random contact from your mobile).

According to the company, a small portion of android devices is a victim of this glitch.

Thursday, January 6, 2011

Now, its Car Stereos powred by Android OS.

Mobile Electronic provider from French, Parrot has announced two stereos for cars. So whats special in that ??? This Car stereos work on Android OS.

At CES, Vegas, Parrot unveiled a pair of devices named, the Parrot Asteroid, and the Parrot Asteroid Touch.

Mobile manufacture predicts Android powered smartphones may available for as low as Rs. 5000($110) by march in India

One of leading mobile maker from India, Zen Mobile said that prices of android-based mobile phones could come down by March this year.

They said some indication shows that android-based phones will come to below Rs 5,000 by March this year and then(Zen) are planning to launch the product in this(android) category.

Src: [Economictimes]

Wi-Fi camera powered by Android, unveiled by Samsung.

Android OS is penetrating in many gadgets. After Portable Media Player, now its digicam with social networking features .

Samsung unveiled the SH100, a compact Wi-Fi enabled camera that allows for sharing over the internet and social networks. It can use Wi-Fi to connect to your Android smartphone, so you can view the shot you’re about to take in real time on your phone. Auto shutter, geotag are notable features in this camera.

SAMSUNG launches World's first MP3 player powered by android, looks similar to Apple's iPod touch.

So now we see a worthy competitor to Apple's iPod touch??

The pic you are seeing is not a new mobile from Samsung, it a MP3(portable media player) from SAMSUNG, named as Galaxy Player 50, powered by Android and it is World's first of it's kind from Android world. Samsung Galaxy Player 50 features 3.2-inch touchscreen, 2MP camera, and Wi-Fi to access net and apps from Android Market, comes in two variants, 8GB or 16GB of memory capable of expanding up to 32GB, thanks to MicroSD.

The most stylish, powerful and charming Sony Ericsson Xperia is out, named Xperia Arc


Many may not be impressed by Sony Ericsson Xperia's series. But now your taught may soon change with an Arc, Xperia Arc, one of the Sony’s many announcements at CES .

Powered by 1 GHz Qualcomm CPU, has a 4.2-inch 854 x 480-pixel resolution multi-touch display with 512 MB of memory, preloaded Gingerbread version v2.3 .

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)