Lifehacker:
My wife bought me a Garmin GPS for Christmas last year. After showing her Google Navigation on my G1, she asked if her gift is obsolete. Sorry to say but, for anything but long-distance treks, Google's Navigation is good enou (Read More)
Lifehacker:
My wife bought me a Garmin GPS for Christmas last year. After showing her Google Navigation on my G1, she asked if her gift is obsolete. Sorry to say but, for anything but long-distance treks, Google's Navigation is good enou (Read More)
Silicon Alley Insider:
Every smartphone platform now has its own App Store, led by Apple's iPhone. And while some software firms are busily cranking out apps for all of them -- Apple, Google Android, BlackBerry, Palm WebOS, Microsoft Windows Mobile (Read More)
jkOnTheRun:
Yesterday, Google introduced a Gmail Labs feature that tells you if your friends are online using an Android device. I can definitely see some benefit to this — before even sending an instant message to someone, you gain a li (Read More)
Lifehacker:
iPhone/Windows Mobile/Android/Symbian: Fring, the app that means to let anyone make free Skype, Google Talk, MSN, or SIP calls from any phone, has hit Android. It works just as expected, over EDGE, 3G, or Wi-Fi. Making free S (Read More)
VentureBeat:
With 100,000 apps in Apple’s AppStore, it has become ridiculously hard to get an app discovered. At any given time, perhaps 100 apps are easy to find on the featured apps or top apps lists. That’s why analytics startup Flurry (Read More)
Lifehacker:
Internet Explorer 9 promises speed and standards compliance, Google could be toying with a data-only phone that's not really a phone, and Firefox tightens its code against rogue add-ons. Microsoft... (Read More)
Wired: Gadget Lab:
Google has already delivered its own mobile operating system Android to several smartphone manufacturers. But the search giant isn’t stopping there, says TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington. The blogger claims with absolute (Read More)
Mashable!:
For as long as we can remember, there have been rumblings that a Qualcomm chip would find its way into iPhones of the future. The speculation was especially high around the time that the 3GS was released. While that future da (Read More)
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A lighter version of the Motorola Droid, the Droid Eris runs the Google Android operating system and features a 3.2-inch touch screen, virtual keyboard, ...
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Mashable!:
In the battle for the hearts and wallets of smartphone owners in the U.S., there’s a reigning champion platform, an up and coming competitor, and a handful of former champions whose stars appear to be waning. Then there’s Nok (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Google is powerful. We all know this, and live with it. But that brings up some interesting concerns when they break into new businesses — will they use that power to give them an unfair advantage? With great power comes grea (Read More)
Android and Me:
Last month, TheStreet.com reported Google was planning to release their own unlocked Android phone direct to retailers. Many people attacked the author of the report and criticized the rumor because they thought there was no (Read More)
Gizmodo:
Mike Arrington's following up yesterday's rumor of the Google Phone with an interesting angle: That it may be VOIP and data only, having no traditional voice plan. Sounds like the telcos worst nightmare. But Mike notes that A (Read More)
VentureBeat:
The debate over Droid v. iPhone rages on, but lots more Android surprises are on the way. Get ready for theGoogle isn’t content making the Android software that runs on cell phones and other devices. Now it is apparently work (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Yesterday we wrote about the soon to launch Google Phone, a Google branded Android phone that we believe will hit the market in early 2010. Lots of people are saying there’s no way Google will enter the phone market directly (Read More)
Silicon Alley Insider:
A Google-branded cellphone is supposedly on its way. If true, this is a mistake: Google should be focusing its efforts trying to get Nokia or RIM to switch to Android, not on scaring its partners by producing its own phones.R (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Research firm Gartner has just put out a list of the top ten mobile applications of the future. Well, not the distant future, but the far off year of 2012. Nothing on the list is all that surprising or, in many cases, even al (Read More)
Engadget:
We've been hearing talk of thoroughly Google-branded phones since before Android was announced -- and if you want to get really technical about it, you could argue that it's already happened twice in the form of the Dev Phone (Read More)
Gizmodo:
TechCrunch is hearing some veeeeeery interesting talk about a true Google Phone: Not just an Android device, but a phone designed top-to-bottom by Google to fulfill their dream of exactly what Android can be. It's a resilient (Read More)