06 Mar 10 Verizon Wireless begins Nexus One employee training?
If recent rumors are to be believed, certain Verizon Wireless employees are already getting the low down on the Nexus One. Word comes to us from BGR who has gotten wind of some customer emails that were sent to Verizon. Nothing specific was said but apparantly the customer service representatives really knew their Nexus One stuff.
This, of course, should be somewhat obvious considering since we knew that Verizon Wireless would be getting the Nexus One at some point since the device was announced.
Whatever the case, we’ll keep you posted with any new happenings.
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04 Mar 10 Google Gesture Search for Android
Here’s an interesting thing worthy of owning Android in order to get. Google Gesture Search allows the user to draw, presumably with a finger or stylus, on the touchscreen of the mobile device in order to look up a contact. You can also erase a query by crossing it out horizontally from left to right, and right to left to remove the last letter or space of the query.
Well, this ought to make contact searches a lot easier, shouldn’t it? Of course, there is the matter of handwriting. You will note how the “A” looks like an “H”, but the Gesture Search seems to offer both possibilities.
The Google Gesture Search is available on Android, but I can’t help but wonder why it wasn’t an Apple App first.
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04 Mar 10 Microsoft creates first Android App with Tag
We have covered Microsoft’s Tag reader before, and how it is able to read a special codes that will lead to certain content.
Microsoft has made the Tag reader for Android, which would be a first time that the big company has ever, and I do mean ever, made something for Android. Ah, it is nice to see that Google and Microsoft can work together, and I would imagine that the Tag reader app should be available on many a Mobile Operating System.
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04 Mar 10 Samsung Spica coming to Canada
Rogers of Canada is planning on releasing Samsung’s latest Google Android handest, the Galaxy Spica. For those not familiar with the Spica, it has a 3.2 inch AMOLED touchscreen, a 3.2 megapixel camera, 200 MB of internal memory, Wi-Fi, GPS, and more.
In related news, Canada may soon offer paid applications from the Android market, and phones like the Spica could be something to usher in this age. The Spica should arrive from Rogers in a few weeks, but there is no word on price of the device or carrier rates.
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04 Mar 10 Yelp comes to Android
I’m sure that you are familiar with Yelp, the restaurant and bar review site, and it has come in mobile form to Android. It has just recently been updated for more fun.
For example, the user can bookmark a business to view later, and can draft a review of a business to be published for Yelp.com. Yelp wants to put mobile-check-ins for social networking in the next iteration.
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04 Mar 10 Buzzie hits App Store
There are hundreds of Twitter applications on the iPhone App Store but what we have yet to see is a dedicated Google Buzz app. Well, the community has answered our calls with Buzzie.
Buzzie will let you do all the things Twitter apps like Tweetie let you do except on Buzz. Perfect for the avid Buzzer. Of course its price tag, 2 bucks, is probably going to be a deal breaker for most.
via gizmodo
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02 Mar 10 Car Locator App for Android
I realize that there is a lot of money to be made with Apple Apps, but we shouldn’t forget the clear business to be gained from Android Apps.
For example, this Car Locator Android, which gives the user the power to find his or her parking place. It saves the location of where you park, presumably by GPS, and then get you back when you need it.
There is a free version available, plus a $3.99 version with more features.
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01 Mar 10 Spare battery of Nexus One now available
Only recently Google decided to add a spare battery to its catalog and make it available for purchase, because in the past Nexus One owners had to rely on the single battery that came with the handset.
Anyway, the spare battery of Nexus One costs only $25 and we’re talking about the original manufacturer, not some third party battery. Check out this Google link for more information about the Nexus One battery.
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01 Mar 10 Google buys Picnik online image editor
Google has had the Picasa online photo managing application for some time now but what you can’t do in the application is edit photos. Luckily, Google has billions of dollars which means they can acquire just about any company they want to.
And acquire they have, the recent announcement details the acquisition of Picnik, an online image editior. There’s no official word but Picknik will most likely be merged into Picasa giving Google users an even wider array of online tools to use. I wonder what is next for Google.
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27 Feb 10 Not only could Verizon get the Nexus One, but possibly on March 23rd
When we last reported on the launch of the Nexus One from Verizon, we told you that it was in the FCC machine, and that we would know in a few months.
How about one month? March 23, 2010 is the rumor floating around about this guy, and the source of the leak doesn’t seem to be from Verizon, but Google. That just happens to be during CTIA, by the way. I guess something big is gonna go down, isn’t it?
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27 Feb 10 Vodafone Bringing Out the Google Nexus One This April
As more people patiently wait for the supposed release of the Google Nexus One from Vodafone, new rumors have it that the official release date will be this coming April. This was said to be more realistic than the scheduled January release but pricing has so far been withheld.
Ballpark figures are telling us that Vodafone may offer the Google Nexus One for about €150 with a contract. Well you have a couple of months to confirm if this rumor is indeed true.
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26 Feb 10 SwiftKey app for Android helps users type faster
All the way from the UK, a company named TouchType came up with a cool application for Android users, which is called SwiftKey and its purpose is to help users improve the typing speed and become much faster.
According to the CEO of TouchType, Jonathan Reyonolds, the application “predicts a third of words without a button being pressed and 85% of words with just two characters pressed”.
Other features include the correction of spelling mistakes.
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25 Feb 10 Can Android get a female audience?
According to AdMob’s January Mobile Metrics report, it has been discovered that seventy-three percent of Android users are men.
Just compare that to the other OS users by gender. For iPhone, iPod Touch, and webOS is split down the middle. So what is with this? I’m not certain what can be done with what Gizmodo calls “Android’s Dude Problem”.
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25 Feb 10 Quake running on Android now
We’ve previously discussed how Quake can be played on Palm Pre, and now the shooter is being played on Android.
This version is called kwakk3, and it is based on Quake 3 ports for the iPhone and Nokia N900. This is it running on the Motorola Milestone, and a user must have Android 1.6 in order to run it at all.
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25 Feb 10 App Store only has 25% free apps, Android has 57%
There are numerous stories about how much money people have made off of iPhone apps but have you ever wondering just how many of those apps you don’t have to pay for? I don’t know about you guys, but I have a hard time purchasing any apps over 1 dollar.
Well, analytical firm Distimo has recently done a study to see how many of the applications in the various app stores are free and how many you have to pay for. Their findings state that the Android marketplace has 57% free applications while Apple’s store only has 25% free.
Of course this is most likely due to the fact that the iPhone’s App Store has a much larger number of apps but it’s nice to see some cold hard facts regardless.
via gizmodo
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23 Feb 10 Spring Design Alex misses projected release date
The Spring Design Alex was set to make an impression on the e-reader market, and it sort of takes after the Nook. Here’s a little reminder of the Android e-reader’s stats:
The Alex combines the ability to read on a monochrome EPD screen while displaying the dynamic hyperlinked information on the secondary screen in full color. Alex is the first Google Android-based e-book device to provide full Internet
browsing over Wi-Fi or mobile networks such as 3G, EVDO/CDMA and GSM.
At CES, there was word that this product would be out by February 22nd, but it is now the 23rd, and there is no sign of it. Even the website just has that ambiguous “coming soon” on it.
Well, I’m sure it will show up eventually, we’ll be certain to report on it when it does.
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22 Feb 10 Gowalla application for Android
Gowalla is a similar application to the one we mentioned yesterday named Foursquare. It has the same functionality as in: visit a location and share in on twitter, facebook, or other social network. In this game there are also rewards that are provided via a “stamp” in your passport. As you can imagine these types of games are almost always somewhat dangerous because if you are careful you might be providing your location to strangers.
Anyhow, Gowalla was recently released for the Android OS in a beta version, so check out the Gowalla site if you are interested in trying out a new game.
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21 Feb 10 Put a little HTC Sense and Flash on your Nexus One
The HTC Desire has some interesting programs, like HTC Sense and Flash. They are so good that they can’t just stay on HTC Desire.
In fact, you can now put it on the Nexus One. This tech is in alpha now, so there could be a little bit of problems with it. If you’re willing to chance it, hit the Source to find out how.
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21 Feb 10 Foursquare application: tell your location to friends
Foursquare is an application that works as a social-network but at the same time involves some real life events, like sharing the establishments you’ve visited recently.
The application is available to download for 4 platforms: iPhone, Android, Blackberry, and Palm. Their website is also an alternative in case you want to download and test it out.
One of the main features of Foursquare is the check-in:
People use foursquare to “check-in”, which is a way of telling us your whereabouts. When you check-in someplace, we’ll tell your friends where they can find you and recommend places to go & things to do nearby.
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20 Feb 10 60,000 Android handsets being sold daily
At the MWC 2010 – Mobile World Congress – that took place in Barcelona and ended yesterday, the CEO of Google aka Eric Schmidt made an interesting comment about the numbers of Android handsets.
According to Eric the number of Android handsets being sold per day are 60,000 – which is pretty good. When comparing to last year, the number of daily sold devices has almost doubled.
It will only be a matter of time until the Android and iPhone sales get the same number, or not..
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