The S60 platform that is used in many Nokia cellphones all around the world has received a serious support update, because Google Voice and S60 can now work together.

The announcement was made today at the Google Mobile Logo, and one of the cool features is the voice-based search, which lets users speak where they want to go, instead of having to type it down like it happens in most cases. The other good feature is the related to the google search shortcut that is placed at the home screen of any S60 mobile phone.

The Google Voice for S60 can be downloaded for free at m.google.com

More info at Google Mobile Blog

Tags: Google Voice, Mobile News, Nokia, Nokia, platform, s60

Although landlines are getting less and less popular we still use them to communicate in various situations. So why shouldn’t we get smarter desk phones? Why shouldn’t we be able to enjoy an Android-based regular phone?

It looks like Cloud Telecomputers is thinking similar thoughts as the company has announced a new platform made for desk phones. Glass is the name of it and it is based on Android. That means you get to play with an Android-based MID/cord phone which will have features similar to your favorite smartphones.

The phone will offer you an 8-inch screen, Bluetooth connectivity, Android apps support, Outlook support and lots of features that you don’t normally see in a cord phone. The new device will be available in the first quarter of the year and it will cost anywhere from $599 to $699. Anyone excited yet?

via PR Newswire

Tags: Android, Cloud Telecomputers, Cord Phone, Glass, landline, MID, Mobile News, platform, Portable Devices

One of the big names still absent from the flourishing netbook business is AMD. The company has decided not to enter this niche yet but it’s definitely reconsidering its options. We’re not going to see AMD in our next netbooks just yet but AMD has decided to release the Athlon Neo platform for ultrathin notebooks.

AMD is thinking about notebooks which have bigger screens than netbooks but are still ultraportable and fairly cheap. AMD will use its new platform for notebooks in the 11 to 13 inches range.

The platform featuring the 1.6GHz Neo is said to handle better multiple applications better than Intel Atoms and it will be bundle with an ATI Radeon graphic card, either the X1250 or the HD3410.

One of the first laptops to use the new platform is a 12-inch Pavilion dv2 from HP which is thin and ultraportable and it will be priced under $1,000. Isn’t AMD a little bit too late to release a new notebook platform?

via cnet

Tags: AMD, Athlon, HP, Laptops, Mobile News, neo, Pavilion, platform, Portable Devices

If you are at the Game Developers Conference 2008 in San Francisco, you might have noticed the increasing efforts going on in the mobile gaming space. With a host of games on the N-Gage platform, Nokia is making its presence felt yet again. Some of the new titles include The Dark Knight, SPEED RACER and Super Slam Ping Pong by Glu Mobile; DChoc Café(TM) Solitaire 12-Pack, DChoc Café(TM) Sudoku and DChoc Café(TM) Hold’ Em Poker by Digital Chocolate and Worms World Party by THQ Wireless.

Nokia Games Publishing will also be bringing us Yamake, Disk Dagger and Fallen Idol, a detective adventure game. Anybody know if Digger (yeah, that classic old PC game) is available for mobile phones - specifically the Nokia S60 series? I’ve been looking for it all over.

The GDC 2008 will be on show tomorrow as well, so you can also catch a series of mobile lectures and case studies by Nokia executives. All the action will be at the North Hall of the Moscone Convention Center.

(Via press)

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Tags: Cell Phones, games, glu mobile, mobile, Mobile News, moscone, n-gage, ngage, Nokia, Nokia, platform, talks

It’s official: there’s no Gphone coming out of Google’s stables. Instead, Google announced Andriod and the Open Handset Alliance. Calling Android an open and comprehensive platform for mobile devices, Andy Rubin, the Director of Mobile Platforms at Google claimed that it provides all the software to run a mobile phone - the operating system, user interface and applications.

Developers need to wait for about a week before they can get their hands on on SDK that will enable them to get started on cool apps, but you will have to wait until the middle of 2008 before you can buy a phone that will run them. Partners for the OHA include Motorola, Qualcomm, HTC and T-Mobile.

When it comes to smartphones, Symbian is right there at the top. Of course, Symbian is a closed-source open platform, while Android is based on the Linux kernel and will be available as open source under an Apache v2 license. The advantage of this license is that mobile operators and handset manufacturers can innovate on the platform but need not contribute them back to the open source community.

Watch out for an SDK on November 12, 2007.

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Tags: Android, Cell Phones, Google, htc tmobile, mobile, Mobile News, Motorola, open handset alliance, platform

Sure, Motorola may be taking a beating from the likes of Samsung and LG when it comes to mobile sales, but that doesn’t stop the big M from dropping news about its new MOTOMAGX Mobile Linux Platform. Calling it a significant step in its commitment to the mobile Linux platform, the MOTOMAGX is slated to be a next-gen platform that delivers a new level of openness and more importantly, support for 3rd party applications. Having sold more than 9 million Linux-based handsets, you have to admit they’ve been there and done that before.

Motorola even seeks to up its Linux-based handset portfolio to around 60% in the next few years - which is a big commitment indeed. The first products based on the platform include the now-available MOTOROKR Z6 and the RAZR2 V8 handsets. The MOTOMAGX platform will support content created by 3rd party developers - including applications developed in J2ME and, in upcoming releases, native Linux applications. Nokia/Symbian has taken a step forward in this direction with the introduction of the Open C SDK that allows easy porting of POSIX applications onto the Symbian platform, so it’ll be good to see what Moto has up its sleeve.

If you are a developer waiting to get your hands dirty with Java ME development, get the MOTODEV Studio for Java ME form http://www.motorola.com/developer. At the end of Q4 2007, you will also get Linux and WebUI plugins for the Studio.

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Tags: Cell Phones, developer, j2me, Linux, Motorola, Motorola, platform