March 18th, 2010
HTC Supersonic has been into rumors for quite some time now. If the report from WSJ is to be believed, the phone would be announced officially next week at CTIA 2010. WSJ reports that Sprint’s CEO, Dan Hesse would unveil the first ever 4G phone during the event. (more…)
Categories: Android, HTC, Tech Industry News, rumor | Tags: 4g phone, ctia 10, ctia 2010, ctia expo, HTC, htc supersonic, sprint, sprint clearwire, wimax phone | No Comments
March 17th, 2010
Google might have to look for different names for its super phone, now since the US Trademark Office has rejected its application to trademark “Nexus One”.
The reason for the refusal is that the name conflicts with another Nexus mark, given to Integra Telecom back in Dec 2008. The mark owned by Integra refers to “the provision of telecommunication services and the transmission of voice and data”. But Google might argue that theirs is a product and not a service.
The Trademarks office says that (more…)
Categories: Android, Google, Tech Industry News, smartphones | Tags: Google refused Nexus One trademark, nexus one, nexus one name controversy, Nexus One Trademark refused, nexus one trademark rejected | No Comments
March 14th, 2010
Opera has announced its Mini 5 browser for the Google OS. Opera for Android is a beta version that allows tabbed browsing, ’speed dial’ bookmarks, power scrolling with touchscreen as well as physical keyboard support. The browser provides upto 90% compressed webpages that allows faster browsing. The Opera link feature allows the user to sync bookmarks between the mobile phone and desktop computer. It also features an in-built password manager. The browser can be downloaded free from HERE. It is also available through the Android Market.
Categories: Android, Google, Softwares, Tech Industry News, mobile app | Tags: Android, android market, opera mini, opera mini 5, opera mini 5 browser for Google OS android phones | 1 Comment
March 11th, 2010
As this is Oscar week, we will just start this post with an instance from Jerry Maguire in which football star Rod Tidwell tells his agent Jerry Maguireto shut up and “show him the money!” Well, we can understand how he felt after hearing Sony Ericsson make YET another comment about the Xperia X10. We first heard of the Android-driven device in early November when we were told it would be available in Q1 2010. At the recent MWC in Barcelona, we were shown Mini and Mini Pro versions of the device and told it would be coming a bit later.
And NOW we have a Sony Ericsson spokesperson telling CNET that it could come in the second half of the year with a new version of Android. Honestly, we were very impressed by the specs of the X10 (a 8.1 MP shooter, 4.0 inch touchscreen, and every connectivity option in town) but the inordinate delay in its arrival is really making us wonder if like the original Xperia, it would be actually outdated by the time it arrived. It must be one of the few smartphones in cellphone history to have three different avatars, none of which happen to be in the market.
So allow us to paraphrase Rod Tidwell and say, “Enough talk, Sony E. Show us the X10 in the market. Please!”
Categories: Android, rumor, smartphones, sony ericsson | Tags: 2010 android, Android, android by se, se xperia, sony ericsson, x10 android, xperia launch, xperia x 10, xperia x10 | No Comments
March 8th, 2010
GigaByte’s GSmart Android is yet to hit the streets and here is another android phone from the Taiwanese cellphone manufacturer. Dubbed GSmart G1305 Codfish, the handset has been leaked by French website PointGPhone with a few pictures and specifications of the phone. The website calls it “good manufacturing quality” and is “very responsive”. The leaked specifications include a Android 1.6 Donut with a custom UI, 5MP camera, 3.2″ touchscreen and other ‘decent features’. In terms of specifications, the handset sure looks better than the GSmart Android, but nothing in particular impress us (including the v1.6 of Android).
Another similarity in the two Android handsets from GigaByte? No one knows the pricing and availability details of both (i.e. if they would be available).
via [PointGPhone & Engadget]
Categories: Android, Leaked / Spyshots, smartphones | Tags: Android, android 1.6, codfish, Gigabyte, gigabyte android, gigabyte android phone | No Comments
March 7th, 2010
Everyone knew that Android would not be limited to powering cellphones. Android powered netbooks and media players were anticipated even before the google OS picked up momentun. But, recently we have seen the OS powering a few not-s0-expected devices. First we saw the Android powered landline phone and now we have the Android powered VoIP phone on display at MSI’s booth at CeBIT.
The device, MS-9A31 is a landline-cum-VoIP hybrid featuring a large touchscreen. The phone supports DECT (Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunication), video conferencing and instant messaging. Connectivity options include two LAN ports and a USB port. It also has a card reader for multimedia file transfer. There is no news on pricing or availability of the phone. Check out the video (more…)
Categories: Android, First look, Launch Pad, Videos, Wireless Gadgets | Tags: Android, android gadgtet, android phone, android voip phone, cebit, cebit 2010, MSI, os, voip, voip phone | No Comments
March 4th, 2010
Debuting at CeBIT is the DSP Multimedia Handset that saves you some embarrassment for ditching mobiles in favor of a landline. The DSP Multimedia Home phone sports a 3.5″ touch sceen and runs the Google Android OS ! Yes you heard it right. Cordless in nature the design is pretty neat and would have put to shame most mobile phones a few years back. The promo video below highlights Android apps, web surfing, email, picasa, youtube and even universal remote control and DLNA client.
The phone even features a accelerometer that lets you do more than just work on the phone 
(more…)
Categories: Android, Launch Pad, Videos, Weird or not? | Tags: android land line, android phone, dsp home phone, home phone, land line, weird, weird phone | 1 Comment
March 3rd, 2010
There were multiple rumors that a strong reason (or perhaps the only) for Google not integrating multi-touch (pinch to zoom that is) in the US release of Android phones (until now) was a lawsuit threat from Apple. Apple holds patents related to multitouch technology and this happens to be one of the 20 patents that Apple has shortlisted while suing HTC yesterday. Anyone going through the Apple suit against HTC gets it clear that Apple has targeted the Android OS more than HTC, however Google is not officially named in the lawsuit.
Google has not shied away from giving a statement in favour of HTC and this making it clear that they are up for a fight. “We are not a party to this lawsuit. However, we stand behind our Android operating system and the partners who have helped us to develop it,”- Google
HTC has also given a statement stressing (more…)
Categories: Android, Apple, Google, HTC, Tech Industry News | Tags: Android, apple android lawsuit, apple htc lawsuit details, apple lawsuit, apple vs google, dispute, htc lawsuit for android, htc sued, iphone vs android, lawsuit, patents | No Comments
March 2nd, 2010
Featuring a 7″ touchscreen and a mere 600MHz processor running on Ocean Android the iLet Mini Hal serves the purpose at just $200. Now this wouldn’t put the iPad or the Asus Eee to shame when it comes to performance, but gives you plenty to do with for a travel companion even if you don’t want to use it extensively. This serves as an ebook reader, features (more…)
Categories: Android, First look, Launch Pad, Notebook / Laptops, eReaders & Tablets | Tags: android tablet, ebook reader, haleron, haleron ilet mini, ilet, ilet mini, ipad, ipad competitor, netbook, tablet, tablt | 2 Comments
February 27th, 2010
Dell had previously shown its rumored tablet device to only a few lucky journos at CES this year. Now, Mr. Neeraj Choubey, the company’s GM of tablets division, has told Wired.com that Dell Mini 5 won’t be a single tablet PC, instead a family of tablets varying in sizes, along with other advances over iPad which will help in truly creating a separate category of tablet PCs. We really hope they see value in adding a sliding QWERTY to the design.
Michael Dell, founder and CEO of Dell Inc., says that the Mini 5 will debut “in a couple of months” and will run on Android (2.0 or higher).
Categories: Android, Market Watch, eReaders & Tablets, netbook, smartphones | Tags: android tablet, apple ipad, dell mini, dell mini 5, dell mini 5 vs the ipad, dell mini series, ipad, ipad competitor, tablet | 1 Comment
February 25th, 2010
Yes! You are reading it right. An app which will not only identify the person in front of you but also give you their identification and social information at the same time. This concept app called ‘Recognizr‘, is developed by The Astonishing Tribe, runs on Android.
All you have to do is point your mobile towards the person then the app which uses a 3D model for face recognition, searches its server for a match which once located is tagged with the social networking details around the face of that person.Check out the video to see the app in action: (more…)
Categories: Android, Concept / Educative, Videos, mobile app | Tags: android app, face detection app, Face recognition app, Recognizer app, Recognizr, The Astonishing Tribe | 1 Comment
February 17th, 2010
HTC Hero, one of the most popular handsets from HTC, now has a successor. HTC Legend comes as no surprise. We have already seen a few snapshots and a complete specification list, leaked back in December. (more…)
Categories: Android, Announcements, HTC | Tags: Friend Stream, HTC, htc hero, htc legend, legend, mwc 10, mwc 2010, new Sense UI | No Comments
February 16th, 2010
We have already seen the Motorola Backflip and the Motorola CLIQ/DEXT, the two Android powered phones from Motorola featuring its custom MOTOBLUR user interface. Joining the league is the latest Motorola QUENCH which would be known as Motorola CLIQ XT in the US. The handset would be available in US exclusively through T-Mobile. (more…)
Categories: Android, Announcements, Launch Pad, Tech Industry News, motorola | Tags: cliq xt, motoblur, motorola, motorola cliq xt, motorola quench, mwc 10, mwc 2010, quench, swype | No Comments
February 11th, 2010
Early Termination Fee was on the growing list of complaints against Google’s SuperPhone. Now, Google has decided to trim it down.
If Nexus One customers canceled their contract within the first 120 days of purchase, they would have to pay a massive amount of $550 ($350 from Google as Equipment Recovery Fee, $200 from T-Mobile as Early Contract Termination Fee); ironically this is more than the actual price of the phone @$530. Also T-Mobile has reduced the termination fee from $200 to $50 for customers upgrading to Nexus One while it remains $200 for the new customers.
But, it was only a few weeks back when the FCC inquired with all four major cell phone service providers in the US, about the ETF and how it was being communicated to the customers. In particular, FCC pointed that the double ETF combo for Nexus One has left the customers surprised by its financial impact.
As a result of this, Google has modified its Terms Of Sales, which now mentions that Google’s own ETF for Nexus one cut down to $150 from the previous $350. (more…)
Categories: Android, Google, HTC, Tech Industry News, smartphones | Tags: 3G patch, Google Nexus One, Google Superphone, nexus one complaints, nexus one ETF slashed, Nexus One online customer service | No Comments
February 8th, 2010
When it comes to design, Motorola is coming out with something entirely new and impressive these days. After a backwords flipping QWERTY with the Motorola Backflip, here comes multiple orientation keyboard phone — Motosplit. The rumored Motosplit is expected to have a unique form-factor, according to the leaked design image shown above. The phone is rumored to be featuring a multi-sliding keyboard. The keyboard can be a numeric keypad as well as a full QWERTY because it uses touch sensitive monochrome displays for keys.
The cut-outs for the ‘touch-keys’ match the counter of a standard finger to make typing easier. The key label would change according to the slide layout in use. The keyboard can be slide downwards for use as a standard numerical keypad and can also slide sideways to be used as QWERTY in landscape mode.
Other rumored specifications include a screen-size same as that of the Motorola Droid (3.7“, 480 x 854) and a snapdragon 1GHz processor. The phone is expected to be official in Q3 2010.
via [AndroidCommunity] (more…)
Categories: Android, Leaked / Spyshots, motorola, rumor | Tags: Android, changing qwerty, motorola, motorola android, motorola motosplit, motosplit, rumor, touch qwerty, touchscreen qwerty | 1 Comment
February 6th, 2010
If there is anything that the poor sales of the Google Nexus One proves to me, its the control, the evil control rather – that the US carriers have over the mobile market. Long before Google unveiled the Nexus one, it was rumored that Cupertino is cooking plans to end the carrier raj in US. In their small way they did, however Nexus One was tied to T-Mobile. Selling solely over the Internet, NexusOne is surely rated high by the powerusers. I can see the craze amongst my friends on twitter here in India (with a few luck ones getting the device already).
So why did it do just 80000 units in the first month? (more…)
Categories: Android, Google, Market Watch | Tags: android nexus one, android sales, Google, google nexus, google super phone, nexus, nexus one, nexus one sales, tmobile google, tmobile goole | 1 Comment
January 29th, 2010
We just went hands on with the Android and Snapdragon powered Acer Liquid. While most handsets we handled here were prototypes, we were lucky enough to get a few minutes with Mr Richard Tans’ (Country Head, Acer India & Sales Manager Asia Pacific) retail version. The red, white and black colours of the liquid compliments the elegant design. Though a little thicker than my iPhone 2G, the liquid is quite good to handle and easily pocketable. The all plastic body is shiny but the glossy finish here acts like a fingerprint magnet resulting in a lot of smudges . Also we feel that the length of the phone below the screen could have been reduced (or the screen size increased? better buttons? more buttons?), less they wanted to advertise their brand Acer or so it seems.
We tried web, music and video on the beautiful 3.5″ screen (more…)
Categories: Android, Tech Industry News, smartphones | Tags: acer, acer india, acer liquid android, acer liquid india, acer liquid review, android india | 1 Comment
January 29th, 2010
Motorola CEO Mr Sanjay Jha revealed during their last quarter earnings call that they are indeed working on a Google branded phone. I can imagine that a co like Motorola that is making a comeback to the mobile arena and going profitable again with good releases like the Droid, needs to gather some media spotlight / momentum before it actually rolls out devices and this early disclosure of ‘Motoogle‘ phone is nothing but that. Mr Jha didn’t give any specific details on the Google branded phone, but this announcement comes just days after we heard the Droid 2 / Nexus 2 report. So did we really see the next Google phone as pictures below?
Apple / Palm often claim their software+hardware integration is unmatched. And perhaps this is where Google and Microsoft are now working towards, by closely working with handset manufacturers to (more…)
Categories: Android, motorola, smartphones | Tags: Android, droid, droid 2, google phone, motogoogle, motorla google phone, nexus 2, nexus one, nexus two | 3 Comments
January 27th, 2010
Ever since HTC gave the HD love to Windows Mobile, we have been waiting for a Android HD and perhaps here it comes as the Supersonic. Leaked images (Yes we know tha the images are in a bad shape) of an unannounced HTC device that looks fairly similar to the HD2 with a 4.3″ screen (screen size rumored) are out. Said to be powered by a 1GHz Snapdragon processor, this one surprises us with a Sprint WiMax in the rumored specs list.
Categories: Android, HTC, Leaked / Spyshots, smartphones | Tags: AMOLED, android 2.1, android hd3, android wimax, htc android 2.1, htc hd3, htc supersonic, sprint wimax htc | 1 Comment
January 24th, 2010
Just when you thought Nexus One is Google, it did a Microsoft! As Reuters points out, Nexus One’s speech-to-text recognition app turns your spoken swear words into strings of # symbols. (Remember the Zune HD doing the same on its twitter app?)
A Google spokeswoman clarified:
“We filter potentially offensive or inappropriate results because we want to avoid situations whereby we might mis-recognize a spoken query and return profanity when, in fact, the user said something completely innocent”
What this means is that, suppose you are on your way back home and want a fudge ice-cream to end your day, you speak the words “I want fudge ice-cream tonight” to be sent it as a text msg (via speech-recognition) to your mom. Now, if N1 did not block swear words, the text-to-speech app could interpret “fudge” as “fcuk” and in case you miss the conversion error and hurriedly send that msg to your mom, she’ll receive it as “I want fcuk ice-cream tonight”. ewww! yuck! That would be a damn embarrassing situation!
Google basically want to avoid such situations from happening. So, if ever it interprets a some speech into swear words, it blocks them and replaces them with # symbols, whether or not you have actually spoken those words. Yes, what they say is right. Users do not want to be caught up in embarrassing situations like these. But they also want their speech to be converted to text correctly, without any error. Basically, they demand a no-compromise speech to text recognition app. Nexus One haters got another reason to hate it, now even more.
And as it turns out to be, a look at comments on a similar post at Mashable tells me that this annoying thing is basically an Android problem, not specific to only Nexus One. Even Motorola Droid users are reporting the same problem.
So, until we get some better text-to-speech recognition algorithms, (generally speaking) Android users will have to bear this bull#### !!
(via Silicon Alley Insider)
Categories: Android, Google, smartphones | Tags: against nexus one, android swear words, nexus one, nexus one sucks, problems with nexus one, swear words | No Comments
Powered by WordPress
Syndicate this site using RSS
