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Move over Eclair, time for Android Froyo

Saturday, January 16th, 2010

Google has been keeping a theme with the code names for their Android releases. Some of these being Cupcake, Donut and the latest Eclair. (2.1 is still part of Eclair) You may also notice that they are going in alphabetical order. Well now we know the name for “F”. According to Android’s senior project manager Erick Tseng Android’s next big iteration will be known as Froyo. That’s short for “frozen yogurt” incase you were trying to figure it out like me.

Even though I’m a little bummed it was called Flan I guess I can deal with it. No news on a release date yet but we’ll let you know when we hear of one.

[via Engadget]

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The QR Coded Building

Thursday, January 14th, 2010

We’ve started seeing QR codes a lot more especially with Android and iPhone having bar code scanners. I can honestly say that I didn’t expect to see this. At least not so soon. Thanks to Terada Design a building in the city of Tachikawa, Tokyo, Japan, has been constructed with a QR Code facade. The QR Code links to a site which includes up to date shop information. There is also an unofficial iPhone application available that allows the building to be viewed in real-time with an overlay of Twitter feed comments located via GPS tagging from inside the building. (kinda creepy)

The video after the break shows what the building looks like and some of the augmented reality features it has. Read More

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Adobe Flash On Nexus. Brings games and other things.

Monday, January 11th, 2010

A lot of people have wanted Flash 10.1 to come to Android and recently this video surfaced showing off Adobe Flash 10.1 on a Nexus One. Sure, the games and videos are going to be great which is what I’m looking forward to but what about – you guessed it – ads? So what do you think about the ads?

[via Android Phone Fans]

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Apple’s App Store hits 3,000,000,000 downloads

Thursday, January 7th, 2010

Yes, the nine zeros behind the three make that 3 Billion. Even though I’m an Android guy (a WinMo convert) I still think this is an amazing benchmark for the mobile market. With over 125,000 active applications available in the U.S. store, Apple seems to be proving that variety is the spice of life, and will keep users hitting the download button — over 10.2 million times per day in the last 98 days to be exact. For a relative comparison, there are around 18,000 applications available in Android’s Market and just over 4,000 applications available for RIM’s BlackBerry. Steve Jobs was quoted as saying, “the revolutionary App Store offers iPhone and iPod touch users an experience unlike anything else available on other mobile devices, and we see no signs of the competition catching up anytime soon.”

I don’t say this often… Awesome job Apple!

[via Boy Genius Report]

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AT&T finally gets in the Android game

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010

It’s been a big week for Android with the release of the new Nexus One and it just got a lot more interesting. AT&T announced that it’s launching five new Android devices in the first half of 2010. They will be devices from Motorola, Dell and HTC. They say the Motorola phone is exclusive to them so that counts out Droid so it could be the new Backflip and Dell announced that the Mini 3 is coming to AT&T so we know that one. So that leaves HTC. Could they be some of the devices we saw in their leaked road map? AT&T says they’ll have an “exclusive” device so I’m curious if it really will be or if it will just be something re-shelled like the Hero on Sprint.

So lets hear it AT&T peeps. What do you think?

Check out the full press release after the break.

[via Engadget] Read More

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Google’s Nexus One Now For Sale!

Tuesday, January 5th, 2010

Google launched the Nexus One site today. You can currently buy the phone unlocked for $529 or setup for T-Mobile @ $179. They also show Verizon and Vodafone set for Spring releases. The site features a cool demo of the phone and shows some of the Android 2.1 (Eclair) features.

Check out the full specs and 3D Tour on the Google Nexus One site.

In the live press conference the Google team said they will also add other Android phones to their web store. Interesting… They also said in response to multi-touch, “They’ll consider it”

We’ll have updates from the press conference on our twitter feed. @freaknsweet.

[via @joomlaworks on Twitter]

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Google Phone, It’s So Hot Right Now

Monday, December 14th, 2009

There’s been a ridiculous amount of internet chatter about the Google Phone (Nexus One) since Friday night. Instead of giving you a bunch of hype and such I thought I would wait a couple days until the rumors weren’t all over the place. Well now that things are starting to calm down and become clear, here’s a list of what we know and what we don’t. Read on to get the goods.

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Could this be Apple Navigation?

Friday, December 11th, 2009

MacRumors has found about an Apple job listing that, uncharacteristically for Apple, hints at a possible mapping service from Apple. The company is seeking an iPhone Software Engineer that will join Apple’s team developing the Maps application for the iPhone OS. Apple says the chosen individual and his colleagues will be tasked to take the Maps app “the next level”:

We want to take Maps to the next level, rethink how users use Maps and change the way people find things. We want to do this in a seamless, highly interactive and enjoyable way. We’ve only just started.

I wonder if this means Google isn’t planing on bringing Google Navigation to the iPhone.

[via Geek.com]

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