Posts Tagged ‘android’
iPhone gets Google Goggles-esque visual hunt in oMoby app
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iPhone users, your day of visual search reckoning has arrived! While Android users have been prancing around townspeople with the Google Goggles app primed to identify objects by snapping a quick picture, the iPhone camp has been left without a viable visual search app to call their own. That is, until today. A new iPhone app called oMoby has hit the AppStore as a non-Google Read more »
China Unicom to support Android
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The dislocation of android_flagship_device_for_1h_2010_leaks_bravo_.html’ title=’Brief: Better photo of HTC’s Android flagship device for 1H 2010 leaks [Bravo]‘>Google (NSDQ: GOOG)-China relations North Korean won’t affect China Unicom, which is the worldly concern’s second-largest mobile hustler by subscribers. The carrier plans to offer Android smartphones and I doubt Google has anything against that, considering the potential reaching.
On the sidelines of the first step of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference in Peking, Unicom Chairman Chang Xiaobing said: “We ar open Read more »
Motorola outlines Android 2.1 OS update roll-out schedule for Droid, Milestone, CLIQ, DEXT
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With all this prediction surrounding the eventual liberation of the Android 2.1 OS update to the myriad Android phones on market right now, it tin be a a little frustrating trying to shot when, exactly, the latest Android habitus volition roll through your townspeople and bless your handset with all the goodness sundry baked into Android 2.1. Well, there’s goodness newsworthiness if you’ve Read more »
Myriad Aims to Bring 3x Faster Applications, Richer Game Graphics and Better Battery Life to Android
Myriad today unveiled the high gear performance Dalvik Turbo virtual machine, which replaces the criterion Dalvik engine powering applications on the Android platform.
Dalvik Turbo increases application execution speeding by up to three multiplication – allowing OEMs and operators to bring drum sander obstetrical delivery and more complex applications to Android phones, while also providing substantial assault and battery sprightliness improvements when running resource intensifier Read more »
Samsung’s first Android OS 2.1 earphone for Korea
Samsung has announced their first Android earphone for their habitation marketplace, powered by Android OS 2.1 and will be arriving this Mar through SK Telecom. Dubbed as SHW-M100S, it’s second base Android appliance in Korean Peninsula, after MOTOROI landed.
The Samsung Android comes with an 800MHz processor, a 3.7-in AMOLED touchscreen (WVGA), 5MP camera with 720p video recording recording support, Wi-Fi (802.11n), GPS, T-DMB, Read more »
Video: Nexus One multi-touching pinch zooming demo
The Nexus One in my pouch has just been blessed with Google (NSDQ: GOOG)’s software update, which enables multi-touch pinch zooming in the vane browser, photo drift, and Google Maps apps. The lack of multi-touching support on the Nexus One’s Android 2.1 OS is considered by many to be the biggest drawback that’s keeping the N1 from truly challenging the iPhone 3GS. But, now that Google Read more »
Analyst: New BlackBerry Browser Runs Quick Thanks to Push
G. B. Shaw Wu, with the Kaufman Bros. analyst firm, reports that the first versions of the new BlackBerry (NSDQ: RIMM) web browser could run 30%-60% faster than on other WebKit-based browsers (like on Android and iPhone). Apparently, this is because the BlackBerry Net Robert William Service and pushing architecture that RIM has built cuts down feather significantly on bandwidth demands (possibly taking advantage Read more »