Posts Tagged ‘Android’
Features Needed on Android… July 15th, 2010
Andriod is a great smartphone operating system no doubt… I’m sure that it is the only competitor to the iPhone and in couple of years time would definitely overtake the IPhone OS… Google hasn’t yet announced anything about Andriod 3.0 aka Gingerbread and I don’t think they are going to say anything about it as Froyo is still too fresh to be updated… Still here are some of my views that should be added to Android 3.0 for sure…
- 1. Android Marketplace: Google must add a couple of sections like Top Apps, Staff Picked Apps, What’s New and also enhance the update processes to make it compete with the App Store…
- 2. Touch: There is noway that you can compare an Android phone touchscreen to that of an iPhone… Touch must be improved for sure or at least Google must address the issue if it’s a software or hardware problem…
- 3. Multitasking: Android multitasking is confusing, that’s because Android keep processes running in the background giving them a short time before killing them based on “You may need this” idea… I think that every Android app must add “Exit” button to the app menu to let users decide either to kill or to keep a particular process running in the background…
- 4. Networks: One of the annoying issues I was facing with Android is the need to setup the GPRS connection manually because Android do not get the network info automatically… what makes the problem even harder is when I visited the company and they told me that they do not know or support Android yet… The story becomes even worst when you travel, you don’t know how to configure a connection or even the number to call customer support… iPhone handles all GPRS, 3G and cellular data networks automatically…
Android is great, promising and absolutely powerful if and only if they keep enhancing and updating it. Android is good but still need a lot of work and enhancements to go through the same track of iPhone, not to copy it but to provide us better features than the iPhone.
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Tags: Android, Apple, Google, iPhone
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Android App : Google Translate for Animals!!! April 1st, 2010
Looks like what Darwin wasn’t able to do, Google has done it with an Android App… 
Google today released Translate for Animals on the Android Market, marking the groundbreaking app that finally lets us humans communicate with our two-, three- and four-legged brethren…
The revolutionary applications — which is free, despite the centuries of development time — translates the speech of cats, dogs, birds, rabbits, Guinea pigs, hamsters, tortoises, horses, chickens, sheep, donkeys and pigs. Support for snakes, goats, bison and wildebeests is expected in a future update, slated for sometime in the the second half of 2010…
If you visit Google, they have a video explaining just how the Translate for Animals Android App works…
Tags: Android, App, Google, Insane
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Coming Soon: Adobe Flash and AIR on Android!!! February 15th, 2010
At Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Adobe has unveiled AIR and Flash 10.1 for Android, both of which should arrive in the first half of 2010…
Have a look at its press release and blog article….
Looks like its Adobe’s reply to Steve Job’s comment that “They are lazy”… This move is like a knockout punch for Apple as there tablet(iPad) has no support for flash…
Tags: Adobe, AIR, Android, Apple, Flash, iPad
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Symbian goes FOSS!!! February 4th, 2010
Symbian 3 (the successor of previous Symbian versions, S60, S40 and others), the new version of Symbian OS, will mark the change of Symbian from being a closed OS platform to become an Open Source platform where anyone can download and modify it for free… The source code is published under the Eclipse Public License (EPL)…
We’re a community, not a company, owned by members not any one entity. — Symbian
I think the move comes seeing the increase in the popularity of likes of Android OS from Google and the iPhone OS from Apple who had slowly started stealing the limelight from Symbian…
But I seriously think Symbian is way late to gain back its popularity here… Should have released its code long time ago..
Tags: Android, Apple, Google, iPhone, nokia, Symbian
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Leaked Nexus One Documents!!! December 30th, 2009
Gizmodo got hold of these Nexus One screenshots..
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Coming Soon : The Google Phone!!! December 14th, 2009
The Google Phone or Gphone has been rumoured for a long time, and while many of us have doubted its existence until now, the evidence is mounting up. Numerous Google staff are actually using an unbranded Gphone, and pictures of it have been posted via Twitter. It’s called the Nexus One, it runs Google Android obviously… It’s being manufactured for Google by HTC.
Tags: Android, Google, Gphone, HTC, twitter
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Google’s Got Goggles For Andriod!!! December 8th, 2009
Google has introduced a new visual-search technology for Android phones, giving it a hilarious name Google Goggles….
Tags: Android, Google
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An Apple or A Google Fan??? October 30th, 2009
I came across this article today which speaks quite highly of Apple, and I thought I’d drop some thoughts on this topic as well. These days i’m trying my hand on programming for the iPhone, learning to use MacOS, Xcode and even the iPhone have been interesting experiences. I’m an Apple newbie(though being using Ipod for years now), but perhaps it’s that what gives me a unique viewpoint of the whole situation. Read the rest of this entry »
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Android Live CD!!! July 19th, 2009
If you have been interested in checking out what Google Android is all about without downloading the SDK or buying a G-1, here is a great solution.
Google Code has a project named live-android which provides you with a Live CD of
Google Android. Just grab the ISO, burn it on a CD or try it on a virtual machine like Virtual Box. The project is still in it’s infancy and there are a few stability issues here and there.
Check it out : Android Live CD.
Tags: Android, Google, Linux
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