Over the last few years Apple has purchased two online mapping companies, Placebaseand Poly9. This has led many to speculate that Apple may want to abandoned Google Maps in favor of new mapping technologies developed in-house instead. Tension between Apple and Google has been on the rise ever since Google decided to expand into areas already dominated [...]
Google Android 2.2 Froyo has gained 8.4% of the total number of Google-powered devices since we last took a look at the stats published by Android Developers back in December, a tad more than a month ago. According to the figures, Android 2.2 Froyo now powers 51,8% of devices while Android 2.1 Eclair is present on 35.2% [...]
Google has code named Android 2.4 as ‘Ice Cream’. Google already has made two new Android versions public, Android 2.3 Gingerbread, available on the Google Nexus S, and Android 3.0 Honeycomb, coming on board the Motorola Xoom soon. But it looks like a third, intermediate Android version is also going to be unveiled at some point in the [...]
Google will soon bring a native music syncing feature into its Android operating system, as you can see from the leaked image shown below. The image is said to be taken from a device running Android 2.3. It could also hint at an iTunes-like program from Google that would help users better manage their multimedia libraries. [...]
Google’s first Chrome OS notebook, the Cr-48 desinged to run Google Chrome OS has been hacked to run Ubuntu, Mac OS X, and Windows. The Cr-48 isn’t for general sale, instead being distributed as part of Google’s preview program for Chrome OS. You can find instructions on how to install Ubuntu and Windows 7 on Something Awful. A guide [...]
Finally, Android 3.0 Honeycomb spotted in the air! AIR Benchmark, a website designed to test Adobe AIR performance on mobile devices, has seen pings recently from new versions of Gingerbread and Honeycomb. Both new Android OS builds were running on Nexus Ones. So, there are Nexus Ones or Nexus S in the wild, running both [...]
Samsung will be revealing a new Android-based Galaxy Player that will be showcased next week at the CES 2011. The Galaxy player was inspired by the success of Samsung Galaxy phone, they both resemble a lot in physical apperance as well as hardware specs. I believe that the Galaxy player would be the first portable media player, that can [...]
Another great year went by and now its time to have a look back at the best phones from 2010! A review of the top smart phones that 2010 has brought to us. I will start with my favorite phone, The Apple iPhone. “This changes Everything, Again!“, Yes it did. The iPhone 4 is the best [...]
The popular Google Voice client for iPhone, GV Connect, is now a universal app. This means the same application will run natively on your iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. GV Connect hit the App Store following the revision of Apple’s App Store approval guidelines, back in September. This paved the way for the submission of many previously disallowed [...]
