Google Voice won’t be making an appearance on iPhones any time soon after Apple rejected it from the App Store. The reasoning behind the decision was that it duplicated existing functionality i.e. making calls, etc. It’s certainly a blow for iPhone users given that Android and Blackberry users can both use Google Voice. It also [...]

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Mozilla has been making some noises about porting its Firefox web browser to Android. Until fairly recently this wasn;t do-able given that Android applications ran on Google’s Java virtual machine, but with the release of the NDK 1.0 (Native Development Kit) apps can run on Android itself. Mozilla had previously commented that because of the [...]

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HTC’s first Android phone, the Dream (or T-Mobile G1), was ostensibly pitched as an “iPhone killer” but was really an alternative to a legion of lookalike Windows Mobile phones. The Magic — called the myTouch 3G in the US — encroaches much more directly on Apple’s territory. It’s thinner, sleeker and the first Android device [...]

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Hungry G1 users on T-Mobile can satiate their hunger with a cupcake, more precisely Cupcake 1.5. The update is now being sent out to G1’s for users to update. Custom ROMs, however, may not get the notification that an update is available and will have to be removed. Amongst the new features in 1.5 is [...]

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Today Samsung announced the i7500, its first phone running Google’s Android platform. The i7500 will have a 3.2-inch AMOLED touch screen, 5 megapixel camera with autofocus and LED flash, and 8GB of built-in memory. It also has a microSD clot for additional storage (up to 32GB). The i7500 is quad-band GSM/EDGE, tri-band 900/1700/2100MHz HSDPA 7.2Mbps [...]

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Google announced that it has updated Gmail and Google Calendar for mobile – more exactly, for iPhone and Android.
The new Gmail for mobile uses browser technologies like HTML5 and Gears, thus it’s “a lot faster” when it comes to opening emails, searching and navigating. Also, even though your network connection is slow or non-existent, Gmail [...]

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Google has created a YouTube application for S60 3rd Edition and Windows Mobile handsets that allows users to search for videos, as well as quickly find most viewed, recently added and the top rated videos. Once users pick a video, the application will play it in the full screen. The application doesn’t allow users to [...]

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The third iteration of iPhone software doesn’t just add features like copy and paste. There’s a lot new going on in terms of usability and interface that every non-power user will appreciate.

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LG have confirmed that the company’s KS360, which was released last year, is to be re-released, pre-loaded with Google’s Android OS, making it LG’s first Android-powered device. Specification-wise, the KS360 remains the same as last QWERTY keyboard. year’s offering, such features include a 2MP camera, and a slide-down QWERTY keyboard.

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Late last year, it was said that Google’s Android OS Android Market would be getting paid applications sometime in the first quarter of this year. Up until now, the Android Market consisted of only free applications. That is no longer the case, at least for the US version of the Android Market, where paid for [...]

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According to The New York Tiimes, more electronic books are coming to mobile phones.
“In a move that could bolster the growing popularity of e-books, Google said Thursday that the 1.5 million public domain books it had scanned and made available free on PCs were now accessible on mobile devices like the iPhone and the T-Mobile [...]

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iAdSense is an iPhone app that will go straight to the heart of all compulsive bloggers who are signed up with GoogleAd Sense. You can check your earnings as the day goes by, in one tap (after initially logging into your AdSense account). No doubt it would have been a lot more fun to watch [...]

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Google’s mobile version of the company’s Maps software has been updated. The new updated version makes searching for various Points of Interests easier than before. This is because, before this updated version, for instance, if you queried, for instance, Burger King, Google Maps would search for an address contaning the term Burger King. However, now, [...]

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Currently, Google’s open-source Android OS’s Android Market, where you can download applications for your Android device (with T-Mobile’s G1 being the only one currently available), consists of only free applications. However, that, is about to change, in the United Kingdom, and United States of America (for now), at least. Because, later on in the month, [...]

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Google has made an unlocked version of the HTC G1 available to registered Android developers for $399. This version of the G1, called the Android Dev Phone 1, is both SIM unlocked and bootloader unlocked, freeing it up for use on other networks and with customized versions of the Android operating system. In order to [...]

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