Posts Tagged ‘smartphone’
Google ‘Dogfooding’ a Self-Branded, GPS-Enabled Smartphone? Or Just Testing Android 2.1?
If you’re a gadget type of person then unless you’ve been hiding under a rock on a deserted island or otherwise avoiding the Intertubes lately, then you’ve no doubt heard about the so-called Google Nexus One handset. Of course, people have been talking about a Google phone for years (ever since it gobbled up a company working on what eventually turned into Android). There are no details yet (unless you work for The Google), but the company has confirmed what was up on its official Google Mobile Blog. It is a carefully-worded statement that doesn’t actually state that a Google-branded phone is in the works (as some would have us believe), or that the handset is actually what it is being tested.
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Acer Liquid GPS Android Phone Hits Stores in UK, Nokia E72 Lands in U.S. Stores
Across the pond in Europe the much ballyhooed Acer Liquid smartphone has begun shipping. What’s notable about this handset is not the assisted-GPS or the fact that it has an Android OS (no, it’s not 2.0, but rather version 1.6, the so-called Donut), but the fact that it is one of the first smartphones built around Qualcomm’s Snapdragon mobile processor. Snapdragon is one of the latest processors for mobile applications that house multiple cores in one chip, including a CPU, GPS, and the cellular modem (no mean feat, if you no anything about electrical engineering, multiple radios, and the ensuing headaches).
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Telmap Unveils Android Version of its Navigation App
Is this a sign of the times? Yet another mobile navigation app, announced on Black Friday of all days, but this one is for the Android operating system. Navigation software and location-based services provider Telmap, makers of the appropriately if not particularly inspired named Telmap Navigator for Android, noted that Android is the “fastest growing smartphone operating system in 2009,” citing diviners at market research firm Current Analysis.
Google Makes it Official: Google Maps Navigation Available for Android Versions 1.6 and Later
Jealous of those Motorola (An)Droid owners and their Google Maps Navigation app? Ready to hack your older phone with an earlier version of Google’s Android operating system on it? Wait! Don’t touch that code! The Google announced via its Google Mobile blog that the free navigation app is now available for phones running with Android 1.6 (cute codename: Donut) and higher. That means all you T-Mobile myTouch and G1 owners (assuming you live in the United States) can now take advantage of it.
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