Posts Tagged ‘T-Mobile’

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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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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Samsung has announced a successor to its Galaxy (the i7500 model) phone, the Galaxy Spica (the i5700) — think Greater Magellanic Cloud vs. Lesser Magellanic Cloud. Yes, I’m a nerd; if you didn’t get that joke, you are not. Anyway, the Spica/i5700 is your “basic” smartphone; where it differs from its predecessor is a 3 megapixel camera instead of the Galaxy’s 5 megapixel one, as well as an LCD display instead of an AMOLED — in non acronym terms, the display is night quite as gee-whiz in appearance. But it does have a faster processor (800 MHz vs. 528 Mhz) and will utilize the Google’s Androids OS, albeit version 1.5, as opposed to the newly debuted Android 2.0.

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Your friendly neighborhood maniac has been preoccupied with a number of things of late, not the least of which is testing some gadgets — hence the lack of posts for a bit. Nevertheless this post and I are here to relieve the drought, and what a doozy to break the silence with. The Google announced today that it is getting into the mobile application software biz, announcing a beta Google Maps Navigation for Android 2.0 devices. TomTom’s, Garmin’s and everybody else’s stock immediately dropped (no really, I’m not joking for once). Google says it considers this part of its Google Maps offering, and as such, it is free, and will first appear on Verizon’s Droid handset, which will be the first phone to feature the 2.0 version of the mobile Android OS.

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