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Android Smart phone ‘Liquid’ by Acer Lunched in India
Smart phone ‘Liquid’ by Acer: World’s first Qualcomm Snapdragon processor based and world’s first Android 1.6 high definition smart phone is launched by Acer with its Liquid series.
Motorola is said to Unveil Shadow Based on the Android Platform
It is expected that Motorola will soon launch another mobile phone that will be based on the Android platform. The name of the handset will be Mirage or Shadow.
Google phone coming next week
Apple’s iPhones will have a big competition on their hands as Google is set to launch its much discussed smart phone next week.
The new smart phone, Nexus One, may be unveiled Jan 5 when the internet search engine giant holds a media briefing about its smart phone business at its Mountainview headquarters in California.
2009 was the year of open source thanks to google
Since almost 10 years, companies have known the benefits of adopting open source for business. Few have followed but the rest have stayed away from it. With the global economic slowdown forcing companies to rethink strategies, there has been one thing which has motivated companies the most, that is, Google extensively using open source.
Android Powered Tablet PC from India
An Indian startup, Notion Inc. from Hyderabad has designed a tablet PC running on the Android platform. The device has been built on the Nvidia Tegra’s system on a chip technology and can also act as an e-reader, as told by the company CEO Rohan Shravan.
Google puts on its Goggles offering visual search
The days of standing in front of a landmark, wondering what it is and when it was built, or wanting to know more about a painting in a gallery than merely the artist’s name and when he or she died, are numbered.
A new Google service allows smartphone users to take a picture and submit it as a query to Google’s search engine. The application determines what the picture is and returns a series of results in the phone’s browser. Point the camera at the label on a bottle of wine and Google will return tasting notes.
Google wants to find new ways to get its millions of daily users searching so that it can deliver more adverts alongside the search results. It has already introduced searching by voice and wants to extend the categories of search to “sight”.
Motorola Droid on Google Android 2.0 is Here
The new version of the software has support for Microsoft Exchange, which is a huge deal because it means that corporate users can sync their work e-mail with their phones. A search function was added to the SMS and MMS messaging feature. The software has also been updated to support a camera that includes a built-in flash, digital zoom, scene mode, white balance, color effect, and macro focus.