Nokia and Yahoo have finally announced a partnership today in New York which was codenamed as Project Nike prior to this. This might be significant for Nokia who has an ever declining market share in USA which is one of the most competitive mobile markets in the world. Nokia and Yahoo will collaborate on Email , IM , Maps. Nokia will power Yahoo Maps. We’ll be posting more details about this soon. Above picture show Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz with Nokia CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo
The parts which highlight the metallic structures of the upcoming iPhone 4G have surfaced again , this time in France . Nothing new but just shows the amount of metal used in the next gen iPhone Continue reading “iPhone 4G Metal Parts Leak Again in France”
The guys from ReallyMobile are at the Nokia HQ in Helsinki , Finland and they are confirming that the Nokia N8 will will be available for Pre-order in July. There was a Countdown timer spotted inside the Nokia office which readers 44 days 7 hours to go for Nokia N8 Pre-order to start Continue reading “Nokia N8 Pre-orders will begin in July , 44 days to go”
Bitstream the company behind the Bolt Mobile Browser has released the 2.1 version of it’s BOLT Browser which was in a Beta for sometime. What’s cool is that the company is claiming that the browser has the best mobile browser video support. If that’s true then its some serious competition for Skyfire. This version has HTML5 Video support in addition to Flash. Bollywood sites such as hungama and bollywoodhungama are supported.
Jesse Rosten has managed to create a really interested video in which he put’s the iPad on a variety of places including a car dashboard, bike, kitchen, wall and the best one – a ceiling so that you can turn the iPad into a ceiling mounted TV. He just uses the Industrial Strength Velcro tape to make this possible
We are not sure if this hack would end up smashing your face or the iPad but it’s certainly fun watching
After posing for the camera in California and Vietnam , the iPhone 4G / HD has made it’s way to China / Hong Kong. Images which point to the White version of the next gen iPhone were posted on a Chinese website Apple.Pro. Continue reading “iPhone 4G/HD White spotted”
The Folks at Engadget have posted a nice video comparison between the HTC Desire running Flash Lite and the Nexus One running Flash 10.1 Beta and it looks like the Nexus One with the latest FroYo upgrade has better overall Flash performance compared to the Desire.
Continue reading “Nexus One Flash 10.1 Beta beats FlashLite on Desire ?”
Did you put off your Blackberry purchase just because you were not happy with a standard 12 month warranty ? Well starting now, RIM will offer 18 months warranty on all Blackberry handsets sold in the country !
Continue reading “Blackberry now offering 18 months warranty on BBs”
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Google is already rolling out the Android 2.2 update for the Nexus one and few users have manged to get an OTA (Over the Air) update. Now the manual update is available from Google’s servers and we just installed it to show you the changes in this version. We are also sharing instructions about how to get the update working on your nexus one manually Continue reading “Download Android 2.2 FroYo for Nexus One Now – Tested and Working”
Vic Gundotra was 21 in 1991 according to this document from Stanford University pictured below and was then Demoing some stuff to Microsoft’s then head of Sales , Steve Ballmer who is currently the CEO.He sparked Microsoft’s change from Win32 to the .NET programming model. In fact he spent 15 years at Microsoft since then. Vic quit Microsoft to join Google back in 2007 and spent 1 year in between due to Microsoft’s non-compete clause.
Now in 2010 , he’s on stage at Google I/O – the company’s largest annual developer conference to woo developers to build applications for the Android operating system. He’s currently VP of Engineering at Google responsible for developer evangelism
Vic did make the inaugural address on the first day of the event but it was pretty short yet he managed to poke fun at competitor Apple CEO’s Late night email about HTML5. On day 2 this man was on stage for nearly an hour and he did talk about Android and the latest version – Froyo and the upcoming changes to the Android platform and boy-o-boy he made us laugh repeatedly by criticizing Apple, Phone and the latest iPad . It was pay back time for Google against Apple who has criticized Android over Porn Continue reading “Vic Gundotra the man who can win Developers for Google Android”
The official Google IO twitter account just posted that the Nexus One would get Android 2.2(a.k.a. “FroYo”) in next few weeks.
Continue reading “Android 2.2 coming soon to Nexus One and many HTC phones will follow”
Here are some official photos of the just announced Samsung Champ aka C3300K or Champion which is seen as the Star successor. Finally some non corby phones from the Korea phone maker. The Champ looks like it will be a ht like the Star due the aggressive pricing by Samsung. It’s just a cheap entry level touchscreen phone with Music,Radio, Camera and pretty much basic stuff ! Continue reading “Samsung Champ Official Photos”
Airfone has launched a bunch of handsets underthe Music Mania Series. The name has got something to do with the audio chipset which produces high quality sound and the ear earphone noise cancellation according to the company’s claims. They have launched 6 new handsets in this category ranging from Rs.1400-Rs.3600
Google has just announced the next major update to it’s Android Operating System . You might have heard of the Froyo update for a past several days. The Android 2.2 codenamed Froyo was finally announced at Google IO conference in San Francisco and Google gave away an HTC EVO 4G for Free to all attendees. Coming back to the update, it looks cool and brings some nice changes like ability to turn your phone into a WiFi Hotspot. Google is claiming Performance improvements of 2-5 times over Android 2.1 ! You can also send links from PC to open on phone with the new Android market website ! One of the coolest things we saw was the possibility to stream DRM Free music from your PC to your Phone !
At the Google I/O Conference, Google announced a new version of Google Voice for Android. Along with Support for Android 2.2, Google has improved the reliability of Inbox synchronization and fixed many reported bugs in the application. Continue reading “Google Voice for Android updated. Gets improved inbox syncronization and more”
