Here are some official photos of the newly launched Acer Stream which is powered by a 1Ghz Processor and runs Android 2.1 . The phone uses a AMOLED capactive touchscreen. The phone looks pretty impressive and is 11.2 mm thin. The display supports 1.67 million colors and Acer is claiming improved battery life. It weighs 140g although it has no QWERTY . But considering the specs and the 1400 mAh battery we are ok with that.
Acer has just launched the Acer Stream during an event in China / Taiwan and the specs looks pretty impressive.The phone is powered by a 1GHz Snap dragon processor and runs on Android 2.1+ Acer UI. The display is a 3.7inch AMOLED touchscreen.
There’s 3G/HSDPA,WiFi(n) ,Bluetooth, mini HDMI. The phone also packs a 5 MP Camera which does 720p HD video recording. The phone is just 11.2mm thick. There is over 2GB of inbuilt memory in addition to a microSD Card slot
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Fring has launched the first video calling app for Android phones. It lets you make 2-way video calls over Internet with the power of VoIP. Although we saw Qik running on EVO 4G during its launch, it seems like it will be limited to the particular device and it’s not available to end users till now. Fring for Android makes video calling possible on any android phone with a front facing camera. And the other party in the video call can be using a Nokia phone or even an iPhone incase they just want to see your stream. And the best part is Fring supports Skype, Google Talk Video chats ! Continue reading “Fring launches 1st Video Calling App for Android”
After showing up in a gym yesterday the Motorola Shadow aka Droid2 was leaked again this time exposing a HDMI port. Continue reading “Motorola Shadow Pic Leaked again – DROID Strikes back ?”
The Wildfire leaked first and then it was announced officially and it looked pretty much like a mini Desire. Now here is a promo video which highlights the features of the phone, The features highlighted are Social Networking using Friend Steam, Caller ID and App Recommendations .
Dell has finally announced the Android Tablet Dell Streak for UK. It was previous known as the Mini5. It has a 5 inch display and runs on Android operating system. No word on the Android Version its running or the price. The tablet would be launched by O2 in UK and will be released this summer in USA.
First it was the Apple iPhone HD/4G. Now, Gizmodo have published a story and picture of a phone that they say is the Motorola DROID Shadow.
After releasing the Flash player 10.1 beta for Android , Adobe has launched a free PDF Reader app for Android phones.
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It’s been a while since HTC launched Android phones equipped with a QWERTY keyboard. The HTC Desire, Legend, HD Mini all come without a hardware keyboard. But this time, the HTC Vision which is a Desire like handset but with a hardware QWERTY keyboard will start the trend again.
The is a fresh rumor that the HTC Desire might get the latest android update aka FroYo on June 23rd. We know HTC is already working on bringing the update to all HTC android devices sold in 2010.
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This is the smallest phone running on Android it’s the Sony Ericsson X10 Mini . Watch the official unboxing video after the break
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.
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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.
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