Yahoo Picked Over Google In a decision that will send shock waves through the algorithms of Google’s search engine, AT&T has picked Yahoo search as the default search engine for the Motorola Backflip. The Backflip is AT&T’s first Google Android powered phone, but according to AT&T, the Android OS will be the only thing that […]
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At the World Mobile Congress today, Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt demonstrated a new software being test for Android based devices that would offer instant text translation via your mobile phone. So no longer do you need to be in another country, or a restaurant where the menu isn’t in English, and struggle to interpret what […]
Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt just made a strong statement during his keynote speech at the MWC (Mobile World Congress) in Barcelona. According to MobileCrunch, Eric Schmidt just said that Google and their hardware partners are now shipping 60,000 Android handsets. Of course, the Android OS is running on multiple carriers such as Verizon, T-Mobile, and […]
At the Mobile World Congress, Intel and Nokia announced that they’re working on a new open source Linux based operating system called MeeGo. MeeGo builds on Intel’s Moblin and Nokia’s Maemo platforms, and will give developers a platform upon which to build a wide range of mobile applications. Both Intel and Nokia are getting […]
The Nexus One was Google’s way of breaking free from the confines of mobile carriers that sold phones running on the Google Android OS. Of course, just having a lot of different phones running your operating system seemed like a really great idea to me. I thought of it as the “Windows operating system” but […]
According to a senior Google engineer on the Android OS team, the next iteration of the Android mobile operating system will be coming soon and it will be called Froyo – named after frozen yogurt! The Google engineer team has been naming big releases after desserts in alphabetical order, after Donut, Cupcake and Eclair.
Only a day after the Google Phone Nexus One announcement, Dell and AT&T have announced their own version of a Google Android OS powered smart phone called “The Dell Mini 3“. The Dell Mini 3 will be released exclusively with AT&T, according to the announcement made today in Las Vegas. And the smart phone will […]