Angry Bird Rio
Quite Expected? Angry Bird Rio has hit 10 Million Downloads on Apple’s App store for iPhone and iPad and Google’s Android Running Phones.
Angry Bird Rio is popularly known as a mobile game and now we are just days away from its Animated Movie Version which is called Rio. The game will receive a minimum of 4 updates this year.
Google Nexus S
Samsung has launched Google Nexus S in India. Pricing counter is set at Rs 30,400. Online retailers have a relaxed pricing at Rs 27,999.
The Google Nexus S in India is Nexus S i9023, and not the Nexus i9020 and thats why it has it rocks a 4 inch LCD screen and not a AMOLED touch screen. It has introduced many new technologies like the NFC’s.
Other gingerbread phones from Sony, Neo, Arc and Sony Ericsson Xperia Play.
Via ThinkDigit.
iOS definitely got some huge user base but Apple’s not done with it. In recentness, we had heard of Motorola suing Apple regarding infringement of 20 patents. Obviously, Apple was going to respond and the answer comes in form of two lawsuits.
What Apple Says : Moto has infringed 6 patents ranging from Multi-Touch to OS. Products affected include Android phones Droid, Droid 2, Droid X, Cliq, Cliq XT, BackFlip, Devour A555, Devour i1, and Charm. Apple has especially focused on the OS part and that’s from where we derive our headlines.
Apple has been trying to suppress two of the leading Android based phone producers, Motorola and HTC with awful lot of lawsuits. At one point of time, Google will also have to step in as the patents target the OS. What possibly could be the “real thing” behind these claims is the strategy to ruin Google and their partner mobile companies relations.
Every second phone released in the market today is running on Android. Not specifically thought but collectively, these phones could endanger iOS and iPhone market share. So be it this way, we’re going to screw them : Apple.
Head over to Engadget and Patently Apple for more details on the story.
Google’s foray into the smartphone market, the Nexus One is all set to be succeeded by the next smartphone, most probably called Nexus Two.
London’s Newspaper Daily has reported that Google is in talks with Carphone Warehouse in the UK as an exclusive partner for Nexus Two’s release there. It’s quite obvious for two reasons. First, they gave up the online sales and second that they really are desperate to tap the handheld arena especially when their competitors are breaking their heads by rolling out innovations and entering the advertising arena too (Apple’s iAd) where Google seems to lead.
Google’s next Android version is supposedly codenamed Gingerbread which is also speculated to be released this holiday season. A new Google phone and a new Android version, perfect mix?
If Engadget is to be believed and the rumors blowing are true, this is what the upcoming PlayStation Phone is going to look like.
Immediate reaction : Don’t buy. The design is ridiculous, a bulky perhaps massive compared to its sleek competitors in the market. It is rumored to sport a 3.7 – 4.4 inch screen with multitouch, which is good. The sliding keyboard does more bad than good to the design.
What you see up, is exactly where gaming is going the wrong. The ancient Playstation buttons the X,O ones and the arrows are complete mismatch in this generation. The whole device appeals to me that it’s another chinese handset running on android and has got couple of games. Or perhaps, an Experia with a sliding keyboard.
I would rather buy HTC’s Desire HD which is faster than this phone (786 Mb Ram) while having almost the same config as this phone. Plus, the Desire looks way better than the one we’re talking about here. 1 Ghz SnapDragon (2nd Gen) Processor, 1 GB ROM, 5 MegaPixel Camera. The PS phone has got a addition touchpad in between and will showcase a custom Sony Game Store.
It’s speculated to run Android 2.2 for now but will hopefully launch with 2.3 (Gingerbread) version of Android. I can’t imagine carrying this phone with me and sliding the “stylish” device and playing games. I would rather play paper toss on iPhone. This phone somehow reminds me of Nintendo’s GameBoy, Yes a revised version of GameBoy with tons of open source and software layering and a neat price tag.
It’s quite disappointing to see this phone. We could have got something more sleeker, faster and something unique. This phone is not worthy of being bought, it doesn’t do justice to it’s grandfathers, the PlayStations.
What I finally make out of this is : Either this is a fake representation of the model as Sony can’t possibly go so bad or else, this will be the first and last Playstation phone if it enters market.
Now getting a Nexus One via the web will become a history. Google has just announced that it is all set to pull the plug on the Nexus One web store and that it will concentrate more on selling the phone via retail and carriers.
“While the global adoption of the Android platform has exceeded our expectations, the Web store has not,” Andy Rubin, vice president of engineering at Google, wrote in a blog post. People generally want to know more about the product by getting hands on experience. When selling the phone via carriers , the customers will get to know the wide variety of plans available and choose the one which suits them.
Google launched the product in early January and people could purchase it online at www.google.com/phone. There were reports about the slow sales via the web, which could be seen as the reason behind such a step.
On April 30, Vodafone became Europe’s first carrier to sell the Nexus One. Google said Friday that going forward, it will follow this model rather than Web sales. ”We’ll shift to a similar model globally,” Rubin wrote. Once the magnitude of sales through retail rise, Google will certainly put a halt to the web sales.
This was a much expected and needed step from Google. Nexus One would stand nowhere if Google stuck to the online sale model and poor sale figures reflected the fact on those revenue charts. While Android devices are on the rise, lets see what the big “G” has got in store for marketing when Big Daddy’s like iPhone rule the market!
Chrome OS, when announced took over the web with a storm and it’s model appeased the needs of the techie people, who were searching for some fresh computing technologies.
The whole cloud thingy, it looks real neat and the news is that Acer will be displaying it up, running on it’s netbook at Computex Taipei show from June 1 to June 5. The OS isn’t ready to hit the markets as yet and launch is far away now. Well, Acer has plans for having netbooks running on Android OS too and both the OS’s come from the same maker, Google.
Most intriguing thing right up is the netbook sandwich of Android OS and Chrome OS. We’ve heard from multiple manufacturers, they’ve been fearing up to launch netbooks with ARM and nVidia Tegra 2 processors and will feature Android and Chrome OS. What is Google’s plan? Have it’s own products compete with each other or merge them in future?
[Via VentureBeat]
Some lucky dogs over at Android Police have been spotted running the absolute newest build of Android, Froyo 2.2, on a Google Nexus One. Aside from the appearance upgrades and overall bug fixes, 2.2 is about 4 1/2 times or 450% faster than its predecessor, 2.1 Eclair.
Although this update of the increasingly popular Android OS hasn’t been formally released or advertised, it’s future looks rather bright! Expect some awesome new hardware to go along with the new speedy system sometime rather soon. If you forgot, Adobe is planning for a flash release on 2.2 too and looking at it’s performance right now on the speedometer, it seems Android is indeed going to rock it! Would this prove Steve Jobs 1000+ word essay wrong? Stay Tuned!
You can check out Android Police’s benchmarks here.
Know what would go great with the new Froyo 2.2? The newly announced Square App for Android. Stay tuned for more on this!
Via [Gizmodo]
While Apple just chucked Adobe from their plan, Adobe is busy showcasing tablets with Android running Adobe’s technologies at it’s heart, Flash and Air at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco.
Prototypes of tablets running Google’s Tablet OS, Android which is currently in pre-release form but it’s well enough capable to render flash and air. They spotted those tablets using the Wired Flash app and watching videos on youtube, in flash format. They claimed that during all the showtime, they did not stumble across any problems and performance issues.
Many more tablets running on Google Tablet OS supposedly hit the market during the holiday season if a Adobe employee is to be believed. Flash is coming to smartphones soon, yes we know “soon”.
HTC today at the Mobile World Congress, threw many Android phones into the wild and one of them being Desire. It’s not something revolutionary but it is a promising device though.
Desire is a “smart” looking smartphone and it is possible that you could have read these features earlier in the Google Nexus One review too. This gadget is equipped with Android 2.1, a 3.7 inch AMOLED Screen (480×800 pixel resolution), 1 GHz SnapDragon chips, 512MB ROM and 576MB of RAM, GPS, WiFi and tons of other same features as Nexus One. It carries a 5 Megapixel camera with Autofocus and Flash too. This device also brings native flash support 10.1.
The one most distinguishing feature in Desire which sets it apart from Nexus One is lack of trackball in the front and Desire features a Sense UI. The Sense UI gives the existing Android a WebOS like feel. It divides the screen into widgets and Multiple side-scrolling homescreen panes and draws live contents from Blogs, Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, etc.