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Google searches for movies on Android, iPhone, and webOS are about to get a little more helpful today. With a few taps, you can find showtimes, theatres, ratings, and category sorting. Throw in a dash of GPS integration to keep the results local, reviews, and streaming trailers, and you’ve got yourself quite the upgrade. Man, Google has been on a roll with the mobile news lately. Maps navigation in Android 1.6, web services facelift, Apps upgrades, and mobile coupons are all new this week. Here’s a video demonstrating the new movie search.
Fifty DKP minus for picking New Moon. Which are promptly earned back with the double-cross fist-bump at the end. If you’re in the US, UK, Canada, Ireland, Australia, or New Zealand, go ahead and boot up google.com on your mobile browser to try out the updated movie search.
[via Official Google Mobile Blog]
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Simon Sage
Simon Sage’s education largely surrounded writing, technology and online community, leading him to begin his blogging career at www.BlackBerryCool.com and to quickly discover a vibrant and active community surrounding BlackBerry and mobile technology. In exploring RIM’s platform, he has learned what enterprises are looking for in mobility as well as what makes the innocuous BlackBerry so appealing to them. Recently Simon’s been covering RIM’s gradual move into an already-crowded consumer market, and the impact of burgeoning challengers, such as the iPhone, as well as long-time leaders, like Nokia, on BlackBerry’s advancement. With plenty of content under his belt, Simon will be branching off a bit to see what other smartphone manufacturers are working on while still using BlackBerry as a barometer. At IntoMobile, you can count on his posts being even-handed, well-informed and thought-out.
