Read on if you want to see my reasons for potentially swapping to a Google phone in the near future – and why it won’t be the Google Nexus One… For a long while now, I’ve been using the iPhone series of phones (3G and 3GS). I transitioned away from Nokia Series60 for all the same…
PressDisplay.com Now Serves Google Android, including Nexus One
NewspaperDirect Inc., has announced that PressDisplay.com is available for mobile phones running the Google Android mobile operating system, including Google’s latest handset, the Nexus One. Starting today, PressDisplay.com subscribers can point the Web browser on their Android phone to www.pressdisplay.com and enjoy any of the more than 1,400 local, national and international titles currently available…
Google Nexus One is coming to Vodafone UK!
So we are awash with Google Nexus One news at the moment, which is great, but Europe hasn’t seen much love, other than a brief ‘yeah it’ll be coming soon’. Well, I can change that for you now because the Vodafone UK site has a forum, on which the GNO is discussed – or more…
iFixit does its thing with the Nexus One; 802.11n WiFi and FM transmitter confirmed
Good folks of iFixit are doing their thing again with the hottest gadget these days – Nexus One. The whole teardown process is well documented on their website. You’ll have to register to get all the details, but the process is simple and shouldn’t take much of your time. Anyway, we’re not mentioning the teardown…
Google Nexus One: Who was right and who was wrong with their predictions?
Now that the Nexus One is official I thought it’d be a wonderful time to see whose predictions were spot on and who was under the influence of psychotropic drugs. Since I’ve been making fun of Ashok Kumar from Northeast Securities for a while, let’s take him first: October 20, 2009: Ashok told The Street…
Video: Google Releases Real ‘Superphone’, The “F*** You iPhone” Phone
With yesterday’s news on Google finally announcing the Nexus One dying down a bit today, it seems Google also released another phone that didn’t get the attention it deserved. Dubbed the “F*** You iPhone”, Google’s other handset apparently just messes with iPhone users. No need to worry about data & voice plans with this handset…
BillShrink Compares ‘The New Generation of Smartphones’
The good folks at BillShrink.com have put together a ‘comprehensive guide’ on some of the hottest smartphone devices on the market today. The list contains the iPhone 3GS, the Palm Pre, the Motorola Droid, AND… *drumroll* the Nexus One. Check out the table/graphic below for the full comparison. When it comes to flat out cost,…
That Gallery in the Nexus One is made by Cooliris
iPhone users may be familiar with Cooliris, an application that allows fancy view of photos, videos, news, search results and Twitter feeds. That same (actually customized version) application is now available for Android as Gallery in the Nexus One, hence the experience is way much better — when compared to Android’s original Gallery app. Features…
Video: Flash 10.1 beta running on the Google Nexus One
Full Flash support on the Android phone is here folks. Adobe has worked with few companies to optimize the experience for the Google phone (and I guess other Flash capable handsets) and voila… it works. Some games work, flash banners are there, and so on. A short video features Adobe’s Adrian Ludwig who demos Flash…
Google Earth coming to Android soon!
With all the Nexus One hubub, Google made a couple surprising announcements today that almost slipped through the cracks. One of the surprises was Google’s announcement that both Verizon and Vodafone would soon offer the Nexus One on their respective networks. The second surprise was Google’s preview of the Google Earth app for Android. As…