This seemed to be far fetched and some even laughed at the very thought of Google Android ever beating iPhone OS in the smart phone market but the reports of smart phone sales in the first quarter of 2010 reveal otherwise: Android based smart phones have outsold iPhone OS based iDevices combined.
Google mail users in UK will now be able to convert their @googlemail.com accoun
ts to @gmail.com accounts, according to the official release from Google. The move is probably aimed at unifying the Gmail brand name. For those who do not remember, Gmail actually started off as Google Mail before switching to Gmail but it did not happen in UK up until now.
After a long wait and anticipation, DROID Eris will be getting a major firmware upgrade pointing towards Android 2.1 upgrade, Verizon Wireless has officially announced. According to the official announcement, the upgrade will be available “soon” which some anticipate could be by this month’s end.
After porting Google Android to iPhone 2G, David Wang, the same guy behind the Android port to iPhone project has now extended Android to run on iPhone 3G. He has released the video showing Android running on his iPhone 3G.
Running a small particle generation experiment to see FPS (Frames per Second) on my iPod touch 3.1.3 clearly shows that there’s marginal difference between HTML5 Canvas rendering engine optimized to run on Safari that comes with iPhone/iPod touch and iPad and plain old HTML and JavaScript. Moreover, HTML5 comparison on iPod touch and Nexus One is absolutely astonishing.
This was considered to be something next to impossible but a geek has finally made this unholy marriage a reality by porting Android to his iPhone 2G. It’s running fine except for some lags and he says that it will not be a problem porting this Android image to iPhone 3G and 3Gs but will he be able to port it to iPad? Anyways, he says that the ground work has been done and it will be easy to port “Google’s Android” to any of “iDevice”.
Hiring 200 goats to do the job of a single lawn mower might sound foolish for a company like Google but they will disagree. First the news: Google has hired 200 goats from the California Grazing for the purpose of mowing their lawns at their headquarters in Mountain View, California.
Google has already announced it’s updated set of native apps for the iPad which will ship with it and now it has released a new interface for the GMail app for iPad with improved UI. The new GMail app can be accessed through Safari browser on the iPad or through the Mail app.
It has not been long since Android phones started getting OTA (Over The Air) updates to Android 2.1 and now Paul O’Brien of Modaco has posted pictures of his HTC Legend and HTC Desire which he has successfully rooted. This will allow him to customize the OS of his phone to whatever taste he wants.
Seems like the battle grounds are going to turn red hot when Apple reportedly is going to launch it’s very own mobile advertising platform on April 7th, just 3 days after the very first iPads ship.
Even after getting caught using the older version of iPhone OS, Steve Jobs seems to have ignored all the negative criticism he got. The news now is that he is still using iPhone OS 3.1.2 which is evident from his latest email reply to one of 9to5Mac readers.
Google is catching up but it’s strategy is a little different. It is targeting small businesses and enterprises instead of end users. Over 2 million businesses are now using Google
Apps and now they’ve also launched Google Apps marketplace to share the wealth with third party developers.
We have all been hearing Android 2.1 leaking into Droid Eris and it’s improved performance. Now the news is that a “nearly final release” OTA version of Android 2.1 has been spotted running on Motorola Droid.
According to the latest reports surfacing, only those Android phones which have ARMv7 (Cortex) processors will be able to update to the yet-to-be-released Flash 10.1. The reason being that only ARMv7 based chipsets are capable enough for all the processing needed for Flash 10.1 video content on the mobile web.
Google announced 6 new features for Gmail along with the ones that were in the development phase but won’t be added. They call that ‘graduation’ and ‘retirement’ respectively. Now Gmail will add video previews of all the YouTube video links you paste in your email. Besides, Auto complete has been added in the Gmail search.