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Yesterday, Google had introduced a new service called Gmail Call Phone. This new service allows users to make free phone calls to friends who are using Gmail facility.
The company had officially launched their service 24 hours back and they have already tracked over 1,000,000 calls. It’s interesting to know that the service is only available for US and Canada based users.
Motorola’s Droid 2 has finally been rooted! Yes, the developer at XDA forums has come up with a cool method to get the root access of the Droid 2 phones.
Sebastian Krahmer, the developer of Droid 2 root tool, has made it easier for users to run the applications that require superuser permissions. There are lots of applications available on the Android Market that requires rooted phones, and now it would be easier to get hands on such apps.
Advertising has become an important part of publishers as well as advertisers in this modern web. Apple had introduced its own ad service, iAd, in WWDC. The developers at Apple are working day and night to make its new platform more user friendly and interesting.
Google AdSense, the popular ad network on the Internet, has been providing their ads to several mobile platforms like Android, Symbian etc. The advertising giant is now entering into the iWorld with new ad formats for iPad applications.
With every other company announcing new tablets, Samsung has also released a small teaser video of their upcoming “Samsung Galaxy Tab” tablet.
The Android 2.2 based tablet device will be featuring video calls and a dedicated web browser. This new product from Samsung will have 7” display screen, which will allow users to interact with various elements on the device.
Google had talked about its innovation, Google TV, at the developer conference earlier this year. In that conference, Google team members introduced some of the features of the new concept to the world.
For those who don’t know, Google TV is nothing but a combination of Internet and Television. It allows user to watch the YouTube videos and surf websites using Google Chrome browser. Apart from this, users can enjoy high quality television experience with the help of Google TV.
Google’s Android phone, Nexus One, has gone out of stock. Yes, you read it right. A month back, Google had discontinued the direct purchase service from their site and made it available for the registered developers.
In today’s update on the official Android Developers blog, their team members have announced that the new Nexus One developer units will take some time to come out. HTC, the hardware partner of the Nexus One, is not finding difficulties to manufacture the devices.
The one-click root method has become popular in Android world. The developers are releasing the similar tools that can be used to root the device with less complex steps.
HTC Wildfire users were also waiting for such tool so that they can root the phones. An Android developer at XDA forums has come up with similar tool for HTC Wildfire. This one-click soft root allows users to gain the root access of the device.
Apple’s iPhone 4 is not the only victim of antennagate issue! Motorola’s much hyped phone Droid 2 is also showing the symptoms of antenna-fever and the users have already started reporting it to the company.
This time the Droid 2 signal issue seems to be different from what we have heard and seen in iPhone 4 devices. Some Droid 2 users are claiming that the new phone has antenna reception problem and it appears without even touching to the actual device.
Entire world is wondering about India’s $35 tablet. Some so called gadgets gurus have also published their verdicts without getting their hands on the product.
When India’s Human Resource Development minister, Mr. Kapil Sibal, announced the new tablet for such cheap price, nobody really believed that it could also become a reality. Yes, the development has started in full swing and it will hopefully be available in 2011.
Google has added life to the Android it will now run on your voice commands!
Google has almost overpowered the Android platform now. A voice action feature – instead of talking on the phone you will now talk with the phone-at least that is what the Google wants you to do. The Android platform has been enabled to work on voice commands. The company believes new capabilities like voice actions will keep it ahead of the game.
To use Voice Actions, tap the microphone button on the Google search box on your home screen, or press down for a few seconds on the physical search button on your phone to activate the “Speak Now” screen.