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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.
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.
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.
Even though some of the top notch sources are busy with their leaking business, HTC has plans to unveil something new and interesting for its users. The Taiwan based company is sending special invites to press guys for its media event in the next month.
The company is hosting an event on September 15th in London to address the media people. It’s not really sure what company has to reveal in the event, but rumor mills have already started throwing baseless speculations over the Internet.
The Motorola Droid that spread the Android cult to the US market- Motorola and AT&T have decided to release the new version of the phone. This is probably an attempt of the company to recreate the Droid magic again.
The successor definitely is more powerful than the original Droid, as it carries the Android 2.2 platform; way higher than what the Droid had to offer. It also includes support for Flash 10.1.
In recent years, many mobile manufacturing companies and OS developers have improved their products by using several security mechanisms, which help secure the mobile devices. However, the hackers and malicious code developers are also trying their best to find exploits in the mobile phone system.
Such developers have targeted Nokia’s Symbian devices, Apple’s iPhones and many other devices. With the new set of techniques, a Trojan developer has now developed new application, which sends explicit and weird messages to other users.
Good news for the Android fanboys!
The Android fanboys would definitely get to the celebration mode once they come to hear that the Android OS will take over the Apple’s iPhone in the number of users over the world by the year 2012.
It is quite obvious too! You just have to view it from a wider horizon. The Android operating system is distributed with the phones from so many different device makers including Motorola, HTC and Google, where as Apple is battling this competition single handedly.