February 23, 2011 by admin
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When you first startup a mobile phone running Google’s Android operating system it asks you for your Google account credentials. Several minutes later and all your email, calendar details, and contacts just magically appear on the device. It’s one of the coolest thing the internet has ever enabled. Equally awesome is that you could add your Facebook
profile to your Android device and the email addresses and phone numbers of your hundreds of friends would also appear, so you no longer have to look up that information up separately. That’s all going to change pretty soon with Android 2.3.3 and the Nexus S since Google will be removing the Facebook sync feature because they claim that Facebook’s data isn’t portable. It’s no secret that Google and Facebook are at war with each other, and that every month there seems to be a high level Google employee leaving to join the social networking giant, but this is starting to get a bit ridiculous. Who owns our friend’s contact information, us or the company that hosts the data?
The way we pay for things has been made simpler with time. Checks are now a rarity, especially for typical purchases. And once upon a time, a credit card payment required a call to an outside office to confirm that the account had enough funds. Now, we might be on the verge of making another step forward: paying by “phone tapping.”
Google’s groundbreaking model for selling Android phones from a single Web site is about to become history.
Google has just announced it’s pulling the plug on its Nexus One Android Web store. The Nexus One Web store, launched in conjunction with the Nexus One device in January, was designed to give users a one-stop virtual shop to pick up the latest and greatest Android phones. It was meant to mark the start of a new kind of distribution model — one where you base your decisions on devices rather than on carriers.
An image on the Android Dveloper site (click on “Dev Phones”) is apparently the HTC-made successor to the Android Dev Phone 1, and is already in the hands of select Google employees.
Back in November Michael Arrington of TechCrunch reported we would see a super-powered, Google-branded phone in early 2010. Arrington’s reports appear to be getting some serious confirmation as Google employees are tweeting they’re testing new devices running Android 2.1.
LOADING Google Mail on to a phone can be like forcing toothpaste back into the tube. Both tasks are time consuming, frustrating and ultimately pointless.
That is unless you are using Australia’s second Google phone, the HTC Magic. Arriving in stores this week, it’s a much slicker handset than its predecessor, with a reactive touchscreen, a slim profile with no keyboard-related bulk, and an attractive, curved exterior that will slip unobtrusively into a pocket.
New vendors are lining up to deliver an Android phone in 2009, while Google is planning an update to the software — and gave around 18,000 of the first-generation phones to its staff as a Christmas present. Google gave 85 percent of its staff (around 18,000 people according to reports) customized, unlocked versions of the HTC Dream, the first commercial Android handset, which is sold by T-Mobile as the G1.
