Browsing the archives for the Events category
Browsing the archives for the Events category
This is how LG is going to sell six million smartphones around the world this year – by dressing up the Google Android character like Zorro and parading it around the streets of Seoul along with a collection of lovely ladies. It should work. We’d buy anything this bunch told us to, mainly out of [...]
Google has now sliced and uploaded the videos of last night’s I/O 2010 Android 2.2 presentation, and is hosting them all on its Google Developers YouTube channel if you want to relive the highs – and endless crowd-pleasing Apple digs – of the evening’s big FroYo reveal. Here’s the opening 10 minutes from the Android [...]
Google has just confirmed another hot recent Android rumour concerning its forthcoming Google TV scheme, namely that tech heavyweights Sony and Intel will be coming together to create the launch hardware that powers Google’s new interactive TV platform. Sony is itself planning an entire range of TVs and Blu-ray players, all including Android-compatible hardware and [...]
Another most-wanted Android feature has been ticked off the list by Google today, which revealed an all-new Android Market web site which allows PC app-buying – and direct over-the-air transmission of apps to your Android phone. Once you’ve signed in to the forthcoming new Android Market with the same Gmail account details used on your [...]
The Android Developers Blog has just updated with a simple list of the hottest new Android 2.2 features revealed at Google I/O today, bringing together everything we’ve learned about the all-new “FroYo” update during the conference. Read the full feature list of all Android 2.2 updates on the Developer site, or skim-read the following below… [...]
Google’s still announcing yet more new features of Android 2.2 AKA “FroYo” at its I/O 2010 conference right now, but it’s already jumped the gun a little and made the official Android 2.2 features video live on YouTube a few minutes ago. Here it is. Android 2.2 is officially GO. This video is basically a [...]
If you’ve fallen in a gutter in a drunken stupor outside the bar of your holiday resort, Android will soon be able to help. In a demo of a forthcoming updated Google Translate feature at Google I/O 2010, the Google demonstrator spoke his request into his Android phone in English – and Google computed it, [...]
According to Google, users are installing “more than 40″ apps on their Android phones, on average, which is making it little hard for us all to manage our collections of tools and apps. That problem will soon become a THING OF THE PAST, thanks to FroYo letting us search through our apps via the Home [...]
Hooray! The dream, the fantasy, the ultimate in labour-saving app management has just been confirmed – Android 2.2 will let you update all of your apps at once, via the new UPDATE ALL option. We can honestly say we’ve never been this excited about seeing a grainy image of a grey text button before: Imagine [...]
Google’s now showing off the all-new JIT compiler it’s sticking into its imminent FroYo Android 2.2 update, claiming – and showing in a live demo to back it up – that it offers a stunning performance increase of up to FIVE TIMES when running Android apps. Also, Google’s claiming a 2-3 time increase of speed [...]