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Google Nexus S Now Available At Best Buy

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December 16, 2010
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The latest and the greatest Android phone, the Google Nexus S is now available for purchase in US at Best Buy. Customers in UK will be able to purchase it starting from December 20th.

Designed by the folks (Google) in Mountain View, California, and manufactured by Samsung, Nexus S will be the first phone powered by the just announced Android 2.3 Gingerbread. It is also the first Android phone with built-in support for NFC. A complete guide to the new OS can be found here, you can also check out the highlighted features of the OS here.

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Google Latitude Now Available For iPhone

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December 13, 2010
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Originally available as a web app, the official Google Latitude app has made it’s way to the iPhone and is now finally available for download in the iTunes App Store.

With Latitude, you can:

  • See your friends on a map – find out who’s nearby and meet up.
  • Share your location continuously with whomever you choose – help friends and family stay in touch with you, even when you can’t take out your phone.
  • Control your privacy – share only city-level location, hide your location, or turn off background updating at any time.

Google Latitude for iPhone also takes advantage of More >

Android Dominates Verizon Smartphone Sales – Blackberry Declines

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December 10, 2010
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The investment research firm ITG has been investigating the sales figures from Verizon Wireless and it has come up with a pretty interested find. A large majority of smartphones sold by Verizon Wireless are Android handests. Although it is a “new find”, it isn’t all that shocking. What is shocking are the other facts that the research firm found. In October 2009, BlackBerry’s accounted for 93% of Verizon Wireless’ smartphone sales and just over one year later, Android accounted for 80% of Verizon Wireless’ smartphone sales and BlackBerry’s share in at under 20%. The fact that Android went More >

Windows Phone 7 Developers Can Access Sales Tools

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December 10, 2010
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When it comes to business and selling things, you have to be able to monitor sales. You have to know what’s working and what isn’t and most importantly, whether or not you’ll be bringing in the profit for the month. This is exactly why it was a bit surprising when Windows Phone 7′s app market launched without any sort of sales monitoring tools. Since its European launch back in mid-October, most WP7 developers have sort of been in the dark as to how their applications were doing.

Fortunately, Microsoft is doing away with this hang-up; as of yesterday, developers have been able to  get their More >

Notion Ink Released “Adam” – Pre-Order, Pricing And Return Policy Now Available

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December 9, 2010
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Notion Ink went live today with the Adam’s pricing. As promised by the company’s blogging CEO, it’s priced well below the Apple iPad. The prices listed here is in US dollars but it also applies to other countries. The company also made a comment about offering the Adam at the same price world wide.

Pricing:
  • LCD screen,WiFi — $375
  • LCD screen, WiFi, 3G — $425
  • Pixel Qi Screen, WiFi –$499
  • Pixel Qi Screen, WiFi, 3G — $549

Notion Ink also reported that they have done some work to integrate some Android 2.3 functionality only on the 2.2 Froyo OS that the slate will ship with. For instance, More >

Highlighted Features Of Android 2.3 Gingerbread OS

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December 8, 2010
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As we all know, Google chose Samsung as the manufacturer of the Nexus One’s successor, the Nexus S.  The Nexus S comes packed with a lot of features that users with other Android and non-Android devices will envy. It also comes loaded with the new and improved Gingerbread OS 2.3.

Samsung Nexus S Hardware Specifications:
  • Android 2.3 (Gingerbread)
  • 4.0” WVGA Super Amoled Screen
  • 5 MP Rear Camera
  • VGA Front-Facing Camera
  • HD Video Playback
  • NFC (Near Field Communications) Capability
  • Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n
  • 1GHz Cortex A8 (Hummingbird) processor
  • 16GB iNAND flash memory
  • Quad-band GSM: 850, 900, More >

Google Releases Android 2.3 User’s Guide

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December 7, 2010
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Shortly after the formal announcement of Android 2.3, aka Gingerbread, Google also released the Android 2.3 user’s guide. You can nab all 374 pages of it from here or here, it’ll give you plenty of reading material while you twiddle your thumbs and wait for your phone to get the Android 2.3 OS.

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[How To] Manually Install Froyo 2.2.1 Update On Sprint’s Samsung Epic 4G (Galaxy S)

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December 6, 2010
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The Epic 4G, Sprint’s Samsung Galaxy S version, appears to be the first handset to get the Android 2.2 upgrade, which is definitely great news for Sprint subscribers that currently own an Epic 4G. The official Froyo build for the Epic 4G is now available to download and install on the smartphone, and in case a Sprint OTA update hasn’t hit you yet, then here’s what you need to do to install Android 2.2.1 on your Epic 4G manually:

  1. Download the update from Google’s servers.
  2. If you aren’t rooted and you aren’t using ClockworkMod recovery, rename the file to “update.zip.”
  3. Plug your More >

Google Unveils Samsung Nexus S; Coming To U.S On December 16th, 2010

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December 6, 2010
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Earlier today, Google announced Samsung Nexus S – the successor to Nexus One, the new smartphone is rumored to come to the US on December 16th, and to UK on December 20th. Designed by the folks (Google) in Mountain View, California, and manufactured by Samsung, Nexus S will be the first phone powered by the just announced Android 2.3 Gingerbread.

Here are the official specs:

Connectivity

  • Quad-band GSM: 850, 900, 1800, 1900
  • Tri-band HSPA: 900, 2100, 1700
  • HSPA type: HSDPA (7.2Mbps) HSUPA (5.76Mbps)
  • Wi-Fi 802.11 n/b/g
  • Bluetooth 2.1+EDR
  • Near Field Communication (NFC)
  • Assisted GPS More >

Google’s Android 2.3 Gingerbread To Release “In A Few Weeks”

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December 6, 2010
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Earlier today, Engadget announced that both Android 2.3 Gingerbread and the Samsung Nexus S were officially announced to release. The OS that was said to be released brought the updates to the SDK and the NDK as well as SDK tools and the Eclipse ADT plugin. Shortly after Engadget’s post, which has now been deleted, Google’s Reto Meier recently sent out a tweet refuting any OTA rumors and putting the Gingerbread update timeline as “in a few weeks”:

Although we won’t be seeing Android 2.3 today, the list of features and enhancements is quite extensive. Check out what to expect below:

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