Sometimes taking a bold, unconventional method, one can bring in untold rewards. Samsung has decided to attack its competitor, Apple, in unconventional way by giving out Galaxy S phones to frustrated iPhone users for free. Recently, iPhone 4 has made plenty headlines as the phone with antenna problem; people have been complaining that their iPhone 4(s) drop signal like crazy! Some commentators here have described how Samsung’s Galaxy S is way better than iPhone 4 in features and signal reception. Samsung is betting on doing thing unconventionally to gain an edge in smart phone business against Apple, but untold rewards remain to be seen. What do you think? Source.
Google has released App Inventor to the public. What’s on earth is App Inventor? App Inventor allows you and your cat to create applications for Android without touching a single code. Oh, please disregard about the cat that can program an app, I just want to be cute like a cat! Anyway, all you have to do is to be creative and have a mental image of how you want to approach in formulating an application for Android. For an example, you want to allow a sound to play when someone taps on an image as to tell your little application to display the next image, you can do just that without touching any code using App Inventor. App Inventor developers boast that they have had created image versions of the codes for just about anything, and so you can mash the mashable objects together to form a complete Android application.
Yes, coding will always be a better form of poetry, but App Inventor is one quick way to form up an Android App without being too geeky! Imagine using App Inventor as a way to create a new whole puzzle from standard bits and pieces of the older puzzles. It’s way more flexible than a puzzle literally, because bits and pieces from real puzzles cannot be mashable unless those are from the same puzzles.
In a way, I don’t think App Inventor will allow users to create better Android applications. To create the more sophisticated applications, one has to get down and dirty by coding days and nights away. Writing poetry is not cake!
Even if all has failed, I still adore App Inventor for one reason only, and the reason is that it allows people without the knowledge of coding to form limitless number of Android applications that are uniquely compatible to the creators. Just a head up, don’t even try to avoid similar Android applications that will be produced by App Inventor factory. It will be a hopeless mission for you!
Give App Inventor a try here! To clarify, I have not used App Inventor yet, and so my words on this new thing are for show! Have a merry active mind in creating Android applications! Source.
Cool hack for the day! Someone has a success in making Ubuntu OS runs alongside Android on Nexus One. No need to reboot for switching as you have to do a dual boot on a computer. And we are talking about a smart phone here folks! For more in depth into this, a video after the break will be sufficed, have fun watching it!
Users who are using reMail on iPhone may have to find a similar app to fill in reMail’s place! Google has purchased reMail and had removed this app from iPhone store. reMail is convenient because it’s fast and you don’t have to be connected to the Internet to search for a specific email.
How reMail works? It downloads all of your emails and store those on your iPhone. reMail’s search speed is very fast and so even if you have thousands of emails store on your iPhone, using reMail you could still find an email within 2 seconds. Doing all of that without being connected to the Internet since reMail has downloaded all of your emails onto your iPhone when you were connecting to the Internet previously.
We all know that Google has Nexus One and Android for other smart phones. From the purchase of reMail, it could mean Google is planning to release reMail or marrying reMail with Google’s compatible products. Android users may see something similar to reMail, but iPhone users may have to go without reMail in the future. Source.
WordPress users who also by chance are using Android could download a free Android App known as wpToGo to blog with their WordPress through smart phones that are using Android OS. It seems that wpToGo is only compatible with WordPress 2.7+. This is super convenient for bloggers who are on the go often but need to access their WordPress. Although administrative tasks are limited when using wpToGo, this application seems to be suffice in many other areas such as edit post, upload photos, and others. To use wpToGo, you must enable XML RPC Protocol in your WordPress. Don’t stop here, read more!
What I had written above was old news! The new news is that the continuation of developing wpToGo, the team behind this application has released a newer version of wpToGo now known as WordPress for Android 1.0. The price for this application is also $0! Check out the demo video of WordPress for Android 1.0 after the jump! Source.
Here is the 10 part series of Nexus One known as Google phone. This video series starts out with the introduction of Nexus One and unwrapping it from its box. Then it goes on to introduce you to Nexus One’s hardware, how to set up your Nexus One for the very first time, how to use Nexus One, adding applications onto Nexus One, and so on.
Have you wait long enough for Motorola Droid? Wait no more! Droid will be available for buyers on November 6th for $200, and you can buy it at Verizon’s website. Even though the price is kinda expensive, but if you look at the specification of the hardware and the software (Android 2.0) and the applications this new smart phone got, you probably are totally going to get it. Oh ya, this baby also has a slide-out keyboard that can make you look like a real hacker (Die Hard 4 – Live Free or Die Hard). Check out the specifications and the applications for Droid at Gizmodo.
This may be nothing but only hot air! A rumor is spreading about Google may stick its nose into mobile hardware. Yep, Google may want to take on smart phone by producing its own brand mobile phone. What operating system for the hardware? Silly! It’s Android of course. Anyway, if this rumor turns out to be true someday, don’t expect me to be surprised. Although Google’s billions are not from Google’s nosy ventures like Android and so on, don’t expect Google to not meddle with everyone’s business. It shows who got the will, the extra talents, the extra cash, and the boldness to make everyone nervous. In this case, the nervous ones are iPhone, Microsoft, Motorola, and Research In Motion.
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