Posts Tagged ‘all’

17 Feb 2010
0

Droid Explorer – Great Application By admin in Misc., Mobile Development

A tool to manage your rooted android device with the simplicity of Windows Explorer.

  • Features
    • Multiple Device Support
    • Copy and auto-apply update.zip
    • Copy local files to device
    • Auto detection of connected/disconnected device
    • APK file icon and extended information
    • Device command shell window
    • Reboot device
    • Reboot device in to recovery mode
    • Open files for viewing / execution locally with the default file type executable
    • Drag & Drop file copy from Explorer
    • Flash Recovery Image
    • Package Manager (Install & Uninstall)
    • No need to mount SD card to access files from computer
    • Access files in other directories besides SD card
    • Copy files from device to local clipboard
    • Paste files from local clipboard to device
    • Open files on local machine
    • Display open with dialog to specify what to open a file with
    • Right click APK and Uninstall
    • Right click APK and Install
    • Delete files from device
    • Take a Screen Shot (landscape or portrait)
    • Plugins can register as a component to open files
    • Open from within Computer
    • Should now work with more ROMs as long as they are Rooted and have busybox
    • Device “Friendly Name” instead of device serial number.
    • Android Screencast Plugin – Control your android device with your mouse and keyboard
    • Install/Uninstall APK files right from explorer
    • Standalone plugin runner (will mainly be used for windows 7 jump lists and the apk installer but can be used to run any plugin.
    • Better Hero Support
    • Backup the “Google Experience” applications and creates an update.zip containing the applications

GET IT HERE

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14 Feb 2010
25

AT&T Announces Major Initiative to Bring ‘Apps to All’ at CES 2010 By admin in Mobile carriers


AT&T president and CEO, Ralph de la Vega, announced plans to launch five new devices from Dell, HTC and Motorola based on the Android platform. The company also announced a major initiative to expand the universe of mobile applications beyond smartphones to more mobile phones and spur future app development for emerging consumer electronics devices, its U-verse TV platform, and enterprise and small business workplaces at CES.

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14 Feb 2010
2

Google Phone G1 By admin in Mobile Development News

This month October 22nd the search engine king Google is going to sell its first Android capability phone G1.The phone, which is manufactured by Taiwan-based HTC Corporation. Though it’s out looking is something like as iPhone but a lot of  functional and outer difference between the two phones. The weight of G1 is 5.6 ounce where Apple iPhone is 4.7 ounce. So G1 is heavier than iPhone. The G1 — 4.6 inches high, 2.1 inches wide and .62 of an inch thick

One of the G1’s physical attributes is that it is slight curve at the bottom. It can protect the phone from a sudden fallen from your hand. The G1’s QWERTY keyboard is good, the keys are small, even for little fingers, and in some ways, it elicits the same frustrations as using the iPhone’s on-screen keyboard. It also has a very slick touch screen like the iPhone,and search engine friendly a full HTML Web browser.

The price of G1 Phone is $179 only with two years contract. where iPhone is $199. So it is 20 dollar less than iPhone.

There are two basic data plans option by T-Mobile. The first is $35 for unlimited use, including text messages; the other is $25 a month, and includes 400 text messages.

T-Mobile’s least expensive voice plan is $29.99 for 300 minutes, so if you choose the budget route, you’re looking at about $55 a month for the phone. AT&T users pay a minimum of $69.99 a month, including 450 voice minutes, for their iPhones, and text messages are extra.

There’s no mistaking Google’s presence on the phone, which includes Google Search, Google Maps, Gmail e-mail, Google Calendar, and You Tube (which Google owns).

Google Talk for instant messaging is there, too, but so are AIM, Windows Live Messenger and Yahoo! Messenger. and the various Google online programs and documents. Instant messaging is responsive and easy on the phone,

It works on T-Mobile’s EDGE and 3G networks, pretty much the same as the iPhone uses on the AT&T network. By next Wednesday when the G1 goes on sale, T-Mobile says it will have 3G coverage in 23 metropolitan areas around the country.

On the bottom of the phone when the keyboard is hidden, and on the right when slid out, are the main navigation buttons to make or disconnect a call, open a menu screen and go back a screen. The little grey trackball is right in the center of the controls and works like a miniature mouse.

Like other smart-phone operating systems, Android allows users to install any number of applications on top of it. Taking a page from Apple, Google has made it easy to find and download programs directly to the phone with an application called the Android Market.

Unlike the iPhone, on the G1, you can run multiple programs at the same time. So, you can have Google Talk or AOL Instant Messenger running in the background while you surf the Web or listen to music. The G1 will alert you when you’ve got new instant messages, something the iPhone won’t do.

For instance, the G1 has a Google search bar on its home screen, which is like a computer desktop. With the G1 closed and the keyboard hidden, the search box looks inviting; you can see and even click into it. On the iPhone, clicking on such a box would bring up a virtual keyboard that would allow you to enter text and initiate a search

Getting movies, music or even contacts on to the G1 is a lot more difficult than it is on the iPhone, because Google doesn’t have anything similar to iTunes to manage the transfer of such data from a PC. Nor can you sync directly with an Exchange server for your work e-mail or address book, as you can with both the iPhone and Research In Motion’s BlackBerrys.

Both the Android and the iPhone are very similar in their basic capabilities. They both have large touch screens, GPS, WiFi, 3G cellular antennas, accelerometers, and a camera. On the software side, the both have fully capable browsers (based on Webkit), Gmail, GPS-enabled Google Maps, a music player, and a whole array of third-party apps that you can browse and download directly from an App Store on each device.Google Maps on Android includes Street View pictures. Coupled with the compass and GPS, you can see a picture of the street you are on or the building in front of you simply by holding up the phone and moving it around

Unlike every other smart phone I’ve used, the G1 doesn’t come with software to synchronize your calendar or address book with a PC or Mac, which could be a big problem for many people but not for those who already use Gmail or Google Calendar. Microsoft Outlook users can get their data into the G1 by first using free PC software to synch with Google’s web applications.

The phone does come with a USB cable to transfer music or photos between the phone and a PC or Mac. Unlike Apple products, it uses the same standard Mini-USB connector as the Blackberry and many digital cameras. You can also charge the device from a computer’s USB port.

The G1 has a better camera (3 mega pixels) but it has no any video recording system. There’s a option to see video clip or file from You Tube.

Bottom line: After all we congratulate the Google phone G1.Though there’s some limitation and disadvantages in this phone but in near future we will expect more function enriched, easy operating system low price and latest all technology based phone from Google.To see the picture and other information you may visit the site presented below

http;//googlecellular.blogspot,com

Abdul Halim

Nationality-Bangladesh

Present location: Malaysia

Profession-Cell phone business

Contact email: pkfmhalim@gmail.com

website: http://cellphonecentre.blogspot.com

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14 Feb 2010
32

Google Android Series: First Impressions By admin in Mobile Development News


In this video, I give my first impressions of the T-Mobile G1 phone which includes the Google Android OS. Thanks to T-Mobile for providing a review unit so that I can share with you all the experience. Size wise, it’s a bit bigger than my iPhone mostly due to the built-in sliding QWERTY keyboard. The very first thing I noticed while using the G1 was that there was a bit of an learning curve in terms of when to use the touch screen and when to use the hardware keys. I also noticed that you …

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13 Feb 2010
30

The New Android Market By admin in Mobile Development News


In Android Market, we are making it even easier for users to find great apps from developers.

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11 Feb 2010
1

PositionApp Helps Developers Track App Store Performance On The Go By External in Mobile Development News

PositionApp Helps Developers Track App Store Performance On The Go

Today, UK design firm ustwo has launched PositionApp, an iPhone application that provides data regarding the top 300 apps in the App Store from the last 6 months. The price of the app would have been $7, but AdMob (well, Google technically) is sponsoring the app so that it is free for the next two months.

Coupled with its launch, ustwo also provided MobileCrunch with some exclusive graphs showing which app categories have been most popular over the last 6 months. Unlike most App Store data, this data comes directly from scraping iTunes, which means that it is a 100% accurate assessment of the App Store. Anyone interested in the App Store should hit the jump and check out what PositionApp has found.

PositionApp is a simple application: ustwo crawls the App Store on an hourly basis and collects data from the top 300 apps across all categories and geographies. They’ve been doing this for 6 months and have now launched an application which enables you to see, in graphs and numbers, what apps have been successful for the last 6 months and what rankings they’ve held. The user interface is slick, but I found that I actually wanted even more data than this app had.

The app is kept up-to-date in real-time so PositionApp will provide you with the ability to check how your app is doing (should it be in the top 300) compared to others. Of course, it is a niche application and likely won’t ever be in the top 300 itself (ironic, isn’t it?), but developers will find it as a good on-the-go resource to tracking App Store successes and failures — or more accurately, successes and near successes.

PositionApp comes with more in-depth features such as country-by-country tracking so you can see how your favorite apps do in different markets. It also lets you see who the biggest movers are, which is a good way to get ahead on

The data that ustwo has been scraping also provides additional insights into the App Store. They put together some graphs to show MobileCrunch readers what app categories are the most popular, both free and paid. The graphs (shown below) show clearly that the App Store is dominated by games (over 50% in paid and 40% in free). Next up is Entertainment applications, followed by Utilities.

After that, it gets dicey. On the free side, Lifestyle and Music applications are clearly doing well (each with about 5% of the top 300). However, there is no clear winning category on the paid side after games, Entertainment and Utilities.

Perhaps equally as interesting are the categories doing the worst. Sports, Navigation, News and Travel are all doing fairly poorly among other paid categories. In free, Weather and Finance can be added to that list as well.

It’s important to remember that many apps go into the top 300 simply because of low price points (Games) and that high-priced applications don’t tend to get enough sales to make it to the top 300 (Navigation). That said, the numbers are surely interesting.

You can download PositionApp on iTunes here.

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11 Feb 2010
0

Motorola DEXT is a androïde :) By admin in Mobile Development News

Android smart phones are always worth looking forward to; after all, Google’s operating system deserves the celebration and praise it receives from fans and critics alike are a testament to how efficient it is for mobile phones. The DEXT is one impressive piece of mobile phone technology, from the phone design, to the hardware, to the new Motoblur software; expect to be impressed when using this device. Motorola has finally come out of the rut it has been in for a while. It has been quite a while since the last time Motorola has produced a significantly impressive mobile phone, and the DEXT is truly one heck of a device. The first major thing about this phone is how good it looks. From the textured back to the neat front layout; the DEXT looks and feels like a true android smart phone. It will run circles around its Windows Mobile based counter parts thanks to the excellent integration of web applications and direct access to social networking sites. The new Motoblur is focused on synchronizing all network and contact information allowing you to keep track of status updates and conversations with your contacts. Motoblur Blurs the Lines of Distance If you tend to check Facebook regularly for updates on your favorite friends, this mobile phone will make that a whole lot easier for you. Motoblur is debuting on the DEXt and it will allow users to synchronize contacts with social networking sites. This will enable users to view contact information and messages from a single contact in a screen that summarizes all the relevant information. Status updates directly from social networking sites can also be viewed here. This works through RSS feed widgets that will quickly display updates when network service is available. Just how useful is this? It is very useful. Instead of having to manually go online each time, the mobile phone instantly does the work for you. DEXT Details The Motorola DEXT is jam packed with features. The extras alone are worth drooling over. It has a five mega pixel camera with auto focus and image editing software plus geo tagging. Aside from that, multimedia playback on this mobile phone supports all sorts of file formats. For audio, this phone will play back AAC, AAC+, AAC+ Enhanced, AMR NB, MIDI, MP3 and WAV file formats. For video, this phone supports H. 264, H. 263, MPEG 4, YouTube FLV’s and 3GP videos. It can even do streaming. Taking videos on this mobile phone automatically encodes it in MP4 format. The touch screen is 3. 1 inches HVGA screen that can display a resolution of 320×480 pixels at 187 PPI. It also does a good job as an input device; it tracks strokes and finger motions accurately. The battery is a massive 1420mAh lithium polymer that promises users of up to 13 days of standby time. The Android system comes with its own browser and Google applications giving users a full range of apps. Gmail, Google Maps, GTalk and other Google mobile services are available for the Android. Lastly, the tie up with Orange UK will be providing the DEXT with full service through its Orange Maps provider.

If the Motorola DEXT takes your fancy then why not take a look at some of the Motorola DEXT 12 month contracts that are on offer as well as Motorola DEXT on Orange.
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11 Feb 2010
2

Motorola Android Blur Cliq Dext By admin in Mobile Development News


Motorola Android Blur Cliq Dext

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11 Feb 2010
2

HTC Sense 2 running on HTC Hero (Android 2.1) (part 1) By admin in Mobile Development News


This is the boring part of the video, you can skip to part 2 if you wanna see interesting stuff Part 2 : www.youtube.com

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11 Feb 2010
27

HTC Hero Browser Wars By admin in Mobile Development News


We compare the HTC Hero browser with that of the iphone 3G S and Samsung Omnia II

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11 Feb 2010
16

Sony Ericsson’s AmbientTime Lite By admin in Mobile Development News


Now available in the Market for Android users, but I'll be much more interested in seeing it on an XPERIA X3 bit.ly

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11 Feb 2010
20

Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Promo Video By admin in Mobile Development News


Sony Ericsson's promo video for the new XPERIA X10 smartphone

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11 Feb 2010
26

Nexus One: “Web meets phone” By admin in Mobile Development News


Introducing Nexus One, the new Android phone from Google. Explore apps, see tech specs, take a 3D tour and buy the phone at: www.google.com

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11 Feb 2010
25

AT&T 1993 “You Will” Ads By admin in Mobile carriers


This montage of AT&T ads came from a 1993 Newsweek CD-ROM, when Newsweek thought that one day, magazines would be sent to you in CD-ROM form, sponsored with ads. It's an interesting view of the future. (via very-appealing.com)

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11 Feb 2010
25

Verizon Wireless Surprises Customer By admin in Mobile carriers


The Verizon "can you hear me guy" and network show up and follow someone around, just like on TV. He and everyone else in the park were taken by surprise.

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