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Google Takes A Jab At iPhone’s Lack Of Multitasking And Push Notifications

Oh snap! While Google’s Vice President of Engineering, Vic Gundotra, may be stoked that his Android platform being the new GPS of the century, he was overly excited about said operating system‘s new messaging service and ability to multitask. With that said, he decided to make a clear jab at Apple’s lame excuse for notifications (read: “push”) and it’s clear lack of multitasking. During this mornings keynote on Android, Gundotra had this to say: Read more

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Smartphones (Android In Particular) Gaining Momentum In GPS Market

Today, at Google’s second day for their 2010 developer conference, I/O, it was announced that users who use a smartphone coupled with the Android operating system have navigated over 1,000,000,000 (1-billion) miles using their free turn-by-turn GPS software. That’s  a significant milestone.

The announcement came from Vice-President of Engineering at Google, Vic Gundotra. During his keynote, Gundotra also announced: Read more

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Flash Finally Arrives Perfectly On Your Mobile Device

It’s been quite a year for Flash. The the once desktop-centric multimedia content has been [basically] banned from certain mobile devices; but that hasn’t pushed it completely away from the entire market. Take this video for example: Flash’s creator, Adobe, is hard at work making it all work on Android smart phones. Read more

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Opera Mini 5 Browser for iPhone Is Fast, Unapproved For Now

Opera has recently submitted a new iPhone/iPod touch app that looks to set the new speed for internet browsers on Apple’s little devices. The video above, which demonstrates some blazing speed, is the Opera Mini 5 browser. It’s very intuitive, fast, and — dare I say — better than Apples default browser. Sure it’s not approved by Apple, but lets hope it does.

[Engadget]

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Google’s Nexus One: ‘Bold and Beautiful’ or ‘Boring and Blah?’

With all the new Android smartphones on the market, I’m becoming increasingly aware of Google’s baby operating system. I’ve honestly had it all — the iPhone 3G, Blackberry, and many others — but I haven’t bought an Android device, yet. Oh, and when I had the iPhone 3G I fell in love, but that love eventually turned into a love/hate relationship due to a lack of multi-tasking. Now Google, one of the largest and most profitable companies in the world, has decided to take a new approach to mobile computing by building it’s own phone: the Nexus One.

Lets get one thing straight before I go any further: I commend Google for the Open Handset Alliance and it’s efforts to protect the wireless spectrum. Furthermore, Google is probably the best company to come along in quite some time. Read more

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Palm Pre Dunked In Beer, Survives For Almost A Minute!

When I saw this video on Giz I figured the man would drop his Palm Pre in beer and it would, you know, go caput. But it’s isn’t so! The story behind the Palm Pre beer dunking is this: the man in the video, well, his screen kept cracking in his shirt pocket. His boss, being incredibly generous, offered to buy him an iPhone if he would drop his Pre in a mug of ale. When the man let go, his Pre kept functoning [-- in beer!]. I know it only lasted a minute, but that’s pretty frickin’ amazing seeing as the Pre has numerous open areas that would easily allow any beverage (or liquid for that matter) in.

[CrunchGear via PreThinking Via Techmeme]

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Is Your Blackberry 8350i Full Of Problems?

Next door to our office is Ameritech, one of the leading roofing companies in the Florida Panhandle. It also happens to be owned by my boss’ husband. So, as I may be the “Office Tech Guy” for the real estate company, I’m also theirs. Recently, the roofing company decided to upgrade all their phones. Calling up Sprint, they knew they wanted new Blackberries since that’s what they’ve all been accustomed to.

Someone in the office (read: not me) recommended the Blackberry 8350i, a supposed “great addition” to the Blackberry family. At first, all of them seemed to work by offering a decent camera, Push-to-Talk (a.k.a. “bleep bleep”), WiFi and a host of other roofer-musts. It was only after about two weeks did we actually start seeing some of them fail, and by week three, it was like someone had been throwing them off the roof while no one was looking. Read more

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Augmented Reality Coming To A GPS Near You

Haven’t seen the latest craze hitting your mobile phone? Let me introduce you: augmented reality, meet nerdalicious blog reader. Now that you two are acquainted, may I suggest you watch the following video. It’s a new GPS app for the Android mobile OS, but it’s also coming to the iPhone.

While the app itself is a tad on the ugly side, you can definitely see the potential. I mean, those lame 3D city models used on current GPS systems is so, like, 2001. Instead of the 3D models, Mobilizy’s Wikitude overlays images onto live video straight from your mobile phone’s camera. I can see this being huge in like two years. I give it two years because augmented reality is just hitting the mainstream mobile market. It will need some time to marinate before fully realizing its potential. I will say though that Wikitude’s augmented GPS system is a great start and I can’t wait to see the iPhone version.

[Gizmodo via Mobilizy]

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What’s New With The Facebook App 3.0 For iPhone?

If you own an iPhone, chances are you have the Facebook app. Coming on the scene less than two years ago, iPhone owners have been treated to one of the best mobile Facebook applications ever. Since then, the app hasn’t evolved much, except for some tweaks here and there, but now that the version 3.0 has arrived there’s a slew of new features that every iPhone owner — and Facebook user — will want. Lets ride the Gravy Train down to Potatoville, shall we?

Here’s a complete list of everything that’s new with the Facebook  App 3.0 for iPhone.

• Landscape Mode
• See your upcoming Events and RSVP
• See your friend’s birthdays
• See Pages and post updates and photos to Pages you administer
• Write Notes and read your friends’ notes
• Upload videos from an iPhone 3GS
• Upload photos to any album
• Complete photo management (e.g. create albums, delete albums, delete photos, delete photo tags)
• Change your Profile Picture
• Zoom into photos (finally!)

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Panama City Beach, FL Finally Gets AT&T 3G Service

For the longest time, Panama City Beach has been stuck in a time-warp when it came to 3G service. Herald as the next-best thing to sex, 3G is a next-gen wireless service provided by numerous mobile companies but has been completely lacking in the northwest region of Florida. Well, that’s all changed; kinda. Read more

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