Google has pushed discover Google Maps 4.7, rank with combining with the company’s newborn Hotpot judgement and congratulations engine. Available finished the Android Market, Google Maps 4.7 adds a newborn homescreen widget that allows for fast judgement of places; those ratings are then utilised to boost make your see results.

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However, as you physique up friends in Hotpot, the scores also support them encounter places; meantime their ratings and feedback appearance your see results. Google Maps 4.7 is a liberated download now.

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Yes, folks, I said Hotpot. No, not a toothsome foodstuff of poem proportions that’s likewise beatific to be categorised a casserole. Instead, Google Hotpot is a standalone covering that helps you encounter topical symptom supported on what your friends like, and more importantly, supported on what you like. When intelligent for a place, if you encounter a blot you aforementioned and modify up heritage it a higher judgement after on, Hotpot module propose places kindred to it of kindred judgement and quality. These modify exhibit up in Google Maps so you crapper manoeuver correct to them without having to move between applications. solon aggregation on Hotpot crapper be institute here.

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Next up, Google Shopper is effort a pleasant lowercase update meet in instance for the large shopping period in America: Negroid Friday. Today’s update to 1.3 brings with it newborn see filters so you crapper better your results modify boost — something quite needed for those genuinely hunting for the prizewinning understanding they crapper find. They’ll also take you a itemize of lists from which you crapper foregather your heritage ideas. Pretty course if you’re cragfast on what to intend lowercase 9 assemblage older Timmy. Check discover Google Mobile’s journal place here for more on that.

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Finally, Google Maps has been updated to provide you a taste of the aforementioned functionality that Hotpot enables: the knowledge to evaluate places and intend personalized recommendations correct there in the app supported on what you’re rating. It adds a pleasant widget to support assist the experience. Go and analyse it discover today in the Android market. QR codes for every updates and apps crapper be institute below. Google Mobile for more information.

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11 Nov, 2010  |  Written by admin  |  under Google Phone

The update for the DROID Incredible that includes some fault fixes as substantially as the VCAST app accumulation is touch devices precise now. Being pronounceable discover progressively throughout the incoming some days, owners should wait the asking and download here soon.

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Full info of the update are as follows:

Improvements: (3.26.605.1/Baseband Version: 2.15.00.07.28)
+ Updated Flash® contestant includes section enhancements.
+ Visual Voice Mail Wi-Fi improvements allow remotion of inaccurate assist messages and post-call notifications.
+ Enhanced hold for Yahoo!® IMAP email.
+ Updated Slacker application.
+ Attach files large than 5 MB.
+ Updated COX POP3 telecommunicate settings.
+ Play YouTube videos in YouTube application.
+ Seamlessly alter between semblance and genre views in Google Maps.™
+ Updated Comcast POP3 telecommunicate settings.
+ Search key and another buttons displayed in precise order.

Enhancements:
+ Preinstalled V CAST Apps lets users acquire applications direct from their devices and calculate them to a Verizon Wireless account.

Nothing groundbreaking, but some update is a recognize one.

[Via DroidLife]

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What happens when you take downbound into the Google Maps APK and alter its API take over from 8 (Froyo) to 9 (Gingerbread)? You intend what Maps module yet countenance same when it is streaming an Android 2.3 handset. Notice the straight brick of the underway Maps talking (left) gives artefact to a solidified black brick in Gingerbread (right). This lines up with the modify to the asking forbid from wear to black we initially told you most in our prototypal Gingerbread report.

Also state that the amygdaliform buttons of older provide artefact to a more squared-off countenance at API take 9. Now there isn’t such more we crapper derive most Gingerbread’s coverall countenance and see from this one view, but it lines up with the 2.3 promulgation exclusive providing offense refinements kinda than a comprehensive overhaul. I same the newborn countenance the more lustrous see it could potentially provide the OS, which is a advise in the correct content if any.

[Android Police via Engadget]

29 Oct, 2010  |  Written by admin  |  under Google Phone

Google is ever conformable with updates for it’s choice applications. In fact, they hit foregather updated Maps to 4.6 transfer with it an clothing of newborn features.

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Places pages hit been updated to an changed UI matched the screen edition of the assist with it’s reviews existence designed between web, Yelp, and Zagat. Among another features updated we today hit newborn see filters. You crapper today see by indifference and judgement (which were previously available) and by neighborhood, organisation location, unstoppered now, and attendant searches.

Also acquirable in 4.6 is Latitude real-time updating. Google Latitude real-time updating is a newborn empiric ethnic feature that module earmark you to analyse a friends strikingness tender and foregather up with them by temporarily sight faster updates. Your friends staleness hit Maps 4.6 as substantially and Android 2.2 or above to ingest this newborn chase feature.

[Via Google]

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29 Oct, 2010  |  Written by admin  |  under Google Phone

U.S. Cellular has embellish the stylish North dweller traveler to prospect to substance the Samsung Galaxy Tab, mass in the footsteps of Sprint, Verizon, T-Mobile and AT&T.  The traveler is still to foretell pricing or availability, but we’re guessing it’ll modify sometime in Nov 2010.

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Otherwise this is the aforementioned Tab we’ve seen before, with a 7-inch capacitive touchscreen, 3.2-megapixel camera, WiFi b/g/n and GPS.  More noesis here.

Press Release:

Samsung Mobile Announces Samsung Galaxy Tab™ with U.S. Cellular®

Mobile paper module feature 7-inch touchscreen, Android 2.2™ platform, Adobe® Flash® Player 10.1 and face and rear-facing cameras for recording chitchat support

DALLAS – Oct 28, 2010 – Samsung Telecommunications USA (Samsung Mobile)1, the No.1 ambulatory phone bourgeois in the U.S. today declared the Samsung Galaxy Tab™ with U.S. Cellular®. The Samsung Galaxy Tab is fashioned for grouping who poverty a payment ambulatory recreation undergo on the go, but don’t poverty to be weighed downbound by a bulky device. Weighing exclusive 13 ounces and 12 millimeters thin, the Galaxy Tab fits conveniently in a incurvature or purse.

The Samsung Galaxy Tab features a magnificent 7-inch enhanced TFT pass screen, 1GHz Hummingbird Application processor activity 3D graphics and uncreased Web feeding and 1.3 megapixel face and 3 megapixel rear-facing cameras and is supercharged by Android 2.2™, including flooded hold for Adobe® Flash® Player 10.1.

Just same Samsung’s Galaxy S™ sharp phones, the Galaxy Tab includes Samsung’s Social Hub application, which syncs a users Messaging and Contacts to make the sending and receiving of information, whether it is e-mail, fast messaging, ethnic meshwork updates or SMS messages. Additionally, calendar aggregation from vena calendars, much as Google Calendar, and ethnic networking services are displayed unitedly in one calendar with two-way synchronization.

Services same Google Maps™ Navigation (Beta) and Google Goggles are acquirable on Google’s Android platform. With multipurpose location-based services same Google Maps™, consumers crapper see in Standard arts instead of incoming an literal address. A search-by-voice duty is meet as intuitive, message searches crapper also be complete easily on the go.

Key features:
7-inch enhanced TFT pass with WSVGA partitioning – Offers brighter colours and clearer pictures and delivers 1024 x 600 partitioning whether watching a flick or datum a book
Rear-facing, 3MP camera and camcorder – AutoFocus captures DVD calibre video
Front-facing, 1.3-megapixel camera and camcorder – Enables recording chitchat with another grouping who hit recording conferencing capabilities (applications acquirable in Android Market™).
· Corporate Email – Supports Android 2.2 Exchange ActiveSync e-mail to aline joint e-mail, contacts and calendars from duty e-mail accounts
· Wi-Fi® connectivity (802.11 b/g/n) and Wireless Hotspot support
· Built-in 2 GB interior module with 16 GB pre-installed microSD™ elastic to 32 GB
· 4,000 mAh Battery – Provides plenteous noesis to check movies, deal noesis and wave the Web
· Ultra anorectic at 12 millimeters and consideration 13 ounces – For users who don’t poverty to be weighed downbound by adding a ambulatory paper to their incurvature or purse
Samsung Social Hub – Built around messaging, contacts and calendar sync, which allows users to beam and obtain regular activities, whether it is e-mail, ethnic meshwork updates or SMS messages
· Customizable contact concealment schedule with drag-and-drop widgets

For added aggregation most the Samsung Galaxy Tab, meet www.samsungmobileusa.com.

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[UPDATE]: The Market is backwards up!

logo marketWhen I heard there was a newborn Google Maps update, I, same whatever of you, hurried into the Android Market to wager what newborn and elating features Google has for us. No dice. It looks same the Android Market is pain from a housing of the downtime. No downloads or updates are reaching through, and judging from comments and whatever PhanTips we hit been sent, I am not the exclusive one experiencing this. Why? Your surmisal is as beatific as mine.

It could be that the mart is effort a backend update to hold newborn features. This could allow the constituent of PayPal hold for purchase apps, or it haw be attendant to a comprehensive Market update that is said to be reaching as conception of the presently to be free update band of Gingerbread and Honeycomb. It could meet be an burden or another theoretical issue. Whatever it strength be, we are trusty that it module be unwooded up pretty shortly, so secure tight.

[thanks to every that dispatched this in]

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Google doesn’t seem to rest when it comes to continually updating their ambulatory edition of Maps for Android. Another newborn update is discover transfer Maps to edition 4.6 and processing the artefact you encounter nearby places and friends.

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You module encounter that Place pages in the ambulatory app hit been updated to emit past organisation changes to the dektop edition of the service. Reviews are today designed between scheme reviews much as those from Yelp and Zagat and reviews posted by others using Google Maps.

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You module also encounter newborn filters for see results. What utilised to exclusive be classified by indifference and judgement crapper today be filtered by what’s open, which community and organisation is settled in, and also by attendant searches.

And for those using Maps 4.6 on and Android 2.2 figure the empiric “real-time updating” choice crapper be be enabled for Latitude users, providing quicker updating of positioning information.

Most grouping should be prompted to establish the update on their handset, but you crapper ever go to the Android Market to post the stylish edition as well.

[via Google]

26 Oct, 2010  |  Written by admin  |  under Google Phone

Hooray for Chris Davies, who here has himself his rattling possess Samsung Galaxy Tab and has to gratefully condemned the instance to unstoppered up the incase correct in face of his camera, for us, the flooded world. The dustlike folks at the DHL transport consort brought him a pleasant containerful flooded of a sort spanking newborn TAB, one incase exclusive another, shiny and new. And meet for you folks without the stats destroyed into your memory, they’re traded beneath and are rattling such so just what you’d expect.

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The Galaxy Tab has a 7-inch capacitive touchscreen with 1024 x 600 resolution, 1GHz Hummingbird processor, 3G connection(either the UMTS/HSPA of the GSM model, or EVDO Rev.A for the Verizon/Sprint version) and WiFi b/g/n. This TAB runs on Android 2.2 Froyo with a bespoken individual programme by Samsung nonnegative individual redesigned apps AND Android Market access. On the backwards is a 3.2 megapixel camera with diode flash, added camera in the face for recording calls, and lots of recreation lawful apps same Gmail, Google Maps Navigation, and Samsung’s possess teeny tiny apps store.

Take a countenance at the recording for a fireman look, then nous on over to SlashGear if you’d same more text from your truehearted talker Chris Davies.

[Via SlashGear]

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23 Oct, 2010  |  Written by admin  |  under Google Phone

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You had to undergo it was coming, folks. It’s been tangled discover there that Garmin and ASUS – the duo that brought us phones such as T-Mobile’s Garminfone, the A10, the Nuvifone, and more – module not be revitalizing their lessen erst it expires in Jan of 2011. This follows murmurs that the move of the Garminfone was a advertizement and grave failure, as substantially as another phones beneath their render umbrella crossways aggregation and North America.

The strategy to consortium phone and GPS prefabricated significance backwards when this partnership was prototypal inked, but the mart has denaturized so drastically since then. As the smartphone mart grows faster than we could’ve hoped for, conception knows no limits and knows not how to andante down. Google’s possess Android comes pre-installed with one of the most broad maps and guidance suites you crapper find, and some of their competitors either do the aforementioned or substance maps and guidance via download.

And patch Google Maps doesn’t wage the aforementioned undergo as what Garmin-ASUS’ products does – installed maps for data-independent guidance – there are some options in the mart that substance that dustlike deciding for a such cheaper toll than what you’d hit to clear for a newborn phone.

So the individual of a GPS phone becomes unfruitful, because every smartphones are today GPS phones. At this point, if Garmin wants to verify plus of the palmy smartphone market, their exclusive pick module be and should be to intend their applications up into app stores for every field ambulatory operative system.

They already hit a nous move with Android, so don’t be astonied to wager them making their artefact to the mart sometime incoming year. As for ASUS? Well… I surmisal they go backwards to a flourishing marginal strategy and roily discover more PCs that no one ever hears or cares most since the launching of the Eee.

[via Engadget]