27 Feb, 2010  |  Written by Google  |  under Google Phone

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If your a gamer and advert the beatific older life when Quake on your PC was the epitome of gaming, then here is whatever of the prizewinning Android programme yet!  A individual by the study of Thunderbird2k has succesfully ported Quake 3 to his Motorola Milestone. As of now, it is optimized to endeavor on devices with a fleshly keyboard but hopefully it crapper be boost matured to be utilised on every Android devices.

Thunderbird2k says:

“It took more steps to behave performance, meliorate and curb the good and meshwork to add. Without good the mettlesome runs at 25fps now, patch the example mettlesome could be played with a framerate of over forty.”

Quake 3 is fashioned to separate on Android 2.0 devices and crapper be institute via Thunderbird2k’s send page. From what I’ve seen the most contradictory conception is the inclose evaluate that seems to move around supported on the filler of the transpose you are activity on. Users are programme inclose rates of around 20-30fps but that it drops significantly on super maps or when your battles intend intense. Good news, however, as the send is unstoppered maker and crapper be reinforced with whatever another developer’s contributions. As a Brobdingnagian follower of Quake 3, I am definitely feat to provide this one a shot, anyone added thinking on disagreeable it out?

[via Tweakers]

4 Feb, 2010  |  Written by Google  |  under Google Phone

The daylong expected WordPress App has eventually arrived in the Android Market. Android Community uses a edition of this unstoppered maker blogging program, this module become in accessible for yours genuinely as substantially as a some others.

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If you utilised wpToGo app you module be healthy to meet download and intend impact on your posts, it is essentially an upgraded edition of wpToGo liberated edition that has been in the market. Some features of this are:
• Configure and control binary blogs
• Comment level including the knowledge to state to comments
• Create and Edit Posts including categories, tags and photos
• Create and Edit Pages
• Get notified of newborn comments in the Android asking bar

Here is a recording of this app in state and the barcode for you to intend the app.

WordPress bar code

Click here to analyse the embedded video.

[via WordPress]


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4 Feb, 2010  |  Written by Google  |  under Google Phone

The daylong expected WordPress App has eventually arrived in the Android Market. Android Community uses a edition of this unstoppered maker blogging program, this module become in accessible for yours genuinely as substantially as a some others.

android logo

If you utilised wpToGo app you module be healthy to meet download and intend impact on your posts, it is essentially an upgraded edition of wpToGo liberated edition that has been in the market. Some features of this are:
• Configure and control binary blogs
• Comment level including the knowledge to state to comments
• Create and Edit Posts including categories, tags and photos
• Create and Edit Pages
• Get notified of newborn comments in the Android asking bar

Here is a recording of this app in state and the barcode for you to intend the app.

WordPress bar code

Click here to analyse the embedded video.

[via WordPress]


Related posts:

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7 Jan, 2010  |  Written by Google  |  under Google Phone

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Android 21 Hero 550x257For those of you who were serendipitous sufficiency to listen the Google word today, or were watching the springy recording feeds/ blogs and paying tending during the Q & A country you heard some enthusiastic news! Once 2.1 is unstoppered maker everyone module intend a example of the newest version/action that for today is exclusive institute on the Nexus One.

Andy Rubin’s salutation to a discourse by Jason Chen during the Q & A:

Q: Why was it needed for Google to organisation the phone? Why couldn’t it meet be an HTC phone streaming the newborn savor of Android? And module these newborn features be reaching to Droid?
A: It’s outside to feature Google fashioned the phone (points to HTC CEO). [Google] is meet commercialism it online. Everybody module intend 2.1 when it’s unstoppered source, within a pair of days.

[via Gizmodo]

Others crapper today experience as the goodies shown in the Press Gathering from today module be presently making it to their selection Android device! Hooray!

According to Google CEO Eric solon the adoption of Android is most to “explode.” Yeah, I would feature that is a innocuous surmisal with every the Android devices touch the mart over the incoming some months from handsets to eReaders and set-top boxes.

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AndroidGuys gave a some tidbits from a call that solon was on. One of the most engrossing tidbits was solon saying, “Android today 12 devices in 26 countries, 32 carriers.” Those 12 devices are sure widespread; envisage what module hap when those 20 devices Google promised are on the market.”

Google CFO Apostle Pichette is also quoted from the call saying, “On a lodge over lodge basis, ambulatory searches grew 30% on Google. It tells you something most the ambulatory space, the smartphones, and how they are transformative. They are essentially transforming how grouping springy on a ambulatory basis. If we advise nervy the acceptation of these ambulatory phones by cloudy the outlay because it is unstoppered source, conceive of how some searches [that module produce].”

Google is typically pretty unstoppered most its unstoppered maker Android operative grouping for smartphones. A technologist behindhand the CyanogenMod storage of Android has conventional a cease and desist honor from the see giant.

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The think for the obligation to kibosh providing the storage is that it has copyrighted applications in it same YouTube and Maps. Google says that patch the Android OS is meant to be diffuse and modded, its apps same YouTube and Maps are not.

According to the teenager developer, there are structure to substance Google code without violating rights. The storage module for today be delivered without Google apps.

26 Sep, 2009  |  Written by Google  |  under Google Phone

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If you haven’t heard most the cease and desist honor that Google dispatched to notable Android OS modder Cyanogen, I declare you read up before continuing this post. Google has posted a “response” of sorts, hoping to country the expose of their beatific study in reddened of “misconceptions” amidst the criticism. Here is an select of that response, posted by Dan Morrill on the Android Developers Blog.

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Everyone knows that ambulatory is a bounteous deal, but for a daylong instance it was hornlike to be a ambulatory app developer. Competing interests and the andante measure of papers conception prefabricated it hornlike to create example apps. For our part, Google offers a aggregation of services — much as Google Search, Google Maps, and so on — and we institute delivering those services to users’ phones to be a rattling preventative experience. But we also institute that we weren’t alone, so we bacilliform the Open Handset Alliance, a assemble of like-minded partners, and created Android to be the papers that we every wished we had. To encourage panoptic adoption, we unreal for Android to be open-source. Google also created and operates Android Market as a assist for developers to dispense their apps to Android users. In another words, we created Android because the playing necessary an shot of openness. Today, we’re thrilled to wager every the life that developers, users, and others in the ambulatory playing hit shown toward Android.

With a high-quality unstoppered papers in hand, we then returned to our noesis of making our services acquirable on users’ phones. That’s ground we matured Android apps for whatever of our services aforementioned YouTube, Gmail, Google Voice, and so on. These apps are Google’s artefact of benefiting from Android in the aforementioned artefact that whatever another developer can, but the apps are not conception of the Android papers itself. We attain whatever of these apps acquirable to users of whatever Android-powered figure via Android Market, and others are pre-installed on whatever phones finished playing deals. Either way, these apps aren’t unstoppered source, and that’s ground they aren’t included in the Android maker cipher repository. Unauthorized organisation of this code harms us meet aforementioned it would whatever another business, modify if it’s finished with the prizewinning of intentions.

If I had to assets up apiece paragraph in one declare it would be:

  1. The ambulatory playing sucked so we prefabricated Android and today the concern is awesome
  2. We shapely applications for Android that are distant entities from the OS itself… they are meet apps you would encounter from whatever developer on the mart and we discuss playing deals if companies poverty them pre-installed on the phone

He then goes on to conclude:

I wish that clears up whatever of the fault around Google’s apps for Android. We ever fuck sight new uses of Android, including bespoken Android builds from developers who wager a need. I countenance nervy to sight what comes next!

He officially APPROVES of these bespoken builds of Android, but when Cyanogen includes GMail/YouTube/GTalk and another Google applications in his ROMs for free, it hurts their business. How? Because Google is making deals with carriers and manufacturers who probable hit to PAY to feature these Google applications pre-installed on their phones and advertise/market that these are included.

It is every most legalities. And a HUGE conception of the jural grouping is environment precedence. I adopt that Google was afeard it permit Cyanogen move to prepare up these bespoken ROMs with Google applications tempered in, they would retrograde the correct and dominance to preclude carriers and manufacturers from featuring Google applications on their phones by default.

This brings up a pair more engrossing questions:

What most the Motorola CLIQ?
A some life past we saw the Motorola CLIQ claiming it would become with a TON of pre-installed apps. When Motorola got twine of the articulate effort around, they distant the noesis from their website and today the CLIQ doesn’t exhibit ANY apps pre-loaded. I’m forward that is because they hit to endeavor by the aforementioned rules as Cyanogen. They can’t meet allow applications on their phones pre-installed without authorisation or an agreement. And from the realistic we posted… I’m meet not so trusty Motorola had worked discover agreements for every terminal one of them to place it lightly.

How does this modify the Mod accord for the future?
One could easily debate that bespoken ROMs feature HTC Sense, MOTOBLUR and another bespoken versions of Android are dead 100% banned to distribute. HTC and Motorola impact hornlike on creating these softwares and substance them for liberated – so you crapper download them and ingest them on whatever Android phone when you didn’t clear a deck – amounts to null more than pirating. Please feature that preceding evidence in cost of how one COULD potentially analyse the situation, not needs how I see or whatever consort mentioned feels.

Whether you aforementioned it or not this is a invoke for the worsened for Android… but it was a agency we were feat to HAVE to go downbound kinda rather than later. And in every honesty, it is belike meliorate that Google nipped it in the bud and filed the C&D themselves instead of a 1000000000 small companies moving lawsuits here and there and everywhere. In fact, Google belike saw the supply with Cyanogen as an possibleness to ordered the achievement straightforward so it could protect its partners and allies in the OHA. In another words, you could feature that Google “took one for the team” by agreeing to countenance aforementioned the intense man and formally intervene.

So today what?
I hit no clue. This is a pretty unclear ease commonsensible salutation from Google. This is the literal conceive that I proven to exhibit plainness in my example place on the topic. The initial intent is to fling discover and go bananas most how this is a ravishment of consortium in the Open Source accord yada yada yada – which whatever grouping did. But there is a aggregation more to it than that and I conceive anyone hunting at this supply objectively would agree.

I’ll be disagreeable to intend in contact with Cyanogen and a cloth from the Android aggroup to hopefully explain how this affects the forthcoming and what will/won’t be allowed. In the meantime, essay to relax. Android is ease – by farther – the prizewinning ambulatory papers on the planet… and I’m trusty there is a bright job we’ll every be healthy to encounter erst this full abstract plays out.

26 Sep, 2009  |  Written by Google  |  under Google Phone

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If you haven’t heard most the cease and desist honor that Google dispatched to notable Android OS modder Cyanogen, I declare you read up before continuing this post. Google has posted a “response” of sorts, hoping to country the expose of their beatific study in reddened of “misconceptions” amidst the criticism. Here is an select of that response, posted by Dan Morrill on the Android Developers Blog.

dan morrell 300x248

Everyone knows that ambulatory is a bounteous deal, but for a daylong instance it was hornlike to be a ambulatory app developer. Competing interests and the andante measure of papers conception prefabricated it hornlike to create example apps. For our part, Google offers a aggregation of services — much as Google Search, Google Maps, and so on — and we institute delivering those services to users’ phones to be a rattling preventative experience. But we also institute that we weren’t alone, so we bacilliform the Open Handset Alliance, a assemble of like-minded partners, and created Android to be the papers that we every wished we had. To encourage panoptic adoption, we unreal for Android to be open-source. Google also created and operates Android Market as a assist for developers to dispense their apps to Android users. In another words, we created Android because the playing necessary an shot of openness. Today, we’re thrilled to wager every the life that developers, users, and others in the ambulatory playing hit shown toward Android.

With a high-quality unstoppered papers in hand, we then returned to our noesis of making our services acquirable on users’ phones. That’s ground we matured Android apps for whatever of our services aforementioned YouTube, Gmail, Google Voice, and so on. These apps are Google’s artefact of benefiting from Android in the aforementioned artefact that whatever another developer can, but the apps are not conception of the Android papers itself. We attain whatever of these apps acquirable to users of whatever Android-powered figure via Android Market, and others are pre-installed on whatever phones finished playing deals. Either way, these apps aren’t unstoppered source, and that’s ground they aren’t included in the Android maker cipher repository. Unauthorized organisation of this code harms us meet aforementioned it would whatever another business, modify if it’s finished with the prizewinning of intentions.

If I had to assets up apiece paragraph in one declare it would be:

  1. The ambulatory playing sucked so we prefabricated Android and today the concern is awesome
  2. We shapely applications for Android that are distant entities from the OS itself… they are meet apps you would encounter from whatever developer on the mart and we discuss playing deals if companies poverty them pre-installed on the phone

He then goes on to conclude:

I wish that clears up whatever of the fault around Google’s apps for Android. We ever fuck sight new uses of Android, including bespoken Android builds from developers who wager a need. I countenance nervy to sight what comes next!

He officially APPROVES of these bespoken builds of Android, but when Cyanogen includes GMail/YouTube/GTalk and another Google applications in his ROMs for free, it hurts their business. How? Because Google is making deals with carriers and manufacturers who probable hit to PAY to feature these Google applications pre-installed on their phones and advertise/market that these are included.

It is every most legalities. And a HUGE conception of the jural grouping is environment precedence. I adopt that Google was afeard it permit Cyanogen move to prepare up these bespoken ROMs with Google applications tempered in, they would retrograde the correct and dominance to preclude carriers and manufacturers from featuring Google applications on their phones by default.

This brings up a pair more engrossing questions:

What most the Motorola CLIQ?
A some life past we saw the Motorola CLIQ claiming it would become with a TON of pre-installed apps. When Motorola got twine of the articulate effort around, they distant the noesis from their website and today the CLIQ doesn’t exhibit ANY apps pre-loaded. I’m forward that is because they hit to endeavor by the aforementioned rules as Cyanogen. They can’t meet allow applications on their phones pre-installed without authorisation or an agreement. And from the realistic we posted… I’m meet not so trusty Motorola had worked discover agreements for every terminal one of them to place it lightly.

How does this modify the Mod accord for the future?
One could easily debate that bespoken ROMs feature HTC Sense, MOTOBLUR and another bespoken versions of Android are dead 100% banned to distribute. HTC and Motorola impact hornlike on creating these softwares and substance them for liberated – so you crapper download them and ingest them on whatever Android phone when you didn’t clear a deck – amounts to null more than pirating. Please feature that preceding evidence in cost of how one COULD potentially analyse the situation, not needs how I see or whatever consort mentioned feels.

Whether you aforementioned it or not this is a invoke for the worsened for Android… but it was a agency we were feat to HAVE to go downbound kinda rather than later. And in every honesty, it is belike meliorate that Google nipped it in the bud and filed the C&D themselves instead of a 1000000000 small companies moving lawsuits here and there and everywhere. In fact, Google belike saw the supply with Cyanogen as an possibleness to ordered the achievement straightforward so it could protect its partners and allies in the OHA. In another words, you could feature that Google “took one for the team” by agreeing to countenance aforementioned the intense man and formally intervene.

So today what?
I hit no clue. This is a pretty unclear ease commonsensible salutation from Google. This is the literal conceive that I proven to exhibit plainness in my example place on the topic. The initial intent is to fling discover and go bananas most how this is a ravishment of consortium in the Open Source accord yada yada yada – which whatever grouping did. But there is a aggregation more to it than that and I conceive anyone hunting at this supply objectively would agree.

I’ll be disagreeable to intend in contact with Cyanogen and a cloth from the Android aggroup to hopefully explain how this affects the forthcoming and what will/won’t be allowed. In the meantime, essay to relax. Android is ease – by farther – the prizewinning ambulatory papers on the planet… and I’m trusty there is a bright job we’ll every be healthy to encounter erst this full abstract plays out.

15 Aug, 2009  |  Written by Google  |  under Google Phone

Customization is one of the bounteous draws to unstoppered maker devices same those streaming Android. Users crapper add and attain their devices to their whist content. One of the intruder structure to attain phones to me is to essay to attain them countenance same another devices.

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A thought has been acquirable for Android that mimics the countenance and see of the Palm Pre. As it turns discover the thought utilised wallpapers and icons direct from webOS and upraised the ire of Palm.

Palm has reportedly had its fissure aggroup of jural monkeys identify up a honor and dispatched it along to the Android aggroup to verify them to vantage the Pre thought from its site. As of now, the thought is no more. It’s not country if users who already hit the thought module be unnatural to vanish it at this point. A kindred thought to attain Android countenance same the iPhone has been pulled as well.

[via Mobiletor]

10 Jul, 2009  |  Written by Google  |  under Google Phone
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chrome logoHot on the heels of their Chrome OS announcement, Google hit revealed a list of the profession companies they are employed with to yet display devices streaming the newborn platform.  Tipped as a coloured list, the listing nonetheless includes individual obloquy we’re old with from Open Handset Alliance membership.

Acer, Adobe, ASUS, Freescale, HP, Lenovo, Qualcomm, Texas Instruments and Toshiba are every named, though Google says these are “among others”.  Notable by their epilepsy are Sony and Dell, as are Samsung; the latter has apparently endowed in Android, as it is most to start the I7500 Galaxy, and has a well-received netbook range.

The see colossus has also re-confirmed that Google Chrome OS module be a liberated creation for end-users, and prefabricated open-source after on in the year.  Actual transport products supported on the OS – which has been described as the Chrome application movement within a newborn windowing grouping on crowning of a UNIX essence – aren’t due until the second-half of 2010.