Experience the best of TV and the best of the web in one seamless experience? Imagine turning on the TV and getting all the channels and shows you normally watch and all of the websites you browse all day — including your favorite video, music and photo sites. That is the concept behind Google Android-based Smart TV platform. Sony and Logitech will manufacture devices that are supposed to be on the shelves in time for the holiday season. Will you buy them?
“companion set-top box,” meaning that you connect it to your TV set as well as your TiVo, your DISH set-top box or whatever else you have on your living-room shelf. The box extends the full functionality of a Logitech Harmony remote and a WiFi access point to your TV, providing not only Google TV but also allowing you to control your entire entertainment system (including DVR) with a still-in-development keyboard / touchpad remote or an iPhone or Android smartphone app over WiFi.
The Android OS is the most exciting development in open operating systems for mobile devices. It is a great software environment, and deserves the very best hardware to run on. Which of these Android-capable tablets is the best for running the OS?
Being the "gadget-er" that I am, I'm a power user and will "early adopt" new gadgets, but, in the long run, a committed user of great devices, I have to ask this question...
Some reviewers say the Droid Razr might be Motorola’s best phone yet, but there are some flaws like its battery life. However, the Droid Razr is thinner than almost any phone on the market with a 1.2GHz dual-core processor and 1GB of RAM and a 4.3-inch screen that has a resolution of 960 by 540 pixels. What do you think about it?
yes and it will have "wider implications" for all phone makers using Google's Android
Apple claims that HTC have infringed 20 patents owned by Apple that are used in the iPhone. Steve Jobs said: "We can sit by and watch competitors steal our patented inventions, or we can do something about it... We've decided to do something about it."
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Samsung has released its first ever SDK for BADA ( a platform for Samsung developers). Not a lot is known yet but we wonder whether it would take the spotlight from Anroid and iPhone OS?
Android still looks like an inferior system compared to the iphone.
Google will unveil the Nexus one, a cell phone running on Android OS, on January 5 in California. Nexus One will cost $529.99 or $179.99 with a two-year T-Mobile contract. (PC magazine)
It seems that Apple was the one to serve with the launch of the iPhone, but Google's powerful backhand isn't making it easy for Apple as Android phone sales have exceeded iPhone sales (after all, nearly all of the carriers have Android powered phones, while only one carrier (AT&T) carries the iPhone). Not being the first in the market isn't always a bad thing, the Nexus One (Nexus 1) looks very promising as Google had the privilege of studying the post-iPhone market and make up for all that's missing. The Nexus One has an amazingly sexy design, weighs only 130g (with battery), has a 5MP camera/video camera (with flash), 3 UMTS bands, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.1, Android OS, 512 MB Flash, 512 MB RAM, a 4 GB Micro SD Card (can be expanded to 32 GB) and AGPS (Assisted global positioning system).
