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		<title>Mog’s Android app presents quality subscription music option</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 19:22:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ While I use my Nexus One for plenty of different tasks, there are two things I use it for more than others: listening to music and reading. Often at the same time. There are plenty of free apps, such as Pandora and Slacker, that will stream music like a radio station. In many instances that will work, since I&#8217;m often lazy and don&#8217;t want to pick what I listen to. Yet there are always times when I want to listen to a particular artist. That kind of desire isn&#8217;t compatible with most free streaming radio apps. In the past we&#8217;ve gone over streaming music applications for Android. Most recently it was Rdio , a service that not only streams music right to your device, but syncs with your iTunes, allowing you to easily play the songs you already own. Those songs can be cached, too, so you can play them while you&#8217;re out of signal range. For the tracks you don&#8217;t own, though, it appears that you can&#8217;t do much if you don&#8217;t have a signal. I hope this is one of the aspects that Google&#8217;s upcoming music service corrects. Caching is huge, especially for city and country folk, since there are many areas with weak or no signal. Mog, another streaming music service, has gotten rave reviews from many outlets, including TechCrunch . They recently released an Android app, and it beats Rdio in a number of ways. First is its library, which measures 8 million songs. That&#8217;s right around what we see from major music providers Rhapsody and Napster, so you can expect to find most of what you&#8217;re looking for on Mog. Second, it allows you to download songs and store them locally. You&#8217;ll lose them, of course, if you cancel your subscription, but while you subscribe this is a wonderful feature. The downloaded versions default at 64Kbps for faster transfers, but you can get the files in up to 320Kbps (which, any audiophile will tell you, is the only acceptable bitrate for MP3 files). Like Rdio, Mog costs $10 per month. At this point I&#8217;d have to say that the cost is much more justifiable. The streaming &#8212; including custom radio stations &#8212; plus download features, in addition to the larger selection of songs, makes this a value. You can sign up at Mog.com . If you&#8217;re undecided, that&#8217;s fine; they offer a free three-day trial, and you don&#8217;t even need a credit card to get it. Look for a full review sometime soon. Mog&#8217;s Android app presents quality subscription music option Post from: Google And Blog ]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 19:22:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ While I use my Nexus One for plenty of different tasks, there are two things I use it for more than others: listening to music and reading. Often at the same time. There are plenty of free apps, such as Pandora and Slacker, that will stream music like a radio station. In many instances that will work, since I&#8217;m often lazy and don&#8217;t want to pick what I listen to. Yet there are always times when I want to listen to a particular artist. That kind of desire isn&#8217;t compatible with most free streaming radio apps. In the past we&#8217;ve gone over streaming music applications for Android. Most recently it was Rdio , a service that not only streams music right to your device, but syncs with your iTunes, allowing you to easily play the songs you already own. Those songs can be cached, too, so you can play them while you&#8217;re out of signal range. For the tracks you don&#8217;t own, though, it appears that you can&#8217;t do much if you don&#8217;t have a signal. I hope this is one of the aspects that Google&#8217;s upcoming music service corrects. Caching is huge, especially for city and country folk, since there are many areas with weak or no signal. Mog, another streaming music service, has gotten rave reviews from many outlets, including TechCrunch . They recently released an Android app, and it beats Rdio in a number of ways. First is its library, which measures 8 million songs. That&#8217;s right around what we see from major music providers Rhapsody and Napster, so you can expect to find most of what you&#8217;re looking for on Mog. Second, it allows you to download songs and store them locally. You&#8217;ll lose them, of course, if you cancel your subscription, but while you subscribe this is a wonderful feature. The downloaded versions default at 64Kbps for faster transfers, but you can get the files in up to 320Kbps (which, any audiophile will tell you, is the only acceptable bitrate for MP3 files). Like Rdio, Mog costs $10 per month. At this point I&#8217;d have to say that the cost is much more justifiable. The streaming &#8212; including custom radio stations &#8212; plus download features, in addition to the larger selection of songs, makes this a value. You can sign up at Mog.com . If you&#8217;re undecided, that&#8217;s fine; they offer a free three-day trial, and you don&#8217;t even need a credit card to get it. Look for a full review sometime soon. Mog&#8217;s Android app presents quality subscription music option Post from: Google And Blog ]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 19:22:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>trimobilephone</dc:creator>
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		<title>Carrier billing coming soon to Android Market</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 20:35:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>h2oceanaftercare</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Sometimes you take the little things for granted. T-Mobile users, for instance, have grown used to the carrier billing option in the Android Market. While users on other networks must pass through Google Checkout in order to download paid apps, T-Mobile users can do so with just a few clicks. It makes impulse buying that much easier. Soon &#8212; possibly within a month &#8212; other carriers will get this ability. As Tim Bray at the Android Development Blog relays, there has been a change to the Android Market Developer Distribution Agreement which basically paves the way for more carriers to add direct billing for the Market. One of the reasons that the Android Market has flourished to this point is because of its free applications. We learned a few weeks ago that The Market had 70,000 apps , and we know that 57 percent of them are free . That means, as of two weeks ago, there are just shy of 40,000 free apps in the Market. This certainly makes the platform more accessible, and keeping up the ratio of free to paid apps is probably good for its long-term health. But easier access to free applications can only help. The only downside of carrier billing is the ease with which you can purchase applications. Of course, that&#8217;s also the upside. If you&#8217;re paying with a credit card via Google Checkout, you have to go through a few steps before you can complete the transaction and download the app. During that short interval you might have second thoughts and spend your money elsewhere. With carrier billing not only can you purchase applications with just a click, but you don&#8217;t even see a record of that purchase until you get your bill. That might create some end-of-month sadness. Still, regardless of impulses this is a net positive for the Android platform. The expansion of carrier billing will make it easier for users to download premium apps, and presumably we&#8217;ll see an uptick in the number of downloaded apps. That could encourage developers who previously avoided the Android platform to start developing for it. So we get more free and paid apps, which are easier to download. All of this leads to a more robust market, filled with high quality applications of both the free and premium persuasion. While carrier billing won&#8217;t be immediately instated, we should see something in about a month or so. By that time we&#8217;ll have the Motorola Droid 2, among other exciting, new Android releases, so the time will be even riper for an expanded market. Via Talk Android . Carrier billing coming soon to Android Market Post from: Google And Blog ]]></description>
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		<title>I’m loving the Barnes &amp; Noble Book app for Android</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 21:50:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Burnette</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Reading on my Android has become one of the greatest features of the device. I&#8217;m actually working up a nice, long series about the pleasures of reading on the Nexus One, and I&#8217;m glad that Barnes &#038; Noble released their Nook application before I finished it. The article figures to be a multi-parter, but I wanted to get the Nook application in there on the first shot. It&#8217;s that good a reading app. What makes the Nook different than other e-readers? What stands out to me is its usability right after download. I didn&#8217;t have to change the font or anything before I dove into a sample reading of Jane Austen&#8217;s Price and Prejudice &#8212; which is a much more enjoyable read right now, I might add, than it was in high school. You can easily change the font if you want, and there are eight font faces and five font sizes from which to choose. It defaults at Amasis and the fourth-largest. That was nice, but I found reading comfortable enough at the second-smallest level as well. Scrolling is nice and easy. Just flip your thumb (or finger) to the left to advance a page, or to the right to go back. If you move slowly the application actually has a page-turning animation, where you can preview the text on the next page, as if it were a real book. That is, a real book that is printed on only one side. You can also tap the screen to reveal a scroll bar, great for when you&#8217;re jumping around. If you know the chapter number you seek, you can pull up the menu and click GoTo. Reading a book with your Nook desktop app and also on your Android phone? You can sync accounts so your bookmarks match up. This will also sync with your Nook reader, if you have one and also have an internet connection handy. In terms of straight reading, I obviously love this app. I would, however, like to see two improvements in a future version: 1. Annotation. I highlight books and write in the margins. I know that the desktop Nook app allows you to highlight and take notes. Adding this to the Android version would put it over the top. 2. Sharing. Reading doesn&#8217;t have to be a solitary endeavor. My girlfriend and I always share books we read. She&#8217;s the one who turned me on to Nook in general, and I&#8217;d like to be able to share what I&#8217;m reading with her, right from the app. Neither of these seems tough to implement. Now that B&#038;N has the app out for Android, I suspect we&#8217;ll see improvements in the future if it becomes a popular app. Considering that it accomplishes its main task as a reader masterfully, I think it will. I&#8217;m loving the Barnes &#038; Noble Book app for Android Post from: Google And Blog ]]></description>
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		<title>I’m loving the Barnes &amp; Noble Book app for Android</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 21:50:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jean-Baptiste Queru Android Open-Source Project</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Reading on my Android has become one of the greatest features of the device. I&#8217;m actually working up a nice, long series about the pleasures of reading on the Nexus One, and I&#8217;m glad that Barnes &#038; Noble released their Nook application before I finished it. The article figures to be a multi-parter, but I wanted to get the Nook application in there on the first shot. It&#8217;s that good a reading app. What makes the Nook different than other e-readers? What stands out to me is its usability right after download. I didn&#8217;t have to change the font or anything before I dove into a sample reading of Jane Austen&#8217;s Price and Prejudice &#8212; which is a much more enjoyable read right now, I might add, than it was in high school. You can easily change the font if you want, and there are eight font faces and five font sizes from which to choose. It defaults at Amasis and the fourth-largest. That was nice, but I found reading comfortable enough at the second-smallest level as well. Scrolling is nice and easy. Just flip your thumb (or finger) to the left to advance a page, or to the right to go back. If you move slowly the application actually has a page-turning animation, where you can preview the text on the next page, as if it were a real book. That is, a real book that is printed on only one side. You can also tap the screen to reveal a scroll bar, great for when you&#8217;re jumping around. If you know the chapter number you seek, you can pull up the menu and click GoTo. Reading a book with your Nook desktop app and also on your Android phone? You can sync accounts so your bookmarks match up. This will also sync with your Nook reader, if you have one and also have an internet connection handy. In terms of straight reading, I obviously love this app. I would, however, like to see two improvements in a future version: 1. Annotation. I highlight books and write in the margins. I know that the desktop Nook app allows you to highlight and take notes. Adding this to the Android version would put it over the top. 2. Sharing. Reading doesn&#8217;t have to be a solitary endeavor. My girlfriend and I always share books we read. She&#8217;s the one who turned me on to Nook in general, and I&#8217;d like to be able to share what I&#8217;m reading with her, right from the app. Neither of these seems tough to implement. Now that B&#038;N has the app out for Android, I suspect we&#8217;ll see improvements in the future if it becomes a popular app. Considering that it accomplishes its main task as a reader masterfully, I think it will. I&#8217;m loving the Barnes &#038; Noble Book app for Android Post from: Google And Blog ]]></description>
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		<title>The phones have issues</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 17:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eternity</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Last week, and even before, it was impossible to ignore the hubbub over the iPhone 4&#8217;s issues. It would drop calls thanks to a poorly place antenna. When Apple tried to downplay the issue, people seemed offended. This is natural. Apple released a much-hyped product and it featured a pretty major shortcoming. Steve Jobs tried to deflect criticism, as is his wont, by showing that other similar smartphones fall victim to the same issue. That, expectedly, didn&#8217;t go over well. That&#8217;s not to say that he&#8217;s wrong. Maybe it wasn&#8217;t the best approach from a public relations standpoint, but if Jobs&#8217;s point is that other handsets can also lose reception when in a death grip, well, he&#8217;s at least partly right. The bigger issues, however, is that many smartphones contain flaws that make it all the way to the production models. We want our devices to be perfect, sure, but oftentimes they&#8217;re never quite what we envisioned. Take this story that ran this week on Engadget. Apparently some Droid X users are experiencing &#8220;serious graphical or possibly electrical problems with the handset&#8217;s giant screen.&#8221; That seems like quite a bigger issue than losing reception when gripping the phone a certain way, no? The difference, of course, is that Verizon and Motorola played it straight with consumers . They did downplay how widespread the issue was &#8212; one-tenth of one percent of handsets, almost all in the launch-day batch &#8212; but they did take immediate action. Their joint statement: Verizon Wireless and Motorola are aware of a very small number of DROID X units that have experienced a flickering or banding display. Motorola has resolved the issue and is continuing to ship the phones. Any consumer who experiences a flickering or banding display should contact a Motorola customer support center or Verizon Wireless. Of course, it was easier for Motorola and Verizon to address this issue quickly and directly than it was for Apple. For starters, the Droid X wasn&#8217;t expected to sell nearly as well as the iPhone. Second, the problem is far more concrete, and directly affect&#8217;s the main functions of the handset. It&#8217;s tough to do much without a screen. Still, I&#8217;m sure many Droid X users are having other issues with the handset, just like I&#8217;m sure are people using all sorts of smartphones. Hell, I&#8217;m having plenty of issues with my Nexus One. Just last week I had to pull the battery four times in about 20 minutes because the screen kept freezing. This happens every once in a while. I know a number of people have had power button issues, but that hasn&#8217;t been the case for me. Sometimes I&#8217;ll press the power button to light up the screen and it will not respond, but that gets fixed with a battery pull. It&#8217;s a pain, but I understand that these devices are not perfect. Companies, both handset manufacturers and wireless carriers, are under plenty of pressure to roll out new devices and software to sate a hungry market. This means that devices often come out before they&#8217;re 100 percent ready for the show. We&#8217;re going to have to deal with issues like the iPhone&#8217;s antenna and the Droid X&#8217;s screen now and in the future. It&#8217;s the unintended consequence of expedited releases. The difference, though, will be in how the companies respond. If they handle the issue more like Verizon and Motorola we will be in good shape. If they act like Apple, well, right or wrong they&#8217;re not going to be the most popular handsets on the block. The phones have issues Post from: Google And Blog ]]></description>
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		<title>The phones have issues</title>
		<link>http://androidoperatingsystem.net/2010/07/21/the-phones-have-issues-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 17:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AvianAzn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Last week, and even before, it was impossible to ignore the hubbub over the iPhone 4&#8217;s issues. It would drop calls thanks to a poorly place antenna. When Apple tried to downplay the issue, people seemed offended. This is natural. Apple released a much-hyped product and it featured a pretty major shortcoming. Steve Jobs tried to deflect criticism, as is his wont, by showing that other similar smartphones fall victim to the same issue. That, expectedly, didn&#8217;t go over well. That&#8217;s not to say that he&#8217;s wrong. Maybe it wasn&#8217;t the best approach from a public relations standpoint, but if Jobs&#8217;s point is that other handsets can also lose reception when in a death grip, well, he&#8217;s at least partly right. The bigger issues, however, is that many smartphones contain flaws that make it all the way to the production models. We want our devices to be perfect, sure, but oftentimes they&#8217;re never quite what we envisioned. Take this story that ran this week on Engadget. Apparently some Droid X users are experiencing &#8220;serious graphical or possibly electrical problems with the handset&#8217;s giant screen.&#8221; That seems like quite a bigger issue than losing reception when gripping the phone a certain way, no? The difference, of course, is that Verizon and Motorola played it straight with consumers . They did downplay how widespread the issue was &#8212; one-tenth of one percent of handsets, almost all in the launch-day batch &#8212; but they did take immediate action. Their joint statement: Verizon Wireless and Motorola are aware of a very small number of DROID X units that have experienced a flickering or banding display. Motorola has resolved the issue and is continuing to ship the phones. Any consumer who experiences a flickering or banding display should contact a Motorola customer support center or Verizon Wireless. Of course, it was easier for Motorola and Verizon to address this issue quickly and directly than it was for Apple. For starters, the Droid X wasn&#8217;t expected to sell nearly as well as the iPhone. Second, the problem is far more concrete, and directly affect&#8217;s the main functions of the handset. It&#8217;s tough to do much without a screen. Still, I&#8217;m sure many Droid X users are having other issues with the handset, just like I&#8217;m sure are people using all sorts of smartphones. Hell, I&#8217;m having plenty of issues with my Nexus One. Just last week I had to pull the battery four times in about 20 minutes because the screen kept freezing. This happens every once in a while. I know a number of people have had power button issues, but that hasn&#8217;t been the case for me. Sometimes I&#8217;ll press the power button to light up the screen and it will not respond, but that gets fixed with a battery pull. It&#8217;s a pain, but I understand that these devices are not perfect. Companies, both handset manufacturers and wireless carriers, are under plenty of pressure to roll out new devices and software to sate a hungry market. This means that devices often come out before they&#8217;re 100 percent ready for the show. We&#8217;re going to have to deal with issues like the iPhone&#8217;s antenna and the Droid X&#8217;s screen now and in the future. It&#8217;s the unintended consequence of expedited releases. The difference, though, will be in how the companies respond. If they handle the issue more like Verizon and Motorola we will be in good shape. If they act like Apple, well, right or wrong they&#8217;re not going to be the most popular handsets on the block. The phones have issues Post from: Google And Blog ]]></description>
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		<title>The phones have issues</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 17:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hometutorials</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Last week, and even before, it was impossible to ignore the hubbub over the iPhone 4&#8217;s issues. It would drop calls thanks to a poorly place antenna. When Apple tried to downplay the issue, people seemed offended. This is natural. Apple released a much-hyped product and it featured a pretty major shortcoming. Steve Jobs tried to deflect criticism, as is his wont, by showing that other similar smartphones fall victim to the same issue. That, expectedly, didn&#8217;t go over well. That&#8217;s not to say that he&#8217;s wrong. Maybe it wasn&#8217;t the best approach from a public relations standpoint, but if Jobs&#8217;s point is that other handsets can also lose reception when in a death grip, well, he&#8217;s at least partly right. The bigger issues, however, is that many smartphones contain flaws that make it all the way to the production models. We want our devices to be perfect, sure, but oftentimes they&#8217;re never quite what we envisioned. Take this story that ran this week on Engadget. Apparently some Droid X users are experiencing &#8220;serious graphical or possibly electrical problems with the handset&#8217;s giant screen.&#8221; That seems like quite a bigger issue than losing reception when gripping the phone a certain way, no? The difference, of course, is that Verizon and Motorola played it straight with consumers . They did downplay how widespread the issue was &#8212; one-tenth of one percent of handsets, almost all in the launch-day batch &#8212; but they did take immediate action. Their joint statement: Verizon Wireless and Motorola are aware of a very small number of DROID X units that have experienced a flickering or banding display. Motorola has resolved the issue and is continuing to ship the phones. Any consumer who experiences a flickering or banding display should contact a Motorola customer support center or Verizon Wireless. Of course, it was easier for Motorola and Verizon to address this issue quickly and directly than it was for Apple. For starters, the Droid X wasn&#8217;t expected to sell nearly as well as the iPhone. Second, the problem is far more concrete, and directly affect&#8217;s the main functions of the handset. It&#8217;s tough to do much without a screen. Still, I&#8217;m sure many Droid X users are having other issues with the handset, just like I&#8217;m sure are people using all sorts of smartphones. Hell, I&#8217;m having plenty of issues with my Nexus One. Just last week I had to pull the battery four times in about 20 minutes because the screen kept freezing. This happens every once in a while. I know a number of people have had power button issues, but that hasn&#8217;t been the case for me. Sometimes I&#8217;ll press the power button to light up the screen and it will not respond, but that gets fixed with a battery pull. It&#8217;s a pain, but I understand that these devices are not perfect. Companies, both handset manufacturers and wireless carriers, are under plenty of pressure to roll out new devices and software to sate a hungry market. This means that devices often come out before they&#8217;re 100 percent ready for the show. We&#8217;re going to have to deal with issues like the iPhone&#8217;s antenna and the Droid X&#8217;s screen now and in the future. It&#8217;s the unintended consequence of expedited releases. The difference, though, will be in how the companies respond. If they handle the issue more like Verizon and Motorola we will be in good shape. If they act like Apple, well, right or wrong they&#8217;re not going to be the most popular handsets on the block. The phones have issues Post from: Google And Blog ]]></description>
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		<title>Rdio on the right track with cloud-based music app</title>
		<link>http://androidoperatingsystem.net/2010/07/19/rdio-on-the-right-track-with-cloud-based-music-app/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 18:38:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nima</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Old-time industries have continued to falter when adapting to new technological realities. This seems to play most prominently in the publishing and music industries. Their business models have been upended by the web, and while they continue to exert their power, that will only last so long. With new, cheaper ways to enjoy media we&#8217;re going to see a change in how they&#8217;re consumed. Rdio seems to be on the right track. The outfit, powered by the founders of Kazaa and Joost founders Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, moves in a direction we&#8217;ve seen many companies take. Instead of providing music on a per-song basis, they&#8217;re providing a cloud-based streaming experience that allows users to access not only their own music, but additional millions of songs. These aren&#8217;t yours to own, but rather options that you can stream at any time. This, I think, is the way many services, perhaps even iTunes, will go. The streaming service certainly has value of its own. You can use it right from your desktop, or you can take it on the road with the Android app. Rdio syncs with your iTunes library, so you can easily stream the songs you already own. Then you can search out new music, both on your own and by seeing what your friends are listening to. This, I think, is worth a subscription. I&#8217;m inclined to agree with Erick Schonfeld of TechCrunch when he says that the $10 mobile subscription price point is a bit high. You&#8217;re not getting any actual music, just the means to listen to and discover music. Again, that&#8217;s worth something. If it were $5, and therefor $30 per year, I could see the value. I say this because the app not only provides some level of value on its own, but is designed to get people to actually buy the tracks. Remember, the songs in the cloud are available to you only when you&#8217;re within reasonable cell range. Go underground on the subway or fall out of range and the app becomes temporarily useless. If you buy the tracks, priced at $0.99 to $1.29, you can then listen to them anywhere, even if it&#8217;s not on your Android device. The idea, I think, is to build up a catalog similar to that of Rhapsody and Napster. Rdio falls short of that right now, with only 2 million songs available. But as they grow they&#8217;ll add more songs. Perhaps they think that it&#8217;s worth the $10 per month for the streaming package once they build up the library. Again, I disagree. Keeping the streaming cost low will encourage more people to sign up. The more people who are signed up the more potential track sales they have. Rdio is not available to the public now, but it is in a private beta. TechCrunch still has some invites, which you can get here . It&#8217;s definitely worth the look if you&#8217;re willing to slap down the $10 per month. If not, maybe you&#8217;d best be waiting for a price drop. I really think it will ultimately benefit all parties. Rdio on the right track with cloud-based music app Post from: Google And Blog ]]></description>
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		<title>Improve your typing accuracy with SwiftKey</title>
		<link>http://androidoperatingsystem.net/2010/07/16/improve-your-typing-accuracy-with-swiftkey/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 17:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eeepcnews</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Are you enjoying the virtual keyboard on your touchscreen Android? I know plenty of people who won&#8217;t give it much of a try and have gone with the Droid or other physical keyboard device. Others I know have had trouble getting used to the feel of a key-less keyboard. It&#8217;s taken me quite a while to pick it up, though I have to say that it feels better in Android 2.2 (but that might just be in my head). A few weeks ago we looked at Swype , which boasts to make you a faster virtual typer. Still, that brings problems too. Most of us are used to a typical QWERTY layout, and while Swype does present this it functions in a different way. You drag between letters to create words. Apparently after you dig into it you can type much faster than before, but I can still imagine getting tripped up after a while. For those who want a keyboard better than the stock Android one, SwiftKey might provide the answer. It is familiar in look and feel, but it also boasts faster typing speeds thanks to their predictive text system. The predictive text not only picks out the most common words based on the first few letters you type, but it learns the words you use most frequently. This is the one thing I dislike about the Android keyboard. When, for instance, I start typing in my username on different sites it takes five or six characters before Android picks up on it. With SwiftKey I&#8217;d see my username come up pretty quickly. That&#8217;s what I&#8217;m looking for in a virtual keyboard. After you download SwiftKey from the Market, setting it up is a breeze. Run the app, and then hit Enable when prompted. That brings you to your Language &#038; keyboard settings page, where you&#8217;ll check the SwiftKey Beta box. Click OK on the paranoia-inducing dialog box and then back out. You&#8217;ll see another prompt to select the input method. Here you&#8217;ll select SwiftKey, of course. The last step is to select a language module. You can choose from English-US, English-UK, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Portugese, or Dutch. The download takes a few seconds, and goes in a snap if you&#8217;re running on a Wi-Fi connection. Back out of the SwiftKey options screen (or change them if you want), and you&#8217;ll have the option to let the application learn your language usage by analyzing old text messages. That will complete the process. Since any third party keyboard can potentially put your personal information in jeopardy, I strongly suggest you check out SwiftKey&#8217;s privacy policy before downloading and using. Via TalkAndroid . Improve your typing accuracy with SwiftKey Post from: Google And Blog ]]></description>
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		<title>Open Spot has plenty of potential for city drivers</title>
		<link>http://androidoperatingsystem.net/2010/07/12/open-spot-has-plenty-of-potential-for-city-drivers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 20:25:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ShareMoto</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Some location-based apps work well on their own. If you&#8217;re looking for a restaurant or movie theater, for instance, you can use one of many services that offers that type of information by accessing your GPS system. There are others that require more social participation. Google&#8217;s latest product, Open Spot, is one of those. The application allows users to declare parking spots open when they leave them, making it easier for other users in the area to search and find these open spots. It sounds like a service that everyone can get on board with. That&#8217;s a good thing, because Open Spot is going to need massive participation in order for it to be effective. There is nothing quite as frustrating as driving around a city for 15, 20, 30 minutes looking for not only an open spot, but a spot large enough for your vehicle. There are so many instances where curbside parking gets ugly. One car parks improperly and it throws off the entire street. What results is the creation of a few intermittent spots that won&#8217;t fit a car larger than a Mini. If one car moved a spot would open, but leave it to that guy in the middle to have a day-long meeting. Open Spot, if widely adopted, can help save that frustration. Engadget gave the app a spin, and it worked to their liking. They did make a good point about adding comments to the spaces. That&#8217;s something I think we&#8217;ll definitely see in a future release. The best part about the comments is that they&#8217;re simple and possibly permanent. For instance, when one person marks the spot as metered (hopefully noting the meter hours), then there need be no future comments. Google has the idea covered in most other respects, including a time-coded meter that shows how long ago the spot was marked as open. The biggest factor in Open Table&#8217;s ultimate success or failure is the adoption rate. This has been an issue with some Google services, including Buzz and Wave. Open Spot does have more practical benefits, though, so there&#8217;s a good chance people will see the value in it (whereas they saw Buzz as Twitter and Wave as email+IM). You can check it out at http://openspot.googlelabs.com/ , or by finding it in the Market. Open Spot has plenty of potential for city drivers Post from: Google And Blog ]]></description>
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		<title>T-Mobile HSPA+ Android handset could be glorious</title>
		<link>http://androidoperatingsystem.net/2010/07/09/t-mobile-hspa-android-handset-could-be-glorious/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 13:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johbergfin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Later this year it sounds like Verizon Wireless will launch its LTE network, and Android could play a prominent role in the early goings. Android fans might not be familiar with Salomondrin, since he mostly spreads information about new BlackBerry devices. He has, however, been all over recent Android handsets. In a recent post about the BlackBerry Storm 3 , he writes an interesting note about Verizon&#8217;s LTE plans. [The Storm 3 is] gonna be Verizon’s 1st or 2nd LTE phone. They aren’t sure if the Android phone will be first or the Storm at this point. An Android handset on LTE sounds marvelous. Verizon has achieved practical download speeds of between 5 and 12Mbps, which is a significant improvement over what current 3G networks provide. This should even further enhance the user experience on Android, which will give it yet another leg up on competitors. While it&#8217;s not 4G &#8212; though LTE isn&#8217;t really 4G either &#8212; HSPA+ also has considerable potential. T-Mobile, which recently upgraded many of its markets to 7Mbps HSPA, is moving towards an HSPA+ roll-out. According to Light Reading , their first compatible device will be an HTC-manufactured one running Android. Apparently they&#8217;re trying to get the device onto the market by September, and looking at the T-Mobile roadmap that AndroidSPIN posted yesterday, it looks like the HTC Vanguard, due out on September 9, could be the one. Then again, there is always Project Emerald , which, according to the road map, is due out in November. The possibilities abound. Why is HSPA+ significant? As Eric Zeman of InformationWeek noted after Verizon announced its LTE speeds, HSPA+ has a chance to come close. Sony Ericsson realized real-world download speeds of that averaged 6.48Mbps. That doesn&#8217;t hit the top end of the LTE speed, but that&#8217;s still an upgrade over the current HSPA averages. So yes, while Verizon will have the fancy 4G brand, it might not mean that much in terms of practical download speeds. HSPA+ is going to be a player, too. In any case, in areas with solid reception the current HSPA speeds are quite excellent. I&#8217;ve been tethering my Nexus One ever since I installed Froyo, and have enjoyed the experience. It wasn&#8217;t that much slower than my cable connection at home. T-Mobile HSPA+ Android handset could be glorious Post from: Google And Blog ]]></description>
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		<title>T-Mobile HSPA+ Android handset could be glorious</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 13:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>iHackYourTech</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Later this year it sounds like Verizon Wireless will launch its LTE network, and Android could play a prominent role in the early goings. Android fans might not be familiar with Salomondrin, since he mostly spreads information about new BlackBerry devices. He has, however, been all over recent Android handsets. In a recent post about the BlackBerry Storm 3 , he writes an interesting note about Verizon&#8217;s LTE plans. [The Storm 3 is] gonna be Verizon’s 1st or 2nd LTE phone. They aren’t sure if the Android phone will be first or the Storm at this point. An Android handset on LTE sounds marvelous. Verizon has achieved practical download speeds of between 5 and 12Mbps, which is a significant improvement over what current 3G networks provide. This should even further enhance the user experience on Android, which will give it yet another leg up on competitors. While it&#8217;s not 4G &#8212; though LTE isn&#8217;t really 4G either &#8212; HSPA+ also has considerable potential. T-Mobile, which recently upgraded many of its markets to 7Mbps HSPA, is moving towards an HSPA+ roll-out. According to Light Reading , their first compatible device will be an HTC-manufactured one running Android. Apparently they&#8217;re trying to get the device onto the market by September, and looking at the T-Mobile roadmap that AndroidSPIN posted yesterday, it looks like the HTC Vanguard, due out on September 9, could be the one. Then again, there is always Project Emerald , which, according to the road map, is due out in November. The possibilities abound. Why is HSPA+ significant? As Eric Zeman of InformationWeek noted after Verizon announced its LTE speeds, HSPA+ has a chance to come close. Sony Ericsson realized real-world download speeds of that averaged 6.48Mbps. That doesn&#8217;t hit the top end of the LTE speed, but that&#8217;s still an upgrade over the current HSPA averages. So yes, while Verizon will have the fancy 4G brand, it might not mean that much in terms of practical download speeds. HSPA+ is going to be a player, too. In any case, in areas with solid reception the current HSPA speeds are quite excellent. I&#8217;ve been tethering my Nexus One ever since I installed Froyo, and have enjoyed the experience. It wasn&#8217;t that much slower than my cable connection at home. T-Mobile HSPA+ Android handset could be glorious Post from: Google And Blog ]]></description>
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		<title>T-Mobile HSPA+ Android handset could be glorious</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 13:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>esuahable</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Later this year it sounds like Verizon Wireless will launch its LTE network, and Android could play a prominent role in the early goings. Android fans might not be familiar with Salomondrin, since he mostly spreads information about new BlackBerry devices. He has, however, been all over recent Android handsets. In a recent post about the BlackBerry Storm 3 , he writes an interesting note about Verizon&#8217;s LTE plans. [The Storm 3 is] gonna be Verizon’s 1st or 2nd LTE phone. They aren’t sure if the Android phone will be first or the Storm at this point. An Android handset on LTE sounds marvelous. Verizon has achieved practical download speeds of between 5 and 12Mbps, which is a significant improvement over what current 3G networks provide. This should even further enhance the user experience on Android, which will give it yet another leg up on competitors. While it&#8217;s not 4G &#8212; though LTE isn&#8217;t really 4G either &#8212; HSPA+ also has considerable potential. T-Mobile, which recently upgraded many of its markets to 7Mbps HSPA, is moving towards an HSPA+ roll-out. According to Light Reading , their first compatible device will be an HTC-manufactured one running Android. Apparently they&#8217;re trying to get the device onto the market by September, and looking at the T-Mobile roadmap that AndroidSPIN posted yesterday, it looks like the HTC Vanguard, due out on September 9, could be the one. Then again, there is always Project Emerald , which, according to the road map, is due out in November. The possibilities abound. Why is HSPA+ significant? As Eric Zeman of InformationWeek noted after Verizon announced its LTE speeds, HSPA+ has a chance to come close. Sony Ericsson realized real-world download speeds of that averaged 6.48Mbps. That doesn&#8217;t hit the top end of the LTE speed, but that&#8217;s still an upgrade over the current HSPA averages. So yes, while Verizon will have the fancy 4G brand, it might not mean that much in terms of practical download speeds. HSPA+ is going to be a player, too. In any case, in areas with solid reception the current HSPA speeds are quite excellent. I&#8217;ve been tethering my Nexus One ever since I installed Froyo, and have enjoyed the experience. It wasn&#8217;t that much slower than my cable connection at home. T-Mobile HSPA+ Android handset could be glorious Post from: Google And Blog ]]></description>
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		<title>ESPN adds Radio app to its Android lineup</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 20:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jean-Baptiste Queru</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ ESPN is back with another addition to its Android application lineup. Last month they introduced ESPN ScoreCenter application, which is their basic scores, stats, and recaps application. They added this to ESPN News, though ScoreCenter accomplishes many aspects of that application, including the ability to track your favorite team. This time they&#8217;re back with an ESPN Radio application. The featured aspect of the application is live streams of ESPN Radio. They have affiliates in many major markets, and I have to say that although I dislike sports talk radio in general, I do prefer the ESPN guys to their local sports radio counterparts (notably, I enjoy the ESPN guys over Mike Francessa and others at WFAN in New York). If you need your daily fill of blowhards but either don&#8217;t get reception in your area or don&#8217;t have a radio ready, this app will be a necessity. Another excellent feature is the inclusion of podcasts. ESPN has expanded into this realm, headed by their featured writer Bill Simmons and his podcast, the BS Report. The best way to grow a podcast audience is to offer the shows to mobile users &#8212; I&#8217;m sure plenty of people listen to them on home computers but it has always seemed to me that podcasts are ideal for people who are moving and don&#8217;t have access to terrestrial radio. The application also includes SportsCenter updates, an easy throw-in, and the ability to text into shows. I&#8217;m not sure how much that will come into play, but at the very least it gives you a forum to sound off when one of the personalities says something stupid &#8212; which probably occurs two or three times a minute, on average. The app is not free, unfortunately, though it also does not require a subscription. It&#8217;s just $5, but if you&#8217;re ready to take the Paid App Pledge this seems like a worthy fulfillment of your weekly quota. Via Talk Android . ESPN adds Radio app to its Android lineup Post from: Google And Blog ]]></description>
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		<title>Froyo tops iPhone in JavaScript loading, equal in basic browsing</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 17:55:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mrpac76</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ You might have seen earlier this week that Ars Technica ran a comparison of the Froyo and iOS 4 browsers based on their handling of JavaScript-heavy sites. We knew that Android 2.2 would bring with it improvements in the ability to load JavaScript, and it appears the difference is pretty dramatic. As Ars Technica said, &#8220;JavaScript execution in Froyo&#8217;s Web browser is almost three times faster than in the previous version of the platform.&#8221; The results were then compared to the SunSoider and V8 benchmarks on the iPhone. It appears Froyo has made all the difference. Again, as Ars Techica finds, &#8220;The results show that the Android device delivers significantly faster JavaScript execution than the iPhone, scoring over three time better on V8 and almost twice as fast on SunSpider.&#8221; Froyo, it appears, has delivered. After seeing the JavaScript comparison, the folks at Engadget decided to run a full browser comparison of the two platforms. It wasn&#8217;t a perfect study, as they loaded just five sites on each device. Then again, they are five popular sites, so they at least chose ones that users frequently visit on mobile devices. The first test was with the stock settings, meaning Flash was loading in the Android browser. The findings appeared nearly identical. Three sites had the same load times on both devices, while the other two were split between the Nexus and the iPhone. Then, enterprising bloggers that they are, they decided to run the Nexus without Flash, since the iPhone&#8217;s lack of Flash might give it a speed advantage. This time the results produced just one tie, while the Nexus loaded four of the sites faster. As Engadget&#8217;s Richard Lai notes in the comments, this suggests that most mobile web surfers won&#8217;t notice too big a difference between the browsers. While JavaScript-heavy sites figure to load faster on the Nexus, sites not as heavily coded with JS will produce similar results. Of course, having Flash on the Nexus browser does represent a significant advantage. Froyo tops iPhone in JavaScript loading, equal in basic browsing Post from: Google And Blog ]]></description>
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		<title>No Nexus One follow-up now, but perhaps later</title>
		<link>http://androidoperatingsystem.net/2010/07/06/no-nexus-one-follow-up-now-but-perhaps-later/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 17:51:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>i4unews</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Contrary to what one idiot mistakenly said the Nexus One should continue to be the testing grounds for Android 3.0. While Google has reportedly placed minimum hardware requirements on devices running the platform, its own phone meets them and should continue to get OS updates before the rest of the Android world. But there can, and probably will, come a time when we again see even more stringent hardware requirements for new Android builds. At some point, I&#8217;m guessing, the Nexus One will no longer meet them. What will Google do at that point? By the time we&#8217;re ready for Android 4.0 or some significantly upgraded version of 3.0, there will be a number of devices with processors running at 2GHz or better , so they&#8217;ll have many options for the torch-bearer. But might they simply release a follow-up to their own handset? They&#8217;re saying no for now, but considering we won&#8217;t see Android 4.0 until some point in 2011 things can easily change. Andrew Kameka at Androinica believes that Google will make a U-Turn on the Nexus Two issue, and I think he makes a good case. After all, Google denied its involvement in phone making as recently as October 2009, when Andy Rubin said that Google is &#8220;not making hardware…we&#8217;re enabling other people to build hardware.&#8221; News of the Nexus One leaked the next month, and it was available to the public by January. Then again, it&#8217;s not like Rubin lied when he said that the company was not making hardware. Although the Google logo adorns the back of the N1, HTC did the manufacturing. To that end, then, is there anything in what Eric Schmidt said to The Telegraph that might be something similar to Rubin&#8217;s statement? The idea a year and a half ago was to do the Nexus One to try to move the phone platform hardware business forward. It clearly did. It was so successful, we didn’t have to do a second one. We would view that as positive but people criticised us heavily for that. I called up the board and said: ‘Ok, it worked. Congratulations – we’re stopping’. We like that flexibility, we think that flexibility is characteristic of nimbleness at our scale. Two snippets stand out. First, when Schmidt says that he called up the board and told them that they&#8217;re stopping, well, that&#8217;s exactly what happened. Google recently starting phasing out Nexus One web sales . But, again, that doesn&#8217;t really look forward to another possible device. That&#8217;s where the other part comes into play. Schmidt says that Google &#8220;didn&#8217;t have to do a second one.&#8221; No, they didn&#8217;t have to, nor do they have to now. But that doesn&#8217;t necessarily mean that they won&#8217;t. This isn&#8217;t to say that Google will or will not release a follow-up to the Nexus One. I just don&#8217;t take Schmidt&#8217;s comments as a straight denial. I think he&#8217;s using the statement more to emphasis that the original accomplished the goals the company set for it. But eventually Android will evolve to the point where the N1&#8217;s hardware won&#8217;t be sufficient. Who knows, maybe that&#8217;s further down the line than Android 4.0. But when the time does come, I wouldn&#8217;t count out Google partnering with HTC or Motorola or another big time Android handset manufacturer for another standard bearer. No Nexus One follow-up now, but perhaps later Post from: Google And Blog ]]></description>
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		<title>Smallest Android Phone Sony XPERIA X10 Mini Survives iPhone 4 Death Grip</title>
		<link>http://androidoperatingsystem.net/2010/07/01/smallest-android-phone-sony-xperia-x10-mini-survives-iphone-4-death-grip/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 16:01:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonrulezz21</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ I am back to provide GAB readers a preview of the upcoming Sony XPERIA X10 Mini that is coming out shortly in Canada &#038; Europe as it should be reaching US shores later this Summer. The first test I did out of the box is put the X10 mini in the most complete iPhone left handed death grip I could as it continued to show full bars with 3G on AT&#038;T , so this tiny phone is already ahead of the iPhone 4 in that regard. Now what was in the box was surprising as it included not one but 5 different color back panels to snap on as well earbuds &#038; a USB cord that connects to an outlet charger. Its specs are: Size: 3.5 x 2.0 x 0.7 inches Weight: 4.2 ounces Screen: 2.6 inches 240]]></description>
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		<title>Yahoo! launches Mail, Messenger apps for Android</title>
		<link>http://androidoperatingsystem.net/2010/07/01/yahoo-launches-mail-messenger-apps-for-android/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 14:58:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>HTCBoards</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Part of Android&#8217;s appeal, at least to me, is its integration with Google services. As I wrote on Tuesday , this includes not only synced services like Gmail and GChat, but also web-apps like Google Reader and Google Docs. They might not have their own dedicated applications, but the mobile sites are well-designed and make for easy browsing and reading. But my web habits certainly extend beyond Google. I&#8217;m sure many faithful Gmail users also use other services for webmail. Yahoo! Mail is one of the most popular email services, and since it predates Gmail I&#8217;m sure many faithful Gmail users also have Yahoo! Mail accounts. If you do, you&#8217;re in luck. Yahoo has released a Mail app for Android . The app contains a number of attractive features, including email caching. This works perfect for the underground or in-air traveler who wants to read mail while on the go. It&#8217;s definitely one of those batch processes I like to reserve for time when I&#8217;m not sitting in front of my computer, if possible. It also contains a search function which, again, can be used even when you&#8217;re out of network range. Yahoo! also brags a bit about its use of HTML5, which it claims enables the app to run even faster. It&#8217;s not slow, I&#8217;ll give it that, but I wouldn&#8217;t exactly call it fast. I noticed a little lag when running it, but nothing serious. A few Market commenters noted that it crashed a few times for them and that it ran particularly slow. To the latter claim I&#8217;m not sure what we can make of it because different people have different standards for speed. It does sometimes take a bit for mailboxes to load, I will say. To the former, I&#8217;ve browsed through the app for a while and haven&#8217;t experienced a crash yet. But just watch, it&#8217;ll go just after I publish this. The app does contain plenty of email usage features that should probably be included in all external mail apps. The main screen contains all of your folders, both smart folders and user-created ones. You can also add a folder, empty the trash, or empty spam under the More tab. It appears, though, that once I&#8217;ve clicked the More tab, that menu appears every time I return to the main Mail screen after viewing my Inbox. In terms of composing, the interface is intuitive enough. Thankfully, you can add recipients not only from your Yahoo contacts, but also from your Android contacts. There are rich text options, mostly the basics like font face and color, bold, italics, and underline. Uploading files is pretty easy, and you can even take a picture right from your camera and attach it. It&#8217;s not perfect, but it will do. You can grab the Yahoo! Mail client &#8212; as well as Yahoo! Messenger and Yahoo! Search &#8212; from the Market. The QR codes are below. Update: No sooner after I publish this do I get a new email to my Yahoo! Mail account. It made my phone vibrate, the trackball glow, and an annoying tone to sound. If you don&#8217;t like this, I suggest going into Options and unchecking the Notifications box. Unfortunately, this seems like an all-or-nothing proposition. Thankfully, the app closes when you back out of it, so you can use it just to check your mail, rather than receive it in real time. Yahoo! launches Mail, Messenger apps for Android Post from: Google And Blog ]]></description>
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		<title>Nexus One won’t be the standard bearer for Android 3.0</title>
		<link>http://androidoperatingsystem.net/2010/06/30/nexus-one-won%e2%80%99t-be-the-standard-bearer-for-android-3-0/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 21:39:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MobileGazette</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ So, when are we going to get Android 3.0? That&#8217;s a half-joking question I&#8217;ve heard from many fellow Nexus One users during the past few weeks. Most N1 users have already upgraded to 2.2, whether via a Google-released OTA update or by just doing it manually . In either case, nearly every Nexus One user should have 2.2 now, since Google has started pushing out the official update to all owners. It is no surprise, of course, that Nexus One users get the first taste of Froyo. Not only is the phone fully endorsed by Google &#8212; it has their bloody name and logo on the back &#8212; but it is also seen as the Android standard. While some outlets, eager for page views, will look at the sales numbers and call it a flop , they miss the point of the Nexus One. It wasn&#8217;t meant to sell better than the iPhone. If Google wanted to do that they would have coordinated releases better and made it available at retail outlets. Instead, it was created for the hardcore Android user in mind &#8212; the developers, the people who wanted to stay on the cutting edge. The N1 offered that experience, and owners have been rewarded with first-look updates. It appears now, however, that Froyo is the Nexus&#8217;s final stand. Sure, it will still receive future updates, probably still before other comparable devices. But for Android 3.0? Don&#8217;t count on it. Phandroid relays a rumor regarding Android 3.0, Gingerbread, which should hit airwaves later this year. If true, it would mean that any device eligible for 3.0 would have to meet certain hardware requirements. Specifically: It must have a CPU clocked at 1GHz or higher It must have 512MB or more of RAM It must have a screen sized 3.5-inches or higher This, of course, raises the issue of fragmentation to the mind of many Android users. I don&#8217;t think it will remain an issue for much longer, if in fact it really is a huge problem right now. The population most affected by fragmentation is the developer contingency, since they potentially have to create versions of applications that cross many Android platforms. As long as they have an apparatus to adapt applications for 3.0, 2.1, and 2.2, it shouldn&#8217;t be too large an issue on their end. If that remains a time-consuming issue for developers, however, we could see problems. But that&#8217;s another issue in itself. On the user end, it will be a matter of making sure that each device is at its maximum OS capacity. That is, some devices top out at 2.1, others will top out at 2.2, while devices that meet the hardware requirements will top out at 3.0 (and beyond). That gives you three basic platforms, and, again, as long as Google makes it easy for developers to release their applications across all three platforms this shouldn&#8217;t be a huge issue. Certainly, at least, not as large as some make it out to be. It will be sad, though, to not have my current device be the one to receive the initial updates. It will probably mean getting another device and filing away my Nexus One, the device that has helped keep me up on the latest with Android. Nexus One won&#8217;t be the standard bearer for Android 3.0 Post from: Google And Blog ]]></description>
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		<title>Nexus One won’t be the standard bearer for Android 3.0</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 21:39:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>leakdroid</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ So, when are we going to get Android 3.0? That&#8217;s a half-joking question I&#8217;ve heard from many fellow Nexus One users during the past few weeks. Most N1 users have already upgraded to 2.2, whether via a Google-released OTA update or by just doing it manually . In either case, nearly every Nexus One user should have 2.2 now, since Google has started pushing out the official update to all owners. It is no surprise, of course, that Nexus One users get the first taste of Froyo. Not only is the phone fully endorsed by Google &#8212; it has their bloody name and logo on the back &#8212; but it is also seen as the Android standard. While some outlets, eager for page views, will look at the sales numbers and call it a flop , they miss the point of the Nexus One. It wasn&#8217;t meant to sell better than the iPhone. If Google wanted to do that they would have coordinated releases better and made it available at retail outlets. Instead, it was created for the hardcore Android user in mind &#8212; the developers, the people who wanted to stay on the cutting edge. The N1 offered that experience, and owners have been rewarded with first-look updates. It appears now, however, that Froyo is the Nexus&#8217;s final stand. Sure, it will still receive future updates, probably still before other comparable devices. But for Android 3.0? Don&#8217;t count on it. Phandroid relays a rumor regarding Android 3.0, Gingerbread, which should hit airwaves later this year. If true, it would mean that any device eligible for 3.0 would have to meet certain hardware requirements. Specifically: It must have a CPU clocked at 1GHz or higher It must have 512MB or more of RAM It must have a screen sized 3.5-inches or higher This, of course, raises the issue of fragmentation to the mind of many Android users. I don&#8217;t think it will remain an issue for much longer, if in fact it really is a huge problem right now. The population most affected by fragmentation is the developer contingency, since they potentially have to create versions of applications that cross many Android platforms. As long as they have an apparatus to adapt applications for 3.0, 2.1, and 2.2, it shouldn&#8217;t be too large an issue on their end. If that remains a time-consuming issue for developers, however, we could see problems. But that&#8217;s another issue in itself. On the user end, it will be a matter of making sure that each device is at its maximum OS capacity. That is, some devices top out at 2.1, others will top out at 2.2, while devices that meet the hardware requirements will top out at 3.0 (and beyond). That gives you three basic platforms, and, again, as long as Google makes it easy for developers to release their applications across all three platforms this shouldn&#8217;t be a huge issue. Certainly, at least, not as large as some make it out to be. It will be sad, though, to not have my current device be the one to receive the initial updates. It will probably mean getting another device and filing away my Nexus One, the device that has helped keep me up on the latest with Android. Nexus One won&#8217;t be the standard bearer for Android 3.0 Post from: Google And Blog ]]></description>
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		<title>Accessing Google Docs on your Android handset</title>
		<link>http://androidoperatingsystem.net/2010/06/29/accessing-google-docs-on-your-android-handset/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 19:30:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AlphaProtocol360</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ If you don&#8217;t leave home or the office much, then why have a smartphone? It&#8217;s an expensive proposition, of course, costing you upwards of $30 per month for data service. One reason Android works so well for people is that it syncs with your Google accounts, meaning you get to take basically all of your Google services on the road with you. That includes Google Docs, the rapidly growing platform for document creation and storage. Until last week this was actually a problem for Android users. That&#8217;s when Google announced viewing support for .doc and .docx files . That was a good first step, made better by their announcement yesterday that you can now view PDF files via the Google Docs mobile interface. While this is certainly a quality step forward, it has still left many users wanting &#8212; nay, demanding &#8212; more. Viewing is just not enough, it seems. With the ability to edit spreadsheets, I can understand why people are clamoring for the ability to edit documents and PDFs. You can&#8217;t edit PDFs on Google Docs in any case, so the lack of editing ability on the mobile makes enough sense. But documents? I&#8217;d think that allowing document editing would be easy enough. Many people would take advantage and use Google Docs more frequently. This goes especially when there are keyboard apps like Swype available &#8212; which, my friend commented earlier today, &#8220;you could use to write a book.&#8221; I have no doubt that we&#8217;ll see these features soon enough. Google has done an excellent job of creating an easy to use mobile interface for Docs (as well as Reader), so there&#8217;s no need even for an application. If they rolled out document editing capabilities next week I wouldn&#8217;t be surprised. It&#8217;s just another useful addition to the Android repertoire. I imagine we&#8217;ll see much more where this came from in the future. Accessing Google Docs on your Android handset Post from: Google And Blog ]]></description>
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		<title>Google’s cautious path to Android 2.2 distribution</title>
		<link>http://androidoperatingsystem.net/2010/06/28/google%e2%80%99s-cautious-path-to-android-2-2-distribution/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2010 18:53:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ In an environment where we get multiple Android updates per day, waiting a month for a new OS build can seem like forever. Android users have been waiting since Froyo&#8217;s announcement at Google I/O for their device to get the upgrade. Well, first they&#8217;re waiting to see whether their device will, in fact, get Android 2.2. Then, if they find out that they will get it, they have to continue exercising patience, waiting for Google to send an update. Which, of course, hasn&#8217;t happened yet. This is the case, it appears, because Google is exercising caution when distributing the official Froyo build. As Android and Me reported last week, Google started pushing Froyo to many Nexus One users, offering them an easy OTA update. This didn&#8217;t go out to everyone, and so most websites printed instructions that enabled users to upgrade manually. But that appeared to work for only Nexus One users &#8212; and they were scheduled to get the first OTA update. But what about the rest of the Android using world? When will they get their updates? The answer, it appears, is that Google will handle each device in a similar manner. As Talk Android reports , Google is sending out Froyo to select Motorola Droid users. Information is sparse at the time, but it&#8217;s clear that the majority of Droid owners will not see this update at the moment. Again, as with the Nexus One this is going out to select users, probably ones who have tested products for Google in the past. Everyone else, as per usual, will have to wait. The Droid is still set to get 2.2 at the end of July, so there isn&#8217;t much of a change to that. But I&#8217;m guessing at this point that we&#8217;ll start to see little stories like this for every Android device. It appears Google is doing the cautious thing, the right thing, in sending out tests for each device. They&#8217;re making sure to get it right, even if it means a slightly longer wait for most of us. I think that the trade-off is well worth it. Google&#8217;s cautious path to Android 2.2 distribution Post from: Google And Blog ]]></description>
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		<title>Still waiting for Flash on Android 2.2? Try Skyfire</title>
		<link>http://androidoperatingsystem.net/2010/06/25/still-waiting-for-flash-on-android-2-2-try-skyfire/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2010 19:38:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>censorednet</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ We&#8217;ve all been waiting patiently for Android 2.2 ever since Google announced it at I/O in late May. It looks like a wholesale improvement. One of the major features of the update is the inclusion of a Flash 10.1 plugin for the default browser. I&#8217;ve much enjoyed the default Android browser, and the addition of Flash figures to only improve that. If you want Flash now, though, there is an option. Skyfire, a developer of mobile browsers, released an Android browser, and they claim to load flash videos on their server, which they then stream to you. It sounds like a great idea, and their list of 750,000 indexed sites makes it sound even more impressive. But as Phandroid notes , there have been problems with loading. They claim to get stuck when buffering reaches 25 percent, and many commenters echo the issue. On the other hand, many commenters note seamless usage, so there&#8217;s certainly an upside. It&#8217;s a free download, so you might as well give it a shot if you&#8217;re craving Flash and can&#8217;t wait for Froyo. Worst case, it doesn&#8217;t work and you delete it shortly after downloading. It&#8217;s available in the market, with the QR code to the right. Still waiting for Flash on Android 2.2? Try Skyfire Post from: Google And Blog ]]></description>
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		<title>Google music service will be boon to Android users</title>
		<link>http://androidoperatingsystem.net/2010/06/23/google-music-service-will-be-boon-to-android-users/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 19:07:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PuntoCellulare</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ While everyone is (justifiably) drooling over the Droid X … For the past few months I&#8217;ve been on the search for a quality subscription music service. I like Napster because they offer you purchase credits along with your subscription price. Rhapsody looks good, and they have an Android app , but I can&#8217;t load those songs onto my older generation iPod. Every service, it seems, has a downside that makes it not worth it for someone like me, who enjoys his music on different devices. Thankfully, Google might soon supply the answer. You might notice that when you search out a song, or even an artist, on Google search it comes up with an option to play the song via some third party service. Typically you can play the full song once in each browser, after which you can hear just a short sample. It&#8217;s a nice little marketing ploy to boost song sales, and it sits in a logical place. After all, if you&#8217;re searching for a song you&#8217;re probably at least somewhat likely to purchase it. Apparently Google has caught onto this and wants to capitalize. Yesterday The Wall Street Journal reported that Google is working on its own music download service that would tie into its search results. So instead of seeing a listing from a site like iLike, you&#8217;d see a list right from Google&#8217;s own music store. Presumably, the same rules would apply, wherein you can listen to the full track once. The option to purchase, obviously, will be the driving force of the business. What struck me, however, was the note that Google also plans a subscription music service that would launch next year. This is where I think they can really sink in their claws. Almost all digital music services come with drawbacks. I mentioned the Napster and Rhapsody ones, that they&#8217;re not compatible with both the older generation iPod, which many people still use, and a large swath of smartphones. Another service I looked at, E Music, isn&#8217;t really a subscription service. Apple charges way too much for its tracks and albums, especially the DRM-free and high-quality ones. There is a place for Google in this market. I like the idea of purchase credits with the subscription price. I like the idea of playing these tracks on any medium I choose. I like the idea of streaming to mobile devices, and I really like the idea of caching (since I spend much of my music-listening time underground). How many of these aspects can Google include in its service? It seems like most other services combine one or two. If Google can nail down them all, it could find itself as a major player in music sales. One thing we do know is that the service, whatever it entails, will be compatible with Android devices. Sounds like many of us will have to go out and buy extended life batteries. Google music service will be boon to Android users Post from: Google And Blog ]]></description>
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		<title>Seamless transition between 3G/4G and Wi-Fi makes mobile more attractive</title>
		<link>http://androidoperatingsystem.net/2010/06/22/seamless-transition-between-3g4g-and-wi-fi-makes-mobile-more-attractive/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 20:42:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>yourweeklydeal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Not long ago, getting Wi-Fi built into a handset was a bonus. Now it&#8217;s a rarity to see a new smartphone that does not contain a Wi-Fi chip. It&#8217;s an easy add-on, and it benefits both the consumer and the operator. The consumer because Wi-Fi provides a faster connection, and the operator because it means less traffic on its 3G network. In fact, AT&#038;T has set up a Wi-Fi network in Times Square to help ease the strain on its cellular network. If successful it plans to set up more. The latest news out of the Wireless Broadband Alliance should then make everyone happy. They announced that they are starting trials on a technology that would allow for seamless network transfers between cellular and Wi-Fi. So when you&#8217;re browsing on your favorite Android handset, you&#8217;ll switch over to the faster Wi-Fi network if one is available. Once you leave that Wi-Fi area, you&#8217;ll get right back on your 3G or 4G connection. This might require an extended life battery, since Wi-Fi is a known battery killer, but that appears to be one of the few downsides. In an email to Phone Scool, Chris Bruce, CEO of the Wireless Broadband Alliance, lays out the idea in non-technical terms. &#8220;Operators who create data plans across network types (3G, Wi-Fi, WiMax, etc.) can use these specifications to make this process simple and secure across networks. Actual implementation will be by these operators, but WISPr 2.0 and WRIX together provide enablers for inter-standard roaming (between 3G – Wi-Fi / WiMax – Wi-Fi).&#8221; Reading that out of context might incite some skepticism. After all, if the operators are implementing, who&#8217;s to say that the most popular ones will be on board? To everyone&#8217;s relief, three of the four major U.S. carriers have joined the WBA: T-Mobile, AT&#038;T, and Verizon. Testing begins now, and the WBA claims that it should take about six months. After that there&#8217;s really no telling how long it will take to 1) get the technology to operators, and 2) get the operators to implement it. When they do, though, it sounds like it should provide a better, easier browsing experience where Wi-Fi is available. Seamless transition between 3G/4G and Wi-Fi makes mobile more attractive Post from: Google And Blog ]]></description>
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		<title>Will Samsung live up to the Android hype?</title>
		<link>http://androidoperatingsystem.net/2010/06/21/will-samsung-live-up-to-the-android-hype/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2010 18:42:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vodabaz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ When it comes to Android handsets, it seems like HTC and Motorola run ahead of the pack. They have created perhaps the most exciting, if not the most hyped, Android handsets to date, including the Droid, the Droid Incredible, the EVO 4G, and, of course, the Nexus One. Samsung, however, wants in on the Android gold rush. As we learn via Android Guys , who posted the announcement you see below, Samsung plans to &#8220;unveil a new class of brilliant Android smart phones.&#8221; Of course, they&#8217;re not going to say anything negative about their new set. And, considering the hype surrounding the Galaxy S Pro, they might be onto something. Speaking of the Galaxy S Pro, you don&#8217;t have to wait until the Samsung event on June 29 to find out about the device. On Sunday Android Central filed a report from a tipster that provides a hands-on take of the device. First, in pictures: In terms of specs, it has a 480]]></description>
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		<title>Swype provides a better keyboard experience</title>
		<link>http://androidoperatingsystem.net/2010/06/17/swype-provides-a-better-keyboard-experience/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2010 19:50:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>4denis408</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Unsurprisingly, one of the most difficult aspects of switching to a touchscreen phone from a QWERTY is adapting to the virtual keyboard. Even today, months after purchasing my Nexus One, I still have trouble with the keyboard. In fact, I&#8217;ve completely given up typing in portrait mode and go exclusively with landscape. Even then I make more than my share of mistakes. Maybe I&#8217;ll get better with time, but I&#8217;m not sure how much I&#8217;m going to improve after over two months of more or less constantly using the thing. If only there were a better option… This, of course, leads to a discussion of a new Android app, Swype. It provides a supposedly superior typing experience, letting you drag your finger across the keyboard, stopping at the desired letters along the way. If you saw the Samsung commercials where the actor broke the texting speed record, well, that&#8217;s Swype. It seems like a decent option for people who have trouble typing &#8212; and also for people like me who have large thumbs. Swype is making the beta version of their Android app available for a limited time &#8212; a few days, according to them. It is not, however, available through the Android Market. You have to go to http://beta.swype.com/ and register using an email address that delivers to your Android handset. Then you can install the release. It comes with limited features, and there isn&#8217;t any support for it beyond forums. But them&#8217;s the breaks when it comes to beta applications. It seems like a decent idea to at least try. That way you&#8217;ll be prepared when they release the full version. Because the app isn&#8217;t in the Market, you&#8217;ll have to make sure that your handset is able to download apps from other sources. To do this go to your main settings, click on Applications, and then check the Unknown sources box. Then you can download the app and check it out. If you&#8217;re interested in a little preview, here&#8217;s a demo, similar to the one you probably saw on that Samsung commercial: Via MobileCrunch . Swype provides a better keyboard experience Post from: Google And Blog ]]></description>
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		<title>How viable an option is a prepaid Android?</title>
		<link>http://androidoperatingsystem.net/2010/06/03/how-viable-an-option-is-a-prepaid-android/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2010 19:12:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>androidapps</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ There exists something of a divide in the cellular industry. We&#8217;re seeing an increasing market for smartphones and other data-intensive handsets. Those, for the most part, are expensive devices that carriers subsidize in exchange for a two-year contract. On the other side is prepaid, which has fueled the industry for the past half year. In the past two quarters it has greatly outgrown postpaid subscriptions. Carriers, of course, prefer postpaid. Not only do they spent more per month on average, but they also provide a predictable stream of income. Investors love predictability. It appears, however, that consumers who don&#8217;t need data services have wised up and are moving to prepaid. This has a few implications for the market in general. As prepaid carriers grow, they&#8217;ll want to offer more advanced services to their users. We&#8217;re seeing that already. Virgin Mobile just introduced plans with unlimited data services, and has a BlackBerry to go along with it. Boost Mobile, another Sprint subsidiary, also has unlimited data plans and a BlackBerry. MetroPCS has a few touchscreen data phones, and Cricket does too. Soon enough, we&#8217;ll see these carriers with Android handsets. Actually, we won&#8217;t have to wait that long. Later this month Boost Mobile will make available to its subscribers the Motorola i1. It&#8217;s the first Android you can get on a prepaid basis, and it should attract more than a few curious parties. I do wonder, though, whether prepaid is yet a viable platform for data-heavy handsets like the i1 promises to be. As long as it comes as advertised, the level of service should be fine. Boost advertises unlimited, so as long as they&#8217;re not cutting off customers who exceed some arbitrary limit &#8212; say, 2GB &#8212; then users will have no trouble using the service. The catch is that the phone will only work in Sprint&#8217;s primary coverage network, and only their iDEN coverage network at that. That will mean slow data services, but, again, this isn&#8217;t new information. The biggest problem lies in the subsidy. Since you do not make a commitment to Boost Mobile service, the company will not pay for part of your handset. When the i1 hits Best Buy on June 20 it will cost $350, more than you&#8217;ll pay for the most popular Android handsets. That and the iDEN network seem to be the only downsides. Both Cricket and Virgin could pick up a Kyocera Android handset over the summer, and while that would take away the service problem, it would add the handset problem, as the Kyocera device looks like the crappiest Android handset to date. Will people be willing to pony up $300 to $400 for handsets if they can get services, including unlimited data, for cheaper than postpaid and without a contract? I&#8217;m not sure, but if people start to go for that it could change the industry. How viable an option is a prepaid Android? Post from: Google And Blog ]]></description>
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		<title>AT&amp;T might not be the best carrier for Android</title>
		<link>http://androidoperatingsystem.net/2010/06/02/att-might-not-be-the-best-carrier-for-android/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jun 2010 21:21:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pointgphonedotcom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ For the past year, maybe two, AT&#038;T has been railing against unlimited data plans. It still offered them, of course, because it knew the consequences of going against the grain. The iPhone, seemingly the most popular smartphone in America even though the BlackBerry Curve consistently outsold it, ran on heavy data consumption, so to reduce data usage would be to hurt AT&#038;T&#8217;s market position. There might have also been pressure from Apple to keep the unlimited gates open. Whatever the reason, AT&#038;T didn&#8217;t like it, and they made it clear in public statement after public statement. The world will soon have to get used to limits, the company constantly told its consumers. Today, however, AT&#038;T finally realized its dream. They announced tiered data pricing that seem kind skimpy. That&#8217;s the idea, of course. They want to reduce data consumption and free up bandwidth for more users. Or, at the very least, collect fees from the heaviest data consumers that will keep its profit sheet sparkling. Pardon the cynicism, but this tiered pricing deal is a clear play by AT&#038;T to charge more for the same service. The announcement will keep investors happy &#8212; investors love it when you can disguise a price hike &#8212; but unless other carriers act in unison, customers might turn away from AT&#038;T. The lowest tier is a joke, a bone to light users who probably don&#8217;t need a smartphone in the first place. It includes just 200MB, which is a jokingly small amount. In fact, the best use of this low tier plan is to use when you&#8217;re going on vacation or otherwise won&#8217;t be using your smartphone much in that given month. That&#8217;s the one plus: AT&#038;T will allow you to migrate between the plans on a month-by-month basis. You have to choose beforehand, of course, but if you plan on not using data for a month, you can avoid the extra $10. Next up is what AT&#038;T is calling &#8220;DataPro,&#8221; but what is really a stripped down version of its previous plan. It covers just 2GB, again not much for heavy users, and costs just $5 less than the unlimited plan. Again, this is a clear marketing ploy. There&#8217;s a price reduction, which AT&#038;T will tout and tout. But it&#8217;s just $5 per month &#8212; it&#8217;s more than the unlimited data plan the company sold with the original iPhone. You can add tethering for $20 per month, with which you will surely exceed the 2GB limit. For that, AT&#038;T will just charge $10 for an additional gig. Of course, if you go over by even a meg you have to pay for that whole gig. But that&#8217;s the plan, really. AT&#038;T is pulling its usual justification for this. &#8220;Currently, 98 percent of AT&#038;T smartphone customers use less than 2GB of data a month on average.&#8221; First, I&#8217;m not sure how many of AT&#038;T&#8217;s 90-some-odd-million subscribers are on smartphones, so it&#8217;s tough to get a real gauge of two percent. The problem, however, does not lie in the sheer numbers. It lies in the nature of those who use more than 2GB. I use more than 2GB. I&#8217;m sure many readers of this site use 2GB. Why do we use more data than 98 percent of AT&#038;T smartphone customers? Because we&#8217;re doing something productive with our smartphones. People who use data heavily often innovate. Sure, there are some who eat up bandwidth watching web video, but that constitutes far less than the two percent figure AT&#038;T quotes. Most people I know who consume more than 2G of data are busy creating something. Those two percent of customers, in other words, are creating value. AT&#038;T, apparently, wants to charge more for this value creation. That&#8217;s my biggest problem with the price hike. They&#8217;re trying to demonize heavy users, when the heavy users are creating things. The other 98 percent are merely consuming. Which, as I feel like I&#8217;ve said a thousand times, is the entire point. AT&#038;T doesn&#8217;t care about your innovation. It cares about its profits and feeding its investors. That means consumption, and charging heavily for it. Sorry, Android users, but you&#8217;re better off bolting for another carrier. That is, until their investors decide that AT&#038;T is right. AT&#038;T might not be the best carrier for Android Post from: Google And Blog ]]></description>
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		<title>Yearly Android updates could help fragmentation issue</title>
		<link>http://androidoperatingsystem.net/2010/06/01/yearly-android-updates-could-help-fragmentation-issue/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2010 20:46:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Google VP Andy Rubin has been a star of sorts lately. He&#8217;s the head of Android, so with the announcement of 2.2 Froyo that makes a degree of sense. We dissected a Rubin interview last week, in which he laid out an ideal release schedule. He likes May and September, which might be a hint to a Gingerbread future. After that, however, we might see the release frequency slow. As Rubin tells the Mercury News , we might see just one yearly update in the future. Our product cycle is now, basically twice a year, and it will probably end up being once a year when things start settling down, because a platform that&#8217;s moving — it&#8217;s hard for developers to keep up. I want developers to basically leverage the innovation. I don&#8217;t want developers to have to predict the innovation. Part of Android&#8217;s beauty is its fluid state. I&#8217;ve had plenty of people ask me about Android and how it compares to other smartphone platforms. My stock answer is that it&#8217;s right up there with the best, and because of its open nature it will get even better in the future. I&#8217;ve heard some criticism that Android doesn&#8217;t stand up to the iPhone because the latter has a superior UI. With Froyo and the Sense UI, though, Android might have struck a significant blow. And it could strike again with Gingerbread. There are two sides to the OS upgrade debate, at least from a consumer&#8217;s perspective. On one side, we should want as many updates as possible, as frequently as possible. As long as the act of performing the update is easy, people will universally benefit from continually better software. The iPhone updates once a year. If Android can update two, three times a year, it has an advantage. Of course, the caveat in that last paragraph provides one of the issues. Because of the different hardware specification for each Android device, there are many issues with pumping out the updates. Can this update work on all devices? If not, how many? How easy can they possibly make it for users to upgrade? Will users even bother to upgrade if they know another one is coming down the pike? This makes the issue a bit more complex. That leads us to fragmentation, the buzz word in the Android community. Both developers and users feel the effects here. Developers might have to tweak different versions of their software to fit many different Android OS versions. Users might be miffed because they can&#8217;t get the latest Android. And, again, there will be plenty of laggards, so developers will always have to cater to the slowest to upgrade. Imagine if Android released three new versions of the OS between now and this time next year. There might still be people running Android 1.6, while the latest version will be somewhere around 2.5. That can cause problems from everyone involved. I&#8217;m not particularly happy to hear about Google&#8217;s plans to slow the release of new platforms. I&#8217;d far rather they keep up the swift pace and just make it easier for everyone to upgrade to the latest OS. Easier said than done, of course, which is probably why they&#8217;re choosing to slow down. Another reason is that they&#8217;re going for other platforms, like PCs, cars, and TVs. All of those feature different hardware profiles. Keeping the updates to once a year could help them adapt the platform to these outlets. I think we&#8217;ll all take that. Yearly Android updates could help fragmentation issue Post from: Google And Blog ]]></description>
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		<title>Will Verizon’s “buckets of data” LTE plan work?</title>
		<link>http://androidoperatingsystem.net/2010/05/27/will-verizon%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%9cbuckets-of-data%e2%80%9d-lte-plan-work/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2010 22:51:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>baskar rajagopal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Once you give people something on an unlimited basis, it&#8217;s hard to go back. Many wireless carriers would probably like to go back and offer tiered data plans rather than the unlimited ones they offer now. The transition to LTE presents them with an opportunity to change the paradigm, and it appears Verizon, which plans to launch LTE later this year, has said that it will handle data differently. Paul Taylor of the Financial Times reports from the Barclays Capital media and technology conference, at which Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam spoke about LTE data consumption. Customers might cringe when they hear this, and rightly so. When a company changes something like this, it tends to move the money model in their favor. Verizon, however, did note a few things that should leave customers at least a little optimistic about the pricing of LTE services. McAdam admitted that data transfer would cost one half, or possibly as low as one third, the amount it does now over the EVDO 3G network. He also noted that Verizon plans to migrate voice and messaging to LTE by 2012, which will save. Having everything running over data should make the network easier to manage for the carrier. McAdam made another excellent point, one I&#8217;ve been driving home in a lot of my writing about data networks, particularly 4G ones. &#8220;I expect people will have four or five or perhaps even more devices they will connect to the network,&#8221; he said. If you have a tablet, a cell phone, and a laptop, for instance, you wouldn&#8217;t want to pay for three data plans. The buckets of pricing does make it easier for Verizon to provide price points and service levels that fit different users&#8217; needs. It probably won&#8217;t be perfect, and plenty of customers will inevitably complain about the limited nature of the data plans. Right now, though, I can see the potential for Verizon to create something that works for many users. They&#8217;re going to have to, if LTE services affect our lives to the level they have the potential to. Will Verizon&#8217;s &#8220;buckets of data&#8221; LTE plan work? Post from: Google And Blog ]]></description>
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		<title>Will Verizon’s “buckets of data” LTE plan work?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2010 22:51:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pdaexpertos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Once you give people something on an unlimited basis, it&#8217;s hard to go back. Many wireless carriers would probably like to go back and offer tiered data plans rather than the unlimited ones they offer now. The transition to LTE presents them with an opportunity to change the paradigm, and it appears Verizon, which plans to launch LTE later this year, has said that it will handle data differently. Paul Taylor of the Financial Times reports from the Barclays Capital media and technology conference, at which Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam spoke about LTE data consumption. Customers might cringe when they hear this, and rightly so. When a company changes something like this, it tends to move the money model in their favor. Verizon, however, did note a few things that should leave customers at least a little optimistic about the pricing of LTE services. McAdam admitted that data transfer would cost one half, or possibly as low as one third, the amount it does now over the EVDO 3G network. He also noted that Verizon plans to migrate voice and messaging to LTE by 2012, which will save. Having everything running over data should make the network easier to manage for the carrier. McAdam made another excellent point, one I&#8217;ve been driving home in a lot of my writing about data networks, particularly 4G ones. &#8220;I expect people will have four or five or perhaps even more devices they will connect to the network,&#8221; he said. If you have a tablet, a cell phone, and a laptop, for instance, you wouldn&#8217;t want to pay for three data plans. The buckets of pricing does make it easier for Verizon to provide price points and service levels that fit different users&#8217; needs. It probably won&#8217;t be perfect, and plenty of customers will inevitably complain about the limited nature of the data plans. Right now, though, I can see the potential for Verizon to create something that works for many users. They&#8217;re going to have to, if LTE services affect our lives to the level they have the potential to. Will Verizon&#8217;s &#8220;buckets of data&#8221; LTE plan work? Post from: Google And Blog ]]></description>
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		<title>Will Verizon’s “buckets of data” LTE plan work?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2010 22:51:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>NickLedioler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Once you give people something on an unlimited basis, it&#8217;s hard to go back. Many wireless carriers would probably like to go back and offer tiered data plans rather than the unlimited ones they offer now. The transition to LTE presents them with an opportunity to change the paradigm, and it appears Verizon, which plans to launch LTE later this year, has said that it will handle data differently. Paul Taylor of the Financial Times reports from the Barclays Capital media and technology conference, at which Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam spoke about LTE data consumption. Customers might cringe when they hear this, and rightly so. When a company changes something like this, it tends to move the money model in their favor. Verizon, however, did note a few things that should leave customers at least a little optimistic about the pricing of LTE services. McAdam admitted that data transfer would cost one half, or possibly as low as one third, the amount it does now over the EVDO 3G network. He also noted that Verizon plans to migrate voice and messaging to LTE by 2012, which will save. Having everything running over data should make the network easier to manage for the carrier. McAdam made another excellent point, one I&#8217;ve been driving home in a lot of my writing about data networks, particularly 4G ones. &#8220;I expect people will have four or five or perhaps even more devices they will connect to the network,&#8221; he said. If you have a tablet, a cell phone, and a laptop, for instance, you wouldn&#8217;t want to pay for three data plans. The buckets of pricing does make it easier for Verizon to provide price points and service levels that fit different users&#8217; needs. It probably won&#8217;t be perfect, and plenty of customers will inevitably complain about the limited nature of the data plans. Right now, though, I can see the potential for Verizon to create something that works for many users. They&#8217;re going to have to, if LTE services affect our lives to the level they have the potential to. Will Verizon&#8217;s &#8220;buckets of data&#8221; LTE plan work? Post from: Google And Blog ]]></description>
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		<title>PhoneTell takes us one step closer to custom voicemail</title>
		<link>http://androidoperatingsystem.net/2010/05/26/phonetell-takes-us-one-step-closer-to-custom-voicemail/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 May 2010 19:02:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ashinw</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ For the longest time I wondered why carriers didn&#8217;t offer custom voicemail offerings. That is, you can set your outgoing message to a certain status, like your away message or Facebook status. If you&#8217;re in a meeting, you&#8217;d just set it to &#8220;in meeting,&#8221; and callers would hear exactly that when they called. We haven&#8217;t seen that yet, and we might never see it. This leaves an opportunity for developers to create applications which serve just this purpose. There is a new one for Android called PhoneTell, which I found on DroidDog . It essentially acts as your ex post receptionist, letting callers know why you didn&#8217;t answer. Once you miss a call, PhoneTell will prompt you for a response, and will then notify the caller via SMS. This can be a bit of a pain if someone is calling from a landline, but you can just choose to do nothing in those cases. What&#8217;s someone doing calling you from a landline, anyway? As you can see from the screenshot, you can ask the caller to call later, you can let them know that you&#8217;ll call them &#8212; and add the task to your calendar &#8212; or request that they send you a message with any important details. It&#8217;s the best possible solution to the voicemail conundrum. PhoneTell also adds features to your address book, allowing you to search through directories for numbers, rather than just through your own contacts. It also integrates with Google Maps for location-based functions. You can get PhoneTell for free in the Market, and you can read more about it at the company website . PhoneTell takes us one step closer to custom voicemail Post from: Google And Blog ]]></description>
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		<title>Ready to have your mind blown?</title>
		<link>http://androidoperatingsystem.net/2010/05/24/ready-to-have-your-mind-blown/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2010 18:17:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CBS</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ At Gizmodo today, Matt Buchanan has an interview with Google VP of Engineering and head of Android Andy Rubin , who was not tentative in his aspirations for the platform. Version 2.2, Froyo, hasn&#8217;t even hit on a large scale yet, and already Rubin is talking a bit further into the future. The main takeaway from the interview: There is going to be stuff that&#8217;s just going to blow your mind. In 6 months. Before it was 18 months, now it&#8217;s 6 months. Clearly, he&#8217;s not talking about Froyo here, since we&#8217;ve already seen its capabilities. Given his other remarks in the interview &#8212; &#8220;I&#8217;m actually advocating coming out with releases around the buying seasons, May and September, October,&#8221; he said &#8212; it sounds like Gingerbread could represent the reference point there. A reference to Android 2.3 (if Gingerbread does end up at version 2.3) might cause some groans from the crowd. Another OS version in September or October? Won&#8217;t that cause more fragmentation? Rubin speaks to this in general terms during the interview, but he doesn&#8217;t reveal much. He did, however, speak to Michael Gartenberg, who writes the Entelligence column for Engadget . Gartenberg does an excellent job of explaining the positives and negatives associated with platform fragmentation, and how it&#8217;s not necessarily that different from other platforms. &#8220;So it&#8217;s just things are happening so quickly that it becomes really obvious that we went from 2.0 to 2.2 in a very short time frame,&#8221; said Rubin. &#8220;I think that will slow down a little bit.&#8221; One big takeaway from the interview is the revelation that Google doesn&#8217;t plan versions ahead of the next one. In other words, they&#8217;re not working on Hot Crossed Buns, or whatever the dessert they&#8217;ll choose for version 2.4. The focus is on Gingerbread, and once that&#8217;s ready for a release then they&#8217;ll start working on the next version. &#8220;It&#8217;s more run like an internet company would run it,&#8221; said Rubin, &#8220;so there&#8217;s a lot of iteration and what we are finding is innovation comes from all over the place.&#8221; He then mentions SImplify Media, which Google recently acquired. They&#8217;ll be powering the iTunes streaming service included with Froyo. If you&#8217;re frustrated about anything Android, from general fragmentation to the keyboard on your specific device, check out the interview with Rubin and Gartenberg&#8217;s column. Both, I think, offer insights into the present and future of the Android platform. Ready to have your mind blown? Post from: Google And Blog ]]></description>
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		<title>Google appears to have a winner with Google TV</title>
		<link>http://androidoperatingsystem.net/2010/05/20/google-appears-to-have-a-winner-with-google-tv/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2010 20:45:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gmodeoverseas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ This is only slightly Android related, but since it&#8217;s probably the biggest thing to come out of Google I/O, I think it&#8217;s worth a mention. The contraption is Google TV, and you can probably read about it in elaborate format at plenty of web destinations. If you want a visual look at it, head to Gizmodo , which has snapped tons of presentation photos. And, hidden among all the snapshots, is a YouTube video demoing the technology. Google will not be doing the hardware, of course. That will be left to the manufacturers. Sony plans to put it in its Blu-ray players, which is just genius. There will also be a number of companies which will manufacture set-top boxes. This is a step in the direction of linking everything in your home to a single network, and allowing you to enjoy it many forms. And hey, if Mark Cuban , the voice of &#8220;TV is TV and the web can&#8217;t top it&#8221;, can come away from this with few complaints, I think Google&#8217;s on to something here. Google appears to have a winner with Google TV Post from: Google And Blog ]]></description>
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		<title>How long does your Android battery last?</title>
		<link>http://androidoperatingsystem.net/2010/05/19/how-long-does-your-android-battery-last/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2010 20:22:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>surfcds</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ When I first started using Android, I had but one complaint. My battery life was woefully short. I watched about 20 minutes of streaming video per day, which I&#8217;m sure aided the battery drain, but that shouldn&#8217;t necessitate a mid-day charge. This caused some concern. How could I get the most out of my Android if I had to find an outlet to recharge it twice a day? As it turns out, the culprit was not the device itself, but rather software I had running. Twitdroid, to be specific, ran in the background and updated every five minutes. This caused considerably battery drain, and once I set the application to manual updates, my battery lasted for at least a day. Even when I streamed 30, 40 minutes of video I never had to plug in the Nexus One before bedtime. At Google Zeitgeist, Larry Page answered a battery drain question similarly . &#8220;If you are not getting a day, there is something wrong,&#8221; he said. It would appear he is correct. Again, even watching a decent amount of streaming video did not so substantially drain the battery that I had to charge more frequently than every 24 hours. So what kind of software causes drain? This type of battery drain isn&#8217;t simply limited to applications that update at certain intervals. I had a few other apps that used the 3G connection to automatically pull updates, but none of them caused drain like Twitdroid. I recently installed the official Twitter app, and while it did drain my battery a bit with frequent updates, it wasn&#8217;t quite as bad. This signals that the problem isn&#8217;t with a single type of application, but with specific applications. Does anyone know of applications that are notorious battery eaters? How long does your Android battery last? Post from: Google And Blog ]]></description>
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		<title>Verizon makes it easy to get an Incredible</title>
		<link>http://androidoperatingsystem.net/2010/05/17/verizon-makes-it-easy-to-get-an-incredible/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2010 19:47:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ With around 50 new Android handsets set for a 2010 release, users will have plenty of options for a new device. Choice, for the most part, represents a positive consumer development. In the mobile space, however, we see a bit of downside. This comes in the form of two-year contracts. Customers receive a discounted price on a handset, which can cost up to $500 otherwise, when they sign a two-year agreement. While this provides a cheaper handset, it also typically precludes a user from upgrading again for at least another 20 months. This two-year contract span can make it difficult to select a device. What if you choose wrong, and a better device comes out a year later? With so many Android handsets set to ship in 2010, that becomes an even bigger question. Surely we&#8217;ll see a ton of new, and better, models in 2011 as well. So do you buy now, or do you wait? If we see more promotions like the one Verizon will begin running later this week, the choice might become a bit easier. Click for larger This image, which comes from GizmoFusion , outlines the way you can not only get an early upgrade on a Verizon handset, but also wipe your contract slate clean. As long as you haven&#8217;t used a special promotion to upgrade within the last 12 months, you can select a new handset, get the two-year contract pricing, and walk away with a contract that extends only 24 months into the future. In other words, Verizon is willing to give you a discounted handset and essentially throw away your old contract. Seems like a good time to get an Incredible. Again, this acts as signing a new contract and removing your old one. Your New Every 2 clock and upgrade eligibility reset to the full 20 months, and your new contract end date is 24 months from the time of the agreement. It also means you cannot upgrade for another 12 months, even if Verizon runs this promotion again. The risk, of course, is that Verizon runs this at an earlier time next year, which would exclude anyone who took advantage of this promotion. Or they might not run it at all. But with so many high end handsets hitting the marketplace, Verizon does need to offer their customers an incentive to buy. Apparently they&#8217;re willing to go so far as to rip up your old contract and replace it with a new one. Verizon makes it easy to get an Incredible Post from: Google And Blog ]]></description>
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		<title>Verizon makes it easy to get an Incredible</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2010 19:47:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AndroidHD</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ With around 50 new Android handsets set for a 2010 release, users will have plenty of options for a new device. Choice, for the most part, represents a positive consumer development. In the mobile space, however, we see a bit of downside. This comes in the form of two-year contracts. Customers receive a discounted price on a handset, which can cost up to $500 otherwise, when they sign a two-year agreement. While this provides a cheaper handset, it also typically precludes a user from upgrading again for at least another 20 months. This two-year contract span can make it difficult to select a device. What if you choose wrong, and a better device comes out a year later? With so many Android handsets set to ship in 2010, that becomes an even bigger question. Surely we&#8217;ll see a ton of new, and better, models in 2011 as well. So do you buy now, or do you wait? If we see more promotions like the one Verizon will begin running later this week, the choice might become a bit easier. Click for larger This image, which comes from GizmoFusion , outlines the way you can not only get an early upgrade on a Verizon handset, but also wipe your contract slate clean. As long as you haven&#8217;t used a special promotion to upgrade within the last 12 months, you can select a new handset, get the two-year contract pricing, and walk away with a contract that extends only 24 months into the future. In other words, Verizon is willing to give you a discounted handset and essentially throw away your old contract. Seems like a good time to get an Incredible. Again, this acts as signing a new contract and removing your old one. Your New Every 2 clock and upgrade eligibility reset to the full 20 months, and your new contract end date is 24 months from the time of the agreement. It also means you cannot upgrade for another 12 months, even if Verizon runs this promotion again. The risk, of course, is that Verizon runs this at an earlier time next year, which would exclude anyone who took advantage of this promotion. Or they might not run it at all. But with so many high end handsets hitting the marketplace, Verizon does need to offer their customers an incentive to buy. Apparently they&#8217;re willing to go so far as to rip up your old contract and replace it with a new one. Verizon makes it easy to get an Incredible Post from: Google And Blog ]]></description>
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		<title>Google phasing out Nexus One web sales</title>
		<link>http://androidoperatingsystem.net/2010/05/14/google-phasing-out-nexus-one-web-sales/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2010 19:49:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FommyVideo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ When I had to choose my Android handset, the choice was clear. Nothing at the time topped the functionality of the Nexus One. It wasn&#8217;t a perfect handset, but after looking at all the others I couldn&#8217;t justify getting anything else. It miffed me a bit that I had to order it online rather than purchase it at a T-Mobile retail outlet, but whatever. Google provides free overnight shipping, so it was in my hands in no time. It looks like I would have been better off waiting. Not only has HTC announced two top-end devices (and has already released one), but now we learn that Google will eventually end online sales of the Nexus One. They want to get it into more retail stores, which is good. It will mean more people get to see it and play with it, which should increase sales. Many people won&#8217;t purchase an electronic gadget that they haven&#8217;t demo&#8217;d. That usually works, because most of the time you can go to a store and play with it before ordering online. Not so for the Nexus One. Google did make one important point in its farewell post. But, as with every innovation, some parts worked better than others. While the global adoption of the Android platform has exceeded our expectations, the web store has not. It’s remained a niche channel for early adopters , but it’s clear that many customers like a hands-on experience before buying a phone, and they also want a wide range of service plans to chose from. Emphasis mine. Now that Android has reached a higher rate of adoption, they don&#8217;t have as great a need for the Nexus One. It was a good idea, and for a few months filled a market need. Again, it was easily the best Android handset until the Incredible hit Verizon. But now that the major carriers are starting to get other high-end Android handsets, the need for the Nexus One has faded. Was it a failure in comparison to other high-end handsets? Yes. But it did succeed in its limited purpose. And who knows? Maybe, like a cult classic that fares poorly at the cinema but surges on DVD, the Nexus One will get another life in retail outlets. Google phasing out Nexus One web sales Post from: Google And Blog ]]></description>
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		<title>Google phasing out Nexus One web sales</title>
		<link>http://androidoperatingsystem.net/2010/05/14/google-phasing-out-nexus-one-web-sales/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2010 19:49:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ When I had to choose my Android handset, the choice was clear. Nothing at the time topped the functionality of the Nexus One. It wasn&#8217;t a perfect handset, but after looking at all the others I couldn&#8217;t justify getting anything else. It miffed me a bit that I had to order it online rather than purchase it at a T-Mobile retail outlet, but whatever. Google provides free overnight shipping, so it was in my hands in no time. It looks like I would have been better off waiting. Not only has HTC announced two top-end devices (and has already released one), but now we learn that Google will eventually end online sales of the Nexus One. They want to get it into more retail stores, which is good. It will mean more people get to see it and play with it, which should increase sales. Many people won&#8217;t purchase an electronic gadget that they haven&#8217;t demo&#8217;d. That usually works, because most of the time you can go to a store and play with it before ordering online. Not so for the Nexus One. Google did make one important point in its farewell post. But, as with every innovation, some parts worked better than others. While the global adoption of the Android platform has exceeded our expectations, the web store has not. It’s remained a niche channel for early adopters , but it’s clear that many customers like a hands-on experience before buying a phone, and they also want a wide range of service plans to chose from. Emphasis mine. Now that Android has reached a higher rate of adoption, they don&#8217;t have as great a need for the Nexus One. It was a good idea, and for a few months filled a market need. Again, it was easily the best Android handset until the Incredible hit Verizon. But now that the major carriers are starting to get other high-end Android handsets, the need for the Nexus One has faded. Was it a failure in comparison to other high-end handsets? Yes. But it did succeed in its limited purpose. And who knows? Maybe, like a cult classic that fares poorly at the cinema but surges on DVD, the Nexus One will get another life in retail outlets. Google phasing out Nexus One web sales Post from: Google And Blog ]]></description>
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		<title>Possibilities abound for Verizon Android tablet</title>
		<link>http://androidoperatingsystem.net/2010/05/12/possibilities-abound-for-verizon-android-tablet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2010 18:13:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Krishna</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Tablet devices and mobile broadband seem to go perfectly together. The always available connections work well with the ultra portable mini computers, allowing you to browse the web, download media, and communicate even when a WiFi connection isn&#8217;t available. We just saw the 3G iPad hit shelves, though there&#8217;s not a huge incentive to get one. You essentially have to pay Apple for the privilege of paying AT&#038;T for a broadband connection. Verizon, though, seems to get it. They&#8217;re in talks with Google to create a carrier-exclusive tablet device. While Verizon, the party that leaked the information, didn&#8217;t provide details regarding pricing schedules, but because the device will come from a carrier, chances are it will be a bit friendlier than the iPad. In fact, the carrier partnership might be the best thing for such a device. What I&#8217;d like to see is some kind of data pricing plan that integrates with a smartphone data plan. In other words, don&#8217;t separate the plans because there are separate devices. Instead, Verizon could allow current smartphone customers to select a reasonably priced add-on data plan for the tablet. If they have to pay twice for data, well, then the appeal of the device declines. Keeping the tablet data rates tied to smartphone data would make the device more appealing because customers wouldn&#8217;t feel they&#8217;re paying twice. I have full confidence that the tablet will provide an excellent experience. It&#8217;s the pricing that causes the most concern. If Verizon gets it right, this tablet project could take off. If not, well, you have to figure that some carrier will. It just makes too much sense. Possibilities abound for Verizon Android tablet Post from: Google And Blog ]]></description>
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		<title>Possibilities abound for Verizon Android tablet</title>
		<link>http://androidoperatingsystem.net/2010/05/12/possibilities-abound-for-verizon-android-tablet-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2010 18:13:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DarkarbiterFilms</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Tablet devices and mobile broadband seem to go perfectly together. The always available connections work well with the ultra portable mini computers, allowing you to browse the web, download media, and communicate even when a WiFi connection isn&#8217;t available. We just saw the 3G iPad hit shelves, though there&#8217;s not a huge incentive to get one. You essentially have to pay Apple for the privilege of paying AT&#038;T for a broadband connection. Verizon, though, seems to get it. They&#8217;re in talks with Google to create a carrier-exclusive tablet device. While Verizon, the party that leaked the information, didn&#8217;t provide details regarding pricing schedules, but because the device will come from a carrier, chances are it will be a bit friendlier than the iPad. In fact, the carrier partnership might be the best thing for such a device. What I&#8217;d like to see is some kind of data pricing plan that integrates with a smartphone data plan. In other words, don&#8217;t separate the plans because there are separate devices. Instead, Verizon could allow current smartphone customers to select a reasonably priced add-on data plan for the tablet. If they have to pay twice for data, well, then the appeal of the device declines. Keeping the tablet data rates tied to smartphone data would make the device more appealing because customers wouldn&#8217;t feel they&#8217;re paying twice. I have full confidence that the tablet will provide an excellent experience. It&#8217;s the pricing that causes the most concern. If Verizon gets it right, this tablet project could take off. If not, well, you have to figure that some carrier will. It just makes too much sense. Possibilities abound for Verizon Android tablet Post from: Google And Blog ]]></description>
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		<title>NY Times catches up, adds Android app</title>
		<link>http://androidoperatingsystem.net/2010/05/11/ny-times-catches-up-adds-android-app/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 May 2010 19:44:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DeStorm</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ One thing I&#8217;ve noticed in the month I&#8217;ve had my Nexus One &#8212; tons of web publishers have added Apps to the market. iApp Ventures has added a few news aggregators, and I&#8217;ve noticed a ton of web publisher apps from Notice Software . Today we see another publisher, this one a bit bigger, adding their app to the Android Market. That&#8217;s the New York Times, and their app is front and center. The app looks and functions just as I&#8217;d imagined it. By default the top stories get listed on the main screen, complete with snippet description. Pull down the top bar to change categories. They have pretty much every section of the newspaper here, which is quite nice. The articles are pretty much the unabridged version, same as the website, complete with pictures. This is great, at least for a reader like me who enjoys the experience the Nexus One and other touchscreen devices provide. I also enjoyed the ability to scroll left and right to read more articles, rather than navigating back to the main page. (One minor complaint: hyperlinks do not come through on the Android app. Oh well.) If you&#8217;re not the biggest fan of the mobile device reading experience, you can try to get more out of the NY Times app by adjusting the font. It looks good for me on Medium, but then I switched to Small and liked it even more. It has two larger settings as well, so it can fit the preferences of any reader. When you&#8217;re reading an article you can hit the menu button and share it through a number of channels. These include Gmail and messages, plus any social media apps you have installed. It integrates perfectly with the WordPress app, too. You can get the NY Times app for free in the market, or you can scan the QR code below. NY Times catches up, adds Android app Post from: Google And Blog ]]></description>
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		<title>Android helping fuel smartphone rally</title>
		<link>http://androidoperatingsystem.net/2010/05/10/android-helping-fuel-smartphone-rally/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2010 19:43:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Morrill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ It&#8217;s no secret that the Android OS is being included on an increasing number of handsets. It seems like nearly every manufacturer wants to try it out at least once, and a few of them, namely HTC and Motorola, have drank from that well multiple times. Via Boy Genius Report , we get a closer look at exactly how much these Android-toting companies have grown so far in 2010. Shipments are up big time overall, 56.7 percent year-over-year. That&#8217;s 54.7 million devices from January through March 2010. HTC, one of the manufacturers most commonly employing Android, grew 71 percent over the first quarter 2009. They could see even larger growth in the second quarter with the addition of the Droid Incredible, which has seen immense popularity in its limited time on shelves. We also have the EVO 4G to look forward to. Another multiple-Android manufacturer, Motorola, has shown impressive results so far. They increased shipments 91 percent. The original Droid remains popular on Verizon, and Motorola could introduce a few more Android handsets this year to help beef up its portfolio. It expects to ship 12-14 million Android handsets this year. Apple, of course, remains Android&#8217;s biggest competitor. Research In Motion actually saw a decline in BlackBerry shipments year-over-year, but it has also held back a number of its handsets for second- and third-quarter releases. Apple, however, increased its shipments 131 percent this year. That will certainly grow even more later in the year, when the company plans to introduce the iPhone 4G. It&#8217;s a great time to be a smartphone manufacturer, as Motorola, HTC, and Apple can tell you. That market has absolutely fueled wireless handset growth. The overall sector grew only 21.7 percent during the first quarter, so the 56.7 percent growth from smartphones represents a large portion of that. It makes me wonder how away we are from the majority of cell phone users owning smartphones. Android helping fuel smartphone rally Post from: Google And Blog ]]></description>
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		<title>Latitude as a foursquare replacement</title>
		<link>http://androidoperatingsystem.net/2010/05/07/latitude-as-a-foursquare-replacement/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 May 2010 19:25:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>effie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ I saw an interesting headline on Android Guys yesterday. &#8220;Will Google Latitude be a Foursquare Killer?&#8221; It&#8217;s an interesting question, because Latitude already has a huge user base, much bigger than foursquare&#8217;s. If they add a check-in service comparable to foursquare&#8217;s offering, they might be able to capture a decent portion of the market. In theory, at least. The problem is that Google has tried this before and failed. Buzz was supposed to capture the same audience as Twitter, but it has failed to do so yet. I know plenty of people who use Buzz, but none who use it like Twitter. Mostly, I see people who don&#8217;t use Google Reader picking up shares from people who do. Other than that, though, I don&#8217;t know many people who use Buzz, and I have a ton of people on my Gmail contacts list. Yes, adding a check-in service to Latitude could capture some of foursquare&#8217;s market, especially those who are already using Latitude. Yet I&#8217;m sure that most people who currently use Latitude are at least aware of foursquare. If they want such a service, they&#8217;re probably already using it. If they don&#8217;t want the service, I don&#8217;t think an offer from Google would get them to change their minds. Buzz never really compared to Twitter because Twitter already had a rabid user base. I think foursquare, while not nearly matching the passion of Twitter users, has a similar overview. The people who use foursquare love it. Why would they switch to Latitude? It would require a large group of people &#8212; an entire social circle &#8212; making the move. I just don&#8217;t see that happening. Latitude is still an excellent product, and there&#8217;s probably no harm in adding a check-in service. I just expect it to be more like Buzz and less like Twitter. Latitude as a foursquare replacement Post from: Google And Blog ]]></description>
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		<title>When 5 megapixels is better than 8 megapixels</title>
		<link>http://androidoperatingsystem.net/2010/05/05/when-5-megapixels-is-better-than-8-megapixels/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 May 2010 18:42:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AndroidFrance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ The Nexus One and the Droid Incredible, both HTC devices, seemed to have two major differences. First is the screen. As we learned last week, the Droid Incredible is using a newer screen that better supports multitouch functions. The other is the camera. The Nexus One clocks in at an impressive (for a phone) 5 megapixels. The Droid Incredible, though, takes things to respectable digital camera levels with an 8 megapixel camera. Yet, as Clark from Android and Me demonstrates , the number isn&#8217;t everything. As the icons in the bottom rights indicate, the top photo comes from the Droid Incredible, while the bottom comes from a Nexus One. Clark took pictures with both smartphones in a variety of settings, and for almost all of them the Nexus One took the better shot. Check them out for yourself. There is only one I&#8217;d put definitively in the Incredible&#8217;s corner. The rest, it appears, were snapped by the lesser camera. What&#8217;s the deal, then? Clark attributes it to the megapixel myth, which Ken Rockwell fully explains . The quick version: the common belief that more megapixels equals a better camera, which isn’t always the case. There are a wealth of other factors in play here, the lens, the flash, the CMOS sensor- all of which can contribute to better overall image quality. He does note, however, that the Incredible has a much more robust set of camera settings. That&#8217;s excellent for a heavy duty camera like the Incredible. But for most cell phone cameras it&#8217;s mostly superfluous. I use my Nexus camera mostly to snap pictures of things that immediately strike me. I don&#8217;t typically change the settings based on the environment. It&#8217;s good to know, though, that used properly the Nexus One can take pictures that stack up to technically superior cameras. When 5 megapixels is better than 8 megapixels Post from: Google And Blog ]]></description>
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