Nexus One OTA Update Brings Multi-Touch
A lot of folks went and grabbed the update online and installed manually. I am a patient boy. I wait, I wait, I wait, I wait. And when something does happen, I turn on my camera. So here’s a video of me hitting a button, waiting a long time, and then testing pinch-to-zoom in the stock browser, gallery, and in Google Maps version 3.4. I threw in a little music so the wait wouldn’t be too boring. The update brings a few other changes, like seeing Google Goggles in your All Apps Menu, Goggle night vision features, and favorite places from your desktop use of Maps in the app:
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Netflix app updated to support iPhone, iPod touch
August 26, 2010 - 14:28
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It’s taken a while but Netflix has finally updated their iOS app to universal binary — that’s right, it now supports not only iPad but iPhone and iPod touch as well.
“Apple has changed the game for mobile devices,” said Reed Hastings, Netflix co-founder and chief executive officer. “We’re excited that our members can [...]
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Google updates Finance web app, adds Google Voice calls to Gmail
August 25, 2010 - 19:35
Tags: Apple, gmail, google, google finance, Google Voice, ipad, iphone, ipod touch, News, Web Apps
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Google has a nifty update ready for users of their Finance web app, and while it won’t work on iOS (of course), we’re sure many in the US will appreciate the new Google Voice integration with Gmail as well. Here’s the low down on Google Finance Mobile:
We heard your feedback and are please [...]
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Motorola’s Android update plans
August 23, 2010 - 17:13
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Motorola has posted a detailed Android upgrade list over in their support forums that mostly confirms users’ suspicions, for better and for worse. What’s the worst news? CLIQ and CLIQ XT have been pushed from Q2 to Q3/early Q4… and Devour isn’t getting 2.1 at all.
DROID X is on track as planned for 2.2, and [...]
iDygest for iPhone – app review
August 23, 2010 - 14:58
Tags: App Reviews, app store, App Store Apps, Apple, apps, feeds, iDygest, iphone, News, rss, tipbvideo, video
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iDygest is just what it sounds like — an app that will congregate all feeds Apple into one sleek timeline for you to browse through. I know I have quite a few iRelated websites that I browse through everyday, I’ve even got an Apple group in Google Reader that syncs with my RSS app on [...]
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No Google Voice on iPhone: one year later
August 22, 2010 - 20:44
Tags: Apple, apple vs google, apps, Google Voice, iphone, iPhone Apps, iphone vs android, News, rejected apps
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Tech Crunch’s Jason Kinkaid reminds us that it’s been a year since Apple responded to the FCC about Google Voice’s rejection (or perpetual non-acceptance) from the iPhone App Store.
Apple denying the app to those who want it, especially when it allows similar apps such as Line2 into the App Store, means it’s almost certainly what [...]
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PEOPLE Magazine for iPad available, free for print subscribers
August 21, 2010 - 00:51
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PEOPLE magazine is now available for iPad. The application is free to download, but each issue is a $3.99 in-app purchase. However, if you are a subscriber to the print version of PEOPLE, you get the iPad version for free! Unfortunately, there is not a subscription model in place with the app. So subscribing to [...]
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Froyo running on the DROID X UPDATE
August 21, 2010 - 00:14
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If you own a DROID X and you have been dying to get your hands on 2.2 for the device, your time has finally come. Thanks to three forums members over at MyDroidWorld, a ROM has been leaked for the device, which is fairly simple to install. Of course, you need to be rooted AND [...]
LG, Verizon/Google, Palm preparing iPad competitors
August 20, 2010 - 20:59
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We’ve been asking where the iPad competition has been for a while now, and it seems like it’s slowly starting to pick up with LG, Palm, and Google/Verizon hitting the news this week.
We’ll take a look at a few of them, after the break.
Palm, recently acquired by HP, is full steam ahead on a webOS [...]
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Nexus One Dev Phone Out of Stock
August 20, 2010 - 20:15
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The Android Developers blog is saying that all you people who rushed to buy unlocked Nexus One dev handsets have tapped them out! Here is the quote from their blog: A couple of weeks ago, we arranged that registered developers could buy an unlocked Nexus One via their publisher page in Android Market. We think [...]
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audiogalaxy repurposed for dead simple streaming
August 20, 2010 - 00:20
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There are several options for streaming your desk/laptop music library over the Internet to your mobile Android. Gmote was one of my faves for a while there, not only because of its long list of features unrelated to music, but because it was friendly with Windows, Mac, and Linux, to varying degrees. However, as [...]