Today, Yahoo! debuted Yahoo! Mail and Yahoo! Messenger apps for Android, a Yahoo! Search Widget for Android, and launched an amazing new HTML5 mobile mail and News experience for iPhone and iPod touch. These exciting launches represent our continued efforts to develop sophisticated mobile experiences for leading platforms, reaching a broad audience of highly engaged mobile users. We’re keeping consumers connected to the people and things that matter to them most – wherever and whenever they want.
Yahoo! provides a seamless, integrated experience across all screens; from PC to mobile phones, tablets, TV, and beyond. These latest apps are optimized for three hero Android devices–Motorola Droid, HTC Incredible, and Google Nexus One–and are available for download globally, via the Android Market for Android OS 2.0 and above.
Amazon Kindle for Android finally brings hundreds of thousands of books to the fastest growing smartphone platform.
Today, Amazon released its highly anticipated Kindle e-book reader software for Android devices, which gives Google’s smartphone and MID operating system immediate legitimacy as an e-Reading platform.
But how well does the software stack up to the iPhone/iPad version? Surprisingly, quite well.
Read on via Amazon Kindle for Android: Let the e-Reader Content Wars Begin | ZDNet.
Google’s (GOOG) Android mobile-operating system is winning over an important group of allies in its fledgling rivalry with Apple: application developers.
More than half the 2,733 developers surveyed by Appcelerator, a mobile-software tools provider, see Android as having the greatest long-term potential among operating systems. About 40 percent of respondents said Apple’s (AAPL) iOS would have the best long-term outlook, according to the survey released today.
Read on via Google’s Android Gains on Apple iOS – BusinessWeek.
There’s a reason I commute in tennis shoes–the days I literally make a mad dash for the soon-to-be departing train or bus.
Sure, there are localized apps for getting schedules, but it’s also convenient that public transportation scheduling is one of a handful of enhanced features in Google Maps for Android version 4.3, new on Tuesday.
Read on via Triple update for Google Maps for Android | Android Atlas – CNET Blogs.
Adobe has put the finishing touches on Flash Player 10.1 for Mobile, a new version specially designed for advanced smartphones. FP 10.1 emphasizes power and CPU usage, making it fit more comfortably on a handheld. Major smartphone platforms, manufacturers and media content providers have thrown in their support for the new Flash version, though Android 2.2 tops the list.
Read on via Technology News: Software: Android Becomes Flash Mobile’s First BFF.
Google Earth on Android looks to be a killer application. Too bad you need the newer devices to run it. Time for an upgrade maybe?
The latest user of the open source ANDROID after HTC – Motorola looks to unveil its latest smartphone “devour” later this quarter – speculated to be announced sometime late February – March this year. It makes use of the ANDROID operating system.
Motorola has added its latest feature – the MOTOBLUR in this smart phone. It will be the second smart phone from Motorola to feature this addition. Motoblur is a widget based system that combines various social networking websites – facebook, orkut, myspace and twitter providing an integrated interface for users. This means that users could make use of MOTOBLUR to log in to all their portals simultaneously alleviating the need to log in to these websites separately. One however needs to create an account with MOTOROLA to make use of this feature.
Read on via Motorola Devour – A Smartphone Based on The ANDROID Framework | Top Tech Reviews.
Cellphone streaming represents the ultimate combination of convenience for consumers and business model flexibility for online music companies, but there’s one big problem: data connections, in the U.S. anyway, aren’t up to the task of streaming hours of high-quality music in a row without dropouts. And as more people begin streaming media to smartphones, the problem will only get worse.
The solution — pioneered by Slacker on its own hardware, embraced by Spotify, and promised by Rhapsody — is to cache music on the phone so that you can still listen to your collection even without a fast data connection.
Read on via Slacker Adds Automatic Music Caching to Android, Blackberry | Epicenter | Wired.com.
SAN FRANCISCO Dow Jones–Apple Inc.’s AAPL recent decision to more tightly control programs sold through its popular App Store may push developers towards archrival Google Inc. GOOG, a move that could give the Internet giant momentum as it stakes its place in the smartphone market.Last week, Apple started removing sexually suggestive and risque programs, even though it had previously approved them. Since Thursday, roughly 6,000 apps, about 3%, have been deleted from the App Store, according to the App Shopper Web site, which tracks the online store’s sales.Apple’s decision has roiled the broader community of app writers, who are concerned the consumer electronics giant’s abrupt policy changes could jeopardize their revenue. Some are now considering whether to diversify their businesses by writing apps for Android, a Google-developed mobile phone operating system that is catching on.
Read on via 2nd UPDATE: Apple’s Ban On Risque Apps Helping Google – WSJ.com.
Since 2005, millions of people have relied on Google Maps for mobile to get directions on the go. However, there’s always been one problem: Once you’re behind the wheel, a list of driving directions just isn’t that easy to use. It doesn’t tell you when your turn is coming up. And if you miss a turn? Forget it, you’re on your own.
Today we’re excited to announce the next step for Google Maps for mobile: Google Maps Navigation Beta for Android 2.0 devices.
This new feature comes with everything you’d expect to find in a GPS navigation system, like 3D views, turn-by-turn voice guidance and automatic rerouting. But unlike most navigation systems, Google Maps Navigation was built from the ground up to take advantage of your phone’s Internet connection.
Read the entire news post via Official Google Blog: Announcing Google Maps Navigation for Android 2.0.
