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.
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.
With the Galaxy S Pro, Samsung has what looks like a hot Android phone on its hands, if only the company can get people to pay attention to it.
Android Central's anonymous tipster dished the Galaxy S Pro's specs, and heaped on superlatives such as “gorgeous” and “fluid.” Indeed, the phone's hardware looks comparable to other modern Android devices, with a 1 GHz processor, 480-by-800 resolution Super AMOLED screen possibly 4 inches, a 5-megapixel camera with 720 video capture, a front-facing camera and 802.11 wireless b/g/n. There's even an additional SIM slot, suggesting that the Galaxy S Pro is ready for world travel.
Read on via Will Samsung’s Galaxy S Pro Android Phone Get Any Love? – PCWorld.
The highly anticipated HTC Incredible was well worth the wait. This miniature powerhouse not only looks prettier than a stack of Monets, but also smokes most smartphones when it comes to performance.
Weighing in at 4.6 ounces and spanning a mere 2.3 x 4.6 inches and .47-inches thick, the diminutive device feels sleek and almost toy-like in hand. The black body, festooned with stylish red flourishes, makes it hard to slap on a protective case. The sleek look is enhanced by the buttons, which are flush with the surface of the 3.7-inch, 480 x 800-pixel OLED touchscreen except the optical joystick.With a 1-GHz Snapdragon processor, the Incredible is so speedy, it makes the Flash look like a morbidly obese couch-jockey. An iPhone took about 16 seconds to fully load Wired.com; the speedy Incredible browser took a mere five seconds. And speaking of which, the Incredible supports the Flash Lite 4.0, so you won't see any of those annoying blue Lego icons that pop up when browsing on the iPhone.
Read more via HTC Droid Incredible Smartphone | Wired.com Product Reviews.
Google is almost ready to start selling its own tablet. The device, according to the New York Times, will be “an e-reader that would function like a computer.” So close is it that Eric Schmidt, CEO at Google, was describing it to friends at “a recent party in Los Angeles.”
The slate-like computer will run Android, and anonymous sources say that Google has already been working with publishers to put books and magazines on the device.
Read more via NYT: Google Android Tablet Imminent | Gadget Lab | Wired.com.
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.
