March 4th, 2011
Mohammad Tanveer
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MIT Media Labs researchers are field-testing a smartphone application and $1 plastic lens attachment system called NETRA — Near-Eye Tool for Refractive Assessment — for eye exams.
NETRA is designed for doctors in developing countries that may not otherwise have access to expensive ophthalmological equipment for eye exams.
Using the application and cellphone lens attachment, patients can look into the lens to view parallel red and green lines. Fast Company explains that patients can then “use arrow keys on the phone to adjust those lines until they overlap. After just two minutes of testing, the app spits out an eyeglass prescription.”
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February 27th, 2011
Mohammad Tanveer
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While Apple may tout their iPhone and iPad sales, Android powered devices like the Samsung Galaxy Tab are quietly creeping into the market. CNET UK discovered a video that displays the number of Android powered devices activated in the past three years and have labeled it “jaw-dropping.” These Google powered devices may land in many more homes given the fact that the Google has added e-books to the Android Market web site.
Previously known as Google Editions, the books section of the Android Market site can be accessed through a tab on the homepage. Users are greeted with a large slide show splash that pitches new and noteworthy titles, top sellers, and book club picks. Those looking for a more specific title can choose from twenty different categories from food to politics. Pricing seems to be in the neighborhood of their e-book rivals; both Amazon and the Android Market site sell Stiegg Larsson’s “The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo” for $5.00. For the book loving cheapskate, there are also free e-books from authors like Edgar Allen Poe and Leo Tolstoy. According to reports, books may be added to your Google account and be read on multiple devices.
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February 27th, 2011
Mohammad Tanveer
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The Google Android 3.0 or Honeycomb made Android tablets at par with Apple’s iPad. The first Honeycomb tablet is the Mororola Xoom. Here are the features that make Honeycomb a contender in the mobile platform market.
Android Honeycomb improved web browsing. Its tabbed interface makes it easy for the user to switch windows. You don’t need to exit to another screen to select a thumbnail. Now you can scroll through the tabs with ease. Plus the menus for the browser are now found on top of the page.
Text editing is made easier with the Android Honeycomb. Now you can select a text by hold your finger over it and wait for the text-selection menu to pop up. Then you can drag and select the text, then pick the menu option that’s located at the top of the screen.
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February 27th, 2011
Mohammad Tanveer
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In the midst of their efforts to attain even more customers, William Hill decided to launch two brand new applications for Android phones, and betting software services can’t wait to try them out.
William Hill, England’s largest betting and gaming provider, and very well known among betting software services, is making an even larger expansion, as they launch a new Android application directed to mobile customers.
The new application is loaded with new features, as well as some very stunning graphics, and will be allowing users to access over 40,000 pre-match, speciality and in-play markets from William Hill Online.
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February 27th, 2011
Mohammad Tanveer
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HTC has shown for the first time their new Merge Android Smartphone which is set to be launched in Australia. It will be its first Android CDMA that will operate anywhere in the world that there is a 3G network.
The new Smartphone which has a 800MHz Qualcom processor, 2GB embedded memory and includes 8GB MicroSD card, stereo Bluetooth 2.1, 3.5mm audio jack, seven-panel home screen with widgets, digital compass, gravity sensor, proximity sensor and light sensor.
It also has comes w2ith a slide out QWERTY keyboard, 3.8-inch capacitive touchscreen and pinch-to-zoom capability. It has a 720p video camera, GPS, Wi-Fi 802.11b/g/n, 5-megapixel camera with flash and autofocus, Exchange ActiveSync, HTC’s Sense user interface, and HTC’s FriendStream social-media aggregation service, which delivers Facebook, Twitter and Flickr updates in a consolidated view.
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February 23rd, 2011
Mohammad Tanveer
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Samsung Electronics, a leading mobile phone provider, has expanded the range of its Android-powered Samsung Galaxy brand of smartphones with the launch of three new phones.
The Samsung Galaxy Ace, the Samsung Galaxy Gio and the Samsung Galaxy mini offer a take on the smartphone experience with expanding the Android-powered Samsung Galaxy smartphone line-up.
The Samsung Galaxy family shows that smartphones can cater to any number of lifestyles with enhanced multimedia and application capabilities as well as a social hub keeping users always in touch, a statement said.
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February 20th, 2011
Mohammad Tanveer
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After a less than perfect start to its Android efforts, Sony Ericsson has hit the ground running in the new year. The company already has introduced four new smartphones since January and CEO Bert Nordberg told CNET at Mobile World Congress that Sony Ericsson is aiming to be the No. 1 Android player in the world.
That’s a lofty goal for any company, but especially for Sony Ericsson. Can it really put the Xperia X10 and its software problems behind it and start anew? And, more importantly, what are the tools it needs to claim that top spot?
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February 20th, 2011
Mohammad Tanveer
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AOL-owned navigation solutions provider MapQuest is squaring off against Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) on the digital services giant’s own turf, introducing a free turn-by-turn directions application optimized for Android devices. MapQuest for Android boasts features including voice-guided navigation, voice search, a map toolbar promising one-click access to restaurants, coffee shops, gas stations and parking, walking and driving directions, and a live traffic flow/incidents feed updated every five minutes. The app also introduces OpenStreetMap data, enabling international usage as well as directly report errors onto the map.
MapQuest notes that roughly 8.6 million people access its mobile website each month, with 1.4 million of them on Android devices. Even so, MapQuest for Android faces a formidable challenge: Google’s own Google Maps solution ranks alongside Facebook and the Weather Channel as the most popular applications across rival smartphone platforms according to data published in mid-2010 by The Nielsen Company. Thirty-three percent of smartphone owners access Google Maps each month–it’s the most popular app among Android owners (used by 67 percent), second on BlackBerry (34 percent) and third on iPhone (47 percent, 1 percentage point behind Apple’s [NASDAQ:AAPL] iTunes). Only Facebook ranks higher–the mobile social networking service is used by 39 percent of smartphone owners each month.
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February 10th, 2011
Mohammad Tanveer
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Here’s a sneak peak at the brand new “Facebook” phone by INQ Mobile. Called the Cloud Touch, it features a 3.5 capacitive touchscreen and runs on Android 2.2 (Froyo). It has deep integration with Facebook and comes with a built-in Spotify music client.
February 10th, 2011
Mohammad Tanveer
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Mobile phone maker INQ has collaborated with Facebook on phones optimized for the social networking site, and the results are the Android-based INQ Cloud Touch and INQ Cloud Q.
The phones are built for people who use Facebook as their primary means of communication, according to INQ. The home screen comes with a feed for seeing friends’ updates, pictures, videos and web pages. There are also one-touch links to Facebook Chat, Friends, Messages, Wall and Notifications. Facebook Events, which allows users to let people in their community know about upcoming events, will pop up in the Google calendar on both phones, according to INQ.
Smartphones and social networking have had a mutually beneficial relationship. Today, there are more than 200 million active users accessing Facebook through their mobile devices, according to Facebook.
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