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Google’s Android: An iPhone killer

The latest prototype of the Google’s android is far improved from all the earlier versions. Based on a 528MHz Qualcomm processor, the smartphone uses a Synaptics capacitive touchscreen and the UMTS cellular standard. The prototype has 128MB of RAM and 256MB of flash. The platform is designed to be very generic, it is supposed to work with touchscreen devices, D-pad devices, trackball devices and other devices that might not even have a screen.

The device has a desktop-like launcher of applications where you can put aliases and icons on the desktop and get a spatial-representation of workflow. Much of the Graphical User Interface (GUI) can be interacted with. Pulling down the title bar, for instance, reveals missed calls and new messages, all using the familiar palette of swipes and taps. Also, there is a straightforward way to create shortcuts on the home screen; it’s just a matter of holding down your finger and then following the contextual menus.

The compass and accelerometer based Street View is also a newly added application. The Street View gets the Android treatment with a built-in compass that lets you pan around the location-based image, turning the handset into something of an augmented reality device.

The unlock mechanism is very different. It has a clever pattern-based unlock screen that allows the device learn the user’s gesture to unlock it for security and sleep purposes. Users can customize how they want to unlock their android.

The Android experience matches that of the desktop for Google Maps. All of the usual mapping options are present—satellite views, traffic, etc. and, with a 3G network these load and update quickly. All time favorite games like pacman are available on android. Google recently announced six new games to help you make it through any boring day. These games include Wi-Fi Army, SpaceBugs, Parallel Kingdom, and Monolith Android. They’re still pretty early in development, but by the time Android is released to the world, I’m sure they will be all polished up.

The Google’s android may be available this fall so those who are going to buy the new release of the iPhone, may wish to wait for this innovation.

[Thanks: http://technews.iit.edu]

T-mobile iPhone sales better than expected.

T-mobile CEO Hamid Akhavan in an interview to a German weekly magazine Focus told that the iPhone sales figures are better than expected. Despite some delivery problems ensuing from launching the iconic iPhone in 22 countries at ones T-mobile has managed to sell more than 120,000 3G iPhones (75000 in Germany alone) since 11 July 2008. Mr. Akhavan said: “Our (sales) expectations were surpassed,”.

The backlog of orders was said to be cleared by the end of the month. But, apart from the delay in delivery the customers were also complaining about dropped calls and problems with internet speed. The problems with the internet connection were allegedly solved by the last software update. According to Mr. Akhavan T-mobile has not received any complaints from German and Austrian customers.

Thanks to: www.reuters.com