The world is getting smaller with the advent of technology that allows us to connect to each other over long distances almost instantaneously. With Viber’s VoIP app, this is all the more true as it lets you call or text any one of your friends who also has the app installed.
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Real-Time Speech Translation with Google Translate for Android
Here’s another translation app for you guys, and this time it’s with a twist. Remember the iphone app Wordlens that does real-time translation of text? Well, Google has taken that a step further and has added a feature on Google Translate in translating speech in real-time. Check out the video demo here.
Android finally running on Apple iPhone 2G
Just a few weeks after independent market research companies concluded that Android has overtaken the iPhone as the Number One ranked platform in terms of online mobile traffic, industrious hackers came out with an announcement stating that the Android operating system has been successfully ported over to the iPhone 2G.
Google Android a Fragmented Platform – Solution Soon?
Google Android has been gaining massive traction in the open source handset world and has literally taken to smartphones like a storm. This year alone, HTC plans to release at least a dozen new Android devices, whereas the company was previously better known with their expensive Windows Mobile devices. HTC has probably become Google’s #1 […]
New Google Phone, Nexus One
The net has been abuzz lately ever since rumors that Google is actively participating in creating a phone running on their Android platform. Unlike Android-running phones from companies like HTC and Motorola, this phone will be designed directly by Google to be the true ‘Google Experience Phone’. With such a mighty promise, one is certainly […]
Install Android on your HTC Windows Mobile phones
Google, the land of milk and honey, have smashed open the smartphone market when they released their Android platform for free to developers and in one fell swoop, gave a huge stride forward for smartphones everywhere. Traditionally, the smartphone market relied on specific operating systems such as Nokia’s Symbian, Palm’s PalmOS and Apple with their […]
Google announces new Google Chrome OS
In an exciting but anticipated announcement, Google has recently unveiled their intention to create a new operating system based on the Google Chrome web browser which seeks to rethink the way an OS is supposed to work. Chrome Web Browser Chrome was a successful web browser that is written from scratch to have a focus […]
iPod Touch on Android?
I think it would be much easier if they marketed this as a cheaper iPod Touch running on Android. However, the unfortunately named GiiNii Movit does have some potential brewing underneath the funny name. First of all the specs… it packs a 4.3-inche touchscreen goodness and a resolution of 480×272, which is a tad smaller […]
Best new software of 2008!
With Christmas just over, there are few surprises left in store. Here is a list of some of the best new software that have launched this year: Firefox 3 This is without a doubt the best browser out there right now in terms of features and extensibility, although Opera comes a close second. There are […]
Samsung to launch new Google Phone in Q2 2009
We will be seeing a slew of new Google phones next year, that’s for sure, and Samsung seems to be throwing in the gauntlet and expects to have their own Google Phone out in the second quarter of 2009. The first Google Phone by HTC called the HTC G1 only had average performance in the […]