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Edwin: Android app you can talk to… and it will answer
Jul 27th
from mobiputing by Brad Linder
Edwin: Android app you can talk to… and it will answer: ”
Google Android has built-in speech recognition, which means you can translate speech to text in many apps. But Edwin is one of the few that will talk back. For instance, you can ask Edwin the time, and it will tell you. Ask it for tomorrow’s fo
recast and a computerized voice will read it to you. You can even ask it to translate words or sentences from one language to another or to define or spell words for you.
Edwin also works as an app launcher and controller for your phone’s hardware. For instance, you can tell it to put your phone in airplane mode or turn the Bluetooth on or off. Or you can tell it to open the camera application.
Like most speech recognition apps, Edwin isn’t perfect. Or maybe it’s just my voice that isn’t perfect. Sometimes it misunderstands commands, and while you’re supposed to be able to open applications by saying “launch X” or “open X,” I’ve found that it works a lot better with “open.” But overall, it’s a pretty nifty little application, and best of all it’s available as a free download.
After the break is a video showing how Edwin responds when I ask it for the time, temperature, nearest movie theater, and other information.
via Gizmodo
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Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini / Mini Pro review
Jul 9th
from Engadget by Richard Lai
Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini / Mini Pro review: ”
In a smartphone market saturated with 3.5-inch and larger displays, Sony Ericsson reckons there’s still a little place for petite packages. Enter the Xperia X10 Mini (E10i) and Mini Pro (U20i) — both direct descendants of the beastly X10 Android 1.6 handset. Apart from the Pro’s slide-out keyboard, removable battery, and positioning of various features, the two Minis are otherwise internally identical — same processor, same camera, and same screen. So can these cute baby form factors offer more than just some palm-cuddling time? Can we get a decent smartphone performance out of them? Follow us after the break to find out.
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Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini / Mini Pro review originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 08 Jul 2010 13:06:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Nexus One sees red, nearly doubles battery life? (video)
Jul 6th
from Engadget by Sean Hollister
Nexus One sees red, nearly doubles battery life? (video): ”
These five Nexus One smartphones may seem to have defects, but there’s actually nothing wrong with their AMOLED screens — the funky colors are an attempt to improve battery life by turning off unnecessary sub-pixel LEDs. Hooking up his handset to an industrial power meter, Android engineer Jeff Sharkey discovered a blood-red screen drew 42 percent less current than full color — the least of any combination by far — purportedly doubling the effective battery life of the phone. While you’re probably not going to be able to test the requisite software patch for yourself unless you’re mildly familiar with Google code, you’ll find a video of the crimson wonder after the break to fuel your dreams of a eyestrain-free astronomy cheat sheet… and Android bullfighting, of course.
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Nexus One sees red, nearly doubles battery life? (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 03 Jul 2010 20:08:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Download Google Chrome Mobile Phone Web Browser For Nokia Smartphone
Jul 4th
After the firefox now the fastest browser on Earth Google Chrome gets ported to Nokia N900. The Google Chrome aka Chromium is not officialy ported by Google. This version is based on Debian 32 bit release. It works great and the flash content works very well too. The porting is done by Jacekowski. The browser have some small bugs. Hope there will be a more stable version soon. Read after the break for install instructions and download link.
Why Chromium? Well, most websites are optimized for mobile phones, meaning to say you are likely served with a stripped down version of the actual layout. As for me, I prefer to read blogs in its actual layout. This is where Chromium comes in, it has the ability to display the entire webpage without modifying the codes.
Download and check out the ACID test results, and follow instalation instructions :
- This packages don’t work with app manager – you have to install them using dpkg in console
- Chromium should work with libxss from extras-devel repo or libxss from here
- Note: If you use extras-devel repo version you will have to use some –force when installing chromium )
Installing Through X-terminal in N900 :
- Download both files from the link above to root directory in Nokia N900 then
- Type root
- Type cd /home/user/MyDocs/ dpkg -i name-of-the-lib-file.deb
- dpkg -i name-of-the-chromefile.deb
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Motorola Droid X first (official) hands-on and unboxing! Update: video!
Jun 24th
by Paul Miller
Motorola Droid X first (official) hands-on and unboxing! Update: video!: ”
Yeah, we kind of already saw this phone, but if you don’t tell Motorola and Verizon, we won’t. We just got our hands on an official, final Droid X at the NY launch event, and it tastes just as sweet. Here are a few notes:
- It’s built of basically the same material as the Droid, but there’s something almost kind of ‘taut’ about the phone, where when you thwack it with a finger it resounds like a drum. The phone vibration seems to work on this same principle, giving it much less of the typical buzz (in the funky, cheap sense) you expect.
- There are three mics, and in video mode you can select between ’scenes’ based on which mic you want to use: outward facing for regular shoots, inward facing for narration. The third mic is up top for noise cancellation during calls.
- Yeah, there’s not kickstand, but the EVO 4G really does seem chunky up against the Droid X, and the camera bulge on the latter is not annoying at all.
- PHYSICAL BUTTONS.
- You get your choice between Swype and Motorola’s multitouch keyboard, which is really pretty great. We were typing at speed within a few seconds of using it.
- You can tell that the processor is fast, but the UI still has a jerky quality to it — it’s not totally fluid. We’d say that’s more of an Android thing, though.
- The new version of Motoblur is much, much more attractive than before — the widgets are sleeker, smaller, and less in your face. You can also resize them, and they rearrange themselves somewhat intelligently.
Update: Video after the break!
Gallery: Motorola Droid X unboxing
Gallery: Droid X vs. Evo 4G… fight!
Gallery: Droid X car dock hands-on
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HTC Hero gets Android 2.1 update across Europe (update: nope, not 2.1 yet)
Jun 16th
by Chris Ziegler
HTC Hero gets Android 2.1 update across Europe (update: nope, not 2.1 yet): ”
It’s been a long, painful, drawn-out process, but it looks like we’re finally closing in on getting everyone with an HTC Hero around the globe covered with Eclair. The company’s European outpost has just posted some details on its Android 2.1 over-the-air update for the 2100MHz 3G Hero sold in most of the continent (including separate builds for units in Nordic countries, Greece, and Ireland), so this should quite a lot of brewing discontent — just in time for owners to develop a raging case of Froyo envy, that is. C’est la vie; time for a Legend, right?
[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]
Update: We’ve heard from our friends at CoolSmartPhone that this is just another minor update, amazingly — not the 2.1 build that other Hero owners are enjoying. What gives, HTC?
Update 2: Gizmodo has an direct quote from HTC on the two-part (the first of which seems to have already begun), end of June release. See it after the break.
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HTC Hero gets Android 2.1 update across Europe (update: nope, not 2.1 yet) originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 15 Jun 2010 19:24:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Nexus One gets USB host driver from a dude with an oscilloscope (video)
Jun 4th
Nexus One gets USB host driver from a dude with an oscilloscope (video): ”
For Sven Killig, running Android 2.2 wasn’t enough. No sir, this dude wanted even more power for his Nexus One, so he went ahead and penned a few lines of code that have allowed his Googlephone to act as a USB host. As a result, he can now do cutting edge stuff like plugging in USB keyboards and webcams, as well as more useful things like watching movies off USB sticks or connecting to a monitor via a DisplayLink USB-to-DVI adapter. All these features are demonstrated in the video after the break, and you’ll find the downloadable binaries at the source — Sven expects them to work on Android 2.1 as well.
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Nexus One gets USB host driver from a dude with an oscilloscope (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 04 Jun 2010 04:49:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Xperia X10 Mini unboxed, dwarfed by its own peripherals (video)
May 24th
Sony Ericsson wasn’t kidding when they called this one the Xperia X10 Mini. We must admit, it’s a cute little guy — if you’d like to see for yourself, we have the company’s own unboxing video for you after the break. This is one of the very first consumer samples that’s become available, and there will be some differences between what you see here and whatever lands in the UK and US, for instance. While a USB cable, charger, and stereo headset will come standard depending on market and carrier, extras — including remote headset, powered stereo speakers, and additional back covers besides the standard black or white — will differ accordingly. What are you waiting for? Hop past the break to see for yourself.
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Xperia X10 Mini unboxed, dwarfed by its own peripherals (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 18 May 2010 14:23:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Nexus One runs Windows 3.11, possibly the saddest thing we’ve seen all day (video)
May 20th
In a volatile Android ecosystem where bigger and better phones pop up every week, your Nexus One might be feeling a little obsolete. Frankly, there’s hardly a better way to cheer it up than by installing an operating system that’s a little more its speed. In the finest DOSBox tradition, one gentleman recently imbued his Googlephone with Windows 3.11, by far our favorite 1993 Microsoft OS. Realizing the futility of getting it to do anything — ah, memories — he set about crafting a step-by-step guide for you to do the same. If you care to give his misery company, you’ll find instructions at our source link; if not, don your rose-tinted glasses and peep the video after the break.
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Nexus One runs Windows 3.11, possibly the saddest thing we’ve seen all day (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 17 May 2010 16:19:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Nexus One runs Windows 3.11, possibly the saddest thing we’ve seen all day (video)
May 20th
In a volatile Android ecosystem where bigger and better phones pop up every week, your Nexus One might be feeling a little obsolete. Frankly, there’s hardly a better way to cheer it up than by installing an operating system that’s a little more its speed. In the finest DOSBox tradition, one gentleman recently imbued his Googlephone with Windows 3.11, by far our favorite 1993 Microsoft OS. Realizing the futility of getting it to do anything — ah, memories — he set about crafting a step-by-step guide for you to do the same. If you care to give his misery company, you’ll find instructions at our source link; if not, don your rose-tinted glasses and peep the video after the break.
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Nexus One runs Windows 3.11, possibly the saddest thing we’ve seen all day (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 17 May 2010 16:19:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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