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MiX Mobile rides the Android wave

Jun 8th

Posted by shadow in Apps

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STELLENBOSCH, SOUTH AFRICA: Google’s foray into the mobile space has been nothing short of impressive. With a 97 percent increase in Android users from October 2009 to December 2009, Google’s Android operating system is rapidly becoming one of the favourite operating systems for smartphone users globally.

In February 2010, 60 000 Android handsets were shipped daily in North America alone.

MiX Telematics has added to the wave of applications becoming available for this open source platform with the latest edition of MiX Mobile for Android.

XDrive and Protector customers using phones with the Android operating system can now track their vehicles from the palm of their hands. Convenience and peace of mind is achieved by simply installing the MiX Mobile application onto any Android handset.

With MiX Mobile already available for most iPhone and BlackBerry handsets, this Google developed platform extends MiX Telematics’ mobile reach to even more of their customers. In addition, MiX Telematics’ mobile team is working on the next mobile platform, being Apple’s new iPad, making MiX Mobile easily accessible and compatible with most smartphones, tablet computers and their operating systems.

Android is a developer-friendly platform and Google has made it possible for developers around the globe to produce the best applications for their platform. In this spirit, MiX Telematics set out to challenge themselves to deliver a great application for all Android users.

Charles Tasker, MD, MiX Telematics (International), said: “Android is gaining ground on competitors in the smartphone market with a high adoption rate and MiX Mobile is pleased to have joined the Android community. We pride ourselves in delivering meaningful information to our clients and this is another way of ensuring they get the information they want when they want it, on the device they want to receive it on. Keeping track of your vehicle has never been this easy.”

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Verizon Nexus One may get Sense UI – Electronista (blog)

Mar 12th

Posted by shadow in nexus-one-

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Verizon Nexus One may get Sense UI
Electronista (blog)
Sense UI for 2.1 brings an all-at-once view of the home screen, new widgets and most notably multi-touch inputs, although a recent Nexus One update added …

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Motorola will launch 20 Android smartphone under.

Feb 9th

Posted by shadow in General

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The American brand Motorola wants to emerge ahead of the market for smartphones using the operating system from Google this year, according to Les Echos. And so, to revive.

According to business daily Les Echos, Motorola expects to launch this year, 20 smartphones running Android, the operating system for mobile phones from Google. The Chicago group account and make half its revenue from these new models. And it does nothing less than first place in the market as Android phones this year.
The goal for the brand of mobile phones, is to reduce costs in research and development using a single operating system. Android was chosen because it would be best suited for the use of a touch screen compared to Microsoft’s Windows Mobile. The fate of Motorola is now closely linked to the Californian. Moreover, this collaboration between the two groups should include the commercialization of Nexus, the first “Google Phone”.
Today, with a market share of only 3.7% of mobile market and a decline in turnover which lasts since 2006, Motorola seems to adopt the right strategy to recover, said the Echos, Neil Mawston, firm Strategy Analytics. In this sense, the brand is focused mainly on markets in North America and South and Chinese.
Even though sales of its phones have dried up from 22% in the fourth quarter of 2009 compared to 2008, Motorola has sold over the same period, 2 million smartphones, making its leaders hope the sale of 11 and 14 million phones using Android. But competition is fierce: the Taiwanese HTC and Acer and especially the Korean LG and Samsung also use the operating system from Google.

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HTC Hero in Europe to get Android 2.1

Jan 16th

Posted by shadow in HTC Hero

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There you go, the rumours have started. We knew that HTC was going to upgrade their wonderful Sense UI to work with Android 2.1, and now we’re starting to hear when those upgrades might start happening. According to this rumour, it might be as early as February for European HTC Hero owners. I really hope that those of us in Canada who have the Hero will be able to either use this upgrade or will get one specifically for us. In North America, Telus is the only cell phone provider to offer the original Hero Hardware.

Gotta say, I’ve been using the Hero for a few months now and I remain impressed. The Google integration is great, and the only real complaint I have with the software is that I can’t reply to the email account I received an email from in Gmail. With Android 1.5 we are limited to outgoing mail going out from the default account, which makes things very inconvenient when you have multiple email accounts coming to your Gmail inbox, as I do. If someone knows a work-around, let me know!

Otherwise it’s been great, and I imagine it will only be better once Android 2.1 is available.
[via Android Central]

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