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Samsung GALAXY Nexus first smartphone with an HD super AMOLED display, measuring at 4.65 inches boasting the resolution of 720x1280. The display is slightly curved, just like the Nexus S is, and now features a super quick response time of just 0.01ms.

Galaxy Nexus runs at 4G (LTE or HSPA+) speeds so you can browse, watch movies, video chat & share without delay. With the 1.2 GHZ dual core processor you can quickly switch between apps and enjoy high-definition gaming and a lightning fast web browser.

Android 4.0, Ice Cream Sandwich brings an entirely new look and feel to Android. The lock screen, widgets, notifications, multi-tasking and everything in between has been rethought and refined to make Android simple, beautiful, and beyond smart.

    2G Network    GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
     CDMA 800 / 1900
3G Network     HSDPA & LTE
     CDMA2000 1xEV-DO
Announced    2011, October
Status    Coming soon
SIZE    Dimensions    135.5 x 67.9 x 8.9 mm
Weight    135 g
DISPLAY    Type    Capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors
Size    720 x 1280 pixels, 4.65 inches (~316 ppi pixel density)
     - Oleophobic surface
- Multi-touch input method
- Accelerometer sensor for UI auto-rotate
- Touch-sensitive controls
- Proximity sensor for auto turn-off
- Three-axis gyro sensor
SOUND    Alert types    Vibration; MP3, WAV ringtones
Loudspeaker    Yes
3.5mm jack    Yes
MEMORY    Phonebook    Practically unlimited entries and fields, Photocall
Call records    Practically unlimited
Card slot    No
DATA    GPRS    Yes
EDGE    Yes
3G    HSDPA, HSUPA, LTE, Rev. A
WLAN    Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, DLNA, Wi-Fi hotspot
Bluetooth    Yes, v3.0 with A2DP
Infrared port    No
USB    Yes, v2.0 microUSB
CAMERA    Primary    5 MP, 2592x1936 pixels, autofocus, LED flash
Features    Touch focus, geo-tagging, face detection
Video    Yes, 1080p@30fps
Secondary    Yes
FEATURES    OS    Android OS, v4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich)
CPU    Dual-core 1.2GHz Cortex-A9 CPU, TI OMAP 4460 chipset
Messaging    SMS(threaded view), MMS, Email, Push Mail, IM, RSS
Browser    HTML
Radio    Stereo FM radio with RDS
Games    Yes
Colors    Black
GPS    Yes, with A-GPS support
Java    Yes, via Java MIDP emulator
     - Digital compass
- Active noise cancellation with dedicated mic
- MP4/H.264/H.263 player
- MP3/WAV/eAAC+/AC3 player
- Organizer
- Image/video editor
- Document viewer/editor
- Google Search, Maps, Gmail,
YouTube, Calendar, Google Talk, Picasa integration
- Adobe Flash support
- Voice memo/dial/commands
- Predictive text input
BATTERY         Standard battery, Li-Ion 2050 mAh

KDDI Japan is going to launch a new Android powered Smartphone namely, KDDI Infobar A01 which runs on Android 2.3 Gingerbread operating system. It comes with fabulous features like 3.9-inch touchscreen display with resolution of 960 x 540 pixel, an 8 megapixel digital camera, a 1Seg TV tuner, GPS navigation etc. The upcoming smartphone of KDDI is equipped with WiFi and Bluetooth 3.0 connectivity options as well as supports Near Field Communication (NFC). For more information go through the below mentioned points.

KDDI Infobar A01 Android Smartphone Features

3.9-inch touchscreen display with resolution of 960 x 540 pixel
An 8 megapixel digital camera
Boasts a 1GHz Snapdragon processor
Runs on Android 2.3 Gingerbread OS
Supports up to 32GB micro SD memory card slot
Equipped with WiFi & Bluetooth connectivity options
Dual-mode GSM / CDMA connectivity
Supports Near Field Communication (NFC)
A colorful body & three buttons for the Menu
A 1Seg TV tuner
GPS navigation
The KDDI Infobar A01 Smartphone also sports dual-mode GSM / CDMA connectivity, a colorful body, three buttons for the Menu, a 1Seg TV tuner etc. The KDDI Infobar A01 Smartphone will be launched later this month in Japan.

SwiftKey brings the future of text entry to smartphones. It uses TouchType’s breakthrough Fluency™ technology to predict the next word you want to type, before you even press a key.

Fast
With SwiftKey, your next word is predicted with such incredible accuracy that a third of suggestions are right first time and usually you won’t need to press more than two letters.

Accurate
SwiftKey uses advanced error correction, meaning grammar and spelling errors are a thing of the past. Typing with SwiftKey produces text you can rely on, in a fraction of the time it takes on a regular QWERTY keyboard.

Intelligent
SwiftKey doesn’t just predict regular words – it learns as you type and remembers how you write. As words and sentences are chosen over time, its Fluency™ engine creates a dynamic understanding of your writing style to boost the accuracy, fluency and speed of prediction.

Sound good? Head over to our download section to try it out for yourself.

Features
Next-word prediction

SwiftKey offers intelligent next-word prediction by analysing the context of a user’s sentence and input behaviour. This is accomplished through TouchType's Fluency™ prediction engine, which employs statistical language models generated by analysing billions of words of background text.

In our tests, around a third of next words are correctly predicted without any characters being entered and roughly 80% are predicted within two or fewer character prompts.

The Sony Reader app for Android is now available in the Android Market as highlighted on the Reader Store.

The app comes pre-installed with three classics and three excerpts from bestsellers. Users will be able to create and edit highlights as well as bookmarks or even tweak the font size for easier reading. Additionally, the reading position, bookmarks and highlights may be synced to the Reader Daily Edition PRS-950 with firmware v2.0.

Allowing access to the Reader Store, this app is cited to be compatible with Android 2.2 and supports ePub as also PDF formatted eBooks. An iPhone version of the Reader is on its way to the App Store too, though ‘coming soon’ is all we’re getting out of Sony.

Android phone users now can enjoy mig33 in their phone. So far, migg33 used by almost 40 million people worldwide.

Although migg33 for Android still in Beta Version, in fact, mig33 offers various interesting features such as game, chatting and also entertainment service. Any Android mobile device can enjoy mig33 apps.

Through Android Device, mig33 lovers expected will growth quickly. mig33 apps for android available in Android Market and Android users can download for free without any charge

“Offering mig33 as Android will position the center of social and entertainment services market-leading virtual items for the next generation, both for the generation smartphones and handsets economical mass of the world’s top brands,” said Steven Goh, CEO and co-founder of mig33, the information received detikINET, Friday (12/10/2010).

Mig33′s Android operating system and its own, presented by Steven has considerable similarities closer. For that reason they want released as soon as possible applications for Google’s operating system is.

“Both are social, intelligent, mobile-centric and oriented to entertainment, they also can we value as a modern day, he added.

Through Android, lovers mig33 community is expected to increasingly larger. mig33 in India for example, the continent where the growth is expected to grow rapidly mig33 because of Google’s operating system is.

mig33 already available on Android Market and can be downloaded for free. Since the show, this application has been downloaded hundreds of times by all users of Android.

Google's Android mobile operating system has closed the gap on market leader Nokia's Symbian, just two years after its launch.

"There are over 300,000 Android phones activated each day," Andrew Rubin, the head of Google's Android business, said on Thursday in a tweet.

Android, which is offered free to cellphone vendors, still trailed Symbian globally in the September quarter by a wide margin, but it was ahead of Apple's iPhone system and that used by Research In Motion on its Blackberry devices.

Handset vendors such as HTC Corp , Motorola and Samsung Electronics sold a combined daily average of 218,000 Android phones in the July-September quarter.

Symbian sold roughly 325,000 smartphones a day in the same period, according to research firm Canalys, which said sales volume would likely rise in the fourth quarter.

"Nokia could continue to grow volumes now it has a new portfolio. It will be close either way," said Tim Shepherd, analyst at Canalys. The growing popularity of Android-operated phones comes as handsets look set to overtake computers as the most used products for browsing the Web.

Twitter blog elucidates that the company has upgraded its Twitter for Android. Packed with some fresh enhancements, the company claims that it will proffer a more steady experience.

Some of the additions include the Tweet details page which has been introduced by changing out the layout of the timeline. This functionality is already present in the iPhone, iPad and Windows Phone versions. It could be accessed by simply clicking on any tweet making it effortless to access links, retweet, reply to, or favorite a Tweet.

The app has been improved to function faster. A new way of drawing a timeline of Tweets has been added to augment the scrolling speed. Another functionality that was earlier present in the iPhone app has now been added which lets users pull down the timeline to load new Tweets. By swiping across a tweet, handset owners can access several options like the ability to view a user’s profile, reply or share a tweet.

In addition to the above the upgraded app will proffer hi-resolution avatar photos and quote a Tweet. On clicking the retweet icon, users will notice a new option to quote a Tweet. The latest upgrade can now be downloaded from the Android Market. It is compatible with Android 2.1 and higher.

Mozilla blog has now introduced their first Firefox 4 beta for mobile. It is now available for download and testing on Android and Maema powered devices. This beta loads up on several Firefox desktop features such as the Awesome Bar, Firefox Sync, and Add-ons.

The company focuses on augmenting its responsiveness and performance. Just like we had earlier reported two major architecture changes have been made namely, Electrolysis and Layers. However, the Alpha include Electrolysis while Layers was slated to arrive with the beta. As the beta enters it brings along the Layers pieces which enhance the overall performance as well as graphics in areas like zooming, scrolling, and animations.

Furthermore, it includes Firefox Sync, which proffers a smooth Web browsing experience between the handset and computer. By syncing the phone, users will not have to retype passwords or long URLs as bookmarks, tabs, passwords, the browsing history and form-fill data can be easily obtained. The Awesome Screen offers quick access to recent bookmarks, tabs and history by simply tapping on the Awesome Bar.

The beta even renders pinch-to-zoom functionality support for multitouch-capable handsets. With the beta, developers can make use of the latest web technologies such as HTML5, CSS and JavaScript to create fast, robust and attractive mobile apps and add-ons. The Firefox 4 Beta has been designed for the Android and Maema platforms.

According to the Official Google Blog, the company releases an updated version of the Car Home app which puts forth a convenient way to access vital information.

Car Home efficiently transforms the Android handset into an ideal travel buddy, thereby offering easy access to necessary functions like GPS navigation, voice-activated commands and contacts. Users can effortlessly customize the shortcuts to suit their requirements and access several apps and data on the handset. Besides, users can simply drag and drop or discard shortcuts by continuously pressing any of them.

Users can open the handy app directly from their handsets or by docking the phone in a car dock. In addition, users can immediately access Car home when the phone pairs with any Bluetooth device. Users will have to click on Setting from the Car Home screen and choose from any of the paired Bluetooth devices. The app is now available for Android 2.2.

Apart from all this, users can personalize the app by setting their most liked wallpapers. Moreover, users can change the hue of the shortcut icons. Android developers can cheer as they can now easily alter their apps to be compatible with Car Mode. Apps which lend support to Car Mode will be highlighted in a Car applications category, thereby enabling users to easily identify them.

Users can now purchase the app from the Android Market.

A new mobile game has made its way into the Android Market, namely Angry Birds, now available for download only as a Lite Beta version.
According to Rovio Mobile, the maker of the game, Angry Birds Lite for Android is now available for download from the Android Market for all those interested in giving the solution a try.

The game is available for free on the software portal, but users should not forget the fact that it is only a beta version for the time being.
However, as the company announced via a post on its blog, it shouldn't be too long before the final release of the mobile game is made available for download for all users out there.
“This week, we were planning to run a closed beta test of Angry Birds Lite for Android. Due to the massive response and demand from the Android community, we have decided to make Angry Birds Lite Beta available for everybody through the Android Market this Friday,” Rovio Mobile notes on the said blog post.
Those who will download and install the game on their Android devices should offer feed-back on the experience they receive from it.
Angry Birds Lite Beta comes with a “report a bug button in the main menu,” in case one discovers any issues with the application.
“We have tested the game on a number of Android devices, and we would love to hear your feedback on how the game is performing on your personal device,” the company says.

The beta version of the game is still undergoing some final testing before the official release is delivered to users.
“We want to ensure that we will publish the best game ever released on Android, and we hope that this beta version will prove to our Android fans that Angry Birds has been worth the wait,” the company concludes.
More info on the game ca be found in the two videos below, the second one being a hands-on from Android Central.

An updated version 1.1 of the Google Earth application now marks its presence. Previously the application rode users through the mountainous and hilly terrains and this update will enable them to swim through the oceans of the Earth.

As per the Google Mobile blog, users can now discover marine life and enjoy it right on their handsets. By zooming in below the ocean surface off the coast, users can visit beautiful landscapes and terrains underwater in Monterery Bay Canyon which is claimed to be huger than the Grand Canyon. After swimming into the water, divers can tilt the view by just tapping on the ‘look around’ icon and watch the inner surface of this undersea canyon.

Additionally, users can enjoy many photos and videos displayed by more than 100 contributors on the ‘Explore the Ocean’ layer. They can also read their experiences. On clicking the blue icons, travelers can plan their next holiday where as the gold icon exhibits content from the Mission Blue Hope Spot initiative.

Android 2.2 users can now enjoy video clips in the form of balloons if Flash player is installed in their devices. The navigation experience has been also enhanced with a simple use of two fingers will enable users to ‘look around’ and customize their viewpoint. This works as an alternative to the on-screen button and is simpler when tilting the view of mountainous landscapes or underwater canyons. By just twisting the fingers, users can rotate their devices in any direction to watch the underwater nature.

The Google Earth 1.1 version can now be downloaded from the Android Market for the devices running Android 2.1 and above.

Android 2.2 powered Droid 2 is gearing up for its much awaited release. However the OS is now said to have a strange defect, its kind of tone deaf. TechCrunch states that the Android 2.2 fails to offer pristine sound quality for streaming music services which was earlier possible in the 2.1 version.

Music from services like Pandora, MOG, TuneWiki, Slacker and Rhapsody sounds very muddy, tinny and is no longer pleasant. The music appears to sound like ‘a pair of tin cans’. Users can make out the lyrics and the notes but the quality seems to be awful.

A Google spokesperson informed TechCrunch that “We have fixed the bug, and are working with our partners to update the affected Android devices as quickly as possible.”

This defect was first noticed in the month of June when one Nexus user reported a problem in the sound quality after which several other Android 2.2 powered handset owners have complained. This appeared in the bug report on Google Code. Comments on the report stated that it was because Google shifted from OpenCore media framework to Stagefright.

Android 2.2’s underlying audio decoder renders support to HTTP progressive streaming. However, Stagefright is unable to handle the AAC+ and eAAC+ media codecs. These codecs are those on which some of the most popular services function.

Google has announced that the bug fix has been completed and plans to ship it as soon as possible. In this case the sooner the better, as a number of other devices featuring the OS are already in the process of being shipped and not many would want to pick them up unless the streaming audio quality is not fixed.

Korean phone maker giant, Samsung, has announced that it will  be launching the its Android 2.2 for its Galaxy S in September this year.

This announcement was made by the company, when a leaked version of the OS was available on the Internet, but Samsung did not use it, but rather awaited for the right time to provide the users the full version.

The exact date has not been announced by Samsung, but the month of September has been finalised. The new OS would help the Galaxy S use Adobe Flash and also help create Mobile Hotspots.

Samsung criticized those who have said that the sales of the Galaxy S is poor, but it has said that would soon be launching a successor to the Galaxy by any time next year, but for now, Galaxy S has a strong market world wide.

Nexus One users can now rejoice with this chunk of news. The phone gets updated with the Android 2.2 version code named as Froyo FRF85. With this amendment, users will enjoy over-the-air software updates on their devices. The updated software comes up with various applications and features which will enhance their mobile experience shares the official Nexus One blog.
Users can now cherish a handset with good communication and multimedia features. This update supports Adobe Flash within the browser offering an overwhelming speed. With the Android 2.2 version, users can experience some varied features like dedicated shortcuts, improved security, portable Wi-Fi hotspot and multiple keyboard languages.
Mobile enthusiasts can adopt the new camera and gallery features which might keep them glued to their mobile phones. Functions such as the new UI for controlling zoom, flash, white balance, geo-tagging, focus and exposure should further up the ante. With the use of LED flash, videos can be shot in night or in low light settings.
By the end of this week, users will receive a message on their phone’s notification bar for access to this update. They can download and install this version directly on their handsets for enjoying the new features.

Google has released a few exciting updates to its Maps service (Version 4.2) for Android. The highlighting updates are biking directions, sharing your location  and a new navigation icon on your home screen. This update is for Android 1.6 and up devices.

Biking Directions:

The bicycle icon in the new Google Maps, provides an optimized direction results specially for two-wheeled transport. Roads with bike lanes are highlighted in light green, while roads that lack dedicated bike lanes but are still bike-friendly are shown in dashed green. Bike-only trails are show in dark green. The new terrain layer indicates you about the upcoming huge hills so that you can decide whether to climb or not.

Location sharing:

You can now share your location or any other point on the map via e-mail, SMS,  Google Buzz, Facebook, or Twitter. Just take a snapshot of the your current location using the “My Location” blue dot or “Latitude”.

Navigation Shortcut:

Google has added an optional homescreen Navigation shortcut which when tapping gives you one-click access to speaking/typing directions, navigating to contacts, and a list of recent destinations.

The Google Maps version 4.2 is available now through the Android Market. It is available in all the countries and languages where Maps is currently available.

Android 2.1 devices got its official Twitter app today! Reading tweets is easy in a bunch of places on your phone. Quickly access your timeline with the home screen widget, view a tweet location on a map, and see your friend’s latest tweet in your phonebook, GoogleTalk list or any application that uses Android’s QuickContact bar. visit http://mobile.twitter.com/ on your phone to use Twitter)

A hacker who goes by the name of David Wang has just done something to prove that platforms of competing smartfone companies can indeed be compromised. 

David posted a video on the 'Linux on the iPhone' blog demonstrating how Google Android can be booted onto a first-generation iPhone. He suggested that Android could be ported to all versions of Apple’s smartphones, a move that seemed greeted positively by many of the blog’s supporters.

In his blog, David also said, "At some point this summer, Apple will release the iPhone OS 4, which will include features such as multitasking and an 'iAd' mobile applicationadvertising platform. Lack of multitasking has been one of the traditional complaints lodged against the iPhone, and used as a selling point for smartphones running the multitasking-capable Google Android."