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8 weird Android apps
So you told your boss that you bought your Android smartphone so that you could track your business calls, be more effective when traveling for your company, have easy access to Gmail and keep your organization’s Twitter feed current. But we know what’s really going on — you got that smartphone because it was cool [...]
How to find your lost Android Phone
If your Android Mobile Phone is Lost or Stolen than Wavesecure is for you. WaveSecure, currently free for Android phones, can lock it from further use, restore your contacts and call/SMS history, and even roughly locate and track its wayward use. WaveSecure runs on majormobile phone platforms including Symbian, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Google [...]
Speech-to-Speech translation in Android?
In Douglas Adams’s humorous sci-fi novel series Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy a special kind of fish is mentioned — the Babel Fish. When inserted into the ear, it translates any spoken language into whichever language the listener understands. It is a very nifty device, and now Google seeks to create something similar.
According to Times [...]
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Gmail on the Google Nexus One
Not only does the just-announced Nexus One have a beautiful display, snappy processor, and five megapixel camera complete with flash and geotagging, but you can also buy it online with or without a service plan. Plus, it runs Android 2.1, which adds a couple of new features to the native Gmail application:
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Beste Google Apps in 2009
Here’s a list of my favorite Google services that were launched or were significantly improved in 2009.
10. Google Public DNS – a DNS resolution system that doesn’t offer too many features, but it’s free and fast. Very fast.
9. Google Fast Flip – a service that lets you quickly browse news. It’s easy to use and [...]
See who is using a Android phone!
Gmail chat status (those green, orange, and red bubbles) indicates if your friends are online or not. But sometimes my buddies appear green when they’re not really “online online” — they just have chat open on their Android phones.
Turn on Green Robot, a new experiment in Gmail Labs, and you’ll see a robot icon next [...]
New features in Gmail for Iphone and Android
Back in April, we released a new version of Gmail for mobile, re-designed to be faster, more usable, and offer basic offline support on iPhone and Android devices. The improvements we made to its underlying architecture have made it possible for us to rapidly release new features and further improve performance since then.
Over the last [...]