Archive for December, 2009

What about this phone: Google Nexus One

by Clifford van Slimming on December 22, 2009 in Gadgets with No comments

Yeah well what about it, Google seems to have released the Nexus one too there own staff members as dog feeding. A lot of updates have been posted on other sites about this phone, but most of these post contains a boot screen of the phone. To my personal taste that’s not really something I want too see actually, don’t get me wrong the boot screen is pretty awesome but hell… when do you normally see that screen?

To sum it all up what do we got so far on information about this phone:

  • Its extremely thin
  • It looks better in real life than on photo
  • Its fast
  • Its 3g capable
  • It got a nice boot animation
  • It has a nice form factor
  • It has 5 panels
  • Battery capacity is 1400 mAh
  • Screen appears to be OLED
  • No dedicated camera key
  • Trackball can be used to focus camera
  • Micro-USB connector
  • Gold contacts on bottom edge (Possibly for a dock)

Some quotes on this phone:

“Low-light performance is decent, but the flash is weak”

“Super snappy!”

All seems pretty well, lets hope they release more official information about this phone in the near future.

Also many people where watching the website located at http://www.thenexusone.com this website posted content and videos about this phone, they did at a regular basis. But all there was too see was boot screen after boot screen nothing fancy or informative at all. I seemed all they did was drawing page views and revenue on advertisement. That site is out of the air for now, probably someone pulled the plug, could it be HTC? or Google?

Google rumor: buying Yelp for approx 500 Million

by Clifford van Slimming on December 22, 2009 in News with No comments

As we have noticed google want to buy Yelp, a big business directory with reviews and information about companies world wide. Techcrunch has reported a 80% chance of this buy. The information Yelp contains could greatly improve Google Maps and the information provided by this application. It would be great to see the restaurant on the map with some nice reviews about that particular restaurant.

We don’t have information about when this transaction is going to take place, but we will see soon enough. I’m very interesting how this will turn out.

Google labs introducing “Google Goggles”

by Clifford van Slimming on December 16, 2009 in Gadgets with No comments

Those people that work at google seems pretty inovative, they recently released a new application called “Google Goggles”. This application is inovative because it does not search by text but by image. You take a snapshot for example of the empire state building and it will search for any information about this building it can find. Take a shot at a product and it will tell you reviews or prices about that product.

The application is currently for download on the Android phone, I only got a HTC Hero 1.5 phone at hand at the moment so I could not test it out, the minimum requirements for this application are set at Android 1.6.

Opera Mobile release to OEM for Android phones

by Clifford van Slimming on December 11, 2009 in Gadgets, News with No comments

Yesterday Opera Software released its mobile browser to the OEM, and operator network. This is not the mini version of the opera browser but its the real thing.

Previously there where only two big solutions of mobile browsing on android phones. The default Android browser based on the web-kit engine and the Dolphin browser, there are more but they are not so feature rich.

There are many build in features in this new browser that the Android browser doesn’t have, for example the compression technology used in the Opera Browser seems to be awesome.

There is only one downside to this story, it seems that the application will be released through the operator, it won’t be available through download on the Android Market.

Bravo spotted on the leaked HTC Roadmap

by Clifford van Slimming on December 8, 2009 in Gadgets with No comments

A while ago a road map of HTC mobile phones leaked through the Internet. This road map showed a few phones, but one of them was particularly interesting, the HTC Bravo. Why this phone was so interesting you may ask? Well while we take a look at the specifications:

  • 3.7 inch WVGA AMOLED capacitive touchscreen
  • 1GHz Qualcomm QSD 8250 (Snapdragon) processor
  • 512MB ROM and 256MB RAM
  • 5,0 megapixel camera with autofocus, flashlight en 720p video
  • Wi-Fi b/g
  • aGPS
  • Optical trackball
  • 1400 mAh battery
  • 16GB microSD-card

You will notice that this phone has some great specifications to show. And we could probably receive this phone in the first weeks of January in the VS. But probably under the codename “HTC Passion”.

Funny too notice is that HTC isn’t really surprised about the leaked content:

We cannot comment on speculation or rumour, but we’re excited about our upcoming roadmap and urge you to watch this space.

So what to think of this leak? Is it intentional for some good publicity? Well that would be a good stunt! Way to go HTC!

Droidglobe is getting filled, help us out!

by Clifford van Slimming on December 4, 2009 in Website with No comments

A new blog has born, the blog about nerd related news like gadgets etc. We just started and we see the visits go up and up. That’s a good thing, we want to stay on top of the news, but that’s not all…

We know there are a lot of blogs about this item. The way we want to be different than others? Well we want too bring the news in a more personal way. Unleash some of your personal opinions about a topic. We don’t want to write an article about each and every new app. We want to post articles about items that really care. We hope we can write the articles in a relax way and is easy in reading. The post will be compact but informative, we are open for suggestions tho…

If you want to participate or think a post can be better or you got news for us then post a comment or e-mail us. I assure you we don’t bite! Thanks for visiting and hope you will come back and join us in the world called DroidGlobe.

They did it! Hero running on Android 2.1

by Clifford van Slimming on December 2, 2009 in News with No comments

The already famous developers “Drizzy”, “Eugene” and “Barakinflorida” at xda-developers and alldroid released a working version of the latest HTC Hero rom running on Android 2.1. This version contains alot of the new cool features of this android version. The ROM is still flacky at some points and some of the functionality is lost but its still a cool thing to have on your phone.

I’m now starting the update, lets pray for a non bricked phone at the end of the story!

Goto the following urls to get a glimpse on this version:

http://alldroid.org/viewtopic.php?f=130&t=539

http://forums.xda-developers.com

UPDATE:

I installed this version on my phone and must say it looks cool already, I was missing all my widgets from the home screen, but well its a not so official release. I went to test out the browser and must say it has increased in speed. The browser also got some nice animation at the url bar, and the pages starts in a total overview mode just like on the iphone. I also opened the new market place. Which looked alot nicer! Better categorized applications all completed with little thumbnail images of the application. Lets hope more developers pick up on this version and create a stable piece of software out of this release!