Exclusive : The iPhone 4 Camera vs 10 Phones !

We told you last week that we will be posting the results of our iPhone 4 Camera Test.  We kept our promise and here are all the Camera samples  for your viewing pleasure. Here is a mashup of the daylight photos from the comparison. Read more for full size images and more samples.

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Android 2.2 Froyo FRF91 for Nexus One on OTA

I just received a notification on my Nexus one that a new system update was available.   The OTA (Over The Air) update was around 900 kb and the flashing process took about a minute.  You might receive this message if you are on Android 2.2 FroYo build FRF85B or a similar one for AT&T. Continue reading “Android 2.2 Froyo FRF91 for Nexus One on OTA”

Download FroYo Official Firmware Update for Nexus One !

We told you how to get the Android 2.2 firmware update on your Nexus One long ago . Now the final , official , bulletproof FroYo build has been released by Google into the wild and numerous users are reporting receiving the OTA upgrade. We did not receive any update over the air so we decided to take the manual route ! Continue reading “Download FroYo Official Firmware Update for Nexus One !”

2 Android phones activated every second, FroYo open-sourced !

Not one can deny that Android is turning out to be a major player in the Mobile market ! There are Android phones which are available from around Rs.10000 to up to Rs.30000 in India. Motorola and Verizon have announced the Droid X in USA today and Google has issued a statement about Android to coincide with the the launch !

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Skype to launch Android App with Video Calling this year ?

One of the apps missing from the Android Market is the official Skype app. This might change this year year when Skype launches an Android App to end users. And the best part of the news is that Skype for Android will come with Video Calling. SkatterTech had a chance to meet the Skype team and discuss regarding the same.

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Nexus One Flash 10.1 Beta beats FlashLite on Desire ?

The Folks at Engadget have posted a nice video comparison between the HTC Desire running Flash Lite and the Nexus One running Flash 10.1 Beta and it looks like the Nexus One with the latest FroYo upgrade has better overall Flash performance compared to the Desire.

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Download Android 2.2 FroYo for Nexus One Now – Tested and Working

UPDATE : Information in this post might be old .  Head over here for the latest update

Google is already rolling out the Android 2.2 update for the Nexus one and few users have manged to get an OTA (Over the Air) update.  Now the manual update is available from Google’s servers and we just installed it to show you the changes in this version. We are also sharing instructions about how to get the update working on your nexus one manually Continue reading “Download Android 2.2 FroYo for Nexus One Now – Tested and Working”

Vic Gundotra the man who can win Developers for Google Android

Vic Gundotra was 21 in 1991 according to this document from Stanford  University pictured below and was then Demoing some stuff to Microsoft’s then head of Sales , Steve Ballmer who is currently the CEO.He sparked Microsoft’s change from Win32 to the .NET programming model. In fact he spent 15 years at Microsoft since then. Vic quit Microsoft to join Google back in 2007 and spent 1 year in between due to Microsoft’s non-compete clause.

Now in 2010 , he’s on stage at Google I/O – the company’s largest annual developer conference to woo developers to build applications for the Android operating system. He’s currently VP of Engineering at Google responsible for developer evangelism

Vic did make the inaugural address on the first day of the event but it was pretty short yet he managed to poke fun at competitor Apple CEO’s Late night email about HTML5. On day 2 this man was on stage for nearly an hour and he did talk about Android and the latest version – Froyo and the upcoming changes to the  Android platform and boy-o-boy he made us laugh repeatedly by criticizing Apple, Phone and the latest iPad . It was pay back time for Google against Apple who has criticized Android over Porn Continue reading “Vic Gundotra the man who can win Developers for Google Android”

Android 2.2 Froyo announced

Google has just announced the next major update to it’s Android Operating System . You might have heard of the Froyo update for a past several days. The Android 2.2 codenamed Froyo was finally announced at Google IO conference in San Francisco and Google gave away an HTC EVO 4G for Free to all attendees. Coming back to the update, it looks cool and brings some nice changes like ability to turn your phone into a WiFi Hotspot. Google is claiming Performance improvements of 2-5 times over Android 2.1 ! You can also send links from PC to open on phone with the new Android market website ! One of the coolest things we saw was the possibility to stream DRM Free music from your PC to your Phone !

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Google Voice for Android updated. Gets improved inbox syncronization and more

At the Google I/O Conference, Google announced a new version of Google Voice for Android. Along with Support for Android 2.2, Google has improved the reliability of Inbox synchronization and fixed many reported bugs in the application. Continue reading “Google Voice for Android updated. Gets improved inbox syncronization and more”