To celebrate the 10 billionth app download from Android Market, Google is offering some premium Android apps for as little as 10p/10c (plus tax). These premium apps would usually cost substantially more but for a limited time period Android users can download them at a fraction of the cost.
Today is the first page in a new chapter of our mission to improve access to the cultural and educational treasures we know as books. Google eBooks will be available in the U.S. from a new Google eBookstore.
Today sees the announcement of the Sony Ericsson LiveView™ micro display, an accessory with remote control functionality. It will enable users to interact with any LiveView™ enabled Android™ application. As a developer, this enables you to create new eye-opening applications, and useful extensions of existing applications.
It’s coming! Android 3.0, codenamed Gingerbread, has joined its tasty friends Eclair and Froyo in the Google HQ. This probably signals the imminent arrival of the latest installment of the mobile OS, which is rumoured to have a larger emphasis on the user interface and ease-of-use. Not to say that it won’t bring some new software functionality though, it should also feature some cutting edge features as Google seeks to move ahead of RIM and Apple in the pack once again.
Mere months after the launch of Android 2.2, discussions about the impending release of Android 3.0, or “Gingerbread,” are gushing. Android 3.0 is rumored to be released sometime in the next few weeks, and will be a significant overhaul of Google’s market-dominatingsmartphone OS — and may be the first truly tablet-ready iteration of Android.
What to Expect
Phandroid broke the news about Android 3.0 (replete with the lamest, blurriest “leaked” photo I’ve ever seen). Here’s what they say will be included:
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Android releases have all been named after dessert type food, from Cupcake to FroYo (Frozen Yogurt). The up-coming 3.0 release is to be called Gingerbread. We already know that the release after GB is going to be called Honeycomb, but what will 4.0 be?
Ice Cream.
I guess the options are limited with the letter “I”. I’m hoping that the “J” release will be Jammie Dodger. With a limit edition release of the world’s favourite jam filled biscuits sporting an Android in the centre.
