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honda hoe wrote:mitch wrote:Skype two-way video chat finally arrives on more Android handsets
An updated version of Skype just appeared on the Android Market sporting a crucial improvement: it now supports two-way video calling on a wide range of current Android handsets, rather than the meager four that had previously received preferential treatment. If you have a recent phone from HTC, Samsung or Sony Ericsson (excluding the Arc), then you're probably in luck. Oh, and LG Revolution (Verizon) and Acer A5 owners can get their vogue on too. Running Gingerbread is a must, though, because Froyo will only let you use your device's rear camera, which is obviously quite difficult to pose for.(These handsets already support video calling)
Samsung Google Nexus S
Sony Ericsson Xperia neo
Sony Ericsson Xperia pro
HTC Desire S
Video calling is now available on the following Android devices:
Samsung Galaxy S II
Samsung Galaxy S
Samsung Droid Charge - Verizon
Samsung Galaxy Tab
HTC Desire (2.2)
HTC Thunderbolt - Verizon
HTC Sensation
HTC Evo 4G
HTC Evo 3D
HTC Incredible S
HTC Desire HD
HTC Flyer
LG Revolution - Verizon (2.2)
Sony Ericsson Xperia PLAY
Sony Ericsson Xperia ray
Sony Ericsson Xperia mini pro
Acer A5
Engadget
no love for N1
Facebook introduces separate Messenger app for iPhone and Android
Facebook has branched out further into the increasingly crowded messaging space today with the announcement of a separate Facebook Messenger app. Available for iPhone and Android, the app lets you send messages directly to individual friends or groups, which they'll of course receive instantly (a la BBM, Huddle for Google+, and Apple's forthcoming iMessage). You're also able to share your location if you choose, and attach photos to your messages, but the app is otherwise streamlined and barebones -- which Facebook says is just the point. We're not seeing the app in either the Android Market or App Store just yet, but it's said to be rolling out today.
https://www.facebook.com/mobile/messenger
Android Market
mitch wrote:^yuh going back to iOS or what?
mitch wrote:cool. thought yuh give up on Android
mitch wrote:XDA has specific forums for each device. just look in the "Android Development" thread for all your ROM needs...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/index.php
Of all the bad news hitting Windows Phone 7 lately, today's news about Google buying Motorola may be the worst. It gives Google what may be the world's foremost manufacturer of Android devices, and makes it much less likely that Motorola will ever make Windows Phone 7 smartphones and tablets.
Google announced on its blog that it was buying Motorola Mobile. The price will be somewhere in the range of $12.5 billion, a premium of 63% compared to the closing price of Motorola Mobile on Friday, reports Computerworld.
The purchase hurts Microsoft in many ways. First is that it ensures Motorola will continue to focus its smartphone and tablet efforts primarily --- or possibly solely --- on Android. As CEO Larry Page wrote on the Google blog announcing the purchase:
In 2008, Motorola bet big on Android as the sole operating system across all of its smartphone devices. It was a smart bet and we're thrilled at the success they've achieved so far. We believe that their mobile business is on an upward trajectory and poised for explosive growth
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Motorola's total commitment to Android in mobile devices is one of many reasons that there is a natural fit between our two companies. Together, we will create amazing user experiences that supercharge the entire Android ecosystem for the benefit of consumers, partners and developers everywhere.
Recently Motorola Mobility CEO Sanjay said that Motorola was open to manufacturing Windows Phone 7 devices, even though, as the Google blog notes, up until now it only manufactured Android smartphones.
The chances of Motorola making Windows Phone 7 devices just plummeted, if not vanished. And even if Motorola ever did manufacture a Windows Phone 7 device, fearing an anti-trust look from the feds if it didn't, it wouldn't pour any significant resources into the device or marketing it.
Microsoft was looking to Motorola to help salvage Windows Phone 7, because the Nokia deal, by itself likely won't save Microsoft's struggling smartphone OS. Rumors had Microsoft looking to ink a Nokia-like deal with Motorola, or even buying the company.
Google, once again, beat Microsoft to the punch.
The purchase of Motorola may help Google's fight against Microsoft in one other way --- to fend off lawsuits Microsoft has launched to try and kill Android. As Page explained on the Google blog:
Our acquisition of Motorola will increase competition by strengthening Google's patent portfolio, which will enable us to better protect Android from anti-competitive threats from Microsoft, Apple and other companies.
There's one more way in which the Google-Motorola deal will hurt Windows Phone 7 --- combining Motorola's expertise in hardware design and manufacturing with Google's software skills makes it more likely that Android smartphone will become become even more powerful and better designed than today. The phones and tablets will become that much more difficult to compete against.
Up until today, Microsoft was facing an extremely difficult task in trying to revive the fading Windows Phone 7. Today that task became much, much harder
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