The GOOGLE | ANDROID Thread

[sharkman121]

$249?

[stev]

lol. not that i am bashing any iphone users, the iphone is a great phone. it was just too funny not to share. lol

[Trini Hookah]

yea waze is de next thing... not a good as google but next best thing

You all see roads and turn by turn direction? They put me somewhere in Russia one minute, then South America the next.

[sharkman121]

Sent from my blackberry iphone using Tapatalk for android

[Captainzaak]

Rooted my SII yesterday using SuperOneClick root application.

Worked great, however i gotta flash the zImage of my kernal to install custom ROMs.

Great tool to use however.

http://shortfuse.org

[sharkman121]

whats the android version of mobile me so you can track your phone if lost? think i saw a guy recover his phone using an app here sometime...too lazy to search.

[r3iXmann]

i use cerberus

[Lucian-2nr]

I use samsung dive..... tested it out.. works great.

[stev]

Search, plus Your World
Your photos, your friends, your stuff…

Search has always brought you information from across the web. Now, search gets better by including photos, posts, and more from you and your friends. When signed in with Google+, you’ll find personal results and profiles of people you know or follow. You can even expand your world by discovering people related to your search.

http://www.google.com/insidesearch/plus.html

anyone check this out yet? they launched today i think.

[achillies]

i use cerberus

I want to try this badly

[Strauss]

lol. not that i am bashing any iphone users, the iphone is a great phone. it was just too funny not to share. lol

haha...

Please allow me to retort

[sharkman121]

i use cerberus

I want to try this badly

Just signed up for it....which is better between this an Samsung dive?

[shaq090]

A new version of Google Maps has hit the Android Market today, which simultaneously brings fresher location tracking within Latitude and better battery life -- two welcome improvements that seem contrary to one another. There's also a couple goodies included for the transit-minded folks, as Navigation has been updated to better estimate location when GPS signal is lost, and the number of route options for public transit users has been increased from three to four. Sure, the changes are rather incremental, but who's honestly going to argue with greater battery life? Not us, that's for sure.

Hope they update the maps for trinidad

http://www.engadget.com/2012/01/11/goog ... tery-life/

[Cid]

lol. not that i am bashing any iphone users, the iphone is a great phone. it was just too funny not to share. lol

haha...

Please allow me to retort

[jeevdude199]

besides watsapp whats another "free messaging" app you all use? i gonna upgrade soon dont want to go blackberry jus for bbm....

[Trini Hookah]

Viber, Line, Ebuddy is a good multi-platform too.

And whatsapp is basically as good as it gets, IMHO.

[Strauss]

The defacto is really Whatsapp.
Otherwise all the popular IM clients are available for all platforms.

You have much more to gain when you lose BBM

[Soundwave]

I will try this whatsapp, got a free upgrade from a htc dream to a htc mytouch recently...

[Swisha]

Chirp! Here are your top 5 favorite devices for playing Angry Birds!

[metalgear2095]

besides watsapp whats another "free messaging" app you all use? i gonna upgrade soon dont want to go blackberry jus for bbm....

Touch is really nice looking and allows you to add people by email rather than number. Whatsapp probably is the most popular though.

[achillies]

Google revamps Hangouts interface, adds screen sharing feature


The search giant today introduced a couple enhancements to Hangouts, the group video chat feature of the Google+ social service. The new look of the Hangouts interface follows the design language used across Google’s many properties on the web. Thanks to the optimized layout, there is now more real estate for the actual live video feed, leading to a better and more immersive user experience.

Besides the revamped look, Hangouts now support screen sharing, which Google said, “Has graduated from Hangouts with Extras.” Hangouts screen sharing is designed to enable anyone to easily share what is on his or her computer screen with everyone in the hangout. Google noted that many other extras would soon graduate to Hangouts.

[achillies]

OnLive integrates with Google TV: App available now, full-gameplay coming soon



OnLive’s Founder and CEO Steve Perlman just announced on the official Google TV Blog that his cloud-gaming platform is launching on Google TV as an application.

The OnLive Viewer app is available now in limited form. It will let users watch other gamers play and engage in a few of OnLive’s social features.

“Cheer (click thumbs-up) if you like what you see,” wrote Perlman. “Try friending and striking up some chat. And, definitely watch some Brag Clip® videos, showing the best (and worst!) of OnLive gaming.”

OnLive is “working closely” with Google to enable full game play with worldwide gamers on Google TV, and more devices with OnLive already built-in will debut soon…

Vizio is at the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week to showcase the flagship line of Google TV products with OnLive playability preloaded.

“With this next generation of VIZIO Internet Apps Plus (V.I.A. Plus) devices, equipped with Google TV 2.0, you can simply power on your HDTV, pick up your Universal OnLive Wireless Controller and play amazing games instantly on demand—no console necessary,” Perlman explained in his announcing blogpost. “Play the first 30 minutes of almost any of OnLive’s 200 games free and buy only what you like, or subscribe to the OnLive PlayPack Bundle for unlimited access to over 140 games.”

Users can purchase a $49.99 OnLive Universal Controller to play, and the controller will work with the Apple iPad and all Android devices.

9to5google

[achillies]

This is pretty cool



And so is this idea

[jeevdude199]

considering the Motorola ATRIX 2..any tuner views on this phone?

[Swisha]

considering the Motorola ATRIX 2..any tuner views on this phone?

y r u considering this phone? plenty better options to choose from imo...

btw anyone knows if the bmobile Android plans are VAT inclusive. not seeing any indication on the website

http://www.bmobile.co.tt/plans/android-plans/

[pete]

The iPhone plans they specify they are vat exclusive. I would assume the same goes for the Android plans. So that 369/month is really 424

[Swisha]

hmmm thought so, damn. $369 is a more attractive price...

[jeevdude199]

ok so no to the motorola...i dont know wat to decide on....

[Lucian-2nr]

SII

[Swisha]

SII, Galaxy Nexus, Droid Razr

also, Mobile World Congress is jus over a month away and a lot of new Android 4.0 phones will be announced. possibly even the SIII...