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Market is loaded with a lot of Android Phones. Some have cool touch screens, others have unique specifications and still some others boost best designs. However, one thing is common in them and that is the Google’s Android OS. Android is a software stack for mobile phones that comprise of an operating system, middleware and key applications. It is ranked as the best-selling Smartphone platform world-wide. Developers have a lot of opportunities to develop different apps and games because of its open source nature.
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6th of July 2011 Google launched Google Maps 5.7 for Androids and inserted Transit Navigation (Beta) from Bangkok to Baltimore and also added enhanced approach to directions, improved search results and photo viewer which will help the user during visit to unknown place within the city or across the world.
Transit Navigation (Beta)
Presently Google Maps Navigation (Beta) presents above 12 billion miles of GPS guided for driving and on foot directions in a year. With Transit Navigation, GPS is on hand for every turn and stop for local transit direction in above 400 cities all over the world. Transit Navigation employs GPS to find out the present spot beside the ways and aware the user when time to shift reaches. This is really useful when someone arrives at a city where he/she can’t spoke the local language and can’t read the sign boards and guiding maps.
Google is expected to release video calling feature via Gmail and Google talk for Gingerbread Android 2.3.4, very soon in upcoming month. It is speculated the decision is pending until the occasion of Google I/O conference. Google I/O is an annual conference organized by Google at San Francisco, California where developers meet to discuss the development of web, mobile and enterprise applications with Google and open source technologies like Android. Therefore Google is waiting till this conference to make the final announcement.
Android 3.0 Honeycomb
Tablet-centric OS is yet not ready for open-source arena, says Google
Google has made clear that Android 3.0 Honeycomb is yet not ready for an open-source arena, and therefore this tablet-centric Operating system will still be inaccessible for third party developers.
Android 3.0 Honeycomb has been used in the tablets PC’s like Motorola Xoom, but Android’s chief executive Andy Rubin says, “I don’t want developers using it on mobile phones and creating a really bad user experience.”
He adds, “Me and my team doesn’t even know whether it would work on mobile phones, and that making it open-source immediately runs the risk of tarnishing Android’s reputation.”
The highly awaited update for the android platform ‘the Android 2.2’ has got another new confirmation from Orange. The company has recently announced that it has opened up gates for the Android 2.2 update and all customers of HTC desire will get this update from now.
The announcement has been made by Conor Maples on Twitter and it states that “Orange HTC Desire users have been waiting an age for – the 2.2 Android update for the handset is rolling out now”.
