Google launches Android OS 2.3 – on Samsung’s Nexus S

Google has launched its second Nexus phone, based upon Samsung’s highly successful “Galaxy S” range of smartphones, through which it has also brought Android OS 2.3 to the world – likely months before other Android phones will get it.
 

Motoblur blacklists blurriness from your social network status

Aiming to create a universal inbox experience for all your messages, be they textual, MMS, your Facebook inbox and other social networking sites, Motorola’s Motoblur experience wants to deliver the perfect, instant update, info-centric interface for your digital life from your Motorola Motoblur-enabled mobile phone.
 

Just in: Qik, ucanSteam live video with iPhone apps, don’t knock it!

The number of iPhone apps keeps on growing, and while they grow for the Android platform too, Justin-tv service is now available for the iPhone, joining Qik, uStream, Livestream, and Knocking Live video for true visual nirvana.
 

Google adds location-aware search for mobiles

U.S. iPhone and Android-based device users can access Google.com information tailored to their phones' reported locations.
 

Is Android stealing the iPhone buzz?

A recent survey of mobile phone users has shown a sharp increase in Android awareness.  This is expected to translate into market share; Apple, take note - the buzz you hear is not your latest ring-tone!
 

OMGoogle! Nexus One released, but is it the Nesux One instead?

The Nexus One has ceased being mere “dogfood” and has emerged at long last following a month of hype that never quite reached the iHeights that Google’s crunchiest of competitors managed to whip up, but after seeing the barely-better-than-iPhone specs, one can only ask “is that it?!”
 

Alex e-reader to feature Google Books

Spring Design announced an agreement with Google that will make the more than one million Google Books accesible via the dual-screen Alex e-reader.
 

Is Google’s Android OS for smartphones really that popular?

A new survey from ChangeWave Research suggests surging interest in smartphones powered by Google’s Android OS, but when you look at the survey results and when the survey was done, it seems clear that the Motorola Droid launch and rumours of the Nexus One has skewed the results far too much for this survey to be taken all that seriously. Read on…
 

Excitement or yawns as world prepares to ogle Google Phone?

There’s a huge amount of sound and fury over Google finally having the balls to release its own singularly branded phone, rather than hiding behind the skirts of its OEM partners, but ultimately, does it all signify nothing?
 

Sing it: Oh, the Google phone's a-comin' so they say...

Oh, the Google phone's a-comin' so they say, oh the Google phone's a-comin', yeah the Google phone's a-comin', oh the Google phone's a-comin' so they say.