Sure, Ovi Maps is cool, free and with decent map coverage but it doesn’t cut it for everyone. Luckily, Sygic comes to the rescue providing a pretty decent alternative with its Mobile Maps 10 app.
With nicely drawn animated 3D maps, intuitive address search, fast route calculation, lane assistant, signpost information, and loads of POIs Sygic Mobile Maps is a pretty well featured SatNav app. Read more »
The Google dev team just announced an update to their Voice search application for Android. Available for devices running version 2.2 (Froyo) or later the new version introduces personalized voice recognition, which should rapidly improve the number of successfully recognized search queries. What that means is that Google will pre-record your own voice so the service gets better in recognizing your voice commands.
To activate personalized search for Google Voice you need to make the update and tick the check-box in the settings menu. Read more »
Remember the smart add-ons for Nokia 97 and N97 mini called Nokia Bots? They are useful apps for automatic managing of your sound profiles, alarms, battery and shortcuts. Nokia Beta Labs is now releasing the Bots for Symbian^3.
Yet another Symbian^1-running smartphone is paying us a short visit: the recently unveiled Nokia C5-03, which has just made it to the market. Let’s not make the little fella wait for us and start the unboxing. Oh, and we’ve got a short UI video demo for you too.
The Gmail web app for iOS and Android has been updated today. The latest version of the mobile Gmail is now available in 44 different languages.
iPhone users had to wait quite a long time, but now they can finally enjoy Google Latitude’s dedicated app on their handsets. So if you are into sharing your location with friends and family, click that App store icon of yours and start downloading.
The Android market has just received an update, introducing a new UI and a couple of new categories. The update is already gradually rolling out to devices running Android versions 1.6 or later.
The homescreen and categories screens have been updated with a new more appealing carousel view. The individual app screen has been modified as well and now features all the required information in one place, instead of the tabbed layout it previously employed. Read more »
It’s been quite busy over at Rovio recently. The company has scheduled a press event for later today and they’ll have quite a lot to show there. A new system for in-game purchases, an update for Angry birds for Android and a PC version of the popular game are all going to be showcased.
Now we don’t have a specific launch date for the PC-compatible Angry birds, but chances are it will happen pretty soon. As far as the Android update is concerned – it will allow you to purchase the game to get rid of those ads if you find them too bothering. Read more »
Probably very few people think of a smartphone as a musical instrument – but there’s no reason not to as the new Loop app by Nokia demonstrates. The app is free but it’s exclusive to the Nokia N8 and Nokia C7.
Loop is based around beats – there are 10 predefined beats and an option to make your own (for the more talented users). Then you record sound samples and before you know it, you’ve created a song… Read more »
Infinity Blade – an action RPG game with killer graphics developed specifically for iOS – is rolling out to iTunes stores (it just hit the US store, for instance) and I took it for a quick spin. It really delivers in the graphics department but you might want to play it on the iPad instead of an iPhone…
The Google dev team has just announced the availability of the new YouTube app for all Android devices running on Froyo and the Gingerbread-powered Nexus S. Packing a completely redesigned user interface YouTube 2.1 for Android aims to bring you the complete desktop experience without needing to use the browser.
The key new feature brought by the YouTube 2.1 app is the in-page playback, which allows you to read video descriptions, check-out related videos, rate and post comments, while the video is playing. Read more »
It was more than a year ago, since Google announced Chrome OS and presented its concept about the future of the netbooks. Following the Nexus S announcement on Monday, Google held another event yesterday – showcasing the latest in Chrome OS development.
Google is starting its Pilot program and its participants will receive the first Chrome-running netbook – Cr-48. It has no Fn keys, no Caps Lock, no optical drive and no spinning hard-drive either. But you get 12-inch netbook with Wi-Fi, 3G, an oversized touchpad and a webcam. The Chrome OS boots about 10 seconds on the Cr-48 and resumes from sleep state instantly.
Yesterday Google unveiled the Nexus S and somehow the showcase of the unannounced Motorola tablet remained out of the spotlight. Well, the mysterious tablet is running Android 3.0 Honeycomb, so there is no chance it could get away from our attention.
Samsung has released the latest bada OS SDK, version 1.2. It improves support for the Samsung S8530 Wave II and Samsung S5750 Wave 575 and adds several features to make it easier for developers to create better apps…
CyanogenMod 6.1 came out of beta and is now available as a stable release. One of the most popular custom firmwares for Android phones brings plenty of improvements and features that most droids lack by default…
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