A major update to Google Maps has just hit the Android market. Version 5.0 of the Google digital map software brings in vector graphics, cool new 3D features and offline navigation.
So starting today instead of a series of small stitched together image tiles, Google Maps will be dynamically drawing vector graphics. This means that instead of pre-rendered images, Maps are rendered on the device itself, making scaling and transitions way smoother. Read more »
Today opera released the final version of their latest Opera 11 desktop web browser. Despite introducing lots of cool new features such as tab stacking, extensions and visual mouse gestures it took this version less than a month to graduate from beta.
The key feature brought by Opera 11 is tab stacking allowing better management of your open tabs. All you need to do is drag one tab on top of another to create a new stack. Read more »
Nokia is offering to help you throw an outrageous party – they’ll provide you with a $10,000 dollar budget and 21 Nokia C7 phones and you must provide enough votes from your friends to put you in the Top 5…
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 »
You know all those great services that Google gladly provides to all of us, internet users for free? Stuff like Gmail, Google Maps, Picasa, Latitude, etc. Well they wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for Google AdWords, which just turned 10. The Mountain View company’s flagship advertising product celebrated its birthday in style by dedicating an incredibly funny video to each of its clients (including a humble website not a million miles away from here).
Seven Styrofoam beer coolers stuffed with Google’s latest Nexus S and a wide-angle sport camera were lifted up at the amazing altitude of 32 000 meters attached to some huge weather balloons. All of the coolers returned successfully to Earth and were picked by the Google team, so don’t expect a Nexus S landing on your balcony any time soon.
The purpose of this was to test all the device sensors and its performance under different environments such as the freezing near-vacuum conditions on the edge of space. And also, I guess, create a nice viral ad for the Nexus S. 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 »
It’s been over a month since we met the pioneer of the Touch and Type series – the Nokia X3-02. Now it’s time for another really beautiful Touch and Type sibling – the Nokia C3-01.
It packs exactly the same features as the X3-02, but comes with the classic keypad and bets on completely metal body.
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.
LG LU3000 Optimus Mach has already leaked once, but it’s time for its official premiere. The Android Froyo –running handset will hit South Korea any moment, but it’s unclear whether it will reach the rest of the world.
YouTube is looking back at the most popular videos of this year. Parodies won out at the end but at the 10th spot is one of Ken Block’s ludicrous driving videos, which got our tech-geek hearts’ beating. Looking solely at the tech section, the Apple iPad was among the fastest rising search terms this year…
Twitter is where rumors are born and distributed lightning fast. The social network just published their 2010 top tweet subjects and the top tech topics of the year turned out to be the Apple iPad and Google’s Android OS.
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.
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