PayPal payment is coming soon to the Android Market
According TheStreet there is soon a PayPal agreement in the house between the Google and eBay. Thus we may soon see PayPal as another payment option at the Android Market.
Google is seeking better payment options to their (present and future) services that can complement their own Google Checkout payment service. PayPal, according to rumor, will make it easier to complete a transaction and get the price in his own country’s currency. PayPal as a payment option is welcomed by developers, as some have experienced problems with Google Checkout .
An example is touch type, which has developed the SwiftKey application . The first 4 days of SwiftKey’s introduction to Android Market, 40,000 orders were delivered, of which 2,000 were rejected because of errors Google Checkout.
Adobe AIR lands at the Market
The program can be found on the Market of and shows up on a search for “Adobe AIR” to all of you who have Android 2.2/Froyo installed. AIR stands for Adobe Integrated Runtime and does mean that developers can package for Flash applications to standalone those which, in turn, can be run outside a browser. The newfound support for Android means that developers can launch Flash applications on the Android Market, which by and large works and looks like independent Android applications.
Sneak Peek at Samsung Galaxy Tab
In this preview, you will see a short demonstration, with many angles of the device as well as exploring the interface and test driven a handful of popular Android games. A more complete workout, and more useful information, will appear in a full review later – that is, as soon as we put our hands on a copy.
Samsung Galaxy Tab is Samsung’s first Android-touchpad and has a 7-inch large LCD screen with a resolution of 1024×600 pixels. The hardware is beyond the screen and the camera is almost identical to the hardware of the Galaxy and S is thus based on decent components.
New information on the Notion Inc. Adam
Notion Ink has today updated its product blog with a post about the company’s upcoming Android Tablet “Adam” and says that in November, hopes to begin production. Work is being carried out to test the Tablet. It is based on Nvidia’s Tegra 2 platform and features a dual core ARM Cortex A9 processor, 1GB DDR 2 (667MHz) RAM, 3USB Ports , 3.2 MP camera, Bluetooth, 3G HSPA, 802.11 b / g / n, GPS, and will come with either an LCD / e-ink hybrid.
Sony Ericsson Symbian is shelved in favor of Android
This gives Sony Ericsson retort to Nokia’s upper (and outgoing) chief Anssi Vanjoki. He said the other day that the producers that use Android, behave like Finns who pisses in his pants to keep warm in winter.
Who is right, time will tell. The fact is that Symbian which mobile OS, is in freefall in terms of market share.
doing right now rumored to Sony Ericsson working on a PlayStation mobile phone which is equipped with Android 3.0, and 3.7-inch screen and 1 GHz processor.
Get notifications from your Android device to your PC, via Google Talk
TalkMyPhone is an application for Android that makes it possible to send notifications from your phone to your PC. This is the Google Talk and you have installed Google Talk client on your PC , then you’re already well on road.
To get your Android device to communicate with Google Talk, you must have installed the TalkMyPhone application. Once installed and you’ve entered your login information into Google Talk so begins the fun.
You can get notifications about:
- Incoming calls
- Incoming SMS
- SMS sent
- SMS delivered
- Battery Status
And it works the other way around.
From your Google Talk client, you can use the following features on your Android device.
- item back on a text
- Sending SMS to a contact
- Receive location where your Android device is
- Get your phone to ring
- Copy text to clipboard, paste links, etc.
And something extra clever, you can also use the full glory of your gra GMail account , via the chat function.
Official Video Demonstration of Samsung Galaxy
Samsung has made the following video demonstration of new Galaxy:
New HTC Sense may soon ported to older HTC Android devices
After HTC launched ‘s latest version of HTC Sense , there have been serious doubts about whether older HTC Android devices will benefit from the new HTC Sense.
But with xda-developers has been chosen to skip the doubt over and instead announced that they will soon be ready with a ported version of the HTC Sense 2.0 , which can be installed on older devices.
With the new version of HTC Sense you can enjoy the following new features and improvements:
- HTC Sense can run in landscape now
- The recent applications box is now part of the notification drop-down menu
- More camera options that make image manipulation easier
- Improved Youtube player
Read more at xda- developers.com
Sony Ericsson’s roadmap Xperia X10 family updates
A leaked page, with Sony Ericsson’s roadmap for future updates to Xperia X10 family , has been leaked.
Xperia X10
Xperia X10 will get:
- 720 video recording with the option of auto focus
- 5 home screens
- A new directory, with the ability to link to Twitter and Facebook.
- HTML5 support
Xperia X10 mini and mini pro ( and Xperia X8 ) comes the following new features:
- Ability to add multiple email accounts
- Amendment of navigation, the four corner buttons
- Bluetooth 2.1
- A new directory, with the ability to link to Twitter and Facebook.
Android 2.1, plan Sony Ericsson an Android 2.1x update that will improve the user interface in Xperia X10 family.
Xperia X10 means it:
- Improved Timescape interface
- Improved Media Landscape interface
- More languages
And Xperia X10 mini and mini pro ( and Xperia X8 ):
- Improved user interface of the four corner buttons
- More languages
The document is nothing mentioned about an Android 2.2 (Froyo) update.
Presentation of the latest version of HTC Sense
Now you can see the part of HTC’s press conference (held in London on September 15 2010), where the latest version of HTC Sense was presented.
official presentation video of HTC Desire HD
official presentation video of HTC Desire Z
