C’est officiel, le GPS social et gratuit Waze débarque enfin en France. Disponible à la fois sur l’iPhone, Android, Windows Mobile et Symbian, ce chouette outil vous permettra de trouver facilement votre route et d’accéder à une tonne d’informations sur vos itinéraires préférés. Oui et le plus beau, dans l’histoire, c’est que tout le contenu accessible provient des utilisateurs...

Haleron's Swordfish Mini smartbook has been featured in this short video which shows off what you can view through its 7" display that runs off Windows CE. While this isn't as great as a netobok, it does have enough muscle to do what Windows CE can, including running Microsoft’s mobile office suite with aplomb alongside the latest mobile version of Internet Explorer and Windows Media Player without missing a beat. Since Flash Lite is supported in Windows CE, this means YouTube videos are ready to play on the Swordfish Mini without requiring any updates or software upgrades. No biggie, considering Adobe Flash Player 10.1 for Android, webOS, and other platforms ought to hit the market any day now. Interested? Haleron is selling the Swordfish Mini anywhere from $139 to $199, depending on the quantity you purchase.

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Aunque la mayoría de las veces el análisis del Nexus One se realiza en comparación con el iPhone, quizás merezca la pena ampliar un poco el escenario de la competencia y empezar a pensar en Android para el usuario profesional que hoy día elige Blackberry. Vayamos por partes, llevo un par de semanas probando el Nexus One de Google y, en mi opinión, estamos ante el mejor Android del mercado y también como el terminal que mejor ejemplifica la competencia por construir un iPhone con esteroides. Este teléfono lo es: mueve el sistema con una fluidez estupenda, está dotado con una pantalla de precisión notable (aunque todavía mejorable) y en términos de usabilidad viene acompañado de algunas funcionalidades muy bien resueltas, como la gestión de notificaciones.

Una visión más a fondo podemos encontrarla en el análisis de Susana en Xataka Móvil, a mi me ha interesado más el aspecto "integrador del universo Google" del terminal. Aunque Android por especificaciones buscó desde el primer momento el mercado de consumo - priozando la pantalla táctil y el navegador web frente a temas como el soporte de Exchange - Nexus One es un ejemplo de cómo Google puede entender el teléfono móvil como un "caballo de troya" en el mercado corporativo, con vistas a conseguir que su línea de negocio de aplicaciones sea empujada desde ahí. Si unimos el éxito fulgurante de RIM y sus Blackberrys en los últimos años, con la cada vez mayor demanda de aspectos del mercado de consumo en el corporativo (algo que desde RIM han cuidado a su ritmo, incluyendo desde cámara hasta reproductor de música o el recién anunciado nuevo navegador web) y sin olvidarnos que los terminales que mueven Android son de precio medio / alto, tenemos que el mercado inmediato tras empezar a disputar al de "usuarios geeks avanzados" debería ser el de profesionales.

El mercado corporativo no es plaza fácil, los departamentos de TI no suelen estar "locos por administrar lo último", más bien al contrario. Además propuestas como Nexus One se quedan cortas, se echa en falta lo que para mí configuraría una de las propuestas más atractivas del mercado a día de hoy: un Android con teclado físico. Hay uno en el mercado - Milestone de Motorola - que va a ser el próximo en pasar por mis manos, a primera vista el teclado no está todo lo bien resuelto que me gustaría.

HTC has already started shipping the Nexus One to Verizon, Taiwan's Economic Daily News paper wrote on Monday. The deliveries of the CDMA version would be timed for Google and Verizon to start selling the Android "superphone" either later this month or in early April. The timing would line up with rumors of a March 23rd release at this year's spring CTIA....

As Apple goes on the offensive against Android, it risks alienating more and more developers. Today, another prominent developer is chose the opposing side. Tim Bray, the well-known software architect and blogger, is joining Google to help rally even more developers around the Android mobile operating system.

Bray is the co-inventor of the XML Web standard, and most recently worked at Sun Microsystems. In a blog post, he explains that he is drawn to Google in part because he hates the iPhone, or at least its closed and controlling environment from a developer’s perspective.

The iPhone vision of the mobile Internet’s future omits controversy, sex, and freedom, but includes strict limits on who can know what and who can say what. It’s a sterile Disney-fied walled garden surrounded by sharp-toothed lawyers. The people who create the apps serve at the landlord’s pleasure and fear his anger.

I hate it.

He also notes that Android is catching up to the iPhone in terms of sales:

As of now, they’re selling around 90K iPhones per day compared to around 60K Android handsets. It’s a horse race!

In February, Google noted partners are selling 60,000 Android handsets a day, and Apple sold 8.7 million iPhones last quarter, or about 97,000 a day. Android is making steady gains in market share.

Bray’s decision to throw his hat into the Android ring is just the latest example of a growing backlash among developers to Apple’s autocratic ways. Facebook developer Joe Hewitt famously quit the iPhone over similar issues. Apple cannot afford to alienate developers because, given the choice, they will shift their attention and their apps to other platforms.

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The tablet race is full on, with MAG announcing their latest device to enter the fray - the iMito M7. The iMito M7 comes in a thin and slim form factor, where it holds a 7" display at 800 x 480 resolution, an 800MHz ARM11 processor, 256MB RAM, 4GB of internal memory, Wi-Fi connectivity with the option to throw in 3G capability as well, an integrated accelerometer, GPS navigation, a webcam, a couple of USB 2.0 ports and even HDMI out for those who want to hook it up to an external HD-capable display. Software-wise, you will find a customized Windows CE interface which will mimic Google's Android. No idea on pricing, but it does seem to shape up pretty well.

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The Federal Communications Commission also announced its first mobile app available via Apple's iPhone and Google Android smartphones.

Plus de 250 millions de téléchargement ont été effectués sur l'Android Market, le catalogue de logiciels pour les OS mobiles signés Google. Selon FADE, une société de consultants, ce chiffre est en grande [...]

The Nexus One is coming to Verizon — no, really, two months after a deal was announced by Google, the device is on its way. HTC has begun shipping the CDMA version of Google’s Nexus One to Verizon Wireless, according to a report in the Chinese-language Economic Daily News (hat tip, Digitimes). The nation’s largest carrier will begin selling the gadget in the next few weeks, joining T-Mobile USA, which has supported the “Google phone” since its January launch. But that won’t do much to boost Google’s mobile effort unless Mountain View throws some real marketing muscle behind the Nexus One.

There’s a lot to like about the Nexus One, which Om has praised as “the best Android phone yet.” The phone rocks the powerful 1 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor and solid mobile browser, and is closely integrated with applications from both Google and third-party developers. But sales have been tremendously disappointing, prompting Goldman Sachs last week to slash its 2010 sales estimates for the Nexus One by a whopping 70 percent.

That lack of movement can be directly traced to an almost utter lack of marketing for the phone. (That’s a lesson Palm has learned with its Pre. Twice.) Google’s promotion of its flagship device consisted largely of a placing a modest link on its home page, and carriers — which are rightly terrified of their brands being elbowed out of the way — have only minimally backed the gadget. Worse, the phone is available only through Google’s online store, which most smartphone shoppers surely don’t even know exists. And that model isn’t likely to change with Verizon Wireless, as Kevin at jkOnTheRun noted last week.

Google has said since January that the Nexus One would be coming to Verizon Wireless, and the company is wise to combine its impressive hardware with Verizon’s rock-solid network. But if Google is really going to move the needle with its flagship device, it’s going to have to back it with some big-budget marketing campaigns.

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SFR annonce la commercialisation à partir d'aujourd'hui du HTC Legend. Ce smartphone sous Android 2.1 est en vente en avant-première, depuis la boutique en ligne SFR (http://www.s...

SFR annonce la commercialisation à partir d'aujourd'hui du HTC Legend. Ce smartphone sous Android 2.1 est en vente en avant-première, depuis la boutique en ligne SFR (http://www.s...

SFR annonce que le smartphone HTC Legend est disponible dès à présent sur son site en ligne et le 30 mars dans ses Espaces SFR.

Le cabinet ComScore estime que les parts de marché de Google Android ont progressé de 4,3% aux Etats-Unis en trois mois, alors que Windows Mobile et Palm sont à la peine.

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We've been writing an awful lot about the location wars on Download Squad lately. Gowalla, Foursquare, and the rest are exploding in popularity, and that means trendy, early-adopter types might have several different sites to check in with every time they go somewhere. Reporting your location to multiple sites is a usability nightmare, but it has a solution: unified check-in! A service called Check.in looks like it has the potential to be the holy grail of checking in, with support for Foursquare, Gowalla and Brightkite.

Check.in was actually put together by Brightkite, which was one of the first checkin apps out of the gate. It has slipped out of the spotlight recently with the rise of more game-oriented location offerings, but Check.in should bring a little attention back Brightkite's way. "One checkin to rule them all" means there's no downside to trying out Brightkite if you're already on Foursquare or Gowalla, so it's a shrewd business move, as well as a useful product.

So far, the Check.in site (what a perfectly catchy name, by the way) doesn't have a launch date more specific than "coming soon." It does show both an iPhone and a Nexus One, though, so both iPhone and Android users can look forward to it.

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SFR sera donc le premier opérateur à commercialiser un des nouveaux smartphones HTC sous Android 2.1. Comme nous vous l’avions annoncé il s’agit du HTC Legend, normalement disponible dés aujourd’hui dans sa boutique en ligne à partir de 29€ (79€ – 50€ d’offre de remboursement), avec un forfait Illimythics 3G+ Full Internet, 229€ avec les Forfaits bloqués et 379 € avec SFR La Carte, l’offre prépayée de SFR. Par contre, il ne sera disponible qu’à partir du 30 mars dans tous les espaces SFR.

Pour rappel, le HTC Legend propose un écran tactile de type capacitif multitouch et AMOLED avec une diagonale de 3,2″ et une résolution de 320×480, un processeur Qualcomm MSM7227 à 600Mhz, Android 2.1 avec la nouvelle version de l’interface utilisateur Sense, la 3G/3G+, 512Mo de ROM, 384Mo de RAM, un port mémoire microSD, un trackpad optique, un tuner FM, un A-GPS, un APN de 5 Mégapixels avec Flash, le Bluetooth 2.1, le WiFi, une batterie 1300 mAh, le tout dans 112×56,3×11,5mm pour 123g.

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Between the geolocation wars of Facebook and Twitter and the flux of geolocation-based social networks and mobile apps that have been hitting the market recently, the competition is tough. Today, mobile networking startup NearVerse, is launching a free iPhone app, called LoKast, which allows people to share media between iPhones at super-fast speeds. The kicker: the app connects people in its network based on proximity.

LoKast, which is actually short for “local-casting,” allows you to set up a profile that will list all of your photos, selected contacts, videos, web links and music on your mobile phone. You can select which content you’d like to include to the public and which content you’d like to keep private. When a LoKast user is in proximity (300 feet) of other LoKast users, the app will automatically discover other users nearby and allow the user to view and download their content. For example, you can see the iTunes library of any user who is in close proximity to you. You can choose to download a 30-second clip of any song to your own profile and can also follow the link to the iTunes store to purchase the music (LoKast collects an affiliate fee for this, of course). Similarly, you can download photos, videos and even contacts from other users into your profile. You’ll also soon be able to share apps on your phone with other users.

The beauty of Lokast is that it has its own internal network; eliminating the need for 3G connectivity to run the app, as LoKast works in subways, underground and heavily congested areas such as stadiums, where 3G connectivity is unreliable. The startup’s app is effectively all network based and currently has five patents for its proprietary technology.

LoKast is also partnering with bands to help market their content to users. LoKast has struck deals with music distribution companies including The Orchard, IODA and Monalis 360 to provide users with exclusive content within the LoKast app. And production companies, such as Mark Cuban’s Magnolia Pictures, are also using the service to promote their new films.

LoKast will soon be launching an Android app, and plans to launch integration with Facebook Connect. The app itself is incredibly simple to use and seems like it has potential to be a great way to share content on your mobile phone. Of course, some people may not feel comfortable sharing their personal content to complete strangers, so that may be a barrier for certain users.

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Tim Bray, co-inventor of XML, has joined Google as "Developer Advocate," with a focus on Android.

Tim announced and explained his new role at Google on his blog--and, in a move that is extraordinary for normally buttoned up Googlers, expounded on his hatred of the iPhone and all it stands for.

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XML co-creator Tim Bray on Monday said he has joined Google as a Developer Advocate, primarily for Android. The former Sun worker made the pick both because Android embraces an open-source, web-heavy philosophy but also as a direct opposition to Apple's iPhone policies. Bray praised Apple's hardware but couldn't abide by the at times arbitrary filtering of the App Store, which he likened to censorship....

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Le HTC Desire, smartphone Android à classer dans la catégorie « Haut de gamme » du constructeur coréen, dévoilé lors du Mobile World Congress, arrive en France.

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XML co-creator Tim Bray on Monday said he has joined Google as a Developer Advocate, primarily for Android. The former Sun worker made the pick both because Android embraces an open-source, web-heavy philosophy but also as a direct opposition to Apple's iPhone policies. Bray praised Apple's hardware but couldn't abide by the at times arbitrary filtering of the App Store, which he likened to censorship....

L’application Tether, déjà disponible pour Blackberry, arrive sous Android en version beta. Celle-ci vous permet d’utiliser votre smartphone comme modem 3G en le branchant simplement à votre PC via USB. Pour une fois, votre appareil n’a pas besoin d’être en mode Root ! Android-France vous explique la marche à suivre.

La semaine dernière, BusinessMobile.fr listait les fonctions où la plate-forme de Google surpassait le terminal à la pomme. Aujourd'hui, c'est au tour de l'iPhone de montrer en quoi il est supérieur à Android.

La semaine dernière, BusinessMobile.fr listait les fonctions où la plate-forme de Google surpassait le terminal à la pomme. Aujourd'hui, c'est au tour de l'iPhone de montrer en quoi il est supérieur à Android.

La semaine dernière, BusinessMobile.fr listait les fonctions où la plate-forme de Google surpassait le terminal à la pomme. Aujourd'hui, c'est au tour de l'iPhone de montrer en quoi il est supérieur à Android.