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A company called The Astonishing Tribe are in the process of developing an application for the Google Android person, that will tell you who someone is by you pointing your mobile phone at them. The application prototype uses a 3D model to recognize facial features, it then searches its server to find a match, once a match is found it the superimposes that persons social … [Read more...] about Recognizr Android App Uses Facial Recognition To Identify People

Google Earth has been available on the Apple iPhone for quite some time, good news for all the Google Android smartphone users out there, as Google Earth is now available for Android 2.1. The new Android version of Google Earth is the fastest mobile version to be released so far and it comes with a range of new features which includes a Roads layer, just like the desktop … [Read more...] about Google Earth For Android 2.1 Now Available

T-Mobile are launching a new Google Android smartphone in Europe, the T-Mobile Pulse Mini. The Pulse Mini is designed to be a budget Android smartphone and it will come with Google Android 2.1. The Pulse Mini will be available on a pre-paid or pay as you go contract, and it is going to cost just £99.99 about $155, which doesn't sound to bad considering you don't have to sign … [Read more...] about T-Mobile Pulse Mini Google Android Smartphone

When the new HTC Desire was announced last week, the only real difference between it and the Google Nexus One was the HTC Sense user interface, if you own a Nexus One and want the HTC Sense on there, good news as the homebrew ROM community have build a custom ROM for the Nexus One. The HTC Desire hasn't even gone on sale yet, but that hasn't stopped Paul at Mocado forums … [Read more...] about Google Nexus One Gets HTC Sense And Flash 10.1

The Motorola Backflip is one of Motorola's latest Google Android smartphones, and it looks like it will be available next month in the US with mobile phone network AT & T. This will be the first phone running Google Android available on the AT&T mobile network. The Motorola Backflip features a 3.1 inch HVGA touchscreen display, it comes with Google Android 1.5, which … [Read more...] about Motorola Backflip Coming To AT&T In March

Bug Labs has updated their modular gadget system BUG to add support for Google Android. BUG is basically a modular system where you can snap together various components to build a new mobile device. The new version is compatible with Google Android, the previous one ran on Linux and it is also compatible with existing Android applications. … [Read more...] about Bug Labs 2.0 Adds Android Support

It looks like Google's Android platform is becoming more popular, as Google CEO Eric Schmidt recently revealed that there are a total of 60,000 Google Android powered mobile phones being shipped every day. The figure includes all mobile phones running the Android platform, including the Nexus One, Google's own Android handset, and the every growing range of Android phones … [Read more...] about 60,000 Google Android Handsets Being Sold Every Day

UK mobile phone operator Orange has just confirmed that the new HTC Desire Android smartphone will be available on their network from April 2010. The HTC Desire will be available on Orange on a range of personal and business contracts, and it will be available for free on some pay monthly contracts. … [Read more...] about HTC Desire Coming To Orange UK In April

We have already seen the new HTC Legend and HTC HD Mini, now we have another new snartphone from HTC for today, the HTC Desire. The HTC Desire shares almost identical specifications to the HTC made Google Nexus One. It features the same 3.7 inch WVGA AMOLED touchscreen display, has the same 1GHz Qualcomm snapdragon processor, a microSD card slot, GPS, A-GPS, and it runs … [Read more...] about HTC Desire Google Android Smartphone

As well as launching the new HTC Legend at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, HTC has added another new smartphone to their range with the launch of the HTC HD Mini. The HTC HD Mini features a 3.2 inch HVGA touchscreen, and it runs Windows Mobile 6.5.3 with HTC's Sense user interface, and it is powered by a Qulacomm 600MHz processor. … [Read more...] about HTC HD Mini Windows Mobile Smartphone

HTC have taken the wraps off their latest Google Android smartphone, which we have been hearing rumors about for some time, the HTC Legend. The HTC Legend comes with the latest version of Google Android, 2.1 and it features a 3.2 inch HVGA AMOLED capacitive touchscreen display, and comes with a five megapixel camera with a built in led flash. … [Read more...] about HTC Legend Google Android Smartphone Gets Official