Notion Ink demonstrates video playback via HDMI, using Adam as a big digitizer/touchpad and connectors on both sides. As you may have seen in earlier videos, you can also connect flash drives, wireless mouse and keyboards.
Showing swivel camera, connecting flash drive and wireless mouse via USB.
Videos showing Panels and Launcher, which allows to jump to and rearrange panels. The virtual keyboard have arrow keys.
Notion Ink is going to post one video per day for each application or principle that comes with Adam.
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Samsung proves that ads can be informative and funny.
Nexus S is the first smartphone to feature a 4” Contour Display designed to fit comfortably in the palm of your hand and along the side of your face. It also features a 1GHz Hummingbird processor, front and rear facing cameras, 16GB of internal memory, and NFC (near field communication) hardware that lets you read information from NFC tags. NFC is a fast, versatile short-range wireless technology that can be embedded in all kinds of everyday objects like movie posters, stickers and t-shirts.
Gingerbread is the fastest version of Android yet, and it delivers a number of improvements, such as user interface refinements, NFC support, a new keyboard and text selection tool, Internet (VoIP/SIP) calling, improved copy/paste functionality and gyroscope sensor support.
More info: http://www.google.com/nexus
A CEO of Blue Frog Gaming talks about Android fragmentation:
One thing I always hear when reading about mobile development is fragmentation. Steve Jobs, who talks about Android so much because he isn’t worried about it, harps on it relentlessly. Just today I read, on an Android blog, the following quote:
“In an iOS world, you only have to write code once and know it is optimized for every phone that’s been sold.”
Bahahahahaha. Yeah right. I do iOS development, and let me tell you, fragmentation there is a huge problem. First off, there are different OSes on different devices. Here’s a chart of that:
Compare that to Android:
Pretty similar. Android in this case has the benefit of having fewer OSes in play.
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SamFirmware has just posted a first firmware for Samsung I9200 (Galaxy S II) and the guys over at XDA are already looking into it.
Information about firmware:
[Build]
Date=2010.11.03;
Time=16:30:15;
- FM radio.
- RFS (Also Galaxy S use this so more Lag)
- Bluetooth
bluetooth 3
- Camera
Konica Minolta Camera, Inc.
Eldar Murtazin has also mentioned I9200 in his Twitter feed and podcast, speaking about dual core processor, ~10 mm metal case, 4″ 300 ppi screen and 8 MP camera with good lenses (about 1 cm thick, which is quite big for a smartphones). The planned release date is February or March 2011.
Samsung has showcased the Galaxy Tab with AMOLED display and all kinds of foldable, flexible and transparent displays.
Ortustech, a joint venture between Casio Computer and Toppan Printing, has announced today a 4.8-inch 1920 x 1080 pixel LCD with 160-degree viewing angle, 16.8 million colors, and a pixel density of 458ppi.
Twitter client [TweetDeck] recently launched their app for Android. They reported that they had to contend with more than a hundred different versions of Android software on 244 different handsets. The multiple hardware and software iterations present developers with a daunting challenge. Many Android apps work only on selected Android handsets, running selected Android versions. And this is for handsets that have been shipped less than 12 months ago! Compare this with iPhone, where there are two versions of the software, the current and the most recent predecessor, to test against.
Iain Dodsworth, the CEO of TweetDeck, has responded via Twitter:
I would like to add that we also had no problems with Android development. In most cases you just need two sets of graphics for middle-res and hi-res devices. Our apps have more than one million downloads combined, and we received no reports yet about problems with specific devices.
In addition to Google’s own app marketplace, Amazon, Verizon, and Vodafone have all announced that they are creating their own app stores for Android. So there will be at least four app stores on Android, which customers must search among to find the app they want, and developers will need to work with to distribute their apps and get paid. This is gonna be a mess for both users and developers.
Contrast this with Apple’s integrated App Store, which offers users the easiest-to-use largest app store in the world, preloaded on every iPhone.
The app stores from Amazon, Verizon and Vodafone do not exist yet, while there are already two stores for iOS – App Store and Cydia (which contains applications that have been banned by Apple). The Android Market will stay the biggest source of apps, because of a $25 one-time fee and no censorship. In other words, there is no reason for the developers to ignore the Market.
And we also think that our developers could be more innovative if they can target a singular platform, rather than a hundred variants. They can put their time into innovative new features, rather than testing on hundreds of different handsets.
Developers can simply use the Nexus One or similar phone as the main testing device, it will cover 75% of devices available on the market. Create one or two virtual devices in an emulator to make sure that your app will work properly on Android 1.6 (16%) and 1.5 (9%). So, basically, we are dealing with 2-3 versions of Android, not with some “hundred variants”.
One naturally thinks that a seven-inch screen would offer 70 percent of the benefits of a 10-inch screen. Unfortunately, this is far from the truth. The screen measurements are diagonal, so that a seven-inch screen is only 45 percent as large as iPad’s 10-inch screen. … This size isn’t sufficient to create great tablet apps, in our opinion.
iPad now has over 35,000 apps on the App Store. This new crop of tablets will have near zero.
Well, Samsung did tablet versions of Gmail, calendar and phone book. Developers can use the provided addon to emulate the Tab and test/tweak their apps.
Maybe its screen is not big enough to create full-fledge tablet apps, but this is also means that most apps from the Android Marketplace will run just fine and the Tab will have about 100,000 working apps on launch.
iPad too did not have many apps in the beginning. Twitter for iPad was released only in September, Skype still does not have an iPad version!
The Samsung Tab has many strong points: it’s smaller and lighter (good for an e-reader device), has cameras, Flash, widgets and more.
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