Google Voice App for iPhone, Amazing!

Well for what ever reason this app was delayed, and I was pretty harsh about it. Well team member Dan Cohen dropped a Twit today, to let me know that it’s finally released. His reaction to the application…

For some reason iTunes did not indicate that an update was available so I removed the app from my iPhone, downloaded the Google app in the App Store and resynced my iPhone. There it was- real voice enabled search on my iPhone.

With the voice search you can choose whether or not to include contacts, previous searches and websites. You can also determine whether or not you want suggestions. 

You can also launch a wide range of Google’s apps right from the mobile app- a nice extra.

The real “Wow” though is the voice search and it works amazingly well.

I am still quite surprised that this is  being released on the iPhone, before the G1 Android, but it looks like the nice app that the pre-release talk pointed too.

Google Voice App– Amazing! | whatsoniphone.com

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Google gets a love tap from Apple!

Well, love tap may be a little tame, a bit more like what they do at the abattoir to your next unsuspecting steak dinner. Hitting the news earlier this week, was a new app for  the iPhone, from Google and what better way to illustrate it.

Than to send you to a look at a video of the app being used. [Update: It looks like the video has been pulled, and according to CrunchGear this one's been hit on the head.]

The question has been going around this week, that the fruit company is building a search engine, and this may seem like confirmation for lots of people. How does that SDK thing go , if it replicates any of the native functions, or intended native functions of the iPhone, it’s a no go zone in the app store.

But why not just say it? Why all the skulking? Could Apple be taking a page from Stalin’s playbook? The “hushing up inconvenient news” page, not the “purge of millions of intelligentsia page,” obviously.

It’s a big No from Apple to Google, are they scared of Android? Or is this really confirmation of an iPhone based search engine. Why doesn’t Apple like Google?

Thanks to techAU for the link

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G1 Android, Shipping and Reviewed !

With about a week to go till the aforementioned availability of the T-mobile G1 Android phone, things are hotting up. It looks like pre ordered G1 units are on the move, according to Phandroid. How they got this info out of UPS  I wouldn’t know.

Just a quick heads up for anyone who pre-ordered their T-Mobile G1 to check the UPS Website for a tracking number and shipping date. At least 2 readers have contacted us saying they have shipping information today and that the shipping method is via 3-day… meaning you could receive your T-Mobile G1 as early as the 17th and definitely by the 21st.

The G1 is already circulating though, and of course some of the bigger sites are already getting real hands on time/review units to help muster buyers for the in store release of the first Google phone. Both Engadget and Gizmodo, have detailed reviews of the G1 posted today, which are not uncomplimentary, but point to the fact that the OS is a first release and will probably need some work.

The G1 phone and the Android operating system are not finished products. There are only three working Google App’s here—Gmail, Maps and Calendar—while Google Docs, Google News, Google Reader, Google Shopping, Google Images, Google Video, Blogger and Picasa are nowhere to be found. What’s the deal? gizmodo

Looks like people are going to have to wait for a complete Google experience on the platform, a bit like bender not functioning until he’s had a few beers!

T-Mobile G1 review - Gizmodo

T-Mobile G1 review - Engadget

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Everything’s coming up Android!

You’d have to admit that the introduction of a new OS like Android is exciting. The fact that it’s an open system, welcoming developers to  add to it’s functionality, with seemingly no limitations, says the sky’s the limit. So eventually you would think this will be a boon both to industry and personal users. Let’s face it, it’s not going to be a Blackberry,out of the box, and there are not going to be a range of great applications available for a while till the platform proves itself, and some of the more mainstream developers who already have experience with cross platform programming, decide to wade in to the mix.

  
There are a few, I don’t know how many,[I’m sure I know at least one person that’s got one and can’t say] people who already are Hands on with the G1. A forum member over at Android Community, has done what may be the first public review of the G1. Again, I’m sure this person will get their wrist slapped for this.
The real news though is that other manufacturers are going to pick up the OS and build appropriate devices. Even rumours that the Touch HD, [which isn’t coming to  the US any time soon, WinMo flavoured] will somehow appear in an Android version, I’d like to see that. Anyway, twelve days to go so back to normal viewing…

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This May not be News!

Just been going through a few feeds and came across a disturbing post at one of my favourite sites. Apparently CoolSmartPhone.com is evil.

Seems they have had a little hiccough, and it should be fixed, sometime?
This just highlights the fact that you can have things like this happening with your site and they don’t show up in Windows Mobile applications. I’ve had no problem updating the site in NewsBreak, or Opera on WinMo, but in Firefox, I get a real red danger message!

Hopefully it’ll be fixed soon!
Good Luck Guys

Oh if you get the red screen of death you can By-Pass it, if you are game! There’s no reason not to! It does show though, that there are exploits we are not aware of, and all bloggers and site masters should have a look at this problem

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The Eve of Android!

Now, I’m not going to get anywhere near the Dream from Google, in anything like the near future, so any sort of info or hands on, visual display of the OS, the phone actually operating, is vital to me. A new mobile operating system, on a new if somewhat, ungainly appearing device, that is exclusive, is something I’m interested in {read obsessed}.

The video above that I found at Experience Mobility, {thanks Jack}, has done nothing to extinguish my interest in this device. The video is the best Demo of the Android interface I’ve seen, and there are some specs and features discussed, the importance of I hadn’t twigged to. have a look at the 300 Mhz device running Quake, graphics are good.{understatement} Being an OS from Google, you would expect to see some apps focused on their already existing application base. Streetview being one of them. So when you get your Dream, could you let me know how good/bad/or indifferent it is?

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