android
Google changes Gmail Contact manager
The Gmail team has decided to change the way that they auto-ad contacts to your Gmail Contact list. When Google first released GMail after you sent an email out if the email address wasn’t listed in your contacts it would automatically add a contact entry for you. This received a lot of complaints so the [...]
Google drops Bluetooth, GTalkService APIs from Android 1.0
Google Inc. dropped Bluetooth and the GTalkService instant messaging APIs from the set of tools for the first version of the mobile phone operating system, Android 1.0, according to the Android Developers Blog. But the company made clear that handsets using the Android OS will work with other Bluetooth devices such as headsets, for example. [...]
The Googlephone is on its way
Version 0.9 of Google’s platform is now available for download, with a redesigned user interface and some significant improvements in functionality, as well as lots of eye-candy to seduce the iPhone crowd. But Google’s revolutionary platform is still lacking some of the features we’ve come to expect of a smartphone, including hardware on which to [...]