This surely proves that the ones who miss to watch the popular The Engadget Show or the ones who never heard of this show yet are always one step behind the ones who watch the show regularly, Erick Tseng, the latest guest star on the show has dropped a shared an exclusive fact and knowledge with everyone on the show. He said that the Android’s next biggest iteration or say in simple words, the next version of Android will be called “Froyo”.

And why this weird word “Froyo” you think? Well it just is a short for “frozen yogurt” and suits the trend of zany naming that has already been under delivering of Donuts, Cupcakes and Éclairs till now. And well if you thought Flan would be the next thing to join the list in the alphabetical order, then you sure will be disappointed, sorry for that! Sad to say that not much information, about how much updated and further will Froyo be compared to Android 2.1 or what update will be implemented, could be got from Google man at present. However lets be content with the fact that we have got the name of it and this is quite plenty for us to get started a wonderful journey speculating and expecting things along.

Some of the greatest inventions have been the modified version of a failed one or another successful one. The Mobile01 people have recently sent out two pictures recently which they named it as Motorola Shadow, Please don’t confuse this one with T-Mobile Shadow because both are different ones and not the same. This looks like a Deoid or a Milestone; this has a white colored key board and also a wrist strap. The most interesting things are that this could be the next flagship device of Google. The lovingly so called Nexus two.  The main question that can arise is that is this all feasible? Why not, all those things which are products now are once questioned the same.

The best way to complement the Nexus one is that with a physically present QWERTY keyboard. The best company in this whole world who can create such a device in the increased platform and super speed is Android 2.0. This company has got a CEO who is interested to signify the support for a competitor’s product even if it’s a product launch function. The best thing that can come is the one which has the combined features of many products, that’s what people want an All in One product at the cost of one product.

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Many of us want free navigation apps or free Google maps. There are new rumors that the Mountain View is planning to introduce a free navigation app in the market very soon. Even El Goog is getting ready to release their free ad-supported navigation app after making moves to use its own US maps instead of licensing data from Tele Atlas and putting ads on the iPhone Maps app. This is a big challenge for Google and other navigation app makers. Well, now it’s high time we need a free app. And many people across the globe have now become so addicted to the GPS or the navigation app. This free navigation app will surely help tons of people and this is a great concept. Let us hope that this comes into effect very soon.

Google wants to celebrate the release the launch of Android 2.0 “Eclair” much in advance compared Verizon. Tomorrow, its Verizon’s big day. Verizon will be announcing SDK support also.

They will also be announcing some new changes such as Support for multiple Google and Exchange accounts, Third party sync adapters which allows apps to tie in to the phone’s sync services, Quick services menus for fast access to specific key pieces of contact information, Unified email inbox, SMS and MMS search, Text message auto-delete after a user-defined thread size is reached, improved camera controls with white balance, macro, effects, and more, Improved keyboard layout, dictionary, and algorithm which is based on multi-touch support, double tap zoom in browser, support for HTML5, Bluetooth 2.1 support with addition of OPP and PBAP profiles and better graphics acceleration.

We are all very excited about the changes made by Google and let us all hope for the best.

A hero will rise and so has happened with the launched of HTC Hero. HTC has always worked hard to come out with smart phones that are mean machines and always stay in the frontline of market competition. With the launch of HTC Hero, HTC has come out with their latest and most advanced Android to date. Though the operating system looks somewhat familiar to iPhone’s OS, the bold and superior hardware talks about the state of the art gadgets that HTC is renowned for.Mobile reviews of any HTC smart phones are always positive and they talk about the QWERTY keypad that is a distinctive style of HTC, but this time they have come out with a iconoclastic look and breaking free from their traditional HTC smart phone appearance. No wonder HTC Hero is born and destined to become one of the best slim full touchscreen phones in today’s competitive mobile market.

Now that we have applauded the innovative look of HTC Hero, let me tell you that HTC Hero will hit the market shelves in white and brown shades. However, HTC has said that white HTC Hero will have a Teflon coating for keeping HTC Hero’s body dirt-free and that should also make it fingerprint-resistant. The brown HTC Hero might not have this added advantage, but both the HTC Hero will have a brushed aluminum display.Moving on further with this HTC Hero review, let me also tell you that the front side of the HTC Hero is dominated by the full-touchscreen display measuring 3.2 inches and that has 65K-color HVGA resolution that is standard with HTC phones. Moreover the sunlight legibility is not much of a concerned as HTC Hero screen looks pretty good even in daylight. The angled chin has certain hardware controls and a trackball that makes it stand out of the crowd of other smart phones available today in the market.Read more

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