SOS ANDROID

Fraunhofer is well known in the multimedia for his codecs. They had porpos the PREMEIR CODEC MP3 who is known now widely, approved by a large majority and used.

For ANDROID, they offer from now on a group of new codecs especially optimised ANDROID. This codecs is MPEG4, HE-AAC v2 and MPEG-SURROUND. 2 first are well enough known since already available in other realisation. The last allows to address fluxes home multi cinema tracks in collaboration with one of 2 other codecs.

codecs will be shown during MWC.

Source: via

A few days before the beginning of MWC, Garmin Asus chose to announce Nuvifone A50 first telephone of mark under ANDROID. He will come to replace M60 who is quasi dead born since he am preque not appeared on the market.

The Garmin Asus Nuvifone A50 uses ANDROID to bring group of advanced functionality and also offers a very strong direction towards navigation. The software home Garmin is included and the pre-loaded cards there. The telephone introduces a screen HVGA capacitif of 3,5  , loads 4 Go of stretchy internal memo with a card microphone SD and GPS says high senibilit .

The whole experience Google is informed with GMAIL, Maps (besides software home), Youtube, ANDROID Market, Garmin Asus also stresses the capacity of the telephone to synchronise completely with servers Exexchange rate. It lets to think, while the version of the BONE is not specified, while it is at the farthest a version 1.6 Donut.

Quoted multimedia, the telephone loads a camera of 3 Mpx with autofocus. At the same time, mark announces M10 which works him under Mobile Windows.

Source: Garmin Asus

As for ANDROID, SFR throws a competition for the developers so that they porposent WebOS applications for the launching of Palm Pr . The telephone will be thrown in the course of the first semestre. Competition is endowed with 75 for 5 laureates. Competition if articlue autor of 5 themes: simplify the daily, exceed conventional manners, soci tal or environmental contribution, fluidity of experience user, win in effectiveness at job. The dates of competition: From February 10th till April 11th, 2010.

The main advantage of WebOS for the developers is the accessibility of the platform. Necessary competences are simpler because are based on technologies web. The telephone is of quality and should entice the developers. We hope only that the telephone will meet its public so much the stage is occupied by iPhone, ANDROID and more traditional smartphones.

It is anyway what reveal publications of the consortium Bluetooth. Acer will offer all over the world Acer E110, a telephone monoblock, supporting Wi-Fi, 3G, HSDPA and GPS. We will know about it probably more in MWC.

Google Maps passes in V4 and offers mainly the availability of Buzz. What Buzz? It is a mixture between Twitter g olocalis , facebook and Google reader any visible on Maps.

You share a good plan, an impression, a picture or a notation on a place. It is available since interface Maps for all
I hope only that it will not return the unreadable cards on the screen of a motive.

At the same time Maps adds signalling on views "traffic" , a button " my position " , distance and direction of known places and the measure of distance between 2 points.

To test!

ST-ERICSSON announces the material platform U6715 to address at reduced cost platforms Linux and ANDROID. The platform loads functionality necessary for smartphones: Internet navigation, streaming video, e-mail, management of sensors photos in 5 Mpx, Wi-Fi, touch screen, connectivit HSPA in 7.2 Mbps, etc

ST-ERICSSON wants, with this platform, to allow to the constructors to offer telephones which aim at the market of mass rather than at the alcoves of the very upmarket. The first telephone based on this platform would be available before July 2010.

Source: TechCrunch

Nimbuzz, software of instantaneous freight forwarding and voice on IP offers some additional functionality. The logicel offers therefore now rings customised for your contacts, a vocal answering machine, possibility of calling your contacts SkypeOut, the notification of functioning of application. It comes to be added to habitual functions of cat, of dispatch of photo, video or file.

Nimbuzz also uses it to fit from above and downwards. Optimisations are offered for Nexus One and for HTC TATTOO.

The operators are going to see a fiendishly dangerous rival there!

Source: Nimbuzz

Dropbox sends a mail in his user to tell them that they will soon be able to use services of stocking of files directly since them apparatus Blackberry and ANDROID. For recall, Dropbox offers a free stocking of 2Go by count.

Another compatible solution is SugarSync.

Source: Androinica

It is under the feather of Sumit Malhotra, marketing representative to Sony Ericsson, and a very long article on the blog of mark that the choice of ANDROID 1.6 is justified.

Yes the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 will go out with a version Android 1.6. But why? Firstly because Sony Ericsson decided to work in the very low layers to bring a better experience user. Timescape and Mediascape is only the part appeared from the iceberg. 2 applications have recourse to components OpenGL which are except code Android. To pass simply from a version to other one is not therefore so easy.

Then, Sumit Malhotra, asks a very simple question: which functionality of ANDROID seems to 2.1 you absolutely necessary. Question is ambiguous. She serves for erasing the detractors without strong arguments and to identify (in case it is not made yet) absolutely necessary functionality to include them.

Finally, Sumit Malhotra assures that the telephone will be updated. By REMOVED for the babies updates, by downloading for a complete update of the BONE. For the moment no version or date is mentioned.

What is main difference between Android 1.6 and 2.1? It is a good question. There is some some described on the page devoted to Android 2.0. Let us name pell-mell: new version of the multimedia framework, support of the exchange of objects via Bluetooth, support of several count mail among which Exexchange rate, compatible navigator HTML 5, additional functionality for the camera among which the support of flash, support multi touch (for the applications which load him), Text-to-Speech.

In view of this functionality, what are those who would make that l Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 would be completely exceeded at his exit? It is going to be difficult to show her. The flash of the camera? X10 has one. The support HTML 5? Few sites already exploit it. The push object via Bluetooth? It is debatable. Everybody does not use it. The support Multitouch? It is a big lack but does not return the obsolete telephone therefore. The support of servers Exexchange rate? It is an obvious lack. To see if Sony Ericsson offers an alternative. Speech-2-Text? he does not support French for the moment. It is not therefore a loss. Le support des serveurs Exchange ? C est un manque vident. A voir si Sony Ericsson propose une alternative. Le Speech-2-Text ? il ne supporte pas le fran ais pour le moment. Ce n est donc pas une perte.

I think, to have been able to play with, that the platform UXP (that of Xperia) aura Mediascape and Timescape as element really differentiating. Update will be the welcome, but Android 1.6 version should not penalise the purchaser.

And to you that think of it of you?

You were very very numerous to participate. We thank you for it. 599 participants, 949 links, it is a nice score to reach Nexus One, caskets COPILOT LIVE and surrounding walls Bluetooth Motorola. We also want to thank all - those who one relieved the information of game without participating willy-nilly (especially in Lemon squeezer, in Accessoweb, in Vendeesign, in Pointgphone).

Let us come from it to facts. For the drawing, it was necessary to recover all links to undertake the drawing then. From links, we went back up to comments then to winning. It is with random that winning links were indicated. The winning are

1. Google Nexus One + COPILOT LIVE EUROPE: Doroth e L.
2. Motorola EQ7 + COPILOT LIVE EUROPE: J r mie L.
3. Motorola EQ7: ric P.
4. COPILOT LIVE EUROPE: Charles B.
5. COPILOT LIVE FRANCE: Julian Fr.

Bravo in the winning. You will accept your lot in days to come. Thanks to all participants and also to our PARTNER ALK, editor of software COPILOT LIVE for the brought support.

In view of success, we will try to organise another competition in future.