Google just updated its Google Maps for Android to version 4.5 with some new features included.  The most notable is the walking navigation which users can use it to find walking route.  Another addition is a new Google Maps search bar. The new bar is always available at the top of Maps to be accessed quickly to search, open Places, toggle Layers, or pinpoint your current location [via googlemobileblog]

Google has just announced 2 new cool applications for your Android 2.2 phones (yes, only Android 2.2) – Voice Actions and Chrome to Phone. Voice Actions is an extended version of your current voice commands for Android and it comes with a lot more commands, including voice to email and SMS.  The commands are listed below: send text to [contact] [message] listen to [artist/song/album] call [business] call [contact] send email to [contact] [message] go to [...]

Fring has just updated their iPhone program to take advantage of the front facing camera of iPhone.  And what’s more, it can do video call over 3G. And since Fring is available across multiple platforms, you can even have video calls to Android and Symbian phones.

After the beta release last year, Microsoft has just released the official Office Mobile 2010, and it is a free upgrade for existing Office Mobile 6.5 users.  It is now downloaded from Windows Marketplace. In conjunction with the retail release of the full desktop version of Office 2010, Office Mobile 2010 bringing comprehensive Word, Excel, and PowerPoint editing capabilities to the pocket — on Windows Mobile 6.5. The new version has SharePoint integration for grabbing [...]

Microsoft has just release and update Bing for mobile device which include a turn-by-turn voice navigation. The big new feature is full voice-prompt text-to-speech navigation. Yes, it tells you the names of the roads you should turn on and even tells you which side of the street your destination is on.  The video is bellow.

Has Apple relaxed its App Store policy for not approving apps that duplicate the functionality of iPhone? The famous Opera Mini browser has just got approved for the App Store.  This browser uses server from Opera to render web pages and thus achieve a superior speed for loading of web pages.  For a long time Apple has been rejecting this browser to the App Store.  And it is to many people’s surprise, it finally makes [...]

Are you a big fan of the old Quake 3 game?  If you are and you own a Android 2.0 device, here is a piece of good news for you.  Quake 3 has been ported and run successfully on Motorola DROID. At the moment, the port is optimized to run on a device with keyboard like DROID.  However, since it is open source and in future we may see it optimized for other device without [...]

After several delays, the Google has finally come to Android devices.  It is now available in the market.  However, it is for Nexus One only but will be available for most of the Android 2.1 devices later. It is a huge application.  The download takes about 5Mb and it will be blown up to about 22Mb after install.  There are a number of layers available for Google Earth, including Places, Businesses, Panoramio, Wikipedia, Roads, Borders [...]

You might be wondering what are the new features that the new HTC Sense on Android 2.1 may get.  And here we have a nice video showing a good implementation of multitouch – pinch-to-zoom on the home screen and you will get all the home panel screen arranged in a 2-3-2 pattern.  And you just tab on anyone of them to go straight to the panel.  It looks like a nicer implementation of Nexus One’s [...]

Google just launched Buzz – a social networking tool with just about anything you can think of – status, share photos, share locations, etc. Buzz is built into Gmail, some of you may have seen it in your Gmail already.  And it is available for mobile users as well.  Go to buzz.google.com, and you’ll be taken to a Web app that lets you see and create Buzz messages. You can see messages from people you “follow” [...]