Just a while after Google broke the news to the world, Google now officially releases the Visual Search to Android Market, and with an official name — the Google Goggles.  However, it is only for device running Android 1.6 and above.  I am holding a HTC Hero running Android 1.5, so no luck for me.  HTC, do you see this?  Please release the new firmware soon as we, the Hero owners, are losing a lot [...]

There a series of HTC phones being lined up for the first half of year 2010.  According to XDA-developers, the pre-production brochures of the products from HTC portfolio updates reveal the information. Say hello to Tera, Trophy and Photon if you are a WinMo 6.5 lover.  And say hi to Legend, Salsa, Bravo, Tide and Buzz if you like Android. Here are the summaries of the phones: Photon: WinMo 6.5, 3.2 inch HVGA phone.  Arriving [...]

“Imagine you are on travel in Paris and you visit a museum. If a picture catches your attention you can simply take a photo and send it to the VMS service. Within seconds you will receive an audio-visual narrative explaining the image to you. If you happen to be connected to a 3G network the response time would be below a second. After the museum visit you might step outside and see a coffeehouse.” Hartmut [...]

Here is another video of ZiiLABS‘s Trinity phone (ZiiLABS is a subsidiary of Creative Technology). If you are interested to see how this CellComputing platform performs in HD video playback, you will find it interesting. The video playback is smooth and fast. And hopefully there will be manufacturers interested in this platform and we will soon see devices powered by Zii in the market. Enjoy!

Accordingly to Wall Street Journal, Dell‘s mini 3i is just their first step to the mobile market.  And in fact, Dell is planning to setup a new mobile communications group to handle all mobile device business. Current consumer division head and former Motorola exec Ron Garriques will take charge of the new group. So expect to see more involvement of Dell in the mobile communications market and more Dell phones coming. [via engadgetmobile]

The recently leaked ROM of HTC Hero Android 2.1 shows a bunch of codenames that could be phones to be released by HTC in the near future. The developers have found a list of codenames in the leaked ROM, and many of them have never been heard before.  We have Bahamas, Bravo, DesireC, Dragon, Espresso, Halo, Huangshan, Incredible, Legend, Liberty, Memphis, Paradise, PassionC, Passion, Sapphire and Supersonic.  And of course we have the Dream, HeroCT, [...]

Google has just released a minor update for the Android SDK, version 2.0.1 (revision 1). According to Google: “Android 2.0.1 is a minor update to Android 2.0. This update includes several bug fixes and behavior changes, such as application resource selection based on API level and changes to the value of some Bluetooth-related constants. For more detailed information, please see the Android 2.0.1 release notes. To differentiate its behavior from Android 2.0, the API level [...]

Want to have a DROID (MILESTONE) without a keyboard, this Sholes Tablet may be your answer. Somebody in China seems to have the pictures of this Motorola Sholes Tablet.  And its seems like coming with impressibe specs: 550MHz OMAP TI 3430 processor (same as the DROID) 3.7″ touch screen, 800 x 480 resolution HDMI port (WOW!) 3.5mm headset jack UMTS/HSPA 8 megapixel camera, and a xenon flash Running on Android 2.0, probably 2.1 at time [...]

ZiiLABS, the wholly owned subsidary of Creative Technology Limited (a Singapore owned multimedia hardware company), has announced TRINITY, a concept phone based on their StemCell Computing technology. The heart of the phone is the ZMS-05 and ZMS-03 StemCell CPU from ZiiLABS which are highly optimized to run multimedia applications, with low power consumption and flexible processing power allocations.  The concept phone is capable of processing HD media of 1080i format. Features of the Zii TRINITY [...]

Gizmodo has posted another article regarding the rumour of Google phone.  And they say “the Google phone is a certainty”. We do not know how true it is, but according to Gozmodo, they have a reliable source that the prototype phones are coming to Google campus within the next few weeks. So the Android handsets we are havig in the market now like HTC Hero and Motorola DROID may not be the real Android phones.  [...]