Gas prices are going crazy around the world. Here are a couple of apps to help you find better prices and track your consumption.
GasBuddy (USA Only)
GasBuddy helps you find the nearest Gas stations and prices so you can judge where to get the best prices. GasBuddy can automatically do this by your current location, you can also search by City or Zip code.
Mileage helps you keep track how many miles you are getting to the gallon.
Google Maps Navigation now automatically routes you around bad traffic and you don’t have to do anything different to use this new feature. Previously the navigation would route you through the fastest path available without taking into account traffic conditions. Like most new things Google this is still considered to be in Beta so use at your own risk and use some common sense.
CyanogenMod the most popular Android ROM around now has a devices page so that you can easily see the current status of all the devices they are working on.
Click Here to Go To the Devices Page
Nokia’s developers are up in arms about not being able to develop on the new Nokia Windows phones with the QT interface framework. Currently developers can develop an app with QT and their app will work on all Nokia platforms but not once Windows Mobile is introduced. Nokia developers are complaining that they don’t want to have to program for Windows Mobile.
A developer who goes by the alias “BogDan” came up with a solution and has just released software to run QT apps on Android phones called Necessitas. So now any Nokia developer can quickly port their apps over to Android and not be stuck on a dying platform. They can now use their already honed skills in QT to develop for a quickly emerging platform. You can download these tools for Free online.
You can learn more about “Necessitas” here.
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It’s appearing to be a bad choice that Nokia made going with Windows Mobile 7 over Android. Nokia said they picked Windows because it would be too hard to differentiate between them and the other hundred plus Android phones on the market. Windows 7 has shipped a meager 2 million handsets so far to date vs Androids over 33 million just last quarter.
Nokia haven’t you ever heard the term if you can’t beat em join em? You were loosing the battle before and you pick an obsolete OS to rebound with? Android will be leaving you in the dust while you try and catch up with Blackberry and WebOS let alone even try and compete with iOS and Android.
Verizon CTO: we don’t ‘need’ the Nokia-Microsoft partnership; Android, iOS, and BlackBerry are the big three platforms
If you have Nokia shares I would suggest selling yesterday!
This week at Mobile World Congress people are collecting Android pins. There are 86 different pins and attendees are tying to collect them all. Not all pins are created equal and have become instantly collectible.
BARCELONA — The Android Market is growing at three times the rate of Apple’s App Store, according to a report released today by mobile security firm Lookout.
The number of Android Market apps increased about 127 percent since August, while the number of apps in the Apple App Store grew at a rate of 44 percent during that period, the company said in its latest App Genome Project report, which is based on an analysis of more than 500,000 mobile apps for those mobile platforms.
“The Android is maturing fast,”
After years of warnings from science fiction writers, it seems androids may finally be taking over the world.
For now, their influence is limited to mobile phones, in the guise of Google’s hugely popular operating system.
Mr Schmidt said that 300,000 Android-based phones are being activated each day, and more than 170 Android compatible devices are on the market.
What will Microsoft allow Nokia to do that will differentiate the first Windows Nokia phone?”
Motorola’s anticipated Android-based Xoom tablet has been making a lot of headlines because it’s the first to use Android 3.0 and is upgradeable to a 4G connection. But now it’s making headlines for a less favorable reason.
According to a rumor originally posted on Engadget, the retail price of the Xoom tablet will be $799.99. Ouch. That would put it on track to become the most expensive multimedia tablet on the market.
via TG Daily
Android has been a pretty popular mobile OS for Google, and it’s been a hit with customers, developers and cell manufacturers, too. However, it’s hard to imagine that it’s this popular. Google CEO Eric Schmidt, giving a keynote at the Mobile World Congress in Spain, mentioned that Google and their OEM partners are shipping 60,000 Android phones a day.
