Google Earth now available on Android 2.1
After a totally nonchalant, non-announcement type of showing by Erick Tseng at Eric Schmidt's MWC keynote last week (thanks to Phone Scoop for pointing that out), the Android version of Google Earth is now available in the Market for download to the Nexus One (and, in the future, "most" other devices running 2.1 or newer). Previously, it'd only been available as a mobile app on the iPhone -- a rare example of Google treating Apple's platform better than its own -- but with modern Android handsets getting extraordinarily speedy, it makes sense that they'd want to bring the graphics-intensive app home. It's not as useful as Google Maps in the strictest sense of the word, but with touch control (multitouch in particular), it's endlessly entertaining -- and assuming you've got an unlimited data plan and a few free megabytes of app storage space, it's probably a must-download
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, nexus one, Other Tags: apple, earth, entry, erick tseng, google-earth, google-maps, graphics, iphone, mobile, nexus one, phone-scoop, platform-better, result
Google waxes poetic on Nexus One’s design in video series, new docks shown off
Curious about the bright minds behind the OLED-wrapped, Android-powered Snapdragon in your pocket? Google's just posted its first in a series of videos about the Nexus One's magical journey from concept to production, and this particular episode calls in Mountain View's own Erick Tseng alongside HTC project manager Tomasz Hasinski and Lloyd Watts of Audience, which provided the phones dual-mic noise reduction tech
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone, nexus one, Other Tags: battery-charger, behind-the-oled, car dock, entry, erick tseng, htc, improving-voice, lloyd-watts, nexus, project-manager, tomasz-hasinski, video
Editorial: Google’s multitouch dilemma
As anyone who's seen the last Engadget Show knows, we were incredibly lucky to have Google's Erick Tseng as our guest.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: capable, engadget, erick, erick tseng, gestures, implementations, multitouchgestures, pinch-to-zoom, pinchtozoom, poise, semantics, solid, the-recognition
Next Android version will be called Froyo, says Erick Tseng
Proving once again that those who don't watch The Engadget Show are always going to be one step behind those who do, our latest star guest Erick Tseng has dropped a dollop of exclusive wisdom on us: Android's next big iteration will be known as Froyo.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: breakingnews, erick tseng, froyo, frozen-yogurt, googleandroid, guest, mobile-os, money, such-as-how, wonderful