Google Voice Search update helps you personalize your results, helps Google build another database to take over the world
Google Voice Actions was the first step towards our Star Tre k dreams of lassoing the world with naught but vocal cords, and today Google's taken a second hop towards that inevitable future by letting Android devices record our every utterance. Yes, if you've got a handset running Froyo or better, you can download an update for Google Voice Search right now, which will let your phone dynamically personalize its speech-to-text engine to better recognize your voice most every time you use it
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: dandy, database, future, future-products, handset-running, handy, personalized, phone, products, speech, speech recognition, update, voice, voice-recognition, voice-search
Sony Ericsson LiveView now available in Europe; if you had a LiveView, you’d know that already
Look, the future is in hyper-informed wrist accessories.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: bluetooth watch, clippable, entry, ericsson, european, france, future, liveview, sony-ericsson, three-disparate, watch
HTC said to be working on its own app store, would make a lot of Sense
Keen readers of the Financial Times will have been greeted this morning by a nice little bit of insider information regarding HTC's future software plans. We already knew the phone maker was keen to play a more active role in the softer parts of the smartphone experience it offers, but two new sources have come forward with word that HTC is actively hiring new staff in preparation for setting up its very own app store.
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone Tags: entry, europe, future, htc hub, knew-the-phone, leak, result, speculation, windows, windows phone 7
Clearwire’s San Francisco WiMAX launch was a bureaucratic nightmare
It seems awfully odd that San Francisco -- you know, San Francisco , part of America's technology nexus -- had been left out in the 4G cold for so long while over 70 other networks have been brought live in Clearwire's WiMAX footprint. Well, turns out there's a good reason...
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: antenna, appeal, clearwire, customers, future, other-networks, planning, planningcommission, Reason, tremblor, wimax
Sony takes aim at iPhone gaming in new PSP ad
Well, it looks like Nintendo isn't the only gaming company that thinks Apple is the " enemy of the future " -- Sony has now also taken aim at iPhone gaming in a new PSP ad featuring Kevin Butler 's pint-sized counterpart, Marcus Rivers. In it, Marcus reminds viewers that the iPhone is built for things like "texting your grandma and calling your girl," while the PSP is "built for big boy games," some of which can be had for as little as $9.99. See the whole thing for yourself after the break.
LG confirms Android tablet for Q4 2010 launch, Froyo for Optimus Z
Now this is jolly good news. LG, which already has a Windows 7 tablet in the works, is gearing up to service those with a hankering for some Android in their slate computers as well
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: 2010, current, engadget, fourth, froyo, future, google-centric, launch, optimus z, quarter-as-well, schedule, slate, spec, tablet
Screen Grabs: Pretty Little Liars is TV’s newest home to egregious product placement (video)
Scene: Impossibly mature high school "girls" mingling in front of a locker. Action! Bitter Barbie: "What are you doing? Is that a new phone?" Bland Barbie: "Yeah, I'm checking my Kin.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: backside, entry, future, mirror, pre, promoting-its, roger, screen-grabs
Pair of mysterious Motorola Android handsets espied in the wild
What can we say about these two Motorola-borne Android devices?
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: code, future, google-android, googleandroid, leaks, motorola, motorola zn4, motorola-android, motorola-borne, motorolaandroid, some-brief, the-future, wild, zn4
iGrip mount brings inductive charging to your windshield (video)
At CES this past January we took a look at a number of high-end concept dashboards destined to fill up the insides of the car of the future . One of those concepts, from Visteon , even had an inductive pad upon which you could throw your phone and have it charged up by the time you got where you're going. Cool, but it doesn't do those of us driving the car of the present much good
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: car-adapters, charger, conductive, engadget, future, igrip, inductive charger, inductive charging, mount-brings, tangle, visteon, Windshield, your-windshield
Verizon to blanket ‘one third’ of America with LTE this year, double coverage in 15 months
Remember when we heard that Verizon Wireless just might be able to bump its commercial LTE rollout to the first quarter of 2010 ?