This Week in Mobility #78

“Clothes make a statement. Costumes tell a story.”
~Mason Cooley 

Tips
1. BB Tip: How to Autodial Your Bridge # + Extension + Admin Code
2. No Simultaneous Talk & Tether on VZ
BlackBerry
3. 9550 Storm2 Gets Good Reviews
4. 9700 Bold2 Looking Good Too
5. RIM & Others to Support JIL Widgets
6. Oracle Mobile Sales Assistant 2.0 for BlackBerry
7. PhoneSnoop on BlackBerry
iPhone
8. Analyst Predicts Verizon iPhone in 2010
9. AT&T Implies iPhone Exclusivity Ending
10. Market Share: BlackBerry 40%, iPhone 30%
Windows Mobile
11. Sprint: Windows Mobile 6.5 Early 2010
12. HTC WinMo 6.5 Unboxed
Android
13. Motorola\Verizon Droid Release Nov 6th
14. Free! Super-Rich GPS Navigation from Google
Other News
15. Gartner: Smartphones Outpace Laptops by 2012
16. Google Voice for Your Vmail
17. Zong Rolls Out Next-Gen Payment Service
18. Smartphone Security 101 

“A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.”
~Arthur Golden 

Tips

1. BB Tip: How to Autodial Your Bridge # + Extension + Admin Code

Automate hosting your conference call from anywhere (BB calendar, email, and contacts) with this format.

Tel:8666578888,,2188888#,,*,,8888#,,1

Note: If you want to enter it into your contacts, use the “Notes” section of your contact.  Also, use comma’s not periods

2. No Simultaneous Talk & Tether on VZ

On the AT&T 3G Bold (and newer), EDGE allow you to take a phone call while using your BlackBerry as a cellular modem for your laptop, but not with Verizon.  CDMA has a single threaded radio operation.  Hence voice and data cannot share the radio.

BlackBerry

3. 9550 Storm2 Gets Good Reviews

Improvements for include the addition of Wi-Fi, doubling of Flash memory from 128 MB to 256 MB, and doubling of device memory from 1 GB to 2 GB.  Seems everyone is impressed with the SurePress screen too. Mobile Enterprise Magazine

4. 9700 Bold2 Looking Good Too

Biggest problem with Bold?  The trackball gets dirt in it.  Some might also say the Bold is too bulky.  Bold2 fixes both issues.  Bold 2 is smaller (4.29″ x 2.36″ x 0.56″), and uses a digital trackpad.  Then with double the flash memory (256mb), this 3G Bold 2 should have a comparatively long usability life span (2-3yrs?).

5. RIM & Others to Support JIL Widgets

The Joint Innovation Lab (JIL) today announced the support of Research in Motion, LG Electronics, Samsung Electronics and Sharp Corporation for the JIL widget specification in the manufacturers’ future mobile handsets, starting in 2010.  JIL is a joint venture of China Mobile, SOFTBANK, Verizon Wireless and Vodafone, aimed at creating a single global platform for mobile application developers that’s supported by a wide variety of devices and carriers.

6. Oracle Mobile Sales Assistant 2.0 for BlackBerry

The new application adds support for 12 languages, along with a range of new functionality. Mobile Enterprise Magazine

7. PhoneSnoop on BlackBerry

The U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team warned BlackBerry users on Tuesday about a new program called PhoneSnoop that allows someone to remotely eavesdrop on phone conversations.CNET

iPhone

8. Analyst Predicts Verizon iPhone in 2010

The only way the “Verizon iPhone in 2010″ rumor will go away is if by December 31, 2010 we still haven’t seen a Verizon iPhone. Otherwise, the rumor will stick around and offer continuous debate until we are completely sick of it. UnWired

9. AT&T Implies iPhone Exclusivity Ending

AT&T Mobility CEO Ralph de la Vega strongly implied today that the carrier’s exclusive deal to sell the iPhone in the U.S. is ending, although he gave no details in a conference call with analysts. InfoWorld

10. Market Share: BlackBerry 40%, iPhone 30%

The iPhone is on track to become the most popular smartphone in the U.S. market, according to a new survey by ChangeWave Research. iPhone market share now stands at 30 percent, versus 40 percent for the current reigning champion, BlackBerry. InfoWorld

Windows Mobile

11. Sprint: Windows Mobile 6.5 Early 2010

Sprint Exec David Owens admitted that Windows Mobile 6.5 is currently being tested on the company’s devices and will be ready sometime early next year.

12. HTC WinMo 6.5 Unboxed

Engadget (Video)

Android

13. Motorola\Verizon Droid Release Nov 6th

Motorola and Verizon Wireless announced Wednesday that the much-anticipated Droid handset would hit the market Nov. 6. The $199 handset operates on Google’s Android 2.0 software and is poised to battle the iPhone for market share. The Droid will be heavily promoted by Verizon, its exclusive vendor. “The marketing campaign that will support the Droid will be the largest in our history,” Verizon Chief Marketing Officer John Stratton said. Macworld /CNET /Wall Street Journal /IDG (Video)

14. Free! Super-Rich GPS Navigation from Google

Garmin and Tom Tom stocks plummeted after Google announced this week that it has created a free wireless navigation service that will offer turn-by-turn directions, live traffic updates, and the ability to recognize voice commands. The company says its service will initially be available only on the Motorola Droid.New York Times /InternetNews / Unwired (video) / PCMag (review)

Other News

15. Gartner: Smartphones Outpace Laptops by 2012

By 2012, revenue derived from the sale of smartphones will hit $191 million and will outpace revenue from mobile PCs such as laptops, according to a Gartner study. That development, the research firm predicts, will lead all major vendors of personal computers to announce plans, by the end of this year, to jump into the smartphone fray.

16. Google Voice for Your Vmail

Google Voice Frees Your Voicemail, and Your NumberPCWorld

17. Zong Rolls Out Next-Gen Payment Service

Zong is staking its claim in the mobile payments market with the launch of Zong+, an online mobile payment platform. Wireless Week

18. Smartphone Security 101

Most people view their smartphone as a phone and not as a computer.  People have to change their mindset in the same way when home computers started connecting to the Internet. CNN

Google trügib navigeerima

Google tõi välja beeta Maps Navigation tarkvarast, mis saab olema tasuta kasutamiseks Android 2.0 telefonide opsüsteemis. Tegemist on Google Maps tarkvara väga mahuka edasiarendusega, mis suudab pakkuda häälnavigatsiooni, näidata ridu teel ning kasutada tänavavaate režiimi (Google Streetview). Ka võimaldab süsteem otsida huvipunkte, näidata kaarti sateliidifotorežiimis ja hulk muud põnevat. Kui tarkvara tõepoolest välja jõuab, siis Garmin ja Tomtom peavad tõsiselt muretsema hakkama.

Põhjalikumalt räägivad ja näitavad Engadget ja Google Blog.

Android 2.0 to get turn-by-turn navigation in Google maps!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Now we all use and love Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Maps, but turn by turn navigation has always been missing. With the Motorola Droid announcement today there was a mention of a new application: Google Maps Navigation, and as the name implies, it finally adds navigation capabilities to Google Maps. It only works on Android 2.0 devices, and so far there is only one: Droid. And It only works in the USA, so Europeans and Asians are out of luck. Those small issues aside, you do get some nifty new features. The new voice API is used to enable hands free searching, and if you have a handset that supports a dock then you get “dock mode” so you can keep both hands on the wheel. Check out the videos below to get an idea of what Navigation is all about:

There’ll be more as it comes!

-Droidboy

HT-03Aを購入

iPhone が欲しかったけど、ドコモから出ないので、仕方なく Android にしました。さようなら、おサイフケータイ。

僕はMac ユーザで、スケジューリングは全て iCal で管理していて (Mac OS X Server で iCal Server まで立てて、研究室内でスケジュールを共有してる)、MobileMe で複数台の Mac 間でアドレスの同期を取ってます。

一方、Gmail はほとんど使っておらず、Google Calendar も使っていませんでした。

どう考えても、iPhone を使うべきなんですが、そこをあえて Android を使ってみるのも面白いかもしれません。まぁ iPod touch なら持ってるし。

ろくに調べもせず、なんとなく安く買えたので買ってしまいました。デジモノ好きなので、いつもはいろいろ下調べしてから買うのですが、こんな買い方をしたのは初めてです。

買ったのは HT-03A という機種ですが、何も期待はしてません。IMAP でメールが読めればいいかな、くらいです。

以前に、M1000 というスマートフォンを期待して購入し、あまりのもっさり感に絶望させられた覚えがあるので、スマートフォンとやらに期待をするのはヤメたのです。(iPhone は良さそうだなぁと思うし、実際 iPod touch はかなり良いと思ってますが。)

というわけで、まったく期待もせずに、なんとなく買ってみた HT-03A ですが、ちょっと使ってみた感じだと予想以上に良いです。これは iPhone に負けず劣らずという感じかも。iPhone は持ってないですが。

docomo から iPhone が出るまでは、この Android ケータイを使いこなしていこうと思います。

Android 1.6 Update - jetzt ists da

Seit einer Woche läuft das Update von Vodafone auf die HTC-Magic’s.
Nun hat auch meins mit Simyo-Karte ein Update untergeschoben bekommen.

Da poppte es plötzlich auf:

… 2min …

Die Camera ist wirklich schneller, sonst ist mit nicht viel aufgefallen.
Aber:
Der Shop hat nun tatsächlich mehrere Reiter:
Bezahl – Kostenlos – Neu

Bin ja mal gespannt ob das was bringt

¿Google Audio?

Fecha: 25 de octubre de 2009

El rumor sobre un nuevo servicio de Google de tipo musical se ha desbordado esta semana, máxime cuando Google esta enviando invitaciones para un evento de lanzamiento de algún producto que se celebrará el 28 de octubre en Hollywood. En primer lugar, y para quien no lo sepa, Google no es una empresa novata en esto, ya tiene un servicio bastante competente exclusivamente para China sobre música donde se pueden buscar canciones, escuchar alguna de ellas, comprar, etc. Quien esté interesado lo puede visitar (e intentar entender) en esta dirección.

Pero la apuesta de Google es este caso podría ir más alla y podría dirigirse a hacer una dura competencia a servicios ya establecidos como Rhapsody, Spotify, Amazon o iTunes. En principio en este servicio se podrían descargar canciones, escucharlas por streaming o ambas opciones a la vez y Google habría tenido una intensa labor en las últimas semanas llegando a acuerdos con los grandes sellos musicales americanos. Inicialmente el servicio se ofrecería sólo para el mercado americano y tendría soporte completo para la plataforma móvil Android.

Pero hay otros rumores, como el de Greg Sandoval de CNet, que apunta a que Google va a lanzar en realidad una plataforma de nombre One Box que ofrecerá fragmentos de canciones, biografías de grupos y artistas, videos y la posibilidad de comprar música en sitios como LaLa o iLike, pero en este caso se trataría de un servicio orientado a ofrecer funcionalidades de búsqueda enfocada al mundo musical, sin meterse en lo que es la venta en sí de música que derivaría a otras plataformas.

Así las cosas, el tipo de servicio que se va a prestar es todavía una incógnita. Particularmente apostaría por algún tipo de servicio derivado del actual Gaudi (Google AUDio Indexing) de Google Labs que permite localizar fragmentos musicales en videos de YouTube. Utilizando las capacidades actuales de Gaudi, y la capacidad de sus mótores de búsqueda, se puede generar un buscador musical bastante potente con capacidades adiconales de combinar autor, biografía e incluso sitios de compra. Esto explicaría por otra parte el secretismo de la operación ya que Google no ha hecho trascender prácticamente nada sobre esta nueva herramienta al ser un desarrollo interno y limitado.

¿Y lo siguiente de Google? El Gphone, a final de año, seguramente fabricado por HTC.

Gadget Watch

Gadget Watch - HTC Hero™ with Google™

If you have Sprint and you’ve been wanting a Android Powered Phone(ex G1,MyTouch) the wait is over with the arrival of the HTC Hero™ with Google™. The phone runs on the Andrord Platform and has a 3.2-inch TFT LCD touch-screen. A 5 megapixel camera with auto focus and 512MB of ram and is preloaded with a 2GB microSD™ memory card. If your a new Sprint customer or a eligible upgrade customer you will be able to snag one for around $179.99. Retail Price is $479.99 More info at Sprint.com

Highlights

* Easy access to Google™ mobile services including Google Search™, Google Maps™, Gmail™, and YouTube™.
* Silky smooth interface, plus accelerometer, light sensor and home screen widgets deliver a fun, hassle-free experience

Key Features

* Linked Contacts and Layered Calendar
* Chat-style messaging
* 3G speeds where available
* Touchscreen
* Music capable
* Sprint TV®
* GPS Navigation enabled
* Web browsing capable
* Email capable
* Camera
* Bluetooth® Wireless
* Memory card slot
* Voice activated dialing

The Motorola Droid

I am not going to lie. I have not been been down with a Moto product since my beloved Timeport that I dropped in the toilet! (Don’t ask) But from what I heard, the Verizon Droid is the phone to get.

We have been hearing about an iPhone killer since the iPhone first dropped. And needless to say, the iPhone is still alive and kicking. But can the Droid create the much hyped homicide? For starters, it is part of a more superior network, it has a keyboard, a 5 mega-pixel camera, it can multitask, it has speech recognition, it has, it has, it has……. the list seems top be endless.

The phone is dropping next week at a Verizon store near you.

Courtesy: Boy Genius Report

Barnes and Noble Nook eBook reader, ora in prevendita

Avevamo già riportato che Barnes & Noble avrebbero messo in commercio il loro eBook reader. Ora è ufficiale ed è già in prevendita da ieri. Il Nook monta uno schermo E-Ink da sei pollici e sedici livelli di grigi con sotto un touchscreen a colori di tipo capacitivo usato per settaggi e navigazione, il sistema operativo è Android di Google, utilizza il wireless tramite il WiFi o su rete 3G con AT&T e si potranno prestare alcuni dei libri acquistati agli amici. La memoria è di 2GB espandibile con Secure Digital e potrà essere montato come un disco esterno tramite USB. Le prevendite sono iniziate, il costo è $259, sarà distribuito a Novembre. Su Engadget trovate le prime impressioni.

Open Sourced Phones

Don’t get me wrong, I am all about “open source” development and communities, but does anyone else see a problem for the new Android phones?  If they are as advertised “open source apps” one would assume there’s no Google Submission Board (which is fictitious) to “approve” apps.  So, theoretically anyone could make an app that steals information from the owners phone and account.  What’s to stop that?  I grasp that it’s illegal, however if that’s the reasoning behind your arguement then you’re a moron.

Maybe I am ignorant to the method of “app submission”, but if there is a middle-man between developer and consumer then are they actually open source apps?  And what carrier is going to allow these phones on their network?  Not only is this a violation of most, if not all, terms of service agreements but potentially incredible legal charges.  Please someone tell me I am missing something, because I’d like to possible get an Android device.

Android端末 now 1

Droid

・Droid　Motorola　10月31日発表？
5Mピクセルのカメラ、スライド式QWERTYキーボード、タッチスクリーンを備える。
iphoneキラーの最有力候補。
teaserサイト（じらし広告サイト）が期待を高める。

iDon’t run simultaneous apps.
iDon’t customize.
iDon’t have a real keyboard.
iDon’t allow open development.   etc.
Everything iDon’t .

Droid Does.

http://phones.verizonwireless.com/motorola/droid/

OS:Android 2.0

販売：Verizon（米国）
発売日：11月上旬？

Motorola CLIQ

・CLIQ　Motorola
3Gネットワークに対応し、フルブラウザ、Wi-Fi、Bluetooth、GPS機能を備える。ビデオ録画機能も備えた5メガピクセルのカメラや、音楽ビデオプレーヤーを内蔵。
「MOTOBLUR」ユーザーインターフェース。

OS:Android 1.5

販売：t-mobile（米国）
発売日：11月2日より一般販売開始。
価格：$199.99（約18,110円）　2年契約

CNET Japan　モトローラ、噂のAndroidフォン「Motorola CLIQ」を発表

acer-liquid

・LIQUID　Acer
Wi-Fi、Bluetooth、GPS機能、5メガピクセルのカメラを備える。

OS:Android 1.6
CPU:Snapdragon　Qualcomm製
発売日：11月下旬？
価格：未明

PHOTOS: Acer Liquid A1

プレスリリース

・Aspire One D250 with Android　Acer

WindowsとAndroidのデュアルブート対応。
Androidは18秒で起動して操作可能になり、3秒でシャットダウン。
WindowsとAndroidが使い分けできて、この価格というのは魅力だなー。

The XP Home with Android version 　£279（約37,805円）　$349.99（約31,693円）
The Windows 7 with Android version 　£299（約40,515円）

http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/27935/acer-aspire-one-d250-android

プレスリリース

HTC Dragon? The new android device from HTC? Spotted?

The HTC Dragon is seemingly the Android variant of the highly popular Windows Mobile HTC HD2 running a 1 GHzSnapdragon processor–also found on the HD2 and the Acer neoTouch S200.

The Dragon seems to have a capacitive touch display with a row of touch-sensitive hardware buttons and a trackball at the bottom. Although SlashGear is postulating that the device may be a GSM device sporting GSM/EDGE/HSPA radios, that may not be the actual case upon release; recent HTC devices made for Verizon Wireless also state “3G” when on the carrier’s high-speed EVDO network. Those devices include the Verizon Wireless Touch Pro2 and theHTC Imagio.

The Dragon shares another similar trait with the Windows Mobile HTC HD2 including a large 4.3-inch touchscreen display, which we’re guessing is capacitive in nature as Android does support capacitive touchscreens. Additionally, it looks like the camera may also support an LED flash. Is this actually a chin-less HTC Hero with a larger screen?

Please comment! Also will update as it comes!

-Droidboy

"Android Adoption Is About To Explode"

It appears that Google’s mobile strategy is starting to pay off.  In a third quarter conference call, Eric Schmidt, CEO stated that “Android adoption is about to explode.”

There are now 12 Android phones across 32 carriers in 26 countries.

According to an a recent article on TechCrunch by Erick Schonfeld the whole Android strategy is to offer an low-cost, fully-featured, open-source OS and hand that to the cell phone manufacturers so that they can concentrate more on designing desirable hardware.  This strategy will allow Google to get an increasing amount of it’s revenue from mobile searches.    This trend is anticipated to be one of Google’s  biggest sources of growth in the coming years.

The full article by Erick Schonfeld may be found here:  http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/10/15/schmidt-android-adoption-is-about-to-explode/

Bar Control

ist eine Anwendung, mit der man oft benötigte Apps in die Notification-Liste legen kann, um so jederzeit schnellen Zugriff zu haben;
hat prinzipiell funktioniert, muß dazu aber permanent laufen, und da es eigene Icons mitbringt (offenbar ist der Autor nicht in der Lage, die Original-Icons der Apps zu verwenden), wird die App vermutlich großzügig Speicher beanspruchen…
Die Auswahl erfolgt über die App, die dazu eine längliche Liste von installierten Dingen anzeigt, von denen viele aus irgendwelchen Gründen vielfach genannt werden (imm mit dem gleichen Namen, so das sie in der Liste tatsächlich nicht unterscheidbar sind); wählt man einen Eintrag, so öffnet sich eine 2. Liste mit Icons, aus der man eines auswählt, das dann in klein links oben am Schirm sowie in groß in der Notification-Liste angezeigt wird.

Am Ende bin ich mit HomeSimple (oder mit langem Drücken der Home-Taste) genauso schnell bei den gewünschten Apps, so das ich hier den tatsächlichen Vorteil nicht sehe.

The Day I`ve Been Waiting For

Well boys and girls. Its happened, 1ghz phones are on the horizon. I know the snapdrogon processors have been mentioned before. But as far as I know Acer is the first one to speak of releasing one. Now its time to replace my beloved G1. 

Isnt it sexy?!?!

Acer has announced their first Android smartphone, called the Liquid. The Acer Liquid runs the Snapdragon 1GHz processor, and it’s also the first Android phone that uses the Snapdragon processor.

The phone comes with a high-def WVGA capacitive touchscreen and will be powered by Android version 1.6 aka Donut. The company claims the phone has been made with a couple of software features better than other smart phones that the company ever produced.

Such as power management for better battery life, better UI for entertainment and web bookmarking, camera with geo-tagging, self-timer, ISO, accelerated auto-focus performance, Spinlets app for streaming of music and video, and integration with social media sites including Facebook, Twitter, YouTube etc. There is no official price tag and actual release date for this phone yet.

via slipperybrick

Gowalla vs. FourSquare: Who Will Win?

FourSquare, the location-based mobile application game that launched back in March, has been getting a lot of attention here in the U.S., but in the meantime, an offering made available in the iPhone (s appl) App Store that same month has been gaining users internationally: Gowalla. Created by the Austin, Texas-based startup AlamoFire, the app is similar to FourSquare in that you can check in and notify friends when you get to a certain location, such as a restaurant or a bar, to earn “pins,” much like the set of badges you try to earn on FourSquare. But Gowalla’s location-based information is crowdsourced, which has allowed the app to quickly gain traction in places around the world.

So while FourSquare rolled out its app in London last week and is poised to expand to Paris next, Gowalla has had a 7-month head start in those cities and countless others. CEO Josh Williams wouldn’t specify how many users Gowalla has, but said they collectively create more than 1,000 new locations a day.

Of course, FourSquare has a leg up in that it’s also available on Android-based (s goog) phones. But that advantage is set to disappear as Gowalla’s Williams tells us that the startup plans to expand to Android and BlackBerry (s rimm) devices, as well as the Palm (s palm) Pre, within the next few weeks.

AlamoFire received $2 million in funding from Founder’s Fund and Alsop Louie Partners in February 2008.

Android 遠程控制 VNC Viewer

在Android 下亦有一些實用的工具，例如今天我們的主角 VNC Viewer．VNC Viewer 可讓我們通過網絡接駁安裝在了 VNC Server 的電腦．

VNC 昰一個公開的電腦搖控拹議，而當中主要分成 Viewer 及 Server，Viewer 是控制端，而Server 是被控端．在 Viewer 上可控制 Server 上的一切，而主流約作業系統上都可見到它的出現，例如 Windows 平台上有 TightVNC, UltraVNC, RealVNC 等，而 Mac 平台上有 Apple remote desktop sharing ，甚至 Linux 亦有支援 VNC．所以 VNC 昰十分強大及實用的一個軟件．

相關連結 :

Android VNC Viewer: http://code.google.com/p/android-vnc-viewer/

Ultra VNC : http://www.uvnc.com/

Tiger VNC : http://tigervnc.org/

Real VNC : http://www.realvnc.com/

Apple Remote Desktop Sharing : http://www.macminicolo.net/Mac_VNC_tutor.html

Aloqa's LBS iPhone App Just Misses the Mark

From Loopt to FourSquare, it seems like every mobile-focused startup these days wants to hop on board the location-based application train. Aloqa launched an iPhone version of its free Android and BlackBerry application last week (the startup’s CEO, Sanjeev Agrawal, spoke during a panel at our recent Mobilize conference).

Like Geodelic, Aloqa helps you find nearby points of interest — what it calls “channels” — that you can customize according to your preferences. For example, if you’d rather get a cup of coffee from Peet’s than from Starbucks or another cafe, you can subscribe to the Peet’s channel. You’re then a tap away from pulling up a map that will guide to the store location you want to visit.

After trying out Aloqa for a week, I think it’s a solid LBS app but wish that its channels included more drilled-down points of interest. We recently moved our office to the SOMA neighborhood, an area of San Francisco with which I’m still not terribly familiar. I struggled to find a place to grab a quick salad for lunch using Aloqa and wound up using my Google Maps application instead.

While Aloqa has a channel that lists nearby Yelp-reviewed restaurants, none of them offered the type of food I was looking for and none of them did takeout. (I admittedly had not looked at the fast food channel). What Aloqa did help me find was a nearby ATM for my bank and a Starbucks store closer to the one I was originally going to, which are definite pluses. There’s also a channel that notifies you when one of your Facebook friends is nearby, but only one of my friends has installed Aloqa on their phone so this hasn’t proven to be a helpful feature.

Aloqa just launched this summer, so there’s still room for improvement; hopefully we’ll soon see channels on it that point to more disaggregated points of interest. The Palo Alto, Calif.-based startup received $1.5 million in Series A funding this July from Wellington Partners and angel investors.

Archlinux: Instalando un Chromium

Logo de Chromium

Como me ha comentado alguno por aquí, en GNU/Linux no todos los navegadores son Firefox… ni somos el demonio por no utilizarlo Cuando uno va justo de recursos hay que plantearse muchas alternativas y Chromium es una de ellas.

Para los que no lo conozcan es el navegador GPL en el que se basa el conocido Google Chrome. Como Google, aún no entiendo por qué, no ha realizado una versión oficial de su navegador para GNU/Linux (con más funcionalidades que el que vamos a instalar ahora), pues nos conformaremos con este.

Igualmente, y antes de pasar a la acción, quisiera confirmar lo que ya me habeis comentado y es que es extremadamente rápido y liviano. Muy recomendable aunque todavía le falten funcionalidades por añadir.

Para esta instalación recomiendo tener instalado Yaourt que nos simplificará la tarea de instalacion.

Tener en cuenta que esta instalación tarda bastante, por lo menos en mi equipo, al tenerse que compilar todas las fuentes. Paciencia!

Empezamos la instlaación tal y como pone la pantalla: "yaourt -S chromium-rowser-latest"

Confirmamos con "y" para que continue

Necesita descargarse los "codecs" mpeg, "s" para aceptar

Creo que ya he comentado lo que tarda... pero lo recuerdo... ánimo!

Aunque creíais que no llegaría nunca... se acaba y ya sólo falta instalar . "y" y adelante! (esto tarda

Ya está! ahora tenemos un "lanzador" en la sección de "Internet" para verlo y disfrutarlo

Bueno, pues ya está!

Es rápido y eficiente en recursos. Ha disfrutar!

Nota1: Edito porque aunque funciona estupendo de la muerte… si me intento loguear en WordPress me salta esto (y de momento no sé arreglarlo, investigaremos!):

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Aparelhos com Android já chegaram na Tim

Android é o nome de um sistema operacional para celulares que espera ser um dos melhores, se não o melhor, já criado. Não é apenas pelo fato de a empresa que desenvolveu ele ser a Open Handset Alliance (um grupo de mais de 30 empresas e tecnologias), que foi recentemente comprada pelo Google. O Android já começou acertando na parte do desenvolvimento: enquanto a Apple liberou o SDK para desenvolvedores apenas um ano após o lançamento do aparelho,  o Google lançou o SDK antes do lançamento do celular.

Sem falar que a renderização de sites é tão boa quanto a do iPhone e também possível visualizar todo o site, dando um Zoom (out) na página.

Uma ferramenta que dá de 10 à zero em qualquer ferramenta GPS é o famoso Google Street View. Infelizmente disponível apenas no exterior. Ele permite uma visualização diferenciada do Google Maps.
O interessante não é apenas o sistema operacional, é que o Google está lançando um concurso e que deverá premiar os melhores aplicativos para o sistema operacional. O primeiro concurso já foi realizado e premiou com 25 mil dólares os melhores aplicativos. Isso é promessa de uma excelente qualidade dos aplicativos desenvolvidos para esse sitema.

Android сегодня

Не так долго существует андроид, но он уже успел завоевать сердца многих людей. К сожалению, пока нет в продаже устройств заслуживающих внимание, хотя, пожалуй, стоит отметить один коммуникатор: GTC Hero. На вид неплохое, симпатичное существо, но к сожалению со своими недостатками (а куда без них?) Лично мне важно не только большой экран и красивый интерфейс. На Samsung WiTu я часто использую FM-радио, просматриваю не конвертированное видео. Согласитесь, что скачать с торрентов фильм и сразу бросить его в коммуникатор гораздо удобней и быстрее, чем этот скаченный фильм, размеров в 1,5 Гб конвертировать с разрешения 1280 х 800 в 340 х 240, при этом для батареи разница в жизни всего лишь 2-3 часа. Разница не существенная. Сейчас активизировались много производителей кпк и смаортфонов – это Samsung, HTC, Toshiba, Sony Erricson . Ну что ж, посмотрим что будет дальше. Лично моя мечта заиметь коммуникатор на базе Android. К сожалению, как я уже говорил ранее, еще нет ничего достойного внимания. Производители выпускают сырые модели, делай покупателей бетта тестерами за их же деньги. Думаю, года через 2 все же появится что то достойного внимания, а пока надежды… надежды.. и снова надежды=)

Setting up Android SDK on Linux

Google provides Windows, Linux and Mac OS X releases of Android SDK. Unfortunately the Linux build is a 32-bit application and setup on modern Linux desktops requires some tweaking. The following steps are needed:

• Download the SDK and extract to a directory of your choice.
• Create new environment variables named ANDROID_SDK and ANDROID_SDK15. Both should point to the SDK installation directory.
• Make sure that JAVA_HOME points to a 64-bit JDK.
• Add $ANDROID_SDK/tools to the PATH variable.
• Install 32-bit releases of the following libraries: libXt, libXtst, libXi and ncurses. Your package manager should allow 32-bit and 64-bit versions to co-exist on your system.
• Create an AVD (Android Virtual Device) instance, e.g. android create avd -n my_avd -t 1

You should now be able to launch the Android emulator with the following command (my_avd is name of the newly created Android Virtual Device):

emulator -avd my_avd

SmartQ 5 手寫中文輸入

我的Q5現在運行繁體中文的 Android, 校正筆觸後, 開始設定這機械人, 但發現其內置的中文輸入法只有 Google 的拼音輸入法(這個我可不懂!), 在G大神的幫助下, 找到了兩個名為 MOTO 輸入法 及 HTC HERO 輸入法, 但M記輸入法除主程序外還要多裝三個軟件包, 而H輸入法裝一個便可以, 所以我選擇了 H 輸入法。
安奘完後, 在輸入文字時並沒有得選擇新加入的輸入法, 我心想可能要重新啟動才成. 但重啟後H輪入法依然沒有出現! 幾經折騰後, 才發現要把這輸入法設成啟動才成。

方法昰:

從主頁中長按[ALT] 鏈來呼出目錄, 點選 [設定] , 再選 [地區設定與文字] 然後把 [Touch Input 中文] 打勾就可以。

從始我便可以用手寫輸入中文了!

Principali Notizie della Settimana

Cosa è successo recentemente in ambito di mercato digitale? (fonte HypeBot –  Wondermark NetVibes Page). Tra le novità più importanti segnaliamo:

• YouTube domina ancora le statistiche di consumo video, in termini di accessi e streaming. Un fenomeno che non conosce alcun arresto.

• The Orchard, principale operatore mondiale nel settore della distribuzione digitale, licenzia il 20% del personale nello stesso giorno in cui il direttore generale, Greg Scholl rassegna le sue dimissioni, operative dal prossimo 1 Novembre. Le azioni di The Orchard quotate al Nasdaq di Wall Street perdono il 12% in un solo giorno.

• Twitter lancia una nuova opzione (per ora solo per invito e in fase beta) chiamata “Are you on the List”. Il motivo per questa nuova opzione è dato dal fatto che una volta che una persona inizia a seguire un numero elevato di persone, il numero di “Tweets” che può ricevere può diventare un ammasso incontrollato. Creando invece delle “Group List” seguire un numero elevato di amici, colleghi, bands e quant’altro potrà risultare molto più semplice e ordinato

• FreeAllMusic.com – Un’altra azienda, mossa dalla filosofia “Scarica gratis con pubblicità” riceve importanti fondi di finanziamento per partire. Un mercato, quello della musica scaricabile tramite pubblicità, che sembra non avere ancora un riscontro globale, nonostante le molte valide idee messe in campo.

• Warner Music Group riattiva i suoi contenuti all’interno di YouTube.

• L’artista e rapper americano T-Pain riesce a vendere 300.000 applicazioni iPhone, un vero record per un applicativo musicale mobile.

• Warner Music Group annuncia ulteriori tagli di personale. Voci di acquisizione di EMI Music da parte della stessa Warner.

• Spotify annuncia una versione “Offline” del suo servizio di streaming musicale. Diverse nuove acquisizioni di catalogo, in corso rendono sempre più appetibile questo nuovo servizio, disponibile anche su iPhone e Android.

HTC Hero update

On Friday, I had another go at downloading and installing the updater. This time I downloaded it at work on the laptop as opposed to having previously downloaded on my MacBook at home and transferring it to an SD card. Easier said than done however owing to our work set-up. Basically we have two screens available, what we call the “blue” screen where we can do what we want, install apps etc but nothing is backed up and from where there is no internet access enabled and then the “grey” screen that is available when you log on via a Citrix server. PC people will know what that means, I, however don’t understand it. There is internet access enabled in the “grey’ screen but if you download anything it can’t be saved on the grey screen but instead has to be saved to the blue screen. Doing so takes ages.

Anyway, I downloaded the HTC updater via grey, all 101mb of it, and saved it to the blue screen which took an hour and 20 minutes. I then connected the Hero on the blue screen via HTC Sync, ensured it was actually connected and then fired up the updater. To my blessed relief it opened and thereafter the update was plain sailing. I have no idea why things suddenly worked. I failed previously and my tech-savy PC chum at work also failed and what is odd is that he downloaded the file himself as opposed to using the mac downloaded file I provided him with. Ah well, bottom line is who cares, at least it has now been updated.

Talking of bottom lines….I am so glad it has now been sorted as the Hero feels much more responsive when flicking through screens and quicker too. Getting things back to normal did not take long after either. My Gmail, Gcal and Google contacts were all synced back upon re-entering my password, some settings were quickly changed and the apps I had bought were re-downloaded via MarketPlace. Without really consciously having done it, I seem to be moving more stuff to the Cloud, as they say, as I also now use Remember The Milk. The advantage is being able to keep different devices in sync and not being tied to the computer for restores and stuff.

The MarketStore has a section called “My Downloads” which stores details of the apps downloaded, installed and purchased. It also remembers which ones you have paid for so there is no hassle about having to pay for them again. Like the iPhone, there are no “passwords” (another blessed relief) to have to record somewhere and keep track of. I had bought a backup application and had done a backup prior to updating the ROM but getting everything back to normal was so stress free I didn’t bother. Unlike the iPhone, you can restore from the device on the move which is a nice feeling.

I must admit that after the first few days with this HTC Hero I was unsure about it but since then I have warmed to it. There are things that it does better than the iPhone and vice-versa but more about that later this week.

Android: Haciendo root a la magic desde Archlinux

Yo me quedé la negra pero.... me encantan las 2...!

Como sabeis este verano he podido conseguir un terminal de Vodafone con Android.

Lo primero, para sentirte libre con él, es tener opción de ser root y así poder instalar una de esas ROMs que circulan por ahí.

En Archlinux podemos hacerlo y no es mucho más fácil o difícil que en Windows!!! (aunque parezca mentira).

Vamos por partes:

Pero antes de todo tengo que remarcar varias cosas:

a) Es un proceso delicado: esto no es un juego, si por algo se va la luz, o cualquier problema no detectado hasta el momento, tu teléfono quedará inservible (brickeado) y, por supuesto, ni yo ni nadie, tenemos ninguna responsabilidad.

b) No hay que ser experto pero, aunque he intentado explicar las cosas de la mejor manera que sé, requiere saber un poco lo que estás haciendo.

c) Este proceso anula la garantía salvo que consigas la ROM original y todo lo demás de Vodafone y lo pongas

1.- Lo primero es bajarse el SDK de la web de Google, aquí.

Aunque hay para varias plataformas, escogemos GNU/Linux

2.- Nos descargamos la herramienta fastboot para GNU/Linux, necesaria para reiniciar el terminal en el modo adecuado, de aquí

3.- Descomprimimos la primera carpeta en el Escritorio, po ejemplo.

4.- Ponemos el fichero fastboot en el directorio tools del SDK.

5.- Ponemos permisos de ejecución al fichero fastboot desde el terminal, en el directorio correspondiente y con el siguiente comando:

chmod +x fastboot

6.- Después debemos crear/editar el fichero que permitirá que tengamos permisos de escritura en el terminal:

sudo gedit /etc/udev/rules.d/11-android.rules

y ponemos lo siguiente:

SUBSYSTEMS=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="0bb4", ATTRS{idProduct}=="0c01", MODE="0666", OWNER="thearcher" SUBSYSTEMS=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="0bb4", ATTRS{idProduct}=="0c02", MODE="0666", OWNER="thearcher"

Cambiando “thearcher” por vuestro nombre de usuario.

Ahora deberíamos reiniciar para que fueran efectivos los cambios. En GNU/Linux siempre hay una manera de hacer las cosas sin reiniciar, pero yo no lo conozco.

7.- Nos aseguramos que nuestro teléfono tenga activado el modo depuración mirando en:

Ajustes – Aplicaciones – Desarrollo – Depuración USB

8.- Conectamos nuestro teléfono por USB

9.- Vamos al terminal, hasta el directorio tools del SDK de Android y ejecutamos:

adb devices

"adb devices" nos mostrará un número de serie que es el de nuestro teléfono.

10.- Nos bajamos el 2 ficheros, uno es la rom que nos permitirá hacernos root y el otro es el recovery que nos permitirá hacer backups, entre otras cosas. Los bajamos de aquí y aquí y los copiamos en la carpeta tools del SDK del Android.

11.- Renombramos el fichero rootme-signed.zip a update.zip y el

recovery-rav1.2.1g.img a recovery-new.img

12.- Activamos la tarjeta SD del teléfono (en las notificaciones) para poder copiar ficheros desde el ordenador a la SD.

13.- Copiamos los 2 ficheros en la RAIZ de la SD.

14.- Ahora debemos reiniciar el terminal en modo fastboot, para ello apagamos el terminal dejando la tecla  de colgar apretada. Luego lo encendemos pulsando la misma tema una vez y dejando presionada la flecha de volver (al lado de la lupa). Se encenderá el teléfono con la pantalla en blanco con unos androides en monopatín (skates).

15.- Y nos vamos al terminal y ponemos:

./fastboot boot recovery-new.img

Y el teléfono se reiniciará en un modo que no has visto hasta ahora, el recovery

16.- En este modo, cuando acabe de arrancar ponemos:

./adb shell flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery-new.img ./adb shell

El primer comando nos “instalará” este modo (recovery) en el teléfono (accederemos a el siempre que queramos si encendemos el teléfono con la casa apretada) y el segundo es para entrar al modo terminal.

17.- Ahora nos debería salir un “#” en el prompt de la pantalla lo que significaría que tenemos acceso root.

18.- Continuamos en el terminal y escribimos:

mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system cd system cd bin cat sh>su chmod 4755 su sync reboot

Con esto se reiniciará el teléfono y seremos roots.

19.- Para acabar reiniciamos en modo recovery (con la casa apretada) y escogeremos la opción de “apply sdcard:update.zip”

Tarda un poquito pero ya está!

Ahora cada vez que queramos instalar una ROM, lo único que hay que hacer es copiarla a la raiz de la SD, arrancar en el modo recovery y darle a esta opción para que se instale.

Una cosa importante antes de ponerse a instalar ROM’s como locos es que la mayoría de las que hay, si no se hace un WIPE antes (otra de las opciones del recovery que elimina todos los datos del teléfono salvo lo que tengas en la SD) suelen funcionar mal.

Por supuesto, y aunque me encantaria, este tutorial no es mío, la mayor parte de la información la he sacado de htcmania y el resto de androidsis o del increible foro de xda-developers, todos los méritos y esfuerzos son de ellos y para ellos deberían ser los agradecimientos.

Bueno, creo que eso es todo, felices flasheos y como recomendación personal… buscar Cyanogen o la traducción del brillante Superatmel!

Mehrsprachige (Web)Anwendungen

Dazu such ich ja immer noch eine super Lösung…..

Gestern stand auf Golem ein Artikel über Übersetzungen in Webanwendungen.
http://www.golem.de/0909/70167.html

Kurz:
Man stellt in seiner App ein in welche Sprache man übersetzt haben will (später mehr)
Dann gibt man in seiner FacebookApp Text so aus:
Hello World!
wobei desc=”A common greeting.” sozusagen die Referenz ist.

Kommt dann jemand in einer Sprache in die man übersetzt haben will, so erscheint der Text Hello World unterstrichelt.
Der entsprechende erhält dann ein Popup wenn er drauf klickt mit:
“A common greeting” : Engl: Hello World! Deutsch? [_________________]
(zB Hallo Welt)
Das speichert Facebook dann ab.
Auf einer Reviewseite kann man oder andere Querlesen obs passt. Wenns passt schaltet man den Begriff frei.
Kommt wieder ein deutscher auf die Seite erscheint eben dann Hallo Welt.

Jetzt weiss ich nicht ganz was ich davon halten soll…
Problem ist,
1. dass es Global für die Anwendung gilt
2. das es Sätze wie: “Sie sind [23] Jahre alt” in 2 Teile zerlegt. Da das dann global gilt gibts Probleme mit:
Sie sind [23] Jahre alt  = You are
Sie sind [aus München] = You live [in]
3. In der Application muss vorher jeder Satz so markiert werden, sonst ist Essig mit Übersetzen.

Mehr zB:
http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/Internationalization/Markup/XFBML

und

http://developers.facebook.com/news.php?blog=1&story=308

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Bei Android (und beim Iphone wohl so ähnlich) sind Resourcenfiles in XML hinterlegt
Im Verzeichnis values die englische (und Fallback wenn ein Wert fehlt) Version, andere Sprachen entsprechend dem Iso Kürzel
+ values
- –  strings.xml
+ values-de
- –  strings.xml

Textfelder auf der GUI/Oberfläche haben nun entweder einen fest zugewiesenen Text (blöd) oder verweisen auf das entsprechende Feld zB “rescanthis”  im strings.xml File

values/strings.xml: Refresh Level
values-de/strings.xml: Anzeige aktualisieren

Hat ein Handy als Sprache deutsch eingestellt wird erst nach dem deutschen Feld gesucht, dann also Fallback im englischen.
Problem:  ”print ‘you are here’ “;
In Android so zu lösen:
text = getString(R.string.rescanthis)

Auch nicht superhübsch.