Miscellaneous

By the end of 2010 Orange UK has released a smart-phone known as Orange San Francisco. It was an Android based device running Éclair operating system and sporting pretty regular specs. Well, by the end of 2011 Orange UK plans to release its better version known as Orange San Francisco II. This middle range smart-phone will sport a 3.5-inch WVGA TFT touch-screen display, an 800MHz ARM11 processor, a 5 megapixel rear camera, 512MB of onboard memory and Android 2.3 Gingerbread on a board. Also, the ZTE Orange San Francisco II will come preloaded with both Ovi and BlackBerry Maps for your navigating needs (which is strange, I would say). Of course, this smart-phone has nothing to do among the high-end devices like the Galaxy S II or the Motorola Droid RAZR but middle-range is not bad, it is cheap. Let us hope that Orange UK won’t ask a fortune for having the whole San Francisco in your pocket.

Well, this is nice. I wish my eBay purchases were always as good as this one. So, here comes an interesting part: an anonymous person has made a decision to purchase a Nexus S on eBay. Nothing strange so far, right? He’s got his package and started playing with the smart-phone. But after checking what exactly the Nexus S is good for, he found out that his newly purchased Google Product is running Android 4.x Ice Cream Sandwich. There are really quite a few visual differences, namely a new launcher style, a new “Google Apps” folder, a new notification bar, and a new lockscreen. Also, there are a panorama feature in the camera, and the “Movie Studio” icon in the app drawer. Nothing to be shocked with. But there is something that keeps bothering me all the time: I do understand that ICS is extremely awaited and every Android owner would like to see it on his smart-phone but… If I am to mistaken, Ice Cream Sandwich should appear on the Nexus Prime. That is the main rule – first things first: Nexus Prime and after that – all the others. I think that this is nothing more but a very good fake. The only realistic version that has a right to be announced is that maybe (just maybe) Android developers were testing ICS update on the Nexus S and someone has managed to get this device and sell it on eBay. Who knows?

While people are occupied with their problems and work, Sony Ericsson is planning to release a couple of phones and I literary mean – a couple. The first one to be mentioned is the Sony Ericsson Xperia Ray. Here are some of its specs: a 3.3-inch touch-screen display, an 8.1MP rear camera, a 1GHz CPU (it is a great possibility that this is the same second-gen Snapdragon used in recent Xperia phones), a front-facing camera and all the great Sony Ericsson software features that we’ve seen on the Arc and other devices. The device looks very nice and definitely deserves your attention. The best part of it is its unique color that was inspired by Mother Nature. What am I talking about? Well, take a look at this video and you’ll figure the things out yourself. I would definitely like to take a closer look at this innovative smart-phone from Sony Ericsson because it deserves special attention. Also, the smart-phone mentioned will be running the latest Android 2.3 Gingerbread OS.

Now, if you accidently appear in a strange town with your Android and won’t be able to plan the tourist trip then do not get disappointed because there is a way out. Thanks to Lonely Planet’s creators and their reality city guide you won’t be lost and will be able to plan your trip around the city. Their application is kind of “must have” app for every tourist and not only because with a single pointing on anything less or more known one will receive a full list of information about this establishment including open hours, phone number, web site and so on. And do not worry about the incredible roaming fees because this application works perfectly fine offline and will still provide you with the useful information. The only things that are not included in offline mode are maps. But there is a plenty of Tourist Centers that will help you to solve this problem. But hurry up because only before the Christmas season this app is on sale and the price was dropped from $4.99 to 99¢. By the way, here is the list of supported cities:

Amsterdam

Bangkok

Barcelona

Beijing

Boston

Chicago

Hong Kong

Istanbul

Las Vegas

London

Los Angeles

Miami

New Orleans

New York City

Paris

Prague

Rome

San Francisco

Seattle

Seoul

Singapore

Sydney

Tokyo

Vancouver

Washington DC.

Will Gingerbread finally make its long-awaited arrival?” This is the sixty-four-million-dollar question most people are asking nowadays. If you ask us, there is a slight possibility that it is almost here. Andy Rubin of Google will be speaking at All Things D on Monday. We are all hoping and praying that he might be giving us some updates on when Gingerbread will actually come out. The French peeps at Frandroied also seem to be giving some clues as to things that may happen on one of these cold December days. They made reference to the Saint Nicolas cookie as a variety of the Gingerbread cookie. Incidentally, the feast of St. Nicholas is on December 6^th. Notion Ink, who has been working on their own tablet, the Adam, for almost a year now also made reference to December 6 saying that it is “going to be a big day for Android.” We are as excited as everyone to see if the Gingerbread can actually live up to its billing, but we are keeping our fingers crossed.

When T-Mobile UK failed to deliver on their promise of December 1 for the release of the OTA update that will upgrade the Samsung Vibrant from version 2.1. to 2.2, there was a lot of negative reaction to it. TechRadar released a statement that they are still relying on T-Mobile to make good on its promise to have the OTA released by next Friday.As a result of an enquiry from TechRadar on when the update will really be released, T-Mobile released a statement apologizing for the delay in the FroYo 2.2 update for the Samsung Galaxy S. It also went on to say that it is their priority to make sure the update they will be sending out will provide customers with the best possible experience and that they are working hard to make it available as soon as possible. The delay may have been caused about by the JIT compiler and other enhancements and optimizations that they are trying to squeeze into the OTA.

For all software developers out there, this one is for you. We know you are very anxious to try out the world of NOOKcolor coding and here it is finally. The API level 7 SDK from NOOKcolor can now be downloaded from Barnes & Noble. This application also runs smoothly on the Android 2.1 Operating system. This developer program is leaning toward the reading-centric applications, but we are looking at applications for productivity, social and games in the near future. If you want to find out what is inside the NOOKcolor, check out the Barnes & Noble website which gives you all the information you would need to know about this app. Also, check out the documents and PDF files associated with the SDK’s installation that can also be found on the website. If you have downloaded this app, please let us know your thoughts and feedback about this product.

In their continuing efforts to improve the chances for developers to have their apps seen and promoted, Adobe announced that they will start a new program called “InMarket” to help those struggling developers. At the Adobe Max Conference yesterday, officials with Adobe announced their plans for this inventive program where developers who to this point have not been able to get their apps out there, submit apps to InMarket, and from there, Adobe takes care of the rest. As with Adobe AIR up to this point, the split between the two parties will remain at 70/30, but what this will do is change the way apps get out to the public. With InMarket, rather than simply submitting the app to Adobe, and it being released to the general market, developers will submit their apps to InMarket, and Adobe will submit that app to several markets, which include eBooks, tablet, smartphones, among others. While users of markets will see no change, it will definitely change how the market works for developers out there.

A little late is really a big deal for some, and I don’t know how you guys will react to know that Logitech Revue pre-orders were delayed.

Here’s Logitech’s apology:

” We sincerely apologize that the shipment of your pre-order of Logitech Revue was delayed. You should have it before the weekend; You might already have it today.

But we know you expected to be the first one with a Logitech Revue and for that, we apologize.

Keep an eye on your inbox for a special offer to thank you for your patience.

Thank you once again for your purchase. We’re sure you’ll enjoy Logitech Revue from the first minute you have it.”

I wonder what happened? It could be that they ran out of supplies for they have lots of orders from Best Buy. Well, at least if you’re one of those who got caught up with this dilemma then most likely you can tell us what’s the aforementioned ’special offer.’ Is is just discounts on accessories such as the HD TV Cam or the Mini-Controller? Freebies? Please share, by leaving us some comments!

[via Talk Android]

Better terminal Emulator Pro.This application will help you to communicate with you. For your personal work, if you far you away from your computer, but need to check something very important on home machine or server. In this case this application with an honorable name Better Terminal Emulator Pro will definitely help you in this complicated but very sincere desire. The interface is very understandable and easy to control and app supports SSH client that is just perfect.
Double Twist. It is better than other application in which it does lots of things and all of them have something to do with music. First of all in music management it is a good helper on the phone and gives admittance to podcast. Not only this but also NPR stations are available thanks to the Radio feature. It is good to have an app like this and stop perturbing about yesterday’s morning music lists on your phone. Start you day with positive and only harmonious portion of good sounds for breakfast.
So guys, if you forget the above application, you can repair from the information.