Yahoo phone
Yahoo will launch on the market in Japan a cell phone under its own brand and which, no matter how strange it sounds, it runs the Android operating system. Surprising is the fact that Android is developed by the company’s largest competitor, Google.
Yahoo’s decision could be justified by the fact that yahoo.com is the most important site in Japan.
At a first glance, the technical specifications look like this:
-manufacturer: Sharp
-display: 4 inches with resolution qHD
-camera: 8MP photo camera with CMOS sensor
-connectivity: Bluetooth 2.0, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n
-slot for SDHC cards:
-operating system: Android 2.3
-additional functions: electronic wallet, digital TV tuner.
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Google confirmed today that Google Maps 5.7 application will have experimental support for local maps download sites that can then be used offline.
Android users will be able to use the zoom function to download maps within a radius of 16 km from the location chosen. Feature your guests will find in other countries provide a basic mapping, without having to pay for data roaming.
Another new feature is the Transit Navigation, GPS navigation which provides turn-by-turn in public transport system in over 400 cities worldwide.
So if you are a means of transportation in another country, the Transit Navigation feature will detect the location and will alert you when to lower or to make a transfer.
Finally, add Photo Viewer for pages Places site should help you better visualize the location to which you are heading.
The update is available for Android versions since 2.1.
Another target was reached by Google and its mobile operating system. Recently he was announced as the threshold of half a million sites Android enabled device on a daily basis. The announcement comes in the part of the person who coordinates the Android-Andy Rubin. Android has one rival for his size – IOS from Apple. They do not provide such data as we can make a comparison.
Android growth was strong and in some instances, even steeper. That and because we have a wide range of handsets to the range of low-budget in the genus LG Optimus One P500 super phones like the Samsung Galaxy S II.
Apple has sold an estimated 108 million iPhones. If we do Division arrive at a figure of 300,000 operations per day. The comparison is not relevant. iOS is found only on the iPhone and iPad while Android summarizes a collection of devices from a multitude of companies. And nothing has come to be rated as Apple’s most valuable brand in the world.
It is a discussion that seems never-ending on blogs, twitter or facebook for discussing the ups or downs Android or iOS. I’ll side which operating system you are and if possible a short motivation.