Google has released an update version of Gingerbread to enable the much awaited Gtalk video chat option on their flagship mobile phone, Samsung Nexus S. The update will be rolled out to all Nexus S phones in the coming weeks. Company also announced that rest of the Android 2.3+ devices will get the update in future.
According to an article (translated by Google Translate) in Nikkan, already preparing one of its LCD TV factories, Kameyama Plant No. 1, for the production of low-temperature, poly-silicon LCD screens which will allow a thinner and lighter design for the anticipated sixth-generation iPhone in 2012.
Google has announced the WebM Community Cross-License Initiative, a consortium of companies that agree to share any patents that those companies may hold that are relevant to the WebM video format, and in particular the VP8 video compression algorithm. Desktop media players like Winamp are beginning to embrace WebM. And, perhaps most crucially, chip makers like Intel are working to add WebM support at the hardware level.
After Apple’s accusations, Samsung had no intention of becoming Apple’s door mat and they had filed a trial against Apple for plagiarism. In other words, Samsung is accusing Apple of having copied an ancient Samsung terminal, which is a counteraction on the same basis.
Sprint and Samsung have finally pegged a launch date for the Nexus S 4G. It has been about or so a month since Sprint announced that they would be offering a WiMAX 4G version of Google’s flagship Android device. Now after some speculations on when the launch date would be, the 4th largest U.S based carrier went public today and announced that the Nexus S 4G would be available starting on Sunday, May 8th.
Video-calling has been available on Android for a while but only in its prime form – 3G video calls, which are charged by the minute by your carrier. Well, the latest rumor suggests that we’ll be getting Android 2.3.4 at the conference with baked-in video calling. The rumors come from a tweet from “someone who works with Samsung.
RIM wants Hulu Plus on the Blackberry PlayBook and it also wants everyone to know it wants Hulu Plus on the Blackberry PlayBook, after the streaming video service unceremoniously blocked access to its videos just days after the tablet’s launch.RIM says, we are in conversations with Hulu to bring the Hulu Plus subscription service to BlackBerry PlayBook users……….
Verizon Wireless has announced today first quarter earning of 2011. Verizon activated 2.2 million CDMA iPhone units in the seven weeks between the February 10 launch and March 31, 2011. Data revenues climbed 22.% to top out at $5.5 billion. Data now accounts for 38.1% of all service revenue. Total service revenue was up 6.3% year over year and now totals $14.3 billion.