Its only been a few hours since Google spilled the beans on their upcoming Chrome OS, and now we already have a fully working VMware image of Chrome OS ready for download. All you need is a system running Windows, Linux or OS X with VMware installed and you are good to go. For those of you who don't know, Google in an event yesterday, demonstrated the lightweight and open source operating system called Chrome OS for the first time.
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Google as expected, has announced its much awaited Operating system, Google Chrome OS. Google Chrome OS represents Google’s view point of what an OS should be like in this era. Originally announced back in July of this year, Google wanted to target its open source OS initially for netbooks users to provide them fast experience using reduced boot and startup time. Speed, security and simplicity will be the main aspects of Chrome OS.
In continuation of its Droid Does advertising campaign from last month, Verizon in pursuance of anti Apple campaign, has launched yet another ad war against iPhone, which is totally Droid centric, but this time a little personal on Steve Jobs as well. Although the ad is Droid specific, it fails to express or tell any strength or specialty of Droid feature wise, and is rather totally focused on highlighting and targeting the weakness of iPhone. Shown below is a page printed in the recent edition of Sports Illustrated magazine with the following text.
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For many, Android on a 3.5 inch capacitive multi-touch screen in an iPhone –like package will be a dream phone to have. This is what exactly a Chinese manufacturer has tried to do with APhone A6. APhone A6 is an Android powered iPhone clone boasting of a dual core processor, 2.0 megapixel camera and with an iPhone –like theme running on top of Google Android OS. It is believed to support multi-touch functionality which is kind of strange, given that it runs on Android 1.5 which doesn’t offer support for multi-touch screens.
It’s been only a week since Motorola launched its top of the line Droid phone on Verizon in United States. This new generation of CDMA mobile has quickly gained a higher popularity graph, and was well received against the HTC Droid Eris also launched on the same day. Simultaneous launch of the two Droid phones by Verizon on same day wasn’t really a coincidence, but done intentionally to attract different type of audiences.
Folks over at XDA-Developers community has managed to extract and run Google Maps Navigation app on HTC T-Mobile G1. Google Maps with Navigation is exclusive to Motorola Droid phone on Verizon, which is powered by the latest Android 2.0 platform. Google Maps Navigation is a fully dedicated turn-by-turn GPS application, which is an integral part of Google Maps app on Verizon’s Droid phone. The app is completely aware of Live traffic feed, and is powered by plain English voice commands.
Motorola yesterday unveiled their much hyped Droid phone which will be the first phone to be powered by Android 2.0 platform and is set to release on November 6th on Verizon Wireless. The timing of Droid phone release is interesting as it collides with the first multitouch-capable Windows phone (HD2) by HTC which is also set to release next month and will be powered by Windows Mobile 6.5 with HTC Sense running on top it. The following comparison may help you decide which phone to get between these two, come this fall.
Motorola Droid - the first phone from the DROID series was unveiled today in a press conference held by Verizon Wireless. Droid will be the first phone to be powered by the new Google Android 2.0 operating system and will be available, starting from Nov. 6th for $199 (after a $100 rebate) with a two-year contract on Verizon. Below is a quick rundown on how Motorola Droid stands against the ever so popular iPhone 3GS.
Google has kept quite on the subject of Chrome OS since its initial announcement in July of this year, but apparently, an unstable version of Google Chrome OS Browser from Google Chrome OS Build 28902 has been leaked by Jonathan Frederickson of Living in a Google World, and is now available for download. The version number of the leaked browser in question is 4.0.222.6 which is an integral part of Chrome OS Build 28902.
To mark the 140th birthday of Mahatma Gandhi, search engine giant Google replaced the letter ‘G’ on its Indian homepage with the face sketch of Indian Independence leader Gandhi who has been famous the world over for his philosophy of ‘Non Violence’. He, after Rabindranath Tagore, is the second person from Indian subcontinent to appear on Google’s homepage.
