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Nexus S launched in Malaysia and Singapore

Google's Nexus S, the successor to last year's Nexus One, is now available for purchase in Singapore and Malaysia. Samsung Asia and Malaysia's Maxis Communications made the announcements earlier today separately in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur.

Irene Ng, Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Samsung Asia said in a statement, "Samsung is pleased to deliver the best Android smartphone experience for consumers. The Nexus S is a smartphone that combines superior functionality and a stunning user-experience that will appeal to the increasingly connected Singapore consumers and meet their demand for entertainment and functionality on the go."

At a separate Google event in Jakarta earlier this week, Google PR Therese Lim explained that the Nexus S is Samsung's device and therefore Google does not control its distribution. Google is taking a very different approach for the Nexus S to that of the Nexus One which was made available in very limited markets.

For some reason, the Southeast Asian Nexus S does not feature Super AMOLED screens, instead, it uses Super LCD screens. Additionally, despite what the brochures said at the Maxis launch, the press release from Samsung made no mention of Near Field Communication (NFC), the technology that allows device owners to for example, make payments directly from their mobile devices at retail outlets. This technology is present in the US edition of the phone.

Outright price for the Gingerbread powered Nexus S in Singapore is S$ 828 while in Malaysia it's RM 2499 or RM 1499 with 24 month contract.

The Samsung press release from Hardware Zone for Singapore after the break

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Posted by Aulia Masna 

Google Translate app now available for iPhone

Google Translate now available for  iPhone (and other iOS device), you can translate your phrase or word for more than 57 language. For most languages, you can speak your phrases and hear the corresponding translations.

With Google Translate you can:

• Translate text between 57 languages
• Translate by speaking the text instead of typing it (15 languages)
• Listen to your translations spoken aloud (23 languages)
• Display translations in full screen mode to make it easier for others nearby to read
• Star your favorite translations for quick access even when you’re offline
• Access your translation history even when you’re offlineSpell out the translation of non-Latin script languages (e.g. Chinese, Japanese, etc..) in Latin characters to read it phonetically (e.g. Pinyin, Romaji)View additional dictionary results for single words or short phrases

Translations between the following languages are supported:
Afrikaans, Albanian, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Arabic, Basque, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, French, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Haitian Creole, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Irish, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malay, Maltese, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese, Welsh, Yiddish

You can download Google Translate app for free at App Store

[via DailyMobile]

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Posted by Oki Rosgani 

Video of Google Maps Mobile v5.0 with 3D Building

Google has released Google Maps Mobile v5.0 apps for Android which has a feature to display the 3D buildings. In addition, this version also has a feature that allows users to access offline maps data so it does not require an internet connection when in use, it also will speed up loading time of a map.

The Android phone users can now download it via the Android Market. Unfortunately for now only few device that support this apps, such as; Galaxy S, Samsung Nexus S, Motorola Droid, Motorola Droid 2, Motorola Droid X, HTC Droid Incredible, HTC Evo 4G, and T-Mobile G2.

Check out the demo video below:

[Via: Google]

Posted by Oki Rosgani 

Google announced the Nexus S

Google announced the first phone that will use the Android 2.3, its called the Nexus S. Nexus S is the next generation of Nexus devices co-developed by Google and Samsung.

Its basically a clone of the Samsung Galaxy S, only without the tacky touchWiz UI. The Nexus S boast a 1GHz Cortex A8 (Hummingbird) for its processor, 512MB of RAM, 16GB of Internal memory. The screen is 4" with 800x480 pixel for its resolution. One unique thing about the display is, its a contour display, it means that the screen is a bit 'curved'. It will also supports NFC and three-axis Gyroscope.

You can check out more about the Nexus S from its home page.

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Posted by Bayu Wicaksono 

Android 2.3 announced, updates should be available in the next few weeks

After a couple of months of waiting, Google finally announced the newest iteration of the Android OS, Android 2.3 aka Gingerbread. Android 2.3 offers a couple of new features for User, Developers and for the Platform Technologies it self.

The new features includes:

• UI refinements, the UI has been refined in many ways across the system. Its faster, easy to use and more polished. The visual themes has been updated with black as the dominant colors (eg. Notification Bar, Context Menus all have turned to black.)
• Improvement for Text input, the keyboard is updated and redesigned. The keys are reshaped and reposition for improved targeting. Multitouch has also been added to the keyboard.
• One-touch word selection and copy/paste. Just use the bounding arrows to select the words, then it will automatically copy the selected text.
• Improved power management.
• Control over applications
• Internet calling
• Near-field communications (NFC)
• Download Management
• Ability to access multiple cameras on the device.
• Gyroscope and other sensors for improved 3D gaming.

Those are just a small new features that Android 2.3 has, you can check out more of them from here. The updates should roll out to the Nexus One users in coming weeks.

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Posted by Bayu Wicaksono 

Google Reader app is now available in Android Market

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Google is finally released the official Android app for Google Reader. The app is pretty much what you can expect from Google, simple and clean UI but packed with features. Along with the basic features like unread counts, friends, sharing and starring, the app also offers a couple of key features such as:

• Multiple accounts, you can access feeds from your multiple Google reader account.
• Like the Gmail app, the Google Reader app also offers an auto-sync feature. So every changes that you made on the app (including the settings, eg. Show All feeds,) will be reflected instantly on Google reader website.
• You can search keyword from your feeds.
• Send a feed item using any 3rd party app such as, Facebook, Twitter, Email and even add Note in Reader.

For me, the official Google Reader app is one of the best (if not the best) reader app for Android, it has a very clean UI, straight forward app and also packed with features and like any other apps from Google, its free!!

The problem about this app is, it seems that it only available in some selected countries. Countries like Indonesia, Malaysia, Latvia and some other, can't seem to see the app in Android Market thus they can't download the app without using Market Enabler app.

If you are among the unlucky users, there are other reader app that you might wanna try such as, NewsRob, Greed and gReader. Or if you wanna try another kind of reader app that is simply unique and beautiful, you can try Slide Reader, Feed Squares, My Taptu and also Pulse.

[via. Official Google Reader Blog]

Posted by Bayu Wicaksono 

Google extends Android market's availability in more countries

In a race with Apple's App Store to provide the largest application shop in mobile industry, Google's Android Market must extend their availability in more countries, where developers can sell their apps and users be able to buy them.

Knowing the current limitation, Google announced that Android Market for paid apps is extended to more countries. Support for paid application is now expanded to 29 countries, while there are 32 countries now that allowing users to buy paid apps. 

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Android Market getting paid app support for 14 more countries

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GMail for Android is now available in Android Market

So I have spill all the good news, so what's the bad news? Well.. the app is only available for Android 2.2, and for some reason I don't think its available for every country yet, I live in Indonesia and had to use Market Enabler to see the app in Android Market. If you're lucky, get it now as the update just made the app more awesome than it already is.

Posted by Bayu Wicaksono 

Try Gameloft HD games for free on your Android device

One of my biggest gripe over my Nexus One is the lack of quality games in Android Market. Sure they have a couple of good games in there, but if you're going to compare those games to those in Apple's App Store, then you'll definitely feel the gap there, heck even Windows Phone 7 have some quality games underway!

Android actually have some quality games too, some of them can be found in Android Market and some of them.. can't. Gameloft games are a good example on this case. Gameloft is one of the big boys when it comes to mobile gaming experience, they have lots of great games on their line up. Games like, Avatar, N.O.V.A, Asphalt 5, Dungeon Hunter are some fair example to justify their existence in mobile gaming industry. Gameloft also made those games for Android version too, but for some unknown reason, they refuse to put those games in Android Market and opted to put it in their own store. You can buy the game using a credit card on their website, and after that, Gameloft will send you a text message about how to install the game.

Recently today, Gameloft is now offering Android owners to try their games before buying it. The games are on HD quality, it means that you can only play this game on Android device that supports HD resolution display (eg. Nexus One, EVO 4G, Droid X, Galaxy S.) So if you own one of the supported Android phone, you may go to the website either from your Android device or from PC to start downloading the game. A couple of quality games like N.O.V.A, Asphalt 5, Hero of Sparta, Let's Golf! and Dungeon Hunter are available to download. So what are you waiting for? Hit that link to try it yourself.

Posted by Bayu Wicaksono