Today almost the end of working hours in our lab, surfing the net, drinking coffee and waiting for the bus to get there, i found an interesting subject published on the site developer Android and Android Market, a list of critical applications to leave the phone with Android operating system much better and full of features interesting! At the end of the text were included links to download that should be used in Android, and take the User directly to Android Market.
Applications with the names in bold are currently installed on my apparatus, and eventually I will make a new list with my applications and games that are not listed in this post. There is application to virtually everything that most users need in a good Smartphone, which is a sign of evolution of the Google platform phones and Smartphones.

Check out the applications! Check out our site for some of the more popular applications and games available in Android Market. For a comprehensive, up-to-date list of the thousands of titles that are available, you will need to view Android Market on a handset.

App Features:

Google Sky Map

Google Sky Map: A star map for Android. Google Sky Map turns your Android-powered mobile phone into a dynamic window on the night sky. When you point your phone up you will see a map of the brightest stars, constellations, and planets in that part of the sky.

Google Maps

Movies by Flixster, the #1 movie app for the iPhone, Facebook and MySpace is now on Android! – View showtimes & details for the top box office movies & DVDs – Watch high quality trailers – Read reviews from Rotten Tomatoes – Get links to theater maps and phone numbers Try it now, it’s FREE!

WHERE is a bundle of cool GPS apps all wrapped into one. Are you looking for the hottest restaurants, jonesing for your next coffee fix, or need a cheap fill-up? Maybe you want to know the local weather, traffic or headlines? Whatever you are after, WHERE has it.

PicSay Pro

Improve your photos with sharpen and color corrections. Be creative with paint, word balloons, and props. Or have fun with distortions, cutouts, special effects, and more. All in an intuitive easy-to-use interface, making PicSay Pro the perfect all-in-one solution for editing images on your Android powered device.

And you a developer? Publish your application on Android Market.

Distribute your applications to users of Android mobile phones.

Android Market enables developers to easily publish and distribute their applications directly to users of Android-compatible phones.

• Come one. Come all.
  Android Market is open to all Android application developers. Once registered, developers have complete control over when and how they make their applications available to users.

• Easy and simple to use.
  Start using Android Market in 3 easy steps: register, upload, and publish.

• Great visibility.
  Developers can easily manage their application portfolio where they can view information about downloads, ratings and comments. Developers can also easily publish updates and new versions of their apps.To learn more about how to use Android Market, visit the Android Market help center. Learn more

Check out our site: http://www.android.com/market

We a bit late on posting this, well very very late but here’s a rather interesting another video of the face recognition feature being established on the Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 by the guys of the SEProductBlog Gustaf Brusewitz and Rikard Skogberg. Check it out and thanks by the video guys. This short tutorial shows how Face Recognition works in XPERIA X10.The video is unedited and shot in 720p using the Sony Ericsson Vivaz. Smile you are being recognized

Tutorial - Face Recognition in X10

ST-Ericsson, a 50/50 joint venture by STMicroelectronics and Ericsson, this morning announced its latest HSDPA platform built on the Linux OS. Dubbed U6715, the platform aims to aid handset manufacturers produce smartphones powered by Android – or other Linux-based operating systems – with a wholesale price of less than €100 ($138).

ST-Ericsson says it anticipates manufacturers to launch the first commercial products based on its U6715 chip platform in the first half of 2010.

The company claims the platform can support all the essentials of the smartphone experience, including navigation, web browsing, video streaming, email, WiFi, a five megapixel camera, a touch screen and more. A multimedia engine integrated into the hardware architecture of the U6715 frees most of the platform’s microprocessor subsystem to run applications.

At the same time, ST-Ericsson says the U6715 platform allows manufacturers to significantly drive down the cost of device production and thus make highly capable smartphones less of a niche play and more of a mass-market product.

The U6715 platform comes with an HSPA modem capable of delivering downlink speeds of up to 7.2 Mbps, and the company also boasts about its power efficiency. Equipped with a 1000mA battery, smartphones based on the platform are said to be capable of playing music for up to 40 hours and provide a talk time of up to 7 hours on a 3G network on a single battery charge.

While Android is an appealing mobile operating system, the barrier to entry can be high. Android phones aren’t cheap, with Verizon offering the Droid in the US with a $200 subsidy and the Nexus One is just as expensive with a data plan. STMicroelectronics, a Texas-based mobile semiconductor manufacturer and Ericsson, the Swedish cell giant (also known has co-owners of Sony Ericsson) are teaming up to bring low-cost Android phones to market.

Read:

“STMicrelectronics, Ericsson Team Up For Low-Cost Android Phone [ST-Ericsson Planning To Bring You An Android Phone For Less Than €100] » TFTS – Technology, Gadgets & Curiosities.”

U6715 – A HIGHLY-INTEGRATED HSDPA PLATFORM BUILT ON THE LINUXTM OPEN OS

The U6715 is a highly-integrated 3G+ platform built on the Linux open operating system, with a cost-optimized chipset and software to enable Smartphone features for all. By integrating an elegant and powerful multimedia engine in hardware, allows the ARM subsystem of the U6715 to be offloaded leaving a lot of mips for applications. Furthermore, this platform sets the standard for long battery life in a 3G Smartphone platform. Our commitment to environmental excellence appeals to consumers making greener choices in their everyday purchases.

KEY BENEFITS

• Enabling Android^TM compliant Smartphone for all
• Brings all the advantages of a Smartphone but at the price of a feature phone, without compromising on things that matter, such as power consumption and size
• Setting the standard for battery life in a 3G Smartphone
• 3G talk time up to 7 hours, 3G stand-by time up to almost a month on a 1000 mAH battery
• Supports QVGA and WQVGA
• All the features you expect in a Smartphone: Access to Applications stores and Social Networking, Web browsing, Multimedia, Touch screen, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, GPS

FEATURES

Core

• ARM926EJ-S^TM at up to 468 MHz
• LP DDR SDRAM 200 MHz up to 4 Gbit
• Dynamic Voltage Frequency scaling for maximum energy saving
• SLC NAND

Telecom

• Two DSP Real 16025, One ARM 968
• EGPRS class 12, UL/DL 236/236 kbps, DTM class 11
• Single antenna interference cancellation (DARP)
• UMTS/FDD R6, UL/DL 384/384 Kbit/s
• HSDPA 3GPP R6, category 6, DL 3.6 Mbits (category 8 DL 7.2 Mbits enabled)
• Worldwide multi-band

Multimedia

• Music decoding: MP3, AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, WMA
• Music encoding: MP3, AAC
• Hardware decode MPEG4/H.263/H.264/VC-1/DivX CIF-WQVGA 30 fps
• Hardware encode MPEG4/H.263 CIF-WQVGA 30 fps
• Hardware JPEG encode/decode
• Hardware 2D blit
• Video streaming H.264
• 3-Mpixel YUV, 5-Mpixel JPEG
• Display resolution supported up to WQVGA, 16 M colors
• TV-out (CVBS analog)
• 650 mW class-D amplifier

Connectivity

• Comprehensive connectivity interfaces: USB-HS, SPI, SDIO, SD, MMC, MS
• A-GPS SUPL & CP 2G and 3G
• Enabled peripherals: Bluetooth® EDR V2.1, FM, Wi-Fi, Accelerometer, compass

TARGETED APPLICATIONS

• Smartphones for all

BLOCK DIAGRAM

“ST-Ericsson, as the joint venture is known, has been around since last year but now, details about their plans are coming out. They’ve developed the U6715, a cheap mobile phone platform that will run ARM-based processors and is ready for any variant of Linux to be installed on it.”

“ST-Ericsson says that the platform, despite being low-cost, can support the seven pillars of all the successful smartphones – navigation, web browsing, video streaming, e-mail, WiFi, 5-megapixel camera and a touchscreen. They’ve included a separate multimedia engine that handles the video processing, keeping the ARM processor free for running applications. Manufacturers could potentially go with cheaper ARM processors with little loss in performance, since the processor won’t be handling multimedia.

They imagine that this will create low-cost smartphones in the market since the big cell manufacturers won’t have to bother with the R&D time and money producing this platform themselves. Their goal is to have smartphones for sale less then €100 ($138). The company says we can expect to see smartphones based on their platform to start shipping in the first half of this year.”

More details are available in this document

SUPPORTING DOCUMENTS

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Via: stericsson.

Putting an end to all the speculation, Sony Ericsson have confirmed that the Xperia X10 will eventually be updated to a newer version of Android after its launch.

If the Android 1.6 will be competitive and capable enough to work in perfect harmony with the X10 does not know. But we can say that Pretenti develop a Google Android OS for mobile devices thereby excluding an exclusive OS for each device. Most important is that the Hardware and Software are a perfect match for later be updated only by other versions of the Android OS, good would be the intention of Google.Sumit Malhotra on the SE Product blog has confirmed that ‘there will be a software update for the X10 that will upgrade the complete Sony Ericsson User Experience Platform based on newer version of the Android OS.’ Hence in all probability, X10 will launch with Android 1.6 which will be updated to a ‘newer Android version’ later. Sony Ericsson has however not specified which version it’ll eventually be updated to.

Read what Sumit wrote on the blog blogs.sonyericsson

“Some reflections after meeting media, analyst and bloggers around the world over the last couple of months. I have been confronted with the same questions and discussions that you have been interested in from the very beginning. The underlying OS release version that we will use when launching Xperia X10 -why 1.6 and will it be competetive enough? These concerns are quite on top of mind among industry experts as well as advanced users as yourself, which I do appreciate. I will share my experience from enganging in these discussions giving it a context. It is a bit lengthy, so bare with me.”
“The OS versions are some what becoming a reference point for people I feel. Similar to processor speed in computers and megapixels in camera phones. I as consumer of course evaluate the same things, buying equipment on my own. However when you start evaluating usage, there are more factors to consider than just the specs.”
“When I do a product demo, the response about hardware is unquestionable in my view. The design, screen size, ”feel” and overall specs leaves an impression right away. “Beautiful and delight to hold in the hand”,  “Sleek and outstanding” are some frequent quotes.”
“On the other hand when moving over to talk about the user interface,  I have felt some skepticism in the air since people tend to have adopted quickly to Android release version as their context of competiveness. Quite often, the starting point for this part of the demonstration is a 1.6 release remark if I would generalize my interactions to date.
Interestingly enough the focus on OS version changes over course of a minute or so. Demonstrating the generic Android capabilities with our graphical enhancements is a starting point. The home screen, the immediate responsiveness of the big capacitive screen, the true multitasking that Android allows, the easy and rich access to Google services like maps and android market. All that is there and for me that is the base functionality, which I really appreciate and use on a day to day basis.”
“Then I introduce the signature applications; Sony Ericsson Timescape and Mediascape and the focus of the discussion shifts from talking about this layer on top of Android, that I refer to as the Sony Ericsson User Experience platform. I now find myself discussing the total  experience rather the OS version in isolation with a great appreciation about what we are bringing to the table. Then the interest of the User Experience platform future roadmap gets to be the talking point instead. What I hope to get across to you all, is that there will be a software update for Xperia X10 that will upgrade the complete Sony Ericsson User Experience Platform based on newer version of the Android OS.”
“I have probably painted a positive picture, but I am sharing the discussions I have had and my take outs from them. I am not trying to hide from the fact that there are platform upgrades between android 1.6 and 2.1, if utilized can enhance the experience for developers and users. Having that said, I have had discussions with carriers that are very sensitive and concerned generally about taking on devices in their range that are not competetive enough. I have faced head to head comparisons between Xperia X10 and generic 2.1 Android devices (as well as other OS) and carriers have concluded that we still stand strong in comparison.  This because of the layer that we ad on top of the generic  OS.”

Via: blogs.sonyericsson

Today, the guys of se-first having some impressions of an app called ‘Google Goggles’ App, which basically provides search results based on pictures taken of objects or places. It is available on the Android Market, and we installed it as one of the first things on the Xperia X10.

Watch the Video:

Xperia X10 - Google Goggles Demo

“Google Goggles is one of the latest products from Google Labs, which means that it is in an early stage of development. What it does is pretty simple: if you see something you want to know more about, take a picture, and Google Goggles will tell you where you can get more information.”

According to Google, this currently works in the following areas:

• Landmarks
• Contact Info
• Books
• Artwork
• Places
• Wine
• Logos

“After a couple of freezing hours walking around in NY, it was time for some dinner action - friends suggested a sushi place called ‘Tsushima’. I specifically did not ask for any directions, since I wanted to try Google’s Places application. Whatever place you are looking for, just type it in and you get more or less detailed information about that place. This not only includes address or phone number details, but also user reviews, a map, the distance and direction from your current location and a picture gallery. Enough details in order to provide a pretty comprehensive overview, without even having seen the place before.”

Article by se-first

There are currently 12 categories of places:

• Attractions
• Banks
• Bars
• Coffee
• Gas Stations
• Hotels
• Medical
• Movie Theatres
• Parking
• Restaurants
• Shopping
• Taxis

Watch the Video guys:

Xperia X10 - ‘Google Places Directory’ Demo

“The restaurant serves excellent Sushi by the way, just in case you should be looking for a Sushi place one day in NY.”

Via: se-first

By Phil Nickinson

“As we march closer to a reported launch of the Android-powered Sony Ericsson Xperia X10, possibly on T-Mobile, we’re starting to see pre-release units floating around, and Juelu from PocketPC.ch has got one. After the break, a quick hands-on video and a few pics taken with the Snapdragon-powered phone. [pocketpc.ch]“

Sample image X10:

Watch the Video:

Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Timescape auf Prerelease Gerät

Via: androidcentral

Weather snow what we do at this time guys?
“Santa Claus visits Sony Ericsson to demonstrate Bambuser running on X10, a live video broadcasting application, and deliver the good news that Android applications now can be submitted to be sold on PlayNow. For more info got…”

The best option watch the video, well anyway HoHoHo

Via: http://www.sonyericsson.com/developer orhttp://bambuser.com

One more cool app for Sony Ericsson XPERIA™ X10 and Great Android… enjoy guys and watch the video in youtube.
Daniel Rosendahl and Albin Olofsson is demonstrating a cool application called Prisjakt on the Sony Ericsson X10. Prisjakt interacts with another application called Barcode Scanner. Subscribe to the Sonyericssondev channel for more application demos…

Cool application demoed on Sony Ericsson XPERIA™ X10

“STOCKHOLM, Sweden – The Sony Ericsson J10, previously codenamed Susan, may just be the first Google Android smartphone to join the GreenHeart product line, a series of eco-friendly handsets from Sony Ericsson.”

“The device is the only compact candybar Android handset with an alphanumeric keypad in the market, and it might not even feature a touchscreen, which is actually the key selling point of Android devices.”

“Sony Ericsson hasn’t entered the Android market in full force; the Xperia X10 is its only official Android smartphone, while for the manufacturer’s rivals, this open-source platform is believed to be the key out of the financial crisis which has been causing losses to many of these companies.”

We don´t know if the information news is hot but we have doubts about a device with an operating system with small screen, take a big disadvantage at this point not to mention the other.Therefore we think it is almost unlikely that the sony ericsson spend your time with it.

Let’s hope to believe and honestly do not believe in this possibility.

Via: androidin

The boys of the androidguys website had an android news across some interesting hot  can say good hot secretary too very interesting news come across our desk regarding the Xperia X10 from Sony Ericsson.  The much lusted-after handset with the top-dollar price tag is due sometime in the next 2 months.  While most sites (including us) had the phone pegged as headed for AT&T, the document we have says that’s only half true.

“According to a white paper from Sony Ericsson, there will be two variants of the Xperia X10.  One for Ma Bell, and another for Big Pink.  Take a look at the image below and you what we’re talking about.”

Variant 1: UMTS HSPA 900, 1700, 2100 | GSM GPRS/EDGE 850, 900, 1800, 1900
Variant 2: UMTS HSPA 800, 850, 1900, 2100 | GSM GPRS/EDGE 850, 900, 1800, 1900

“We could be looking at two scenarios here.  One, the white sheet dated November 2009 was put out before final specs were completed.  The other… and we like this one… is that Sony Ericsson does plan to release one that works on T-Mobile’s network.  Still, we can’t imagine either AT&T or T-Mobile wanting to subsidize $500-$700 of the phone to entice customers.”

Via: androidguys

Tnks guys by the info