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The first mobile Augmented Reality browser premiers in the Netherlands

www.layar.eu

Five Dutch content providers to participate in the worlds first AR browser

AMSTERDAM, Tuesday June 16th, 2009. Mobile innovation company SPRXmobile launches Layar, worlds first mobile Augmented Reality browser, which displays real time digital information on top of reality (of) in the camera screen of the mobile phone. While looking through the phones camera lens, a user can see houses for sale, popular bars and shops, jobs, healthcare providers and ATMs. The first country to launch Layar is The Netherlands. Launching partners are local market leaders ING (bank), funda (realty website), Hyves (social network), Tempo-team (temp agency) and Zekur.nl (healthcare provider).

How it works
Layar is derived from location based services and works on mobile phones that include a camera, GPS and a compass. Layar is first avaliable for handsets with the Android operating system (the G1 and HTC Magic). It works as follows: Starting up the Layar application automatically activates the camera. The embedded GPS automatically knows the location of the phone and the compass determines in which direction the phone is facing. Each partner provides a set of location coordinates with relevant information which forms a digital layer. By tapping the side of the screen the user easily switches between layers. This makes Layar a new type of browser which combines digital and reality, which offers an augmented view of the world.

Dutch launch
The premier launch is for the Dutch market. Launching content partners are ING (ATMs), Funda (houses for sale), Hyves (social network hot spots) Tempo-team (jobs) and Zekur.nl (healthcare providers). Layar will be launched per country with local content partners in order to guarantee relevent results for the end user. SPRXmobile is planning further roll-outs, together with local partners, in Germany, the UK and the United States this year. SPRXmobile wil continue with regular releases of new layers after each local launch. The Layar application will be available via the Android Market. Other handsets and operating systems are in development with a prime focus on the iPhone 3G S.

SPRXmobile

Layar is developed by SPRXmobile, a mobile innovation company.

Eventually, the physical and the virtual worlds will become one. Many visions on Augmented Reality have already been developed, but we are proud to be able to bring this one step closer to reality, says Raimo van der Klein, co-founder of SPRXmobile.

More information:
http://layar.eu en http://www.sprxmobile.com.

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The worlds first Android laptop that runs everything awesomely well already!

Asus has an Android and Qualcomm powered smartbook as well, though Asus is hiding it at this point.

Acer, HP, all Nvidia Tegra based laptops, Texas Instruments based devices and Freescale based devices, all are launching with Android support.

In this video you can see how fast the current implementation of a browser in an Android laptop loads pages, while they still have optimizations to do, and I think they should try to get a full Google Chrome running on these, with support for an unlimited amount of tabs (though no need for all tabs to be active and heavy in the RAM memory).

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http://www.gruups.com/androidg1/ presents a free solution to unlock your Google G1 Android phone without paying someone $20 for the unlock code you can get yourself.
It’s nothing revolutionary, but it will become very obvious once you see this video.
Enjoy and look out for more Videos at http://www.gruups.com

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Noah pits Apple’s iPhone OS 2.2.1 vs Google’s Android OS 1.5 in a QWERTY dogfight. Both platforms now offer virtual keyboards with auto-correct spelling. Which is the best to use? Find out what Noah thinks.

More Videos: http://www.phonedog.com/cell-phone-videos/default.aspx

Win Free Phones: http://www.phonedog.com/sweepstakes/default.aspx

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This week on the Buzz Report, a new PSP is in the pipes, DVD copying is in court, and David Caruso is talking te

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this is my review of the new G1- Google Phone from t-mobile. compared to the iphone. … g1 google phone hood review destorm iphone

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Sergey Brin and Steve Horowitz discuss the availability of the SDK, that it will be open source in the future, and demo applications on the Android platform.

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An In-Depth Video Tour of Google Android 0.9 SDK r1 Beta, an Great Mobile OS

Download it: http://code.google.com/android/download_list.html

Release Notes: http://code.google.com/android/RELEASENOTES.html

Google released the Android 0.9 SDK r1 Beta, boasting of a pile of API updates and a visual refresh that moves it one solid step closer to actually, you know, showing up on a phone. A long changelog and a few screenshots are great, but we’ve fired up the SDK’s emulator for a guided tour of Android’s salient features.

0:02: Main menu is contained in a drawer that slides from the bottom of the screen

0:08: Multiple home screens can be flipped with touch gestures, a la the iPhone

0:20: Icons can be dragged from the main menu to build customized home screens. Dragging to the menu drawer trashes the home screen shortcut

0:38: Dialer screen, followed by the call behavior. Calls can continue in the background, and all functions that don’t require data transfer can work concurrently (This is currently a software regulation, as 3g networks should theoretically allow for simultaneous voice and data usage).

0:53: Ongoing calls and other notifications can be accessed by dragging the taskbar down.

1:20: Browser displays Gizmodo. Rendering is quite good, page navigation is a fairly intuitive rehash of current touch-control schemes. It’s not terrible good at guessing column widths during double-tap zooming, but seems very usable. Preview magnification feature is useful for smaller screens or text-heavy pages.

2:22: “Tabbed” browsing feature lays out a grid of pages, with previews

2:45: Google Maps app. As you can see, this is among the more polished apps, and will feel familiar to anyone who has used Google Maps on the desktop or mobile devices.

3:30: Google Maps Street View.

4:00: Home screen include widgets (Google Search, a clock and a picture frame are the only ones for now) that can be dragged around the home screen(s).

4:23: The music apps relies on a panel of icons (a recurring theme in Android)

4:30: Message composition is unremarkable, but there is no sign of an on-screen keyboard at the moment. This could be a customization catered the the first round of Android phones, at least one of which will have a slide-out keyboard.

5:12: The camera naturally doesn’t work in the emulator, but there are currently very few options in its menus.

5:50: Wallpaper switching. This is one of the few areas where Android excels aesthetically. Wallpaper scrolls as home screens are switched, but at a slower rate that the icons. This creates a convincing illusion of depth.

6:11: The home screen can also be modified via the system menu, where you can choose to add applications, widgets and shortcuts, as well as change the wallpaper.

It’s hard to pass judgement on Android in the condition it’s in. What’s there is impressive, but there are so many glaring omissions, at least from a consumer standpoint. There is a fantastic system for managing ongoing calls and system messages (via the pull-down taskbar) but no apps to take advantage of it. Email and IM would suit such a configuration beautifully, but neither is included in this release. And seriously, where is the calendar? The organizer? A video app? Youtube support?

Sure, these things could be left to the developer community, but Google already has messaging, email, video and calendar services, so it’s reasonable to expect that they be included by default in Android. Before a public release, Android should at least posses a feature set comparable to your average candy bar phone, courtesy of Google, so that the eager open-source development community can devote their effort to creating new, innovative apps and modifications for the OS.

Objections aside, the progress is promising. In terms of usability, Android is much easier to navigate and customize than virtually all other mobile solutions. With a few more apps, Android will be a clear choice over Windows Mobile, skinned or not. You can download the SDK and play with the emulator yourself, if you want. Just a word of warning, though — explaining to your family or significant other that you’re testing an emulated prerelease of an upcoming mobile OS is about as hard as it sounds

Source: http://gizmodo.com/5038586/an-in+depth-video-tour-of-android-09-an-almost-great-almost-os

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Some other resources include links to Atlanta houses, and also the great option to watch Nigerian movies online. We also have information about Miami Houses here. Top Christmas Gifts for 2009

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