The list of official supported smart phones range from the G1 or HTC Dream, Motorola Droid or Milestone and the Nexus One. With this ROM a lot of devices with no official Froyo release can be updated to the newest Android version.

Especially phones with legacy hardware such as the T-Mobile G1 will profit from a download to CyanogenMod 6 respectively Android 2.2. Task will run more smoothly and include new features known from Android 2.2 such as WiFi teetering or the cloud-to-device-messaging-framework. In CyanogenMod is the home screen visualized via ADWLauncher. Additioal there are new software packages for music and contacts as well as a ROM manager, which will actualize the software version of the device.

CyanogenMod can be downloaded from the homepage of the project, where additional information can be found in the forums section and wiki of the site. There is a detailed instruction how to install this custom ROM on your device. Please keep in mind that with an installation, the device theoretically could be damaged and there is no warranty any more.

In the following video ai.rs Blog has tested these different screen types under various light conditions. The test includes the new HTC Desire with Super LCD, the HTC Desire with AMOLED and the HTC HD2 with normal TFT display. The results shows that the black looks better on the old generation of the HTC Desire with AMOLED screen, where the SLCD screen is much more realistic, with natural, pleasant colors. All in all the differences are not very big but the vote goes to SLCD according to the testers.

Some few additional Hints about Screen technologies:

Super Active-Matrix Organic Light-Emitting Diode or Super AMOLED is a display technology for use in mobile devices such as mobile phones. It differs from many other display technologies in that the layer which detects touch is integrated into the screen rather than being overlaid on top. The first company known to produce display units of this type is Samsung, when it introduced its Samsung Wave mobile phone on 14 February 2010. The Samsung i9000 Galaxy S series, including the Captivate, Epic 4G, Fascinate, and Vibrant, also use this display.

Compared with the first-generation AMOLED, the Super AMOLED advantages are:

• 20% brighter screen
• 80% less sunlight reflection
• 20% reduced power consumption

S-LCD Corporation is a joint venture between the South Korean Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd (50% plus one share) and Japanese Sony Corporation (50% minus one share) established in April 2004 in Chungcheongnam-do, South Korea. S-LCD, as of April 25 2008, operated with a monthly production capacity of 100,000 7th generation amorphous silicon (a-Si) panels and 50,000 8th generation panels, which are integrated into both Samsung Electronics and Sony LCD televisions and memory cards.

History:

• 2003: Samsung Electronics and Sony sign agreement for the establishment of a joint venture for 7th generation amorphous TFT LCD panel production.
• 2004: S-LCD Corporation established.
• April 2005: S-LCD begins shipment of 7th generation TFT LCD panels for LCD TVs.
• August 2007: S-LCD begins shipment of 8th generation TFT LCD panels for LCD TVs.
• 2008: Sony and Samsung announce that due to increased demand, a second 8th Generation production line will operate in the S-LCD factory in the 2nd quarter of 2009. S-LCD may be headed by Samsung alone as Sony has announced a joint venture with Sharp Corporation, in order to compete effectively with Samsung, a task made difficult by their current collaboration.

Google Earth can be navigated via the motion sensors of the phone. As alternative the user can also press on buttons on the screen.

You can try Google Earth by accessing this QR-Code and download the application to your Android phone.

There are no precise description about payable fees which are charged by the company. In the frequently asked questions your can read something like this:

Our fees are competitive and in compliance with all applicable state and federal laws. Depending on the lender the fee can range from $15 to $25 per $100 borrowed. So if you borrow $300 the fee will be between $65.00 to $85.00.

Fees should be 15% to 20% of the borrowed amount. But in the given examples the fees are more than 28%. Some requirements to qualify for receiving a boorowed amount of money are:

You must have an income of at least $1000 per month.
You must be employed at your current job for at least 3 months.
You must have an active checking account for at least 3 months.
Your paycheck must be direct deposited into your checking account.
You must be at least 18 years old.

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iExtMap is a mobile GIS Viewer for iPhone, IPod Touch and iPad devices. It is a free viewer for ArcGIS Server, WMS and KML/GeoRSS. Users can also see static map tiles with iExtMap. iExtmap can be seen as a extension to ExtMap, which is an award winning geo framework. iExtMap is same as ExtMap which are all both based on Google Maps API, so you can access your layers on Google Road map or Satellite map.
There is also a bookmarking feature to remember the screens. The layers and bookmarks are saved to your device and you can access them anytime.

Coming soon:

• Identify (in next release)
• Query (in next release)
• Measurement (in next release)
• Open Street Maps (in next release)
• WMS improments (in next release)

Features:

• Google Maps Base Maps
• Blank Base Map for your own base map
• Displaying ArcGIS Server Dynamic and Tiled Services
• Displaying WMS as Tiles
• Displaying KML/GeoRSS files
• Displaying static tiles (for Arc2Earth users)
• Bookmarking
• Geolocation

Known Bugs/Problems/Drawbacks:

• Enabled layers are opened without an order at startup.
• WMS only supports 900013 projection
• WMS url should be entered with “LAYERS” parameter.

Components:

• IPhone SDK
• Google Maps JS API V3
• Google Maps Utility Library V3 (ArcGIS Link – thanks to Nianwei)

Version 1.0 of iExtmap has a size of 1.9 MB and can be downloaded via the iTunes Store for free. The latest release is from August 18^th 2010

For more information: http://www.extmap.com

More fun with numbers! Roughly 88% of the world’s population lives in the northern hemisphere, and about half the world’s population lives north of 27°N.

Taking the northern and southern hemispheres together, on average the world’s population lives 24 degrees from the equator.

The focus of his talk was about Voice Control. He stated that 1 out of 4 queries on Android 2.0 devices in the US are being made using voice search. He emphasized Googles efforts to investigate in the field of voice search to generate search queries.

He compared Google voice search between the iPhone and Android smart-phones. While there are apps on the iPhone doing voice search, the Android OS has deeply integrated voice capabilities which are independent of applications and can be shared among different applications. Barra also discussed some of the future potential of mobile devices. He used a chart to show that today’s smart-phones are trending roughly ten years behind PCs in terms of raw computing power. However, wireless connectivity on low-latency 4G networks, which allows these phones to tap into massive computing infrastructure in the cloud, will help these phones leap forward in effective computer power very quickly. Barra says that we’ll effectively have “mini supercomputers in your pocket”.

Some Features possible with voice search now:

• Send text messagesSay “send text to [recipient] [message]*”

  e.g. “send text to Allison Miller Running late. I will be home around 9″

• Listen to musicSay “listen to [artist/song/album]”

  e.g. “listen to the decemberists”

• Get directionsSay “navigate to [address/city/business name]”

  e.g. “navigate to the DeYoung Museum San Francisco” or “navigate to 1965 Page St.”

• Call businessesSay “call [business name] [location]*”

  e.g. “call Pizzeria Venti Mountain View”

• Call contactsSay “call [contact name] [phone type]*”

  e.g. “call Allison Miller home”

• Send emailSay “send email to [recipient] [subject]* [body]*”

  e.g. “send email to Mike LeBeau How’s life in New York treating you? The weather’s beautiful here!”

• View a mapSay “map of [address/city]”

  e.g. “map of San Francisco”

• Go to websitesSay “go to [website]

  e.g. “go to Wikipedia”

• Write a noteSay “note to self [message]”

  e.g. “note to self grocery list banana milk eggs pizza”

• Search GoogleSay “[your query]”

  e.g. “pictures of the golden gate bridge at sunset”

Steve Jobs from Apple has mentioned search is not the key feature on a smartphone. But maybe voice search will be the key feature.

[via TechCrunch]

Desire HD

The Desire HD will be the replacement for the HTC Desire. The phone will include a 8-Megapixel camera, which records HD Videos and includes a dual LED Flash light. The heart of the phone is a 1-GHz Snapdragon processor and a 4,3 inch touch screen. As operating system Android 2.2 Froyo is running. Several blogs assume that the Desire HD will support 4G and will be the first 4G phone for the European market.

HTC Schubert

The name of the first HTC Windows Phone 7 sounds strange. But there were also rumors about a phone called HTC Mozart. Maybe HTC will name all their Windows 7 phones according to famous composers.

The HTC Schubert should have an aluminium unibody alloy, similar to the Android counterpart Legend. Nevertheless the design should be very different to the HTC Legent.

Prices and availability are not officially known but the new phones are expected in October 2010.

The introduced technology detects people in pictures and can automatically remove in from the photographs. In addition the background will be replaced with adjacent parts of the image. Street view services such as Google Street View should primarily benefit from this technology.

Google has been criticized repeatedly in the past for privacy reasons for the in-house street-view services.  For this reason, the U.S. Internet company has developed a technology that blur out the faces. Apart from this, however, no changes are made. Consequently, the clothes, the shape and size of the body are still visible.
It will be removed as already mentioned not only the individuals but also replaces the background automatically. The resulting gap is filled with artificial graphical information. An identification of people is nearly impossible after applying this technology on images.

The still unnamed software identifies people based on the silhouette and the person then replaced with pictures of the area. For this to be used recordings from other Street View. Then used excerpts are from the next picture. Currently, the program will handle only with individuals, groups of people to follow, in a future development. As for any automatic process, it includes also errors: For example it could be happen that dogs on leash going for a walk alone or shoes are just down the street and a “ghost” walk through the area.