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A detail review and analysis of where the Nexus One is after two months in the market. The phone is great but still missing some features. Check the video below.

I have always talked about the adaptability of the android OS into most electronics devices. I predicted that android will start showing up in most college campuses in electrical, mechanical, and computer science projects. Well, maybe not quite there but Wired is reporting a team of two engineers that spent $30 on kits to design the robot below controlled by with HTC G1. While this guys are not college students, their project seemed more college students projects.

[via] Wired [via] Cellbot

Below is a video demo of the just released Google gesture app. In the video you can see how it give you quick access to you contacts and apps. There is no denying the adaptability of this app into texting and document editing on your phone. Apple had just sued HTC for patent infringement, and Google is making them aware that there are more reasons to be scared of the android OS. Presently, I don’t think there is any iPhone that can do this. Everyone of you will agree with me that is a cool feature on any smartphone.

Here is the barcode for Google gesture.

While Apple is getting ready to enter the court house with HTC for developing some great android phones, Microsoft one the leading tech companies release their first app for android platform today. According to BBC news, the app

Called Tag, the free software uses a handset’s camera to turn it into a mobile barcode reader.
It is the first application Microsoft has made for the Android operating system – one of the key rivals to Windows Mobile.
Android is among the last to get the Tag application which is available on Windows phones, the iPhone, Blackberry and Symbian handsets.
Using Tag and similar programs, barcodes can become coupons that link people to websites, pass on information or give visitors a discount in an online store.
Releasing the application for Android continues Microsoft’s program of making software for rival phone firm. In December 2008 it produced its first iPhone app, called Seadragon, and followed it up in early 2009 by releasing Tag for the Apple handset.

Welcome to the league of android, Microsoft. we hope you use software expert to help the android market.

Initially you can only input info or text to your phone using standard input, in most cases keypad, then came voice search, Google just announced gesture search on their blog.

Gesture Search from Google Labs lets you search your Android-powered device by drawing alphabet gestures on the touch screen. It allows you to quickly find a contact, a bookmark, an application, or a music track from hundreds or thousands of items, all in one place. It is fast and fun to use.

This is definitely a great improvement in input technology. When this technology get perfected is can easily put an end to the need for keypad as most people can write faster on their screen than typing using Keypad. It is also an indication of the future of android and many great things to come. It will only work for Droid and Nexus one users for now, meaning android 2.0 and above.

MobileCrunch is reporting that the Nexus One multi-touch has some problem. Check the video below. I do think is a software bug, and Google will provide a solution in some few days.

Yes, the androids are coming. They are coming fast and strong too, and Apple has every reasons to be concerned if  the want to remain the leader among smartphone markers.  Nexus One is the biggest revolution in the smartphone industry in 2010, but after a few weeks of it been lunched by Google, HTC  revealed the HTC Desire and HTC Legend, both came with more features are considered to be improvements from Nexus one. Yesterday Apple filed a patent infringement lawsuit against HTC. Presently HTC is the leading marker of android phones, with the phones like myTouch, Nexus one, Desire, Legend coming from their lab. The main question here is: is Apple trying to stop the growth of android? Android OS is free for all Many smartphone markers find it easily adaptable to their platform that are many good android phones hitting the market every week. Apple need to finds way to stay on top.  Maybe suing HTC is the easy way to go.

We as android fans can hate Apple but on second thought we have to thank Steve Jobs and the Apple family. The App Store is a phenomenon in a one-person software company that has gone to make over “$250, 000 in a few month”. Many software developers have been able to quit their day job after developing a hit app that got millions of download. Well, the android market is still small and the number of android phones is still considerable smaller than iPhones but the app gold rush is starting to enter the android market.

Techcrunch reports that Edward Kim the marker of “Car Locator” is now making around $13,000 on the app.

Kim writes that the free version of the application has been downloaded around 70,000 times, while the paid application has been downloaded 6,590 times. The price was initially $1.99, but he moved it up to $3.99 (he notes that despite doubling the price, the number of downloads didn’t decrease too much).

So what was Kim’s secret to success? Well, a big part of it seems to have come from the fact that Car Locator is now a featured app on Android Market, which means Google more prominently displays it to users than ‘normal’ applications. Getting featured increased the app’s revenue by over four fold. This probably comes as bittersweet news to developers (you can’t exactly count on being featured by Google), but Kim says that he’s ranked between 100 and 200th place in the Market’s ‘Paid’ category, which means that there are probably at least 100 other applications seeing similar success.  Android Market is still far behind the App Store in many respects (except for openness), but it looks like it’s finally starting to mature.

Kim is very optimistic about the future of the platform, telling me “Android appears to have grown enough that developers can make some money off of it, but there’s not SO many developers that you’ll never get noticed.”

Android is spreading like wild fire, so success stories like this will only get better.