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Android adds Barcode Scanning for Google Product Search

“If you’re looking to price compare a product that’s right in front of you, why type out its name and dig through irrelevant results when you can just scan the barcode?” via Google Product Search For Android Adds Barcode Scanning, Just As We Predicted .


Samsung i7500 Video

Boy Genius Report have a video of the Samsung i7500, the first non-HTC Android phone. Thoughts: It has a lot of buttons There’s no sliding keyboard, and no stylus The camera is 5 MP, it has a flash It has video but it doesn’t focus It probably doesn’t have GPS “The keyboard is not really [...]


Android 1.5 Features & UI Update

The Android Developers forum has a full list of Android 1.5 features. There are some UI element updates that may break the layout of some existing Android apps: You can see in this example that the buttons and checkboxes have a new appearance. Even though these changes do not affect binary nor source compatibility, they [...]


Android’s Epic Bug

From Engadget, news of an “epic” bug in Android: It turns out that G1 firmware revisions RC29 and earlier literally interpret everything you type as command-line operations, so if you happen across a legit command, it’s going to get executed — with superuser permissions, no less. No, seriously. Just go to the messaging app, the [...]


Motorola meets Android

Motorola seeks to hire up to 300 Google Android developers