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Extract: The official media app for Google's new superphone for Android. "As dazzling as it gets on a mobile screen." - Forbes Developed as the official media app for Google's Nexus One device, Media Gallery by Cooliris is the first native phone application to make it as simple to browse, edit, and share photos and videos on your phone as it is on your computer desktop.

Flash Player 10.1 on Google's Nexus One Phone

First mobile Augmented Reality satellite nav system\n\nKurzweilAI.net, May 24, 2010\nWikitude Drive from Mobilizy transforms an Android smartphone into a mobile navigation system. \n\nGPS driving directions from Navteq appear on screen, overlaid on a live video (from the phone camera) of the street you are driving on.

Extract: Nexus One, which works on both GSM and CDMA phone networks, has a slightly larger screen than the iPhone, is capable of taking five-megapixel photographs and has the ability to record DVD-quality videos. The phone is also voice activated, allowing people to speak names, numbers or messages, which will then be turned into text by the phone and either dialed or e-mailed automatically. Similarly, by simply speaking an address, the phone's built-in GPS will find the location and provide directions. "It really brings the web, the computer and your phone together. That is where the Nexus name actually comes from," said Rozeluk. "A Nexus is really a convergence point. This is about making people's lives easier.

Extract: According to Google, there are now more than 20 Android devices on 59 carriers in 48 countries, with more to be announced at the upcoming Consumer Electronics Show. Plus, Google has the satisfaction of having built a phone to its exact specifications. As Google's Android chief, Andy Rubin, said at the company's Tuesday press conference, "This the best possible Google experience."

As it turns out, Google's mobile platform appears to support USB keyboards natively on some stock builds. Of course, you can't simply attach a big, honking external keyboard to your phone and expect it to work. You have to enable USB-OTG, or USB On The Go host mode, and have the proper USB cable, says MAKE. Luckily, Chris Paget's blog shares the steps to make this happen. The whole process reminds me of a similar project that modders got into back in 2008 with the Nokia N810 Internet Tablet. I was scared of the soldering then, and sadly, I'm no closer to having a comfort level.

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I think Google has done a great job of implementing USB devices on the Android as it's not just a smartphone OS, it can be extended as any kind of control device for many gadgets.

When Android was being built, many only visualized it as a phone operating system: for a long time, phones were the only things you could find Android running on. Since then, we've seen kitchen appliances, cars, netbooks, tablets, robots - you name it, and Android has probably already seen it.