Google have been busy recently, delivering some updates to their existing mobile applications, with promise of more to come.
Firstly, Google have updated their iPhone mobile app, bringing push alerts from your Google account, notifying of new email from your Gmail account and appointments from your Google calendar.

The Google experience on the iPhone is generally not [...]

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Since being launched almost 5 years ago, Google Maps for mobile has grown to become one of the most highly used mobile services, with over 100 million users accessing the service every month.
The advance of Google Maps is a good indicator of how smartphones have developed, from being points of access to information to now [...]

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In the last few days, Google have released some updates for applications that run on the latest Android operating system, Android 2.2, also known by the codename FroYo.
The first app brings Voice Actions to Android, allowing you to interact with your mobile device in the most natural manner, by using voice commands. The Voice Actions [...]

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There are various reports out today, detailing the incredible growing popularity of smartphone devices. Firstly, iPhone sales in the UK are predicted to rise by an amazing 195% this year, taking Apple’s share of the UK market to 7.9%, with forecasts suggesting that by the end of 2012 the iPhone will account for one in [...]

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Sales figures for handsets running on Google’s Android Operating System have leapt by an incredible 350% in the last quarter, sales figures by research analyst GfK Retail and Technology reveal, meaning that an average of one in ten handsets in the UK now run on Android OS.
The amazing increase in numbers came at a time [...]

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With all the talk in the last few days surrounding the flaws in the design of the iPhone 4 antenna, it is easy to begin to overlook the positive impact that the iPhone in all its guises has had on the mobile industry as a whole.
The iPhone is mainly responsible for kick-starting the whole mobile [...]

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Location based services is a huge growth area for mobile phones, with many services offering content based on your current position, allowing you to find out more about your environment, where to find local points of interest and how to access locally based facilities, such as nearby cashpoints, hospitals, restaurants, and so on.
Google Maps is [...]

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Just in time for the summer holidays, Google have launched Google Maps Navigation in 11 more countries, giving you access to voice navigation directions on your mobile device.
And at the same time, Google have added further Search by Voice functionality to their Android handsets, allowing you to try out your language skills on the move, [...]

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But We Don’t!

There’s lots of talk around the web at the moment, bringing news that Google are to stop selling the Nexus One. It’s important to clarify that this applies *only* to the online Google store, and the high powered Android device is still available to buy from Right Mobile Phone.
When Google launched the Nexus [...]

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One of the great things about Google is they are continually updating their mobile services and applications, striving to make usage of those products as easy as is possible, delivering a great experience to the end user. You may have noticed today that Google have changed the layout on their main web page, and this [...]

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