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Remember last month when I reported that Facebook would not be developing a mobile version of their service for the Android OS? Well, in an interesting development from an outside 3rd party developer, you can now get Facebook on your G1, well… sort of. (more…)

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Google today catered to Android developers either outside of T-Mobile coverage or eager to avoid restrictions with the Android Dev Phone 1. Essentially a carrier-neutral T-Mobile G1, the new model is completely unlocked for both its SIM card slot and hardware features to let users test the device on other GSM networks, including AT&T. The The change lets any owner run Google’s reference firmware as it appears. The black design also sports a unique back engraving with a fractal-like pattern and the Android logo. (more…)

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Google released a new version of its GMail app for J2ME-enabled and BlackBerry phones. The main goal was to make the application faster and more reliable, hence the code has been rearchitected to push all the processing to the background. In addition, the client-side caching scheme has been improved and “every bottleneck piece of code” optimized. (more…)

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PhoneFusion today announced their Fusion Voicemail Plus service for Android Smartphones at the Under the Radar: Mobility event. This is fantastic news for those who went from owning an iPhone to the T-mobile G1. PhoneFusion offers services that their existing customers enjoy so much that they decided to bring them to Android. (more…)

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Google today launched the surprise addition of Gmail video chat to its webmail interface. The feature lets contacts use Google Talk to start a two-way video or audio-only conversation with anyone currently online and can be started in the middle of a text chat. Like dedicated desktop apps, the web version carries a picture-in-picture view and can be stretched out or made full-screen. (more…)

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Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer on Thursday dismissed Google’s Android operating system, saying he believed it was financially unsound.

Speaking at Telstra’s annual investment day, Ballmer said that Android was Google’s first phone operating system and that designing one wasn’t easy. “They can hire smart guys, hire a lot of people, blah dee blah dee blah, but you know they start out way behind in a certain sense,” he said. (more…)

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