myTouch 4G Officially Launched For T Mobile

T-Mobile finally released the new 4G Android phone to market. This information is officially released by the U.S. operator itself.

MyTouch 4G is a 3G phone. Only, because it has access to HSPA + technology, the phone is called generation 4G. As a result mobile processor with 1GHz Snapdragon is in theory claimed to have exceeded the speed of Sprints WiMax, with access speeds reach 14.4Mbps.

Touch My 4G has a 5 MP camera, which can record 720p video. To carry the Android operating system Froyo (v2.2) On the interface side, 4G myTouch view more customized fit taste T-Mobile. So, you could say far from Sense HTCs UI, though myTouch 4G homemade Taiwanese handset manufacturer.

T-Mobile myTouch will be launched first in the United States market on 3 November, with the official tag of 200 U.S. dollars (the contract). For the European market, in fact they already could have myTouch 4G, via Desire HTC HD, which differ only in terms of body design, European-style 3G networking. However, the interface HTC Sense recorded no different.

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Designing SMS apps for mobile Africa

As is well known, our mission is to organize the worlds information and make it universally accessible and useful. We aim to do this through technology, and in Africa, that means developing tools for the mobile phone. Africa has the world’s highest mobile growth rate. Mobile phone penetration is six times Internet penetration -- one third of the population owns a mobile phone and many more have access to one. Most of these devices only have voice and SMS capabilities, which is why we have chosen to focus our initial mobile efforts on SMS.

Today, we are releasing Google SMS in Uganda. Google SMS is a suite of mobile applications which provides access, via SMS, to information on a diverse number of topics including health and agriculture tips, news, local weather, sports, and more.

The suite also includes Google Trader, a marketplace application that helps buyers and sellers find each other. Users can find, "sell" or "buy" any type of product or service, from used cars and mobile phones to crops, livestock and jobs. Google Trader has been designed to help make markets more transparent. Many people in Africa lack access to information and markets beyond their immediate business and social networks. Google Trader allows sellers to post items for sale via SMS, and for buyers to search for such items.


Google SMS Tips is an SMS-based query-and-answer service. After you text a free-form query, Google algorithms restructure the query to identify keywords, search a database to identify relevant answers, and return the most relevant answer. SMS is a very limited medium: each SMS can be no longer than 160 characters, and, unlike the web, allows for one result to be returned in response to a query. Short or ambiguous queries are particularly challenging. For example: weve received queries as brief as "hiv". What exactly is someone asking for: symptoms? Causes? Prevention? Treatment? We not only have to discern intent in order to identify a relevant answer, but we also have to convey information back to the user within the confines of SMS. The challenge is further complicated by the fact that people must pay for each individual SMS message.

These are the sorts of technical challenges that have surfaced in developing SMS Tips, so please dont view it as a finished product. We need to greatly improve search quality and add to the content that we have in the Health and Ag focus areas. Now that Google SMS is live, were working on improving search quality and the breadth, and depth, of content. As for Tips, we will work to add more focus areas.

Clearly, were just beginning; theres still much to be done. If youre curious about what Google is doing in Africa, visit the Google Africa Blog. And heres a video about the broader effort initiated by the Grameen Foundation to introduce mobile applications to under-served communities.



Posted by Fiona Lee, Africa Project Manager

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AdSense for Mobile optimized for high end phones

(Cross-posted on the Official Google Blog)

High-end mobile phones, like iPhone, Android-powered devices and the Palm Pre, continue to grow — Gartner estimates that global sales of smartphones will soar by 27% in 2009, to 177 million units. Naturally, as a result more and more people are browsing the web on the go.

Because these devices offer a browsing experience that is similar to desktop computers, advertising on smartphones is a natural extension for any AdWords campaign. However, its not always been easy for advertisers to reach people on smartphones. Thats why were investing in new high-end mobile advertising products such as our search ad options for high-end phones and AdSense for mobile applications. We hope to make advertising on high-end mobile devices as intuitive, effective and user-friendly as our existing AdWords tools.

Today, were excited to announce a new feature for our AdSense mobile publishers that enables them to serve text and image ads on their sites — specifically on these high-end smartphones. This helps mobile publishers earn revenue and fund more mobile-specific sites and web content.

New features like this help to nurture the smartphone ecosystem by encouraging the creation of more mobile content and by helping advertisers to grow their businesses by reaching new audiences. Our users experience is also improved, with increasingly relevant and device-optimized mobile ads that load faster and fit better on small screens.

For more info about this feature, check out the Inside AdSense Blog.



Posted by Danielle VanDyke, Software Engineer

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LG G2 Upgrade Price At 403 For Some T Mobile Subscribers Others Get It At the Normal 499

In the world of Phablets, Samsung is generally king, but who could pass up a deal like this one, even if it doesn’t have Samsung stamped all over it. The LG G2 has reportedly sunk to a price of $499.20 for the upgrade price if you’re a current T-Mobile subscriber, which is almost a steal since the normal cost of it is $600. Now since T-Mobile sells their handsets without contracts now, you usually don’t see many discounts if any at all, so when a deal like this pops up it’s a good idea to take it. Just to recap, that’s $100 off the regular retail price of the phone, which you can then further break down to the first initial installment payment of $0, with the rest of the payments broken up over the monthly EIP for a timeframe of 24 months. Just in case you missed that, the down payment is $0 for qualifying customers, so the monthly payments work out to be $20.80 a month on top of your normal monthly bill.

What could be better than having a $0 down payment on a killer phone? How about an even steeper discount? Since T-Mobile regularly puts up online discounts only, it isn’t a shock to see them offer even more of a discount on top of one they already offer. However it normally is available to most people who choose to shop online instead of in the stores. In the case with the G2′s new discount down to $499, some customers, (and only some) are reporting seeing that the price of the phone at checkout is actually dropping down to $403.20 instead of the original $499.20. So what’s happening is that certain customers are getting an additional $96 off the phone just for buying online. The down payment is obviously still 0$ if you’re someone who can qualify for this extra $96 bucks off, and if you have been waiting to upgrade your device until the right moment came around, we’re going to guess that this is that moment.

As with all web only discounts, it’s safe to say that when they say web-only they mean web-only. However, as a former T-Mobile retail employee, the company has been known to allow such discounts to be had in store. What I mean is that some locations can make exceptions. If you are wanting to pick one of these devices up, head over to the T-Mobile website and log in to upgrade if you’re available, or you could try your hand at going to a local store and asking if they could match this online price. The chances of that happening are probably slim to none, but it couldn’t hurt right?

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