The Google netbook will engage chipset from Nvidia’s Tegra line and powered by ARM CPU instead of widely used Intel. ARM’s CPU performs better than Intel Atom with comparatively less power consumption.

Very obvious the netbooks will run on Chrome OS, which itself is reporting good reviews. This is Google netbook we are talking about so it will reportedly also come with preinstalled Google apps such as Google Map, Gmail, Google Docs, Google Calender and Google Search by Voice.

Rumored specs of Google netbook include a 10.1-inch TFT HD-ready multi-touch display. It is also reported in IBTimes that it would come with 64GB SSD and not those HDD.

Some other features includes a 2 GB RAM with Wi-Fi, 3G, Bluetooth, Ethernet Port, USB ports, webcam, 3.5 mm audio jack, multi card readers and much more.

To see the fully-fledged Google netbook we may have to wait for 2010 holiday season when it is expected that Google will launch the product.

So we talked about the humored specs and expected release date, now let’s have a look at the market rumor for this Google netbook’s price tag. Present market rumors says “the Google netbook will be subsidised (the device will reportedly sport a sub-$300 price tag) and sold directly to consumers by Google”.

Some also expects Google to sell the product as a rival to Nokia Booklet 3G. According to them, Google will tie up with one or more network operators in countries like US to sell the netbook as part of a bundled 3G plan.

Google launched its Google Map Navigation Beta for Android 2.0 a few weeks ago. The latest Android had the compatibility with Google Map Navigation but those Android lovers who had been using the platform since earlier would have felt left out kind of without Google Map Navigation in their older Androids but Google didn’t let them be upset for long, to gift them happiness on the Thanksgiving occasion Google has presented them with Google Map Navigation for Android 1.6 aka Donut and higher. Yes now most of the Android powered Smartphones will guide users to their destinations in US.

With the launch of Google Map Navigation it claimed to be a tough competitor to pre existing leaders of PNDs like Garnim and TomTom and now it has expanded its availability from Android 2.0 to Android 1.6.

Google Map Navigation Beta the internet -connected GPS system brings voice guidance and automatic rerouting, smartphone. Advantaging Google search (verbal or typed) to enter destinations, latest maps, business and traffic data; satellite and Street View imagery along route over the phone’s data connection the Google Map Navigation service brings important benefits to GPS navigation users to become a well equipped road warriors.

Another feature added to this launch is the new Layers feature. This feature allows users to overlay geographical information on the map. View My Maps, transit lines, Wikipedia articles about places, and more.

this release lets you create a shortcut that allow users to launch navigation and start getting guidance to specified place of that shortcut form your present location with a single touch.

So what are you waiting for all you have to do to access Google Map Navigation on Android 1.6 is just download an updated version of Google Maps from Android Market to use Navigation.

It is currently available in the United States.

A little sad part of the news is that Google Map Navigation Beta for Android 1.6 is less featured. Like the ability to use the “navigate to” voice command id missing.

“The Pogoplug is a multimedia sharing device which is the perfect accessory to your connected life.” according to the Cloud Engines. The device let you access all your files and media at home from any laptop or desktop computer, anywhere in the world. It also provides facility to share the content with friends and family without having to upload it.

It lets you access all the files from your external hard drive to be viewed or downloaded through your Web browser, with no need to download or install extra software. Pogoplug is accessible through Windows Explorer and Mac Finder. The new Pogoplus lets you sync photos, music, videos and other content from iTunes and iPhoto.

Specifications of Pogoplus:

• Power requirements: 100-240V, 50/60HZ
• Drive connection: USB 2.0
• Drive Formats: NTFS, FAT32, Max OS Extended Journaled and non-Journaled (HFS+), EXT-2/EXT-3
• Network connection: Gigabit Ethernet
• Operating Systems: MS Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7, Mac OSX 10.5 and above (Intel and PowerPC) 32bit kernel only, Linux
• Web browsers: Safari, FireFox 3, IE 7, IE 8, Chrome

Cloud Engines will ship the device at $129 and expected to hit market before the end of the year.

Powered with web OS Pixi could simultaneously run multiple applications, allows emailing and integrates instant messaging, MMS and SMS and allows users to visit non-mobile websites, with full scrolling and zooming capabilities.

Providing the Pixi with photo shot feature Palm has integrated 2MP camera with Led Flash and automatic data back-up service.

The 2.6 –inch multi-touch display Pixi has dimensions of- 55.0mm (2.17 inches) width, 111.0mm (4.37 inches) height, and 10.85mm (0.43 inches) thickness.

Loaded with 8 GB built-in storage it integrates GPS receiver and a 3G mobile broadbrand standard EV-DO.

Pixi lacks in:
• No video recording
• No wi-fi
• Limited App catalog

Pixi comes on Sprint with a price tag of $100 with a two-year service contract and $100 mail-in rebate.

Palm Pixi might not be much anticipated one but it still could be a desired less expensive cellphone involving other features like Palm Synergy, an exposed keyboard and a vivid multitouch screen, along with compatibility with Touchstone connectionless charging and Wireless connectivity with Bluetooth 2.1 which gives it a bit more functionality without diving into a more expensive and more complex smartphone.

Synonym to Ocean in Korean language Bada would enables a richer user experience in applications on Samsung mobile devices. Samsung has developed bada to make rich and connected application-experiences available to everyone. It includes next generation next generation UI framework with feature sets and design elements that facilitate leading-edge user interfaces for every bada application.

Samsung describes its key features as
• Integrate support for service-oriented features: to enable development of connected application.
• Integrates supports for common experience and functions across applications for extensible core functions like dialer, messaging, and address book.

For developers BADA site contains development tips, tools, documentation, and tech support resources and also provides the development forum to the developer community.

According to the bada Web site, the first bada-powered mobile phone is expected to be introduced in the first half of next year. Sale of bada applications will start at the Samsung Application Store in the same period.

Users will also eventually be able to download Bada applications over the air from Samsung’s Application Store.

Samsung also said the Bada software development kit will be released in December, and handsets with the OS are expected to arrive in 2010.

Motorola named MILESTONE to the GSM version of Verizon Droid (CDMA) in Germany. Motorola announced Droid with a hope to be a savior to its dropping graph and now in order to earn more customers globally it was sure they might be hooking with some other carriers over other locations after its launch announcement with Verizon and yes Motorola has made alive Droid on its German site cognomen as MILESTONE.

Milestone slightly differs with its CDMA Droid version. Looking for a positive feature Milestone has Multi-touch built-in UI. This enables users of German GSM version to ZOOM in BY PULLING with two fingers. On the contrary US version is devoid of Multi-touch feature although Android 2.0 OS can support it.

Though Milestone operating on Android 2.0 supports GOOGLE search, android Market as well as Google Marketplace, Gmail and GTalk but what may keep him little dull is unavailability of Google’s latest smartphone feature Google Map Navigation (offered free of cost) which gives Droid an exceptional feature over others.

Milestone can still navigate you; it knows the world and helps to sail – with every step through its trail navigational application MotoNove. New Motonove features 3D Landmarks, easy search, Lane Guidance, point of interest; every feature will be available on a trial basis for 60 days as the Motorola site says. It has 8GB MicroSD card preloaded with maps for Western Europe included.

“Impressive online experiences, sharper pictures, and videos that inspire” is how Motorola describes its Milestone.

Featuring same as Droid, it offers Business and personal e-mails to be put into a clearly organized inbox and With the QWERTY keyboard or a virtual one it’s easy and quick to reply for any message.

Its Multimedia Station turns Milestone into a multimedia center where you can listen to music, view photos and videos, see the time and weather.
Dimensions: Weighting 165 g (6 oz.) ,measuring 60.00 x 115.80 x 13.70mm (2.4 x 4.6 x 0.5 inches) with a display size of 3.7 “, WVGA (480 pixels x 854 widescreen), 16:9; Milestone has 5-MP camera with zoom, autofocus, flash and image stabilization is ideal for capturing images and video sequences in great quality.

The device can be purchased from either O2 or Vodafone or The Phone House.

Pricing as declared by O2 is 481€ with 1€Deposit and 20 € Montreal payment of 24 months

One of the stared features of the new Google Map Navigation for Android 2.0 is that it was built from the ground up to take advantage of phone’s Internet connection, which helps in a much-diversified ways.

Motorola Droid first in series smartphone operating on Android 2.0 OS, has speech recognition ability that enhances the navigational feature of the new release software.

Search along route by voice is designed keeping in mind the difficulty people face in using any PND while driving. With GMN speak out your destination place (keeping voice search active) and pop-ups appears on screen with turn-by-turn navigation combined with vocal dictation of the street names. Google map includes several landmarks and guides you for a specific business by name or you can also turn on popular layers, such as gas stations, restaurants or parking along your route.

Wanna see Traffic/street/satellite view:
This new feature brings to you live traffic data over the internet which includes traffic indication, jam information and also it provides you with an alternate route whenever required.
With a double tab on map you can zoom into street view to know what your next turn looks like.
Satellite View when turned on brings on screen a high-resolution, 3D view of upcoming route

The Internet connected GPS navigation automatically brings to your smartphones most up-to-date maps and business listings from Google Maps without any map upgrading or device updating.

Verizon will bring its Motorola Droid with accessory for cars in stores from Nov. 6

If on one hand Verizon expects Droid to earn them a good share of customers on the other it hold on its shoulder responsibility to save the declining Motorola’s graph.

Droid is the first in series smartphone based on the latest released Google’s Android 2.0 OS which is more powerful more flexible and faster.

Featuring Multitasking Droid lets you make a call, answer an email and switch between up to six applications simultaneously.

Speech recognition: finds its usage in many applications. Not only Droid answers to a spoken words for search through web and your smartphones content but it also directs and navigates you to the commanded enquiry made through Google’s navigational feature added to the mobile.

Google Map Navigation: Droid has in-built GPS that does not require any external hardware to navigate you through the streets of US that too providing turn-by-turn voice guidance as a free feature of Google Maps. It’s powered by Google and connected to the Internet which allows accessing to most recent maps and business information without updating the device. It is fully featured like any other GPS device and can show live traffic, use street views or satellite imagery to view requires route.

Pre Loaded Applications and enhancements:
Google powered OS comes loaded with Google Maps, YouTube, Gtalk, calendar, Android market of about 1000 + applications, Verizon Wireless Visual Voice Mail.

Surprisingly the Droid does not support for Verizon’s VCast music service and VZ Navigator application, although its substitutes the requirements with Amazon MP3 store to download latest track over the air and Google Map Navigation beta for navigation.

Camera: shot every moment with 5 megapixel built-in dual LED flash camera. It can take video at a resolution of 720 by 480 for up to 24 fps and also features image stabilization, real-time effects, auto-focus.

Dimensions: 4.6 inches x 2.4 inches x 0.5 inches. Weighs: 6 ounces
Touch screen: 3.7 inches diagonally touch screen and boast a 480 by 854 resolution.

Droid also challenges the available PNDs with its free Google powered navigational service and car accessory offered by Motorola and Verizon.

It includes slide-out key board in addition to a virtual keyboard, it also has Wi-Fi, Bluetooth. Although it does not include any built in storage but has a 16GB SD card expandable to 32 GB storage. 1,400mAh lithium ion battery offers 6.4 hours of continuous talk time and up to 11 days of standby time.

Droid supports loads of features so to give full justice in giving an eye to all of them you should try a visit to droiddoes.com and give chance to let animated droid unveils itself to you.

Coming to stores & cost: Droids will be available from Nov. 6 through Verizon’s distribution channels at a price for $199 with two-year customer agreement after a $100 mail-in rebate.

The smartphone directs every cell phone users with its business ability features like exchange supports and general users with its integrated social networking features and much more.

But presently there is no media synchronization although users can manually sync music to the device.

John Stratton, executive vice president and chief marketing officer for Verizon Wireless quoted “Apple revolutionized the industry as a new player and that’s extraordinary. But we have to show that iPhone is not untouchable.” He added “Instead Verizon will focus its advertising more on what the Droid can do rather than what other devices can’t do.”

Google revealed its new OS SDK kit with many enhanced features. The smartphones powered with new Android 2.0 aims to give a tough competition to existing series of iPhones. Verizon had already glimpsed the highlights of its first Android powered mobile in an “iDoesn’t than what does?” ad campaign.

The latest in Android OS series includes various exciting features for both users as well as developers. Let’s give an eye on the Chocolatey Eclairs’s features for users:

It includes Exchange support which enables all the emails from multiple accounts to be combined in a single inbox making it easier to browse them in one page.

Multiple accounts can be added to the contacts for email and contact synchronization, including Exchange accounts.
Another users friendly change give to contacts is “Quick Contact”. This feature provides instant access to a contact’s information thus without digging into the contact list one can directly select to call, SMS, email only with a single tap on contact’s photo.

Now you can search for all saved SMS and MMS messages. It also has ability to auto delete the oldest message in a conversation when the threads end is reached.

The latest built Android can support Camera with built-in flash support, digital zoom, white balance, macro focus, color effect to provide users with a worthy photo shooting experience.

It has enhanced Calendar featuring infinite scrolling with agenda view.

Google has introduced some changes in new Android Virtual keyboard too. It has improved layout so to increase the probability of hitting correct characters and increasing the typing speed. A wiser dictionary learns and revises from word usage and automatically engrosses contact names as suggestions.

For Browning the Browser experience Android 2.0 brings with it refreshed UI with actionable browser URL that enables users to directly tab the address bar for instant searches and navigation. It supports double-tab zoom, bookmarking web pages and HTML 5 with geolocation API support.

It includes Media framework and Bluetooth.

For Developers new Android 2.0 brings SDK kit Google also announced to them that they should get prepared as there will be incorporate some version updates till the year’s end.
# It has ability to create sync adapters that provide synchronization with additional data sources.
# They can include the Quick contact feature into their third-party applications.
# They will be able to integrate Bluetooth functionality into their applications.

Although new Android Open Source has arrived but its yet not clear that whether all the existing Android powered mobiles will get upgraded to it as in some cases hardware requirements could forbid this upgrade.

Visit Android blog for the official release video of Android 2.0