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Will Google Apps Make The Nexus One Enterprise Ready
At CES this past week, Google executive Andy Rubin said that the next version of the Nexus One phone will be for the enterprise. It could have a physical keyboard.
Our bet is that Google Apps will be tightly integrated into the Nexus One enterprise phone. Google syncs every Android phone to a Google account. The next step seems logical. Sync Google Apps with the Android.
With Google Apps integrated, a customer could assign employees a Nexus One smartphone that is tied centrally to the account. As described on Ars Technica, each device could have its own Google Voice number. The smartphones could be then distributed to employees. Billing would be centralized and the employees would have a managed suite of applications for email, messaging, calendering, contacts and more. Read the rest of this entry »
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The Nexus One smartphone might be a fun phone for consumers, but Google is aiming for the business-minded customer with its handset, says Google’s Andy Rubin, quoted by Reuters.
Manufactured by HTC, maker of other Android phones (G1, MyTouch 3G, Hero), the Nexus One is a nice addition to the consumer line-up of Android smartphones, but doesn’t have the business users at heart due to the lack of a physical keyboard.
But Google is planning to address this issue with the next version of the Nexus One (Nexus Two?), which will feature a hardware keyboard. The Google exec, who was behind the creation of the Android OS, didn’t give any other details in his interview with Wall Street Journal’s Walt Mossberg. Read the rest of this entry »
The BlackBerry Presenter Lets You Give PowerPoint Anytime, Anywhere
Research In Motion, the people who brought you the BlackBerry, who had just come out with a new add-on to the device, the BlackBerry Presenter.
Basically, this is a projector for your BlackBerry, which allows you to view PowerPoint slides from your BlackBerry screen for every projection.
BlackBerry Presenter has three available resolutions, 640 x 480, 800 x 600, and 1024 x 768. It also offers VGA and S-Video output, along with a USB connection and a status LED that reflects the various modes. They will be sold for $ 199, and no word on when they will actually hit the shelves-all Research In Motion will say is that they are “coming soon”. Read the rest of this entry »
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