By Giedrius on July 29, 2010
I am a happy owner of Nexus One, though I have written about some quirks in the past. Now it is time to discuss one problem deeper: common software availability outside USA and couple other lucky countries. And the worst of it is that it affects software, that comes preinstalled in our phones. For example, [...]
Posted in Reviews | Tagged Android, google maps |
By Giedrius on July 8, 2010
I have written about Ndrive in the past. It is one of the best available navigations for your Android phone outside USA and “lucky 11″ (countries, from which google accepts payments in their Android Marketplace). Most of other map software processes payments through google market thus they are not available in most of the countries. [...]
Posted in Reviews | Tagged Android, ndrive |
By Giedrius on May 26, 2010
I was pleasantly surprised by seeing Android phones in stock at Lithuanian Omnitel store last week. They weren’t marked as Android phones, and their capabilities were unlisted. However, I am really happy that they have started selling more modern Smartphone’s than Iphone. However, there is no sign for paid applications in locally accessible Android Market [...]
Posted in General | Tagged Android, Lithuania |
By Giedrius on May 18, 2010
I am firm believer that knowing about places of common speed traps is a good thing. Thus I relied on trapster application on my android phone to report for the stationary and mobile traps in area I am driving. Sadly, it had far for complete speed camera map for Lithuania. Vilnius is marked quite well, [...]
Posted in General | Tagged Android, KML, ndrive, Speed Cameras |
By Giedrius on April 9, 2010
Yesterday there was a change made in Apple’s developers terms and conditions prohibiting cross-compiling Iphone and Ipad applications. This addition is related to announcement of Adobe CS5, which should be able to convert Flash to Iphone application and open Iphone application development to Flash developers. This is not a huge step for Apple, however it [...]
Posted in General | Tagged Adobe, Android, Apple |
By Giedrius on March 24, 2010
NDrive is a Portuguese GPS navigation software with Android version available in Android Market. It can be downloaded for free, also there is 7 day free trial for all of the maps. Ndrive Installation is quite straightforward. One downloads application from Android Market, and then selects maps one needs. I would recommend downloading maps using [...]
Posted in Reviews | Tagged Android, ndrive |
By Giedrius on March 20, 2010
One of the most important drawbacks of my Nexus One is the limited choice of applications if you are outside US and couple other countries. Android Market sells for couple countries only, and native free Turn by turn navigation application is available in USA only. That is a shame, as I need navigation in my [...]
Posted in General | Tagged Android, nexus one |
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