Google Maps has already been a thriving navigation paraphernalia for users who are able to find their location as well as of any other place in the world. Unfortunately, when a person was inside a huge Mall lost in the labyrinth of unknown twist and turns, Google Maps did not hold good there. Now with the release of Google Maps 6.0 for Android users, the ‘My Location’ feature has been added which shows your indoor location.

Instead of asking your way from a receptionist or a passerby, you could just use Google Maps My Location which would show you as a blue dot. It also displays some additional details as places, landmarks and geographical features which show you your surroundings and the happenings.

It shows the complete floor plan: you can see the floor you are standing upon, where you are moving inside, to which place nearby you could go and share your location. 3D tilting of buildings is also present. You could zoom in and out on a building whose inside map is available.

Mall of America in Minneapolis before and after, with a floor selector

For now, this service available in US and Japan for about 60 stores, airports and stations. This is just the beginning and Google is increasing the number indoor plans to public buildings across the world.

Google Maps app is compatible with smartphones and tablets running Android 2.1 or later. You can download the latest Google Maps 6.0 for Android from here.

Source: Google Blog

Never be disconnected from Facebook! Isn’t that the dream? Well it just might come true in a few months when Facebook launches it’s very own phone. Although it is thought to be a rumor at the moment, the reports started surfacing again. The suggested phone’s name is “Buffy”, named after the television series, “Buffy – The Vampire Slayer”. According to reports, Facebook has allied with HTC to design the hardware for the phone while it might go on similar paths as the rest of the smart phones and tablets these days about the operating system and adapt Android. While most of the apps for the phone would be built using the HTML 5 technology.

How it will make way in the already so competitive market of phones is something to see. And what about the companies that Facebook had partnerships with to make it available through mobiles? It would be very interesting to see how Facebook maintains a friendly relation with all the other companies while trying to get a fair share for its very own phone!

Source: AllThingsD

The device you can see in the image above is a leaked HTC phone that is going to be called HTC Rider. It made an appearance on a chinese website thanks to Mr Blurry cam. We cannot tell anything else about this particular device but as you can see in the image above, it looks like a typical HTC device that is running Google’s Android. It also reminds us about a device HTC recently announced, i.e HTC Evo 3D because it looks like that a lot.

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The long awaited Sony Ericsson PlayStation Phone is finally here. If you take PSP Go’s controls and attach them to Sony Ericsson Xperia 10 then the result will be a PlayStation Phone you seeing above. The phone features 1GHz MSM8655 processor, 512 MB of RAM, 1GB ROM, 3.7 to 4.1 inch touch screen, microSD card slot, a special games marketplace and more. It seems that Sony Ericsson want to beat Apple in iPhone and iPod touch gaming. Is it possible? Say your words below.

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Via: Engadget

Another Nokia phone leaks out well-ahead of its official announcement. This time it’s Nokia C7 and if we look at its Specs we will find out that it is a cut-shorter version of Nokia N8 phone with lower Tag price of 350 Euros.

The specs of the phone includes plastic body , 8 MP camera,  8GB internal memory, – 3.5″ nHD AMOLED, 680MHz CPU, 256MB RAM, 1200mAh Li-Ion battery and of course Symbian^3. The Nokia C7 also supports the latest local wireless connectivity – Wi-Fi b/g/n and Bluetooth 3.0.

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AndroidGuys got the leaked pics of an early prototype of  HTC World a Verizon-branded Android phone. HTC World is speculated to run a 1.2 GHz processor, full QWERTY keyboard and a 4-inch touch-screen. The phone will support both CDMA and GSM networks. The availability of phone  is expected in the early 2011 with Android 2.2.

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Samsung announces Galaxy S an Android powered phone. Galaxy S is powered by 1GHz processor, 4-inch AMOLED display, Content Eco-System,Native GPS with 3D Maps and much more. The phone has a shape similar to iPhone with a front camera. As Google Android platform is becoming popular day by day so everyone is taking interest in it with the production of  powerful and beautiful devices. Samsung Galaxy S is one of the beautiful and slim Android Phones.

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Via: Engadget

Recently we have posted the official videos of making of Nexus One. The part one of the video shows documentary about the concept and design of Nexus One whereas the part two features display and 3D framework. The documentary has 5 episodes out of which 3 have been posted. The third one shows the testing steps faced by Google Nexus One. Checkout the video below.

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