New YouTube App for Windows Mobile and Nokia S60 phones
Cross posted from the YouTube blog
Last March, we launched the YouTube Mobile app for Nokia S60 and Windows Mobile phones. Since then, the application was translated to 12 languages, installed on millions of devices around the world, and has been chosen as a Nokia Ovi Top App of 2009. Today we’re excited to announce the release of the latest version of the YouTube Mobile app, version 2.4.
We strongly believe that faster is better. The YouTube Mobile app is designed to be the fastest way to find and play a video on your smartphone. In the initial release we minimized the number of features and focused on speed for things that matter - app startup, finding a video, and starting playback.
In today’s release we have added search query suggestions, ‘My Account’ support, and a new homescreen user interface that is optimized for larger screens. Now when you log into your YouTube account on our phone, you can view your favorites, subscriptions and playlists from wherever you are. Let’s say you have recently found an amazing basketball shot video and favorited it on your desktop PC. When you’re at the basketball court with your friends all you need to do is launch the YouTube app and go to your “Favorites” to show it to them.
Another feature that we have added is query suggestions. When you type into the YouTube search box, you get relevant suggestions. This saves on typing which is especially useful for mobile phones where text input may be difficult.
To download the app on your Windows Mobile or Nokia S60 phone, simply visit m.youtube.com/app in your phone’s browser. For more information, please take a look at the YouTube Help Center.
Posted by Andrey Doronichev, Product Manager, YouTube Mobile
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LG Launches GD510: Cookie Pep Touch Screen Phone in India
Meet your friends, build connections, find your business contacts, develop relationships and stay connected with your peers anytime, anywhere; in short, everything you need and nothing that you don’t in one brilliant piece of gadget - LG’s “Cookie Pep”!
LG Electronics, a global leader and technology innovator in consumer electronics, today unveiled the LG GD510, marketed as ‘Cookie Pep’ in the Indian market. ‘Cookie Pep’, is a compact 3-inch full touch screen phone bundled with the host of fun applications and social networking features. With its peppy, stylish and ultra chic design, the phone is targeted to the young audience who love to stay in touch with their peers, build connections and share their life even on the move.
“The all new LG Cookie Pep is in line with our strategy of introducing innovative gadgets and connecting with the youth through relatable propositions. As the name suggests, the phone will enable our young mobile users to have an unordinary fun experience. It delivers all the essentials in communication, multimedia and entertainment in a delightfully compact form. “Cookie Pep” will be actively marketed through a 360° plan and this will be our biggest campaign till date. I am positive that this phone will be an instant hit with the youngsters, said Mr. Sudhin Mathur, Business Head, Mobile Communications, LG Electronics India Pvt. Ltd.
LG Cookie Pep’s new ad campaign will also be the first communication from the brand that will witness endorsement by the newly appointed Brand Ambassadors - John Abraham, Genelia D’Souza and Abhay Deol. In sync with LG Cookie Pep’s image, these leading youth icons represent the values of excellence in performance. The radically refreshing communication around LG Cookie Pep will further strengthen the brand’s imagery of fun, youthfulness and free spirit. For the first time in the history of mobile communications, three leading Bollywood stars will come together – a rather unique way of delivering energized experience in an unordinary way!
The new LG Cookie Pep comes bundled with a plethora of fun applications. It is designed to offer a sociable and enjoyable mobile phone experience, bringing forth full touchscreen capabilities, as well as a fun graphical interface with pocket applications, live cricket simulation. This coupled with social networking connectivity allows users to easily stay connected to Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and other popular sites at any given point of
time.
Fully fluent in multimedia, the LG cookie Pep plays music and movies in several popular file formats. An easy-to-use browser brings all the best mobile content to the device’s large screen and a 3.0 megapixel camera captures high quality photos and videos for sharing online or sending to friends.
The spacious 3-inch WQVGA touchscreen extends almost to the edges of the LG Cookie Pep with a narrow 4.8 mm bezel giving the illusion of an uninterrupted sheet of glass. The unit’s sleek design is accented by a single back lit button on the face that functions as the menu, end and
cancel keys, depending on the phone’s mode. The LG Cookie Pep is crafted from brushed aluminium which adds sheen to its sleek looks.
LG Cookie Pep will be available in the market since March week 1 and will be priced at Rs. 7,500 /-
Courtesy: LG Electronics India
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Skype Available for Nokia SmartPhone Users @ Ovi Store
Skype and Nokia today jointly announced the release of Skype for Symbian, a Skype client for Nokia smartphones based on the Symbian platform, the world’s most popular smartphone platform. Skype for Symbian will allow Nokia smartphone users worldwide to use Skype on the move, over either a WiFi or mobile data connection (GPRS, EDGE, 3G). It is now downloadable for free from the Ovi Store, Nokia’s one-stop shop for mobile content.
Skype for Symbian will run on any Nokia smartphone using Symbian ^1, the latest version of the Symbian platform. Skype will soon introduce this client to Symbian mobile devices from other manufacturers, including Sony Ericsson.
Skype for Symbian enables Nokia smartphone users to:
- Make free Skype-to-Skype calls to other Skype users anywhere in the world
- Save money on calls and texts (SMS) to phones abroad
- Send and receive instant messages to and from individuals or groups
- Share pictures, videos and other files
- Receive calls to their existing online number
- See when Skype contacts are online and available to call or IM
- Easily import names and numbers from the phone’s address book
“Symbian enables us to bring smartphones to more and more people and ensures scale for our solutions and compelling services, such as Skype. We’re seeing around 1.5 million downloads a day on Ovi Store now and believe that the Skype client for Nokia smartphones will have wide appeal to Symbian users,” said Jo Harlow, Senior Vice President for Smartphones, Nokia.
“Skype, the king of Internet communications, running on Symbian, the world’s dominant smartphone platform, makes for an explosive combination,” said Larry Berkin, Head of Global Alliances and GM USA, Symbian Foundation. “With Symbian’s global reach, Skype is that much closer to becoming the ubiquitous real-time communications platform for hundreds of millions of Symbian-based mobile users.”
Russ Shaw, General Manager, Mobile at Skype said, “With Skype for Nokia smartphones, more than 200 million smartphone users worldwide will be able to take the Skype features they love with them on the move. Alongside Skype’s relationships with operators and handset manufacturers worldwide, making Skype available direct to consumers will help millions of users keep in contact with the people that are important to them without worrying about the cost, distance or whether they are away from a computer.”
The initial Skype for Symbian application is compatible with the following Nokia touchscreen models: Nokia N97, Nokia N97 mini, Nokia X6, Nokia 5800 XpressMusic and Nokia 5530 and the following non-touch devices: Nokia E72, Nokia E71, Nokia E90, Nokia E63, Nokia E66, Nokia E51, Nokia N96, Nokia N95, Nokia N95 8Gb, Nokia N85, Nokia N82, Nokia N81, Nokia N81 8 Gb, Nokia N79, Nokia N78, Nokia 6220 classic, Nokia 6210 Navigator, Nokia 5320.
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Search your Android phone with written gestures
As mobile phones become increasingly powerful and can store more data, we’ve introduced new methods of search to get you to your content faster, such as search suggestions or search by voice. But sometimes, typing to get to the right search suggestion takes too long, and you may be in a quiet environment where speaking a query is inappropriate. Today we’re pleased to announce Gesture Search, a new Google Labs application for Android-powered devices running Android 2.0 or above in the US. Gesture Search lets you quickly find a contact, an installed application, a bookmark or a music track from hundreds or thousands of items, by simply drawing alphabet gestures on the touch screen.
Say you want to call your friend Anne. Just open Gesture Search and draw letter “A”, and Gesture Search returns a list of items that have words starting with “A”. If your handwriting isn’t all that neat, that’s okay. If the “A” you draw looks a bit like an “H”, as seen in the bottom left corner of the screenshot, “H” results will be brought up as well. If needed, you can also erase a query by crossing it horizontally: left to right erases the entire query, and right to left removes the last letter or space in the query. Now you can either scroll down the list to find Anne or write more letters to refine the search.
Additionally, Gesture Search improves search quality by learning from your search history, so Anne’s contact info will jump to the top of the list the next time you write “A”.
To download Gesture Search, search for it in Android Market. You can get more information on our Google Labs page. And as this is a Labs launch, we are particularly eager to get your thoughts and feedback in the comments below!
Posted by Yang Li, Research Scientist
5 tips for using Google Buzz on your phone
A few weeks ago we released Google Buzz for mobile. There are many ways to access Google Buzz from your phone, but the web app (buzz.google.com) provides the most complete viewing and posting experience on an iPhone or Android 2.0+ device (more platforms are coming soon). Today, we’d like to share some tips on how to get the most out of the Google Buzz web app on your phone.
1. Search for a place to post from 
Tagging a post with your location is easy and fun. You can just tap the location box in the posting screen to add a place name or an address. Or, you can search for a place. Click “>” in the location box and scroll down a bit to find the search box. This will allow you to search for places nearby and tag your post with that location.
2. Learn more about a tagged place 
When you see a location tag and the little red pin attached to someone’s post, you might want to learn more about that place. Click ‘Show map’ to see the address of that place and a small map, which you can tap to see a bigger, fully functional map. You can also click the place link to view business details, reviews, photos, and more.
3. Choose to share privately or publicly 
The Google Buzz web app provides options to share your post publicly on the web or privately with the groups you select. To create a new group to share privately, you’ll need to visit Buzz in Gmail or google.com/contacts from your computer. Your location is attached to your post by default, either as an address or a place. If you don’t want it attached, you can simply tap the ‘Remove location’ link. Next time you post, we will remember your choices for the sharing option (public or private) and for the location tagging option (whether or not to include location).
4. View mobile profiles and follow new people 
You’ll often find interesting public posts or comments made by people you’re not following yet. If you’d like to start following them, simply tap on their name to visit their mobile profile page, click the ‘Buzz’ tab, and tap ‘Follow’. The ‘Contact Info’ tab includes info pulled from their public Google profile that they’ve chosen to share and any additional info you may have about them in your contacts, making it easy for you to contact them with one click.
5. Auto-finish @reply
When you want to include someone in a post or comment, you can use the @reply feature. On mobile devices, simply type “@user”, which will be automatically expanded to “@user@gmail.com” for you. This will save you time typing on the phone.
Stay tuned for more tips, and visit our Help Center to learn more. We also love to hear your feedback in our forum and your suggestions on the Mobile Product Ideas page!
Posted by Alex Kennberg, Software Engineer, Google Mobile
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Nokia Launches C5: First C Series SmartPhone
Nokia today unveiled the Nokia C5, a smartphone optimized for social networking and sharing. The compact device includes access to Nokia’s range of mobile services, such as free navigation, in one affordable package, with an estimated retail price of EUR 135 (Rs. 8,436.15 /- approx.), before taxes and subsidies.
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Click-to-Call Phone Numbers in Mobile Ads for National Advertisers
Recently we announced a new feature that allows advertisers to add a clickable phone number to their mobile ads, making it easy for customers to connect with the local business they’re looking for directly by phone. This week, we’re expanding click-to-call phone numbers for national advertisers. Now advertisers can add a national phone number to the last line of ad text for any existing or new campaigns, making it easy for customers to connect with the business by phone directly from the ad, regardless of their location.
This can be especially helpful when you’re trying to connect with the business call center rather than a specific business location. After searching for a travel services, for example, you might want to call to discuss trip planning with an agent. Or after searching for car insurance, you might want to call for a quote. Now, if you’re using an iPhone, Android device, or Palm Pre, you can just click the phone number to call the business without needing to navigate to a new page.
If you’re an advertiser and would like to learn more about how to add a clickable phone number to your mobile ads, check out this post on the Inside AdWords blog for more details.
Posted by Surojit Chatterjee, Product Manager, Mobile Ads
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LG Launched GD910: Watch Phone @ Rs. 49,990 in India
LG has launched the unique 3G touch Watch Phone (LG-GD910) in India with 3G Video Telephony (VT) service and GSM Quadband Network capabilities.
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Samsung Launches Jet2: Jet Series SmartPhone in India
Digital Technology Leader, Samsung Electronics today announced the extension of its Jet series of Smart phones in India with the launch of Samsung Jet 2. The new Samsung Jet 2, while retaining the original stylish features of the Samsung Jet, provides consumers the benefits of advanced features of a smart phone and easy-to-use user interface of a conventional mobile phone.
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Africa Based Mi-Fone Launches New Range Mobiles in India
Mi-Fone, Africa’s fastest growing mobile devices brand and nominee for “New Entrant of the Year 2009″ at the recent 2nd annual AfricaCom Awards, is making its splendid entry in the Indian Market.
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