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Take THAT, Nokia Maps. Google has updated Google Maps for Mobile to version 2.2, bringing a great new feature - Transit. Transit is like the ‘Driving Directions’ feature of the previous version of GMM, but focused on public transport. Give the app two locations and it will try to calculate the best public transport journey between them. [...]

Can't wait to get a taste of Google's Linux-based Android OS? Well, Nokia N810 Internet Tablet owners are in luck. With Android getting ported to handsets like it's going out of style, it was only a matter of time before an easy-as-pie Android Installer came to light. Enter the Android Installer for the Nokia N810 Internet [...]

Google’s Android team have announced the first round results of the first Android Developer Challenge. The ADC was set up to promote inovative apps on the new mobile platform and is open to both professionals and hobbyists alike. The first round is now complete and Google has awarded 50 successful developpers with $25,000 and a place in the second round. An almost full list of winners is up on the ADC blog , with some more fleshed-out descriptions available here . It’s an interesting selection, too. Highlights include Eco2Go - which suggests public transport optioons in your locale to reduce your carbon footprint, bar code scanning app Androidscan and innovative guitar tutor SplashPlay. Interestingly, four developers have asked that their super-secret projects not be announced at this stage, so either they are a bit embarrassed or they think there could be some ‘monetization’ in the offing.

Opera has announced an experimental port of its Opera Mini mobile browser to Google’s Android platform. The Android version runs in an emulated Java ME session and still has a few small issues, although that’s perhaps understandable when you consider there is no actual Android hardware available to test it on. This could be a great move [...]

Tapping away at a mobile phone's keypad can get to be a real bother - and in some cases, a real medical condition. So, it seems that Google has set out to improve the mobile-search experience on handsets. Dubbed "LCB," Google has tipped their newest mobile service in their robots.txt file - a file that [...]

Hmm. We can’t see this one lasting very long At first glance, Google2Go seems like a Googlized version of Yahoo! Go - Yahoo’s Symbian and Windows Mobile portal app. And it kind of is. Kind of. Google2Go is in no way an official Google product, and seems to have been knocked together by a fan of the [...]