The Google Maps app, syncs with your Google account, allowing for seamless maps search history sharing between your desktop and other devices and the app. Offering free live traffic data and voice-guided turn-by-turn directions and best of all, the mobile app supports Streetview, Google Maps definitely shines as the best free mapping app for the iPhone once again. Heres the Official Google Maps for iPhone video:

To Download the app, go to the app store via your device and search for Google Maps.  Or you can get Google Maps for iOS from the App Store here.

If you’re a developer, Google has also announced that they have concurrently launched the Google Maps SDK for iOS to allow you to integrate Google Maps into your apps, here’s the Google Maps for iPhone SDK Documentation.

The 25year old rapper was shot and killed in 1996 and by 2007 Tupac Amaru Shakur had sold over 75 million records and was honored by Rolling Stones Magazine as one of the Top 100 Greatest Artists of All Time.

No official pricing was included in the original press release, but based on Apple‘s trend, expect to pay exactly the same as the iPad2 price, and the iPad 2′s will become available at a discounted price.

Here is the official New iPad (iPad 3) Trailer:

Aggregating 100′s of sites into a  single app with a gorgeous design, making it simple to consume content.

Watch the video for Google Currents here:

Here is an infographic that highlights some of the achievements that the Mozilla team can be proud of:

It’s really cool and Nokia Situations can be downloaded and installed on your device free of charge.

This is Nokia’s big boy phone. Its not for the faint hearted and packs some serious hardware & serious software. Running its newest (and greatest OS) Symbian^3, which is designed specifically for touch devices with high definition multimedia and not the old Symbian S60 v5 which Nokia tried VERY hard to take v3 of S60, retrofit it for touch devices and hope that it worked. It did work, but it worked as well as it deserved given the effort that Nokia put it into it. It wasn’t bad, but it definitely wasn’t even close to great either.

Symbian^3 is different. You can feel it. Nokia has taken all the lessons learnt with the N97 and N97 mini and correct them. Its very clear that this is Nokia’s “once bitten, twice shy” device. It manages multi-tasking like a dream, so running multiple apps simultaneously is not going to slow the phone down. Its no longer impractical to listen to music, browse the web on the phone and have the sudden need to take a quick photo and email or MMS it. This phone does all of this, all while geo-tagging your photos, editing them and uploading them to a social network.

The phone is the best device that I’ve used so far, except for 2 issues that I have with it.
The first:
is that it crashes, A LOT. This is a firmware issue and I’m told by folk at Nokia that it will be solved with the first firmware release, so I’m not going to hold this one against them.

The second:
This issue is quite a dof problem, but to me, its a big problem.
The speaker is at the back of the phone, so when its laying on its back with the screen up, like most people would, things sounds muffled. It becomes a real problem, when you rely on your phone to wake you up in the morning, but you can’t hear it, because it gets muffled. Its pretty obvious that the hardware designers screwed up on that, but otherwise, everything else is awesome.

Things that I hate:

• It crashes a lot.
• Speaker is on the back.
• Spell check sucks and not half as good as its competitors.
• Landscape typing is slightly slower than portrait typing.
• QWERTY keyboard layout of special characters have been reorganised again (This is now different on every Nokia device and has no standard)
• HDMI plastic cover flap feels cheap and seems to have been an afterthought.
• SIM removal is not easy.

Things that I love:

• 12 Megapixel photo camera
• HD Video Camera
• HDMI out (i.e. plug it straight into your HD tv)
• USB in (Play video from USB dongles, ext HDDs, etc.)
• Large bright screen with multiple home screens
• Great widget collection
• HTML mail support with multiple mail services accessible via widgets
• Calendar management.
• Mail & Calendar syncing with Mail for Exchange is VERY simple to set up
• Message preview widget gives you a summary of missed events, like meetings, missed calls, SMSes, etc.
• Social Network app integrates Facebook & Twitter natively into the phone.
• Angry Birds!

Conclusion:
Would I buy it?
Yes! As soon as the firmware update is out, this phone is undoubtedly the best piece of mobile hardware available today.

The iPad Orchestra from Alex Shpil on Vimeo.

In short, it keeps track of all the mails that you reply to, star, read, delete, etc and ranks the mail’s importance.

Here is a short video released by the GMail team to describe the service:

It then teaches itself based on your interactions with the system to become smarter in its predictions.

I might have my doubts about the algorithm’s success rate, but I love that it is now possible to group all unread mails into a single view without having to search using, “is:unread label:inbox”

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