These guys got paid drive and photograph the entire country. But they got no idea how far they are going to drive. Video after the break. Read more…

Google actually uses dessert to codenamed their Android release. Cupcake was 1.5 and Donut was 1.6 and the new one Éclair is expected to be 2.0. The Android team puts out giant sculpture to correspond the software’s release. Google hasn’t made any announcements for the 2.0, when the big Donut was shown in front of Google back in September the developer release was out within a few days. Now the Éclair was shown, it looks like will be seeing Android 2.0 soon. The Motorola’s upcoming Droid is expected to be the first mobile phone to ship with Android 2.0. Read more…

ACER UK has announced their new Android (Donut) Smartphone called the Liquid A1. It is the world’s first Qualcomm Snapdragon processor based and world’s first Android 1.6 high definition smartphone, featuring 3G and 3G+, High Definition capacitive touch screen (Wide VGA) at 800×480 resolutions and a 5Mpix AF camera module.

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Sometime Google Suggestions can be funny, check it out and try it out yourself.

Google Japan has made a short animated film to show us how Google Maps’ Street View function actually works in case you don’t know. Check it out after the break. Read more…

Have you seen a TV commercial advertising a web browser? Here it is, from Google Japan team for the Google Chrome. Check it out after the break. Read more…

Kids often lost themselves in the supermarket, that’s what parents worry about whenever they bring their children to shopping. Princeton has come out with a device to solve that problem. It is called the Kid Finder, it is capable of letting you know both distance and direction of your kids. But please take note that it only works in a range up to 90 meters. The transmitter also comes with a SOS button that will send an alarm to remote in case of danger. The Kid Finder is available at $108.

[via TechFresh]

Gizmodo got some spy photos of the second generation Android phone which supposed to be called it G2. From the pictures, we can see that it has a 3.2 megapixel camera and has a pretty similar interface to the G1. According to the report, the phone will be announced in mid-May.

Sir Luke Hutch has figured out the full working multitouch on T-mobile G1. He show us the video to prove it and also a list of instructions for developer.

“This does not require a recompilation of the Linux kernel, but does require modifying one of the Java system libraries on the phone. This is for software developers only at this point!”

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ModMyGphone has some pictures of the China-only Lenovo OPhone, the phone that runs on Android OS. According to the source, the phone will have a 5.0-megapixel camera, microSD support, Chinese/English virtual keypad, Bluetooth connectivity and video recorder. So what do you guys think of this OPhone?

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