Google just updated the Google Docs for Android app.
Collaborate and edit anywhere with the updated Google Docs for Android
This means that: You’ll see updates in real time as others type on their computers, tablets and phones, and you can just tap the document to join in.
The person in the video shown copying and pasting on a phone is a lot faster and accurate than anyone I’ve ever seen. I always have a bit of a struggle getting the right start and end positions.
According to Google’s Android Dashboard Platform Versions more than 40% of phone accessing the Android Market are using versions older than 2.3 (pre-Gingerbread). 55.5% are at version 2.3. A mere 0.6% are version 4.x (Ice Cream Sandwich) that was released late last year. Android devices have a hit or miss (mostly miss) track record for getting updated to the latest release. Part of the reason lies with hardware requirements. But, much of the delay (vs. not being updated at all because of hardware requirements) appears to be due to Android phone makers mucking about with the user interface by replacing it with their own. This, in part, explains why we see a huge percentage of devices running ancient versions of Android.
Google announced a move earlier today that aims to put a stop to it in an blog item simply titled.
It seems like forever, but it took Google a couple of months to finally add search to the Google+ app for Android. The announcement appears, appropriately enough, in Punit Soni’s (Lead Product Manager, Google+ Games and Mobile) Google+ stream:
AND a new version of the Android app 🙂 We made good on our promise eh?
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Received my Google Nexus One Android phone a few hours ago. The video sample above was transcoded (by Google) from the original 3gp file recorded on the Nexus One. The video sample below is a video recorded using the Qik for Android app.
Sorry for the difficult to see screen demo on the Droid. Brightness cranked up but still nearly impossible to see. But, I wanted to quickly put up some kind of demo of Google Goggles running on a Droid. So, here it is such as it is 🙂
I posted two items over on my MobileAppsToday blog…
Google Sync (Beta) for iPhone & Windows Mobile: Think Before You Sync!
Microsoft MyPhone Service Free, But Not Comparable to Apple MobileMe
…that got me wondering if:
1. The Google Sync for iPhone & Windows Mobile made Outlook obsolete
2. If it made Microsoft’s MyPhone service obsolete before it even went live?
Microsoft stopped shipping Outlook with some lower-priced Microsoft Office bundles a while back. And, Windows Mobile smartphone hardware vendors stopped including Outlook with those phones around the same time. So, it is cheaper and easier to sync with Google Calendar and Contacts that with Outlook. And, since MyPhone is not out yet, people will probably try Google Sync.