Some solid unconfirmed Facebook apps have planted up for Automaton lately, but it looks like they're achievement to be displaced by an trained worker app as soon as this week. It's achievement to be several than the iPhone one.

It's achievement to be statesman specific, for unmatchable, reported to TechCrunch's source. But it's apparently achievement to circle statesman tightly around the stream and position updates, exploitation Facebook's newest Stream API that shows how many an new stream updates square measure inactivity for you as they come in. Better Stream combining doesn't really make up for not having an inbox though, personally. And all the screwball stuff the succeeding iPhone app bequeath have makes it look even statesman sadly barebones. But hey, it's occurrence at most, right??

Facebook apparently turned course for the equivalent reasonableness Pandora did aft job it saying it "doesn't problem" last October: Android's good astir preparation for primetime. (Though it helped Explore deemed the project measurable sufficiency to give Facebook adopt an Automaton applied scientist.) It also adds acceptance to the view we're in a third wave of Automaton apps—past the letter of the alphabet run, and the reaching of select apps that really fit the OS—the big name apps.

I'd like still like an iPhone-quality Chirrup app, though. [TechCrunch]





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Cellpassion lost the UA Life (genial of a specification identify for phones) for the future HTC Feast, an Android-based smartphone we recognise same lowercase about. But an inner link indicates that this could same well be AT&T's first Automaton phone.

There square measure a unit newsworthy tidbits present: The earphone is slated to have a "numerical keyboard," which we'd think would mean it's not a QWERTY. The screen assort is registered as 240x320, or QVGA, and of course it's achievement to be aping the name of that least aware and prosperous of Fording cars, the Feast. No soupcon as to date, value, or, well, large indefinite quantity of thing, yet, but we're aflutter astir the theory of statesman Automaton inclination on statesman carriers. [Cellpassion]





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Remember Writer, Motorola's reported first ever Automaton phone? Well it good got many glasses and a tentative release date, manner an past Mon start leak.

The Writer bequeath purportedly be a program line earphone jactitation the succeeding not-too-shabby features:

Qualcomm 528 MHz CPU
256 MB of RAM
512 MB flash memory
microSDHC support (32GB)
320x480 HVGA display
accelerometer
magnetometer
Gestalt principle of organization sensor
close light sensor
5 MP photographic equipment with autofocus
Geotagging
Also, GPS, 3G support, and wi-fi

The least modern rumors peg the earphone with an Oct 21 launch date, but no value. [Android and Me via I4U]





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Remember Writer, Motorola's reported first ever Automaton phone? Well it good got many glasses and a tentative release date, manner an past Mon start leak.

The Writer bequeath purportedly be a program line earphone jactitation the succeeding not-too-shabby features:

Qualcomm 528 MHz CPU
256 MB of RAM
512 MB flash memory
microSDHC support (32GB)
320x480 HVGA display
accelerometer
magnetometer
Gestalt principle of organization sensor
close light sensor
5 MP photographic equipment with autofocus
Geotagging
Also, GPS, 3G support, and wi-fi

The least modern rumors peg the earphone with an Oct 21 launch date, but no value. [Android and Me via I4U]





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What have there been, like, troika whole iPhone versions? Android's (very) late trained worker Facebook app has shown its painting lowercase face in the App Market—and it's actually kind of surprising.

Instead of good porting period of play the interface—or at most the surface concept—from the recently-released Facebook 3.0 for the iPhone, they've granted us an Android-specific UI. Not that it's particularly Android-y; it's good different. The front Page panels on the iPhone app have been replaced with a unsubdivided view of your feed, time the rest of the functions come by way of menu-accessible shortcuts, which expect imperative a hard button.

Those early features let in direct image uploads, big fat "Like" buttons and, though I couldn't get this unmatchable on the job, a telephone book function that gives you minute operation to 125 of you Korean Peninsula friends' earphone numbers game. It's a slightly inferior self-generated approach than the iPhone app or even to a sure level the system surface, but it's a immoderate optical instrument better than whatever of the third-party apps already in the grocery, many an of which dependable to pass themselves disconnected as trained worker, and many of which even had a nonzero (!) value. Facebook's trained worker app, luckily, is free, and in the grocery now.

UPDATE: So, Phandroid's noticed a many unexhausted things astir this app: Disdain the developer animate thing registered in the Grocery as "Facebook," the developer's telecommunicate address is a mistrustful Facebook.Android@gmail.com, and the related Facebook app—as in, for the website—says it was not mature by Explore. Could we have an impostor present? That would vindicate the new design school of thought, and the need of a many major features (messages, anyone?), but that the info that it is a fairly refined app. [AndroidGuys]





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