NavigationReview Central |
Google at Mobile World Congress 2010Submitted by lalit on February 16, 2010 - 5:50pm.
Google CEO Eric Schmidt today gave a keynote speech at Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, Spain. During the speech, Google didn’t introduce any new product, but the CEO talked about various innovation Google has brought to the mobile market. Innovations like Google voice search, Android and mobile applications like Google Earth. He described the working of voice search, where audio spoken by user is recorded and streamed in real time to Google data centers – the audio is processed and matched with popular search queries and the results are send back to users handset with in few seconds. During the demo of Android by Erick Tseng, he showed Flash working on Android and informed Android will support full Flash 10.1 and not just Flash Lite version. He loaded New York Times website and said “as you can see, all the components are there”, as a pun on Apple. Eric said that Google and their hardware partners are now shipping 60,000 Android handsets everyday. Which is a dramatic increase when compared to Q3 2009. If the number holds, more the 5.4 million handsets will be sold per quarter and over 21.9 million per year. Eric told he believes in principle called “mobile first” and Google will focus on this principle.
|
SearchTop 5 Gadgets
Recent blog posts
|