Google’s tweaked the social and location features of its Android Maps app, with version 4.6 now up on the Android Market. The most technically impressive new feature is “real time” updating of your location status via the Google Latitude layer, if you don’t mind that sort of intrusive tracking.
Here’s how that bit works:
In Latitude, you can also choose an experimental “Real-time updating” option from an individual Latitude friend’s profile page to help meet up with them by temporarily seeing faster location updates (friends must have Maps 4.6 and Android 2.2+).
As well as this, there’s more filtering for Places search results and a general redesign of the Places tab in general. Here are a couple of Google’s supplied images. They’re America-themed, but get the idea across.
Read the official line about it all over on the Google Mobile Blog, if you’re into all this social interaction nonsense.
HTC’s 4.3″ dual-core Android model, powered by Qualcomm’s all-new S4 processor. It’s smaller than the enormous One X, but is it as nice as its bigger brother? (SPOILER: Yes it is).
HTC is very much B-A-C-K at the top of the Android world with this, its quad-core flagship for 2012. Great camera, huge 4.7″ display and Android 4.0 running beautifully well.
Sony returns with an all-new mobile design for 2012, pairing a dual-core processor with a 720p display. It’s a lovely phone, but is it enough to end our Samsung and HTC obsession?
LG’s updated Prada phone comes with an absolutely crazy black & white theme, but is it just for fashionable suit wearers who want to make themselves look a bit more interesting?
Rik
/ October 29, 2010Places seems to be “America themed” even in England. The places app lists ATMs, not cash machines. Search for an ATM and it tells me about a car recovery firm, not somewhere to withdraw my money. I would uninstall places if I could.