The latest update to Google’s Android Maps app has thoroughly refreshed its layout and options that cover public transport, adding new layers for tubes, trains, buses and trams, plus a little toggle to select between them (below left). the result is a much cleaner and simpler way of getting yourself unlost.
Also updated are the individual pages for each station or stop, which lists nearby connections for alternate travel methods. Here it is:
There’s also a newly reworked Location History tab, plus a nice new Home screen icon. It’s a good update, this one. read more about it over on Google’s blog.
The Panasonic Eluga marks the company’s return to the European mobile phone scene years after several years of absence, and it’s come back to us with a moderately high-spec Android model that features a rather stylish, slim case.
The HTC One V is HTC’s third entry in its high-profile new HTC One range, offering a smaller 3.7″ display running on a single-core 1GHz processor. It is is very much the “affordable” option in HTC’s newest Android series, but…
The HTC One S is the piggy in the middle of HTC’s 2012 line-up, offering a 4.3″ AMOLED display inside a very slim and stylish aluminium chassis. The end result is a phone that’s very, very slim and stylish.
HTC’s new quad-core monster, the 4.7″ flagship for 2012 that introduces the Tegra 3 processor to mobile phones, updates HTC’s range to Android 4.0 and brings us the supposedly streamlined version 4.0 of HTC’s Sense user interface.
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?
Lloyd Christmas
/ August 16, 2012What they conveniently don’t mention is the fact that the Latitude widget is no lo.get supported! Hey Google, bloody bring it back!