A few minutes ago I have access to Google Maps and Google Street View has launched in Spain, especially Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia and Seville. For those who do not know, Street View is a free service from Google that allows a panoramic view from the street.
This service represents a great leap in our mobile phones, as from now we will see our city from our mobile phone with Android (currently only on sale in the U.S.) or the iPhone, which can use Street View inside a few weeks or days with actuaización iPhone OS 2.2 we can find in iTunes.
Surely, you can see any part of our city opens a new way to find directions, as if so far only saw the map, now we can see exactly how is the place, restaurant, shop or street where we want to go.
Although currently only available to iPhone and Android, we will inform you when it becomes available on other platforms.
Nokia has just released the new Nokia Email application, still in beta, which you can manage your accounts from your mobile phone or smartphone anywhere.
Nokia Email works with POP accounts and IMAP email, so forget about using it with your Hotmail account, but we recommend you Gmail … Of course, the application lets you send, receive, synchronize access to the folders ….
You can download the application in Nokia Email http://email.nokia.com for Nokia N81 8GB, Nokia N95, N80, N73, E90, E65, E66, E71, E61, E61i and Nokia E51. Remember that is in beta and is free, although we do not know if Nokia will continue to be present when the final version.
Google has not wanted to stay out of the mobile telephony market and will enter the sector in a big way with its new platform for mobile phones called Android.Android is a free mobile platform based course! Linux will be available to any developer to improve the operating system and modify or create new applications. This should take note and Apple to allow third party applications for the iPhone.
To bring the project to the market, Google and other big businesses have allied under the Open Handset Alliance, composed of companies such as LG, Motorola, Qualcomm, eBay, HTC and operators like T-Mobile. Although we will not see the platform running well into 2008, the Open Handset Alliance will release an SDK for developers on November 12.
All this makes the current market for mobile telephony changed completely with Android and the iPhone will make a strong trend in the market. To see how you react to Microsoft Windows Mobile or Symbian Nokia to this new platform. And the truth is that it seems to have ensured the success with companies like Google behind it.
Certainly in the next few years mobile phones will see a major revolution: the mobile Internet. Although at present the use of the Internet on mobile devices is not very popular, it appears that soon to rely on mobile access to Internet.
Google is aware of this, therefore, has recently announced its mobile version of Google Docs, which will see a streamlined our documents and spreadsheets anywhere. For now, we can not create documents or view presentations.
This is one of the many applications that Google is adapting to wireless devices, such as iGoogle, Gmail, Google Reader or your own search engine for mobile. Although no doubt that would confirm the change to come is Google AdSense for mobile.
The major limitation of the mobile is its ability and screen, as it is small. However, this can be solved with the stakes as the iPhone or iPod Touch with Safari, probably one of the best devices for viewing mobile websites through its touch interface.