So there is an interesting poll going on over at the Android Central forums (started by bespinct). The poll is asking; “What was your old phone?” Results so far show 65% of BB users had made the jump to the Android Incredible. Strangely enough, the iPhone was not included in this poll but that might be a different story.

It seems that there were a number of BB converts and previous Android phone owners that now have the Incredible. Here’s a poll to figure it out!

View Poll Results: What was your old phone?

Link to Poll; LINK

So give us your thoughts, would you jump ship for Android?

Post buzz from your home screen! * Quickly post buzz publicly or privately * Add photos to your post from the camera or gallery * Share your location or place * Quickly access buzz.google.com

• Post buzz directly from the home screen.
• Take pictures to attach to your post. Or just pick one from Gallery.

Download: Search Marketplace for Google Buzz Widget

Starting today, Google Maps for mobile has a few new ways to help you and your friends quickly get to where you’re going whether you’re on 4 wheels or 2 (or maybe even 3). With Google Maps 4.2 for Android you can now get biking directions on the go, start Navigation from your Home screen, share places with friends, and more.

Get these new features by searching for Google Maps in Android Market from Android 1.6+ phones (On your phone now? Tap here). Update Maps to version 4.2, available in all the countries and languages where Maps is currently available. Visit our Help Center to learn more, ask questions in our Help Forum, or give us suggestions and vote on other people’s on the Mobile Product Ideas page.

Source: Google Mobile Blog

First quarter 2010 information from The NPD Group’s Mobile Phone Track reveals a shift in the smartphone market, as Android OS edged out Apple’s OS for the number-two position behind RIM

PORT WASHINGTON, N.Y.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The Android operating system (OS) continued to  shake up the U.S. mobile phone market in the first quarter (Q1) of 2010, moving past Apple to take the number-two position among smartphone operating systems, according to The NPD Group, a leading market research company. NPD’s wireless market research reveals that based on unit sales to consumers last quarter the Android operating system moved into second position at 28 percent behind RIM’s OS (36 percent) and ahead of Apple’s OS (21 percent).

“Recent previews of BlackBerry 6, the recently announced acquisition of Palm by HP, and the pending release of Windows Phone 7 demonstrates the industry’s willingness to make investments to address consumer demand for smartphones and other mobile devices”

“As in the past, carrier distribution and promotion have played a crucial role in determining smartphone market share,” said Ross Rubin, executive director of industry analysis for NPD. “In order to compete with the iPhone, Verizon Wireless has expanded its buy-one-get-one offer beyond RIM devices to now include all of their smartphones.”

Strong sales of the Droid, Droid Eris, and Blackberry Curve via these promotions helped keep Verizon Wireless’s smartphone sales on par with AT&T in Q1. According to NPD’s Mobile Phone Track, smartphone sales at AT&T comprised nearly a third of the entire smartphone market (32 percent), followed by Verizon Wireless (30 percent), T-Mobile (17 percent) and Sprint (15 percent).

“Recent previews of BlackBerry 6, the recently announced acquisition of Palm by HP, and the pending release of Windows Phone 7 demonstrates the industry’s willingness to make investments to address consumer demand for smartphones and other mobile devices,” Rubin said. “Carriers continue to offer attractive pricing for devices, but will need to present other data-plan options to attract more customers in the future.”

The continued popularity of messaging phones and smartphones resulted in slightly higher prices for all mobile phones, despite an overall drop in the number of mobile phones purchased in the first quarter. The average selling price for all mobile phones in Q1 reached $88, which is a 5 percent increase from Q1 2009. Smartphone unit prices, by comparison, averaged $151 in Q1 2010, which is a 3 percent decrease over the previous year.

The Moon is our closest celestial neighbor and the most prominent object in the night sky.

Although the Moon is so much smaller than the Sun, it strongly affects everything on the Earth, including many aspects of your life. Not only tides and animals are affected by the Moon, but also it influences human emotions, relationships, blood pressure an even finances.

Many forms of life on Earth depend on the Moon movement. If you keep track of it, you will soon discover some amazing relationships. This knowledge could help you make your life better!

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Traditional flash cards for learning foreign languages enhanced with smartphone technologies  like photos, native speakers’ dubbing, learning progress visualization, smart adaptive algorithm, and detailed statistics. The program helps you to skip the stage of translating a word into your mother tongue first, but memorizing a direct match of a subject and a foreign word instead.

• • 1000+ words
  • 65+ categories
  • Explicit photos for all words
  • Sliding and rotating finger-friendly cards
  • Voice records by native speakers
  • People, different animals, birds, insects
  • Clothes, shoes, furniture, tools
  • Places, scenery, street, house
  • Office, computer, electronics, school
  • Fruits, vegetables, trees, food, drinks
  • Art, books, casino, fairy tales
  • Car, sports, weapon, jewelry
  • … and many others
  • Expand your vocabulary
  • 5 different learning modes
  • Track your learning progress with detailed statistics
  • Smart algorithm for adapting the learning process
  • 3 dimensions of memorizing: visual, audible and textual

New age approach to flash cards

1000+ most commonly used words

Natural memorizing skipping the translation stage

Source: http://www.spbsoftwarehouse.com/android-software/flashcards/

–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Samsung Telecommunications America (Samsung Mobile) and Sprint

WHAT:

Samsung Telecommunications America (Samsung Mobile) and Sprint (NYSE: S) collaborate to break the Guinness World Records® mark to collect the largest donation of mobile phones in one location April 15-18 at the Samsung Mobile 500 at Texas Motor Speedway in Fort Worth, TX. The joint effort is part of Samsung Mobile’s March to a Million program to collect and recycle one million mobile phones by the end of the year and Sprint’s Recycle for Victory recycling program. Samsung Mobile accepts ALL types of mobile phones to be recycled.

Recycle for Victory reduces the number of used wireless devices that end up in landfills by accepting wireless phones, batteries and accessories, and data cards regardless of make, model, carrier or condition for reuse and recycling. Sprint donates the net proceeds to Victory Junction – a NASCAR-themed, sleep-away camping experience that enriches the lives of children with chronic medical conditions or serious illnesses by allowing them to perform activities they would otherwise not be able to do.

Every NASCAR fan that donates an old mobile phone during the Samsung Mobile 500 race weekend will receive a limited edition 3D Samsung Mobile 500 pin, and, if donated before Sunday, be entered to win the following incredible prizes*:

• Be the Honorary Grand Marshall and Announce “Gentleman Start Your Engines”

• Ride in the official TMS Samsung Mobile 500 Pace Car

• Get exclusive view of 2010 Samsung Mobile 500 winner with a visit to Victory Lane

Winners will be announced live on Sunday, April 18 at the Speed Channel Stage at Gate 3 prior to the start of the Samsung Mobile 500. NASCAR fans that bring more than one mobile phone to be recycled can increase their odds of winning one of these extraordinary prizes. NASCAR fans who don’t have a mobile phone to recycle can spin-to-win fun prizes and receive a pre-paid postage mobile phone recycling envelope to mail-in old mobile phones to be recycled.

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I came across an interesting post over at  ZDNet and thought it would be nice to share. See original post HERE.

The CIA will soon have nothing on the social networking watchdogs. Teneros has launched a product that is designed to let a company monitor its employees’ social networking activities. Not that employers who wanted to see what employees past and present might say about them – but it would have been a labor intensive job. Now its automated – employers can discover and monitor their employees’ Facebook and Twitter posts and tweets – with more sites promised (YouTube, MySpace, and LinkedIn, for example).

 

Not that I spend all day at work networking but I find it gives me a nice break from the mundane day-to-day duties. I do find my self checking my Facebook and Twitter on my phone quite often throughout the day. Now I see this “Want to grouse about your job? Your manager? Don’t use your PDA, cellphone, or laptop to do it if you don’t want it discovered.”  Aim I being watched and what can I do about it? Actually do some work?

I thought it would be interesting to here from our readers on how much they social network throughout the working day. And if your that corporate CEO, what are your thoughts?

YouTube recently made some unannounced changes that broke YouTube support in some of Kinoma’s products.

Happily, updates for the affected products are available right now! They’re so easy to get that you’ll be YouTubing again in minutes. Here’s how…

How to update Kinoma FreePlay

• To update immediately, go to Kinoma FreePlay’s main screen, show the menu pod and select Player > Check for Updates. Otherwise, you’ll be notified about the update automatically.

How to update Kinoma Player 4 EX and Kinoma Player 4

• If your Palm smartphone or handheld has an internet connection, just choose Check for updates from the Media menu. Otherwise, you can update from your PC.

Get Kinoma Here: http://kinoma.com/

So the past few weeks, Spb has updated several of their products. In case you didn’t catch them, here is a quick snapshot of what’s been updated.

Spb News: The website shows the current version at 2.1.1 (April 2, 2010) but doesn’t show what was updated. Could be a minor oversight on their part.

Spb Time: Current version 3.3.0 (March 31, 2010)

• Cumulative update for cities database and time zones
• Fixed bug in bio alarms dismiss feature

Spb Weather: Current Version 2.4.0 (March 31, 2010)

• Cumulative update for cities database

Spb Traveler: Current Version 2.9.0 (March 31, 2010)

• Cumulative update for cities database

Spb TV: Current Version 1.2.2 (April 2, 2010)

• Issues with video rendering on landscape oriented devices fixed
• TV-Out for Omnia II supported added
• Other minor bug fixes

As always, these programs can be had here: http://www.spbsoftwarehouse.com/