• Google Accidentally Shows Gmail New Look in Action

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    Gmail new interface and features

    A video inadvertently posted to Google’s YouTube account has given a sneak peek at some of the changes that will be coming to Gmail in the very near future. It’s based on the Preview theme that’s already available in Gmail, but there are many other changes: an action bar that uses icons instead of text labels, a completely new interface for conversations, profile pictures next to contacts, a flexible layout that adapts to any window size, display density options like in Google Docs, resizable chat/labels sections, new high-definition themes and an updated search box that includes advanced options.

    The video was quickly taken down but the guys at Google Operating System have snagged a mirror for your viewing pleasure:

    The new interface probably be available soon.

  • iPhone 4S and Samsung Galaxy Tab: Which smartphone is the best listener?

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    Siri

    The BBC’s technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones wanted to find out which smartphone was the best listener, so he conducted a quick test of his own.

    He spoke the same text into a Siri-equipped iPhone 4S and a Samsung Galaxy Tab, and compared the transcribed results.

    The original text:

    It’s a challenge that has occupied scientists for decades and promised huge fortunes to anyone who could solve it. I’m talking about speech recognition, back in the news because it is one of the most significant features of Apple’s latest phone. Will it remain an amusing party-trick – or become the key way in which we communicate with computers?

    Siri transcribed it as:

    It’s a challenge that has occupied scientists the decade and promised huge fortunes to anyone who could solve it stop I’m talking about speech recognition back in the news because it is one of the most significant features of Apples latest phone STOCK will it remain unamusing party trick or become McKee way in which we communicate with COMPUTERS?

    And the Galaxy Tab came back with:

    If I started the decade and poets 14th avenue and hope It stops on Interstate recognItIon back In the news because It’s 1 of the most signIant pIctures of apples latest phone got the wIll remaIn In the musIc of the trIck or become a keyway computers.

    Have your own verdict?
    [via cultofmac]

  • Google and Samsung Delay Nexus Prime Launch Due to Steve Jobs Mourning

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    Google and Samsung announce that the Galaxy Nexus, a.k.a the Nexus Prime, will not launch at the Mobile Unpacked conference October 12 next Wednesday, as expected and teased.

    Google and Samsung “just felt it was the wrong time to hold a launch event, as the world continues mourning Jobs”:

    The decision to postpone things was made late last night at the top levels of both companies, sources said, with Jobs’ death being the reason. There are no delays with the product itself, sources insisted.

    Samsung and Google later updated their original press statement, which now reads:

    We believe this is not the right time to announce a new product as the world expresses tribute to Steve Jobs’s passing.

    They are likely to make an announcement on the launch late next week.  The new Google phone is built by Samsung and is rumored to have a 4.65-inch, 720P display with dual core 1.5GHz Samsung processor, NFC, 1GB of RAM and runs over Android Ice Cream Sandwich. It will likely be one of the stronger competitors for iPhone 4S.

  • Samsung Teases Nexus Prime, Promises to be BIG

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    Samsung, with a great timing, you know how to time this Samsung, don’t you? Just a day after the disappointing iPhone 4S announcement yesterday, comes a teaser of what looks like the Samsung Nexus Prime. with a tagline “Something BIG is coming,” and both the Samsung and Google logos at the end of the clip.

    The device is said to have 4.6” display 720 x 1280 pixels. the new Samsung Nexus Prime will probably make a debut at CTIA in San Diego October 11th, and it promises to be big.