Google has introduced a new Google Docs for Android app – which will allow you to use the camera on your handset to turn photos into editable text. Google is keen to show that its Docs offering can be used on any suitable device, and the latest Android offering brings a host of new features. They include better filtration, easier sharing and some nifty new tricks that take advantage of the handset’s camera. Editable text “Using the app and your phone’s camera, you can turn photos with text into editable Google documents with the power of optical character recognition (OCR),” blogged Google Docs software engineer Reuben Kan.
Nokia has announced the ‘next steps in [its] transformation’, which include axing 4,000 jobs and outsourcing all Symbian software activities to Accenture as it focuses on Windows Phone 7 . Employees of the Finnish firm have known for some time that redundancies are coming, but the scale of the losses has now been revealed: 4,000 of the company’s 65,000 global staff will be ditched by the end of 2012.
Nokia has announced the ‘next steps in [its] transformation’, which include axing 4,000 jobs and outsourcing all Symbian software activities to Accenture as it focuses on Windows Phone 7 . Employees of the Finnish firm have known for some time that redundancies are coming, but the scale of the losses has now been revealed: 4,000 of the company’s 65,000 global staff will be ditched by the end of 2012.
Carphone Warehouse has opened pre-orders for the Samsung Galaxy S2 and HTC Wildfire S . The Samsung Galaxy S2 is the first handset to rock a 1.2GHz processor, so you can be guaranteed some pretty nippy operations – and the Super AMOLED screen is one of the best we’ve ever seen . You can nab the Android 2.3 phone from Carphone Warehouse for free on a £35 a month contract, or pay £499.95 upfront. Those impatiently awaiting the Samsung Galaxy S2 will probably want to head over to Carphone’s arch nemesis Phones4U, though – the retailer has an exclusive early release date
The LG Optimus 3D UK release date has been newly touted as 6 June by online retailer Clove. That’s a whole lot later than other retailers Play.com and Expansys , which have the three dimensional handset listed for release next week, on 25 April.