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I remember there were rumors about Google Phone back in 2007 before the launch of Android. At that time Google CEO Eric Schmidt was part of Apple’s board of directors. This news had worried a lot to Apple that Eric Schmidt had cleared it to Apple that Google has no plan of launching a mobile phone in near future.

This year at Google I/O 2009 event Google had a special prize for all the attendees “A mobile phone running Android”‘. It was an HTC manufactured mobile which HTC launched later on. Google gave it away to all the attendees but it wasn’t the “Google phone”. On 12th of December 2009 Google gave away new phones to all of its employee as Christmas gift and called it “dog food”.

These new phones are also manufactured by HTC, running Android 2.1 and people are referring them as Nexus One. If these this phone is also manufactured by HTC then how come it is a “Google Phone”?

Here comes an interesting thing. Dogfood is a term used to indicate when a company gives away its products to employees for using/testing before they are actually launched. So does that mean that Nexus One is aka “Google Phone”  and Google will launch it next year? I don’t think so. Nexus One has new and improved hardware and running latest Android 2.1 on it. It could be mean that Google is just checking performance of their Android software package.

What if it is a real “Google phone”? It will not be fair with other Google partners who are manufacturing mobile phones for Android like Samsung, Motorola, Sony Ericsson and bunch of other companies who are going to launch their Android enabled mobile phones next year. If there is already Google phone running Android who will buy other Android running phone?

To conclude this I could be right or I could be wrong but what I think Nexus One is not aka Google Phone. It’s an HTC phone and there are very less chances but Google might launch it as a joint venture with HTC. If it is a “Google Phone” then it’s just a mistake and It will never be an iPhone killer.

Google wave is making a big buzz from last few months. People are literally begging for Google Wave invite but when then get an account they don’t any friend in their Google Wave friend list. Google Wave is nothing without friends. You can’t start a new wave with anyone. So what else you can do with your Google Wave. You can join public waves or If you are on Twitter you can use your Wave to tweet. If you want to find public waves then checkout out last post on how to find public waves?.

There is a twitter bot in Wave with the name of “Tweety”. Here are the following steps to tweet from Wave using Tweety.

i ) Add Tweety to your contacts. Add following address to add Tweety

tweety-wave@appspot.com

ii) Create a new Wave.

iii) Add Tweety to this Wave.

iv) It will ask you to authenticate.

v ) Once you are authenticated you can tweet and see your twitter timeline in Wave.

~ Happy Waving

Google Wave is the most complicated web application of its time. We don’t complain that it’s useless or not user friend. Google Wave is a new way of communication and we are just not used to it yet so we think it’s complicated. Users don’t note one thing while using Wave that it’s only in “Preview” version. Wave is not even in beta version, so in future we are going to see much more stable and open Wave.So let’s go back to topic and let me share few “HOT’ Wave tips.

Hot Tips

i ) If someone invites you to new Wave and there are already bunch of messages the press “Playback” to play Wave from first message to get a sense what’s happening here.

ii) You open a wave after few days and few new unread messages inside a Wave, but how to find those unread messages inside 100+ messages long Wave? Simple every time you press “spacebar” Wave will take you to next unread message (every time you press “tab” Wave will move to next message).

iii) So you want to open two Wave at the same time? Press Command (Mac)/Control (PC) and click on a Wave. It will open Wave in View mode without replacing old opened Wave.

iv) If you think Wave is a closed platform then you are wrong. You can join any public Wave and there are thousands of Waves that you can join. (See next tip on how to search a Wave)

v) To search inside your Waves (write following in search field and click search icon)

with:keyword

vi) To find all the public Waves (and there are many)

with:public

vii) To find interesting public Waves

with:public keyword

Example: If you want to find web designs related public Waves then search for

with:public webdesign

We are giving away 10 Google Wave invitations. If you want invitation then post a comment. Criteria is best comments and first come first serve.

After the great successful of last year’s Android Developer Challenge 1 this year again Google announced an Android developer challenge. Submission period of this year’s Developer Challenge ends at 11:59:59 P.M. Pacific Time (PT) Zone in the United States on August 31, 2009. So hurry up and submit your entry now by visiting Android Market Place Page

Also take a look at Terms and Conditions before submitting your entry.

Best of luck to all the Android Developers from TechFlipper team.