The weather looks just fine…on Google on Android, iPhone

Categories: Android, Apple, Google, iphone

It might be sunny, cloudy, pitch dark at midnight,  but the weather will always be just fine as long as you are checking it on Google on an Android  device or an iPhone.  Now, when you want to know the weather and need more than just boring text, all you have to do is go to google.com on your iPhone or Android phone’s browser (we recommend Safari on the iPhone and the default browser on the Android device), enter ‘weather’  in the search box and what you will get is not the small byte of information on local weather and links as in the past, but a much bigger area, completely with a sun/moon/clouds graphic with the temperature displayed prominently. Just below this is an hourly forecast which you can slide to different times to check weather conditions – the graphic will change accordingly. There is also a forecast for the next few days to round matters off. The regular search results are just below this.

No, it is not really an app (we hope it will be some day) but it is one of the nicest touches we have seen from Google – simplicity and style at its best. And it does save one from the trouble of downloading all those weather forecasting apps and widgets. Mind you, it does behave strangely – it worked fine on our Moto Milestone but showed us the same old Google weather search on our iPhone 3GS and OlivePad running Froyo. If you have a solution or explanation to this, do let us know.

Tags: Android, Google, Google Weather, iOS

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LG Optimus 3D teases with another video, design looks cool

The Optimus 3D is the LG's upcoming big announcement. We already got its first teaser promising something almost miraculous is coming, but here is another one. With this video the focus is on the design.

According to LG, the Optimus 3D will be "The world's first Dual Core-Multi Channel" smartphone. Whatever that means. Only Android v3.0 Honeycomb makes use of the two processor cores (multi-threading) natively. Google already declared Honeycombs as tablet-only, so we are not going to see it in a smartphone. So it's possible that the Optimus 3D comes with a new version of Android altogether.

LG Optimus 3D

But enough talking, here is the new teaser:

The clip doesn't reveal much, but we see the design of the back for the first time. You can clearly spot the two camera lenses that should allows for capturing stereoscopic video much like the Optimus Pad.

We'll see more of the Optimus 3D next week at the MWC 2011 in Barcelona.

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