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Starting today, Galaxy Nexus by Samsung will be available in the U.S. on the Verizon Wireless 4G LTE Network. Visit google.com/nexus to buy it online, or go to your nearest Verizon Wireless, Best Buy, Costco or Radio Shack store. Galaxy Nexus is also available through our carrier partners in Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, Korea and Japan. Soon, it will be available in Australia, France, Russia, India, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and elsewhere! Galaxy Nexus is the first phone with Android 4.0, Ice Cream Sandwich and combines the latest Google software with cutting-edge Samsung hardware. With a super slim profile, Galaxy Nexus features a 4.65� Contour Display with a true high definition (720p) resolution HD Super AMOLED screen. Galaxy Nexus also features a lightning-fast dual-core 1.2GHz processor combined with 4G LTE or HSPA+ technology. To see Galaxy Nexus in action, check out this video: Paired with Ice Cream Sandwich, the latest Android software, Galaxy Nexus is simple and bea...

Celebrate the most wonderful time of the year and Androidify yourself with a bunch of new winter gear. Dress up your Android with candy canes, mittens, skis, antlers, sweaters and more! (Did someone say 2012 party glasses?) Head over to Android Market to get the latest Androidify update and make your Android ready for the season! Posted by Thomas Gayno, Marketing Manager, Creative Lab

(Cross-posted on the Inside Search blog ) With the December movie season in full swing, we�ve just made it even faster and easier to discover movies, showtimes and theaters, all from your smartphone. Now when you search for [movies] or your favorite theater like [century san francisco] on Google.com from your phone, you�ll see interactive results for movies in a new swipeable ribbon, with the most relevant information displayed at the top of the page. For each movie, you�ll see the movie poster, a short summary, ratings and the nearest theaters and showtimes. Designed to help you quickly browse what�s playing in theaters now, this information instantly updates as you slide through the movie posters -- no need to wait for a page to load or to use the back button. To learn more about a movie, tap the movie title to find details like the cast and a full summary. And if you see a play button on the movie poster, you can tap to view the official trailer. You can even buy tickets directly...

We strive to give you beautiful and simple ways to experience all the content the web has to offer, such as sharing photos on Google+, watching YouTube videos and discovering books, movies and music from Android Market. Today we�re expanding our content offering with the introduction of Google Currents, a new application for Android devices, iPads and iPhones that lets you explore online magazines and other content with the swipe of a finger. Ready for consumers We�ve worked with more than 150 publishing partners to offer full-length articles from more than 180 editions including CNET, AllThingsD, Forbes, Saveur, PBS, Huffington Post, Fast Company and more. Content is optimized for smartphones and tablets, allowing you to intuitively navigate between words, pictures and video on large and small screens alike, even if you�re offline . To get started, simply download the app and choose the publications you want to subscribe to for free. You can also add RSS, video and photo feeds, publi...

(Cross-posted on the Inside Search blog ) In July, we started to evolve the Google design and experience on Android and iOS tablets by updating features like larger touch targets and enhanced image viewing to make searching faster and easier. Today, we�re building on that foundation by adding a new image carousel for viewing large image results within a few swipes. As someone who enjoys being outdoors, I like exploring beautiful images of nature. With the new image carousel, I can discover photos of bright sea anemones or colorful lorikeet birds on my tablet in a more interactive and immersive way. Now when I tap on an image result, it�ll expand in the carousel view and I can swipe through the search results. To learn more about an image, a tap on the web page preview, title, description or URL will take me directly to the webpage. See how you can take the image carousel for a spin: Try out the new image carousel by going to Google on your iOS or Android tablet�s browser and searching...

With Google Goggles, you can quickly add someone to your contacts , learn about paintings , translate foreign text, and even solve Sudoku . Starting today, with Goggles 1.7 for Android, we�re making your visual search experience much faster and providing better results with new features like continuous mode, improved text recognition and contributed results. Skip the shutter with continuous mode Continuous mode is a quick and easy new way to use Goggles. You can now get results instantly without having to take a picture - no shutter press required! Goggles will scan the scene continuously so you don�t need to worry about taking multiple pictures. The new continuous mode works best with books, products, artwork, and landmarks. Snapshot mode is still available, and has some tricks that aren�t in continuous mode yet, including translating text and adding a contact. Also, images recognized in continuous mode sessions won�t show up in your Goggles Search History, so if you�d like to refer b...

(Cross-posted on the Official Google Blog and Android Developer's Blog ) One billion is a pretty big number by any measurement. However, when it�s describing the speed at which something is growing, it�s simply amazing. This past weekend, thanks to Android users around the world, Android Market exceeded 10 billion app downloads�with a growth rate of one billion app downloads per month . We can�t wait to see where this accelerating growth takes us in 2012. To celebrate this milestone, we partnered with some of the Android developers who contributed to this milestone to make a bunch of great Android apps available at an amazing price. Starting today for the next 10 days, we�ll have a new set of awesome apps available each day for only 10 cents each. Today, we are starting with Asphalt 6 HD , Color & Draw for Kids , Endomondo Sports Tracker Pro , Fieldrunners HD , Great Little War Game , Minecraft , Paper Camera , Sketchbook Mobile , Soundhound Infinity & Swiftkey X . O...

Today, we are very pleased to announce the launch of Voice Search in Arabic and Hebrew for Android and iPhone users. Users in Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Qatar, UAE, and Israel can now speak Arabic and Hebrew into their phones to get search results quickly and easily. With this launch, Voice Search is now supported in 29 languages and accents in 37 countries. When building support for Arabic and Hebrew into our language model we faced some unique challenges, including how to understand words with diacritics (accents that indicate a difference in pronunciation, a linguistic phenomenon called �Nikud� in Hebrew, and �Tashkil� in Arabic) and words appended with other words (�and� for example) that can have many different nuanced meanings. To train our system we collected over one million utterances in Arabic and Hebrew, using the languages as they are spoken in the more populated parts of each country. For Arabic, we trained the system to recognize Gulf, Levant and Egyptian dialects. ...