It has come and gone: the menu button. Apparently, just a few months ago it was all the rage at Google, but now as part of Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, Google is urging developers and designers to try and not use the menu buttons at all, to a point where it would not exist in the hardware. What the big G wants is devs to make use of the Action Bar, first seen in Android 3.0 Honeycomb. While in some apps this may prove troublesome, most of them will have to update to work on the newer software (properly, that is), so improvements can easily be made so that actions that rely on the menu buttons are switched to vertical or horizontal positions. Whatever floats your boat, I guess.
At the very least Google is making Android more uniform. Via: Android Developers
That’s right. Tonight, Google probably took the gingerbread its engineers were eating and set off to remove an app that had been copied from the existing Guitar Solo Lite, which was then injected with malicious code and renamed Super Guitar Solo, which automatically roots your phone and sends every bit of data on it to the hacker(s). Kudos to the guys at 
This is the next step — in printing. Back in the day, Google Cloud Print was announced, and proposed a feature where your Windows PC (Mac and Linux support inbound) would configure your printer to be web-connected, then an action from the user’s end (i.e a smartphone) would instigate the message being sent to Google’s cloud servers, then back to your printer. Starting now, the Gmail web app for Android 2.1+ phones and iOS devices will have the print feature enabled, but it will slowly roll out. This includes all mobile devices with support for HTML5. The tutorial link for setup is in the source link referenced. Via: 
This is a major increase in sales/activations, but the simple one-liner from Andy Rubin on Twitter leaves much more info to be desired. Nevertheless, Andy Rubin has stated that there are 300,000 Android phones being activated each and everyday, which is much different than shipping phones, in which case they aren’t activated for consumer use. It’s a great fact for Android as a whole, however. Via: 
Remember the good ‘ol days when you could go to the catchy google.com/phone URL and get a Nexus One? those days are long gone, and today Google has made a fitting replacement for that all-too-good page: an Android phone showcase. Better yet, according to the Google Mobile Blog, all Android phones featured use only Google services, so the Fascinate (which will get Google Search in Android 2.2) is not included, nor are any Yahoo! enabled phones. The site also allows you to compare Android phones, even overseas. Give it a try and knock yourself out, m’kay?
