We got some one-on-one time with the HTC EVO 4G today, and let us succinctly sum up our experience for you: wow. We’ll start with the screen… it’s gorgeous. 4.3 inches, enormous, easy to type on, responsive… it’s everything you want out of a touch screen. How’s the phones speed you ask? The product manager from HTC kept saying: “this isn’t the final software build, so there could be some lag” but to be honest, we couldn’t really find any. Opening Goo...

Last week at MWC, Google CEO Eric Schmidt demoed Google Earth on his Nexus One, giving a pretty clear sign that the new application would be available to the masses very soon. And, as of today, the wait is over. Google has released its mobile version of Google Earth into the Android Market, albeit with one large prerequisite. The new Earth for Android will require a handset running Android 2.1, leaving pretty much everyone without a Nexus One out in the cold. N1 owners can head on over to the Market and downl...

Scoring a big win for its Google Maps and Google Earth online mapping program, Google has snagged exclusive rights to satellite imagery from the worlds highest resolution, commercial Earth-Imaging satellite. The new satellite will be able to distinguish objects on the Earth’s surface as small as 0.41-meters (16 inches) in size in B&W and 1.65 meters (5ft) in color. While the satellite will be able to collect imagery at 0.41-meters, the government requires re-sampling the imagery to half-meter resolu...

This one isn’t quite ready for mainstream consumption yet, but it looks pretty promising. If you’ve ever fantasized about running a version of Google Earth on your iPhone, your dreams may soon become a reality. iPhone Earth is a 3rd party application cooked up by a Colorado-based company called Earthscape. The program interacts with the iPhone’s accelerometer, allowing you to navigate through the Google Earth maps by simply tilting and contorting your handset. The program is currently in pri...