Android Crunch

Entries for March, 2008

A "Dream" Android Phone Announced

HTC, a OHA member announced its first Android phone to be called Dream. There were lots of talks about Google was making gPhone, before the Android OS went to public. Well, it’s kind true after all.
The HTC Dream is said to have a large touchscreen (after iPhone, touchscrren is de facto now), full QWERTY keyboard […]

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Java Entering iPhone

Android will Java native. How about the others? Following hot on the heels of Apple’s iPhone SDK announcements, Sun has jumped into the fray and announced that they’ll be making sure that Java plays nice with Apple’s iPhone and iPod Touch. The company famous for championing the standardized Java Runtime made the announcement after taking […]

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Android Talk at ETech

Today at O’Reilly ETech conference, Dan Morrill of Google talked about Android. Even though it’s more or less a marketing session, I think it’s good to hear about Android from the house’s mouth, so to speak.
There are more than 3 billion mobile phone worldwide. In Europe, there are more mobile phones than people. Guess that’s […]

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Android Applications in Open Source

It’s announced today that a new open source project has been created on Google code hosting called apps-for-android.
The first application to be included in the new project is called WikiNotes for Android.

WikiNotes for Android is a form of wiki known as a personal wiki. These run on desktops or (in this case) mobile computing devices, […]

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Two Android Phones by End of this Year, at Least

RXC is positing that there will be two gPhones coming after Christmas, both made by Samsung (!!). He describes the phones as something like the Pearl with a flip up screen. I’m calling bullshit, as does 9to5mac, but it’s not too hard to make a “gPhone” — just rebadge something in the OEM’s pipeline — […]

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Android Starts a New Era

Android is Google’s open source operating system designed to run on mobile phones, in particular those with ARM processors inside. What is to stop someone from taking Android and creating a UMPC like device or an ultra crazy thin subnotebook? Android applications should run on all devices and I’m sure Google Gears can be ported […]

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