Android Phone Fans

The news poured in several days in advance of HTC’s May 6th Press Conference that the self-proclaimed game changing announcement was actually the release of the HTC Touch Diamond and NOT the HTC Dream, the first Android Phone, as many had hoped. Still, we held out hope that the rumors were wrong and that [...]

Anyone who pays attention to mobile technology will confess that mobile coupons are an “up and coming prospect” for the industry. But to present day, the sizzle of the mobile coupon concept is only met with fizzle from mobile coupon implementation. Why the disconnect?
The reasons Mobile Coupons haven’t taken off are fairly basic:

The number of [...]

Not only have they committed to launching ONE Android phone by the end of the year but perhaps a whole line!
In a CNN Money article, VP of T-Mobile’s Broadband and New Business Unit commented on Android: “I’m impressed,” he said. “We will have more than one product…(The move to an open platform) will be innovation [...]

The Android Developer’s Challenge appears to have been a HUGE success with Google having received 1,788 from over 70 countries. Apparently coders are crammers - with time running out, Google started receiving Android App entries at a rate of 170 per hour!
Now it’s time for the 100+ judges to start reviewing each submission and deciding [...]

Arun Sarin, the CEO of Vodafone (part owner of Verizon), provided an interesting interview for Business Week discussing the use of 4G networks. What WE were most interested in, however, was his not-so-nice comments about Android that seemed a bit self-deprecating.
When asked about Vodafone allowing cell phones based on Google’s Android, here is what Sarin [...]

Someone is an idiot when it comes to Android. It could be me… and I would openly agree with accusations of unbridled enthusiasm. But it could be people like Jim Woods from Seeking Alpha.
In a recent article entitled Smart Phone Wars, Woods completely dismisses the potential of Android while sheepishly bowing down to Apple’s iPhone [...]

Alright the title might be a little misleading. We’re sure that any Microsoft execs watching this video certainly don’t love it and certainly don’t love Android. The hacker gang over at XDA-Developers hacked a TyTN II with Windows Mobile to run Android overtop as a .exe - SWEET!
That’s good news for consumers, good news for [...]

And out come some of the first 3rd party applications and implementations for Google’s Android. Opera has announced that their world renowned mobile browser has been rebuilt to custom-fit android. And by custom fit, they mean it will support, “any range of handset built on Android.”
Wow. Good work folks.
While Developer’s can get their paws on [...]

The iPhone SDK. The Android SDK. Clash of the Titans? We think it might pan out a little bit differently…
Apple and Google are most definitely competitors in the mobile arena. But at this point in the game, they should be incredibly elated that they have each other as rivals. More important than one of them [...]

Could May 6th be the day that the first ever Android Phone, the HTC Dream, is finally revealed? Judging from the invitation floating around the interwebs, it just might be.
The invitation suggests that guests will be witness to “The Next Wave of HTC Innovation”. Hmmm… sounds like something big? What else could it be? It [...]

QuickOffice makes working with Microsoft Office Documents on your mobile device (and soon Android Handset) a breeze.

Mobile Applications aren’t the only hope bestowed upon the Champion of Open Mobile OS, Android. In fact, the whole thing sounds a bit serious. So to lighten things up we want to remind you that Open and Games play very, very nice together.
We’re extremely excited about what Android could mean for the Mobile Gaming world. [...]

Nokia noted long ago that in some cultures, directions were given and followed using landmarks and physical properties of the surrounding land rather than street signs or road names. While Nokia’s intended service relies on people taking pictures of and tagging these landmarks - something unlikely to earn mass appeal until something like Android hits [...]

You don’t need Ms. Cleo to see what direction Android is going to take the Mobile industry. All you need is some common sense and a few interesting articles in your feed reader.
First off, The Official Google Blog announced KML as a newly accepted standard of the Open Geospatial Consortium. What started as a framework [...]

Perhaps the title jumps to conclusions, but a quick look at the hidden Google LCB is reason enough to believe Android will soon get its very own Local Business Directory.
Found by browsing Google’s robots.txt file, the ultra-simple section lists nearby businesses for Restaurants, Travel, Transportation, Retail and Entertainment based on the location you identify. Toss [...]

What type of awesome mobile integration will Android allow? Dreaming is a wonderful thing, and a recent article by Read Write Web had a pretty vivid vision of what open source mobile platforms would mean in the near future.
While they wrote their article in anticipation of the iPhone SDK launch, we’d like to thank them [...]

With Android, developer’s will have the opportunity and ability to create nearly anything they can think for consumer’s. So let’s hear it (developer’s listen up): What are some of the first apps YOU would want to see on Android?