Archive for August, 2008

HTC Dream Approved By FCC

By Rob Jackson • Aug 18th, 2008

One slightly sneaky way of  spying upcoming devices is to keep close tabs on the FCC’s approval documentation for mobile devices. In fact, the HTC Dream just received approval by the FCC! How do we know its the HTC Dream? Well the handset is listed as type, “Dream’ with a model of “DREA100.”

Now that the [...]



Nobody Cares About Android

By Rob Jackson • Aug 14th, 2008

When TechCrunch’s Erick Schonfeld suggests, “We have to talk about Android,” at the Mobile Web Wars Roundtable, some village’s idiot whined, “Why? Why do we have to talk about Android - nobody cares.” Then Michael Arrington popped a squat on his pitiful one man parade lecturing, “That’s ridiculous. That’s absolutely ridiculous. As soon as it [...]



Android Pre-Orders Start September 17th?

By Rob Jackson • Aug 12th, 2008

Finally, something fresh. The he-said/she-said hype covering delayed/not-delayed rumors was low hanging fruit that we preferred not to follow. We even passed up the recent video of what SOME are saying COULD-maybe-possibly-look like-it-might be the HTC Dream - we don’t want to stretch for Android News that isn’t there. But now we’ve got some release [...]



Google Competes with Android Developers

By Rob Jackson • Aug 4th, 2008

You may recall that one of the 50 ADC Round 1 Winners was for an application called PedNav, essentially mapping systems for urban settings. If you’re a pedestrian wanting to get from Point A to Point B, what are the chances you’ll want to follow the rules of One-Way Streets, Exit Ramps and such?
Very little… [...]