To say people are curious regarding what will be the first Android enabled handset - which many speculate will be the HTC Dream - would be the understatement of the year. Put perhaps a more pressing question for Android enthusiasts is who will be the first Service Provider to carry an Android phone?
Well, the pool [...]
The news has been coming slowly but surely…
This evening Google released a list of the judges (featured below) and a 46-page document ( one page for each application) overviewing the winning applications (see it here). Kind of interesting that Google employees represented 20% of the judges… weren’t sure if they’d have a very active roll [...]
Although not discussed often, LiMo (Linux Mobile Foundation) is a formidable competitor for the Android platform. So isn’t LiMo, a consortium of partnered companies, inherently a competitor of the Open Handset Alliance?
Core companies that support Android’s cause are members of the Open Handset Alliance, defined as, “a group of mobile and technology leaders who share [...]
There is no doubt that Google is the center of the Search Engine universe. The web is “Googlecentric” so to speak. But with little market share left to claim, Google has set it’s crosshairs on emerging markets in which it can similarly dominate.
Two of the tech industries biggest buzzwords are currently “mobile” and “social networking”. [...]
The way the 700MHz auction played out was pretty darn interesting, but the recent antics between Block C winner (Verizon) and Block C bluffer (Google) are straight up theatrical.
When Google pushed the bidding above the reserve, never planning to purchase, it forced the Winner of the Block C auction to provide an “Open” spectrum that [...]
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 [...]
