http://www.android-googlephone.com Android Phone Tue, 18 Mar 2008 08:20:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en As useful as the Android SDK’s emulator is at playing with layouts, testing code and generally experimenting with various versions of software, there are times when having the platform on a handset you can physically hold is preferable; only then can you gauge how straightforward your UI is with a ... http://www.android-googlephone.com/test-android-apps-on-windows-mobile-smartphones.html Just as the creatively overhauled Google interface for the Apple iPhone was heralded as the search company “practising” for their own Android platform, the news that Japanese carrier NTT DoCoMo is considering using Google-powered search and email functionality in their own handsets will likely be viewed as further evidence of ... http://www.android-googlephone.com/ntt-docomo-considering-googlei-mode-partnership.html Slow development milestones for Android have previously been blamed on Google’s $10m coding “prizefund” forcing app creation undercover; could the truth be that the platform is simply not ready for primetime release? That’s the strident criticism from developer Adam MacBeth, who has found the SDK toolkit to be riddled ... http://www.android-googlephone.com/developers-criticise-android.html Looking like a black/grey version of the white handset Google’s Sergey Brin demonstrated in the Android SDK launch video, a Gizmodo reader sent in this exclusive photo of a prototype gPhone in the wild. While the design itself is relatively uninspiring (but, assuming it’s a product of HTC, will ... http://www.android-googlephone.com/android-htc-prototype-in-wild.html Could a spinoff from Microsoft Research end up providing another open-access piece of the Android mobile-internet experience? That looks to be the word out of Zumobi, a developer of the self-titled mobile browser that uses a unique “tiles” system of organising specific web content - such as Flickr feeds, ... http://www.android-googlephone.com/zumobi-mobile-web-browser-set-for-android-launch.html It might just be Seasonal Affective Disorder, but paranoia and dark soothsaying seem to be the moods of the moment with analysts and industry professionals muttering worried concerns about Google’s long-term plans and the state of the open-source market. While the original Android announcement - of a mobile platform ... http://www.android-googlephone.com/unease-as-mobile-linux-interoperability-appears-increasingly-unsteady.html One platform, a predicted mass of devices built on it; that’s the future of Android as Google and the Open Handset Alliance would have us believe. Yet Nikita Ivanov envisages another application, turning the collective deployment of handsets running the open-source platform into an interconnected grid capable of worldwide ... http://www.android-googlephone.com/could-android-open-door-for-cellphone-grid-computing.html Android has the traditional carriers unnerved at the prospect of a rapidly evolving business model - unnerved enough for historically closed Verizon Wireless to let down the CDMA drawbridge, even - with open-source software promising to flood the market with low-cost, highly adapted cellular devices and advertising revenue supplanting monthly ... http://www.android-googlephone.com/geo-specific-ads-mobile-internet-devices-are-android%e2%80%99s-future.html Nokia has hit back at Google’s Android platform, with CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo dismissing the Open Handset Alliance’s OS launch with the suggestion that the Finnish company themselves have already trodden much of the software ground Google and partners are currently bringing attention to: “conceptually, we could have made that announcement ... http://www.android-googlephone.com/nokia-dismiss-android-as-rival-position-develops.html HTC’s Peter Chou has confirmed today that the company is developing a whole new range of Android-powered handsets that, despite having a number of successful designs already in their portfolio, will be distinct from the current Windows Mobile powered range. In an interview with Engadget, the company CEO discussed ... http://www.android-googlephone.com/no-recycling-of-wm6-handsets-for-android.html