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Installing Android OS on the Nokia N810
The badasses over at Unwired View have figured out how to install the Android OS dev image on the Nokia N810 running the Diablo (latest) firmware; effectively replacing the operating system with Android and allowing you to play around with it long before real Android phones and devices will hit the street. The best part, it’s [...]
Continue reading...Sun to Begin Closing up MySQL Source Code
Thursday, April 17, 2008
Uh-oh, Spaghettio’s! Looks like Sun is going to start closing up some of the open source portions of MySQL, namely the more advanced functionality and the backup solutions that are currently open sourced. Can you blame them? They paid a goddamn billion for MySQL, it’s not too surprising that they want to create some value-add [...]
Continue reading...Google Android to Get Significant Changes
Monday, February 4, 2008
Jumping out of the gate to a rocky start, Google’s Android was reported as being a “good start” but garnered plenty of complaints from folks that wanted to dive in head first and expected to fine a fully mature product. Most of the complaints centered around the lack of public issue tracking and feedback loop for [...]
Continue reading...Nokia Buys Trolltech, Snubs Google’s Open Handset Alliance
Monday, January 28, 2008
Nokia has agreed to purchase Trolltech (creators of the QT cross platform GUI Toolkit that KDE is based on, as well as the Qtopia cell phone platform) for $150 million. This is an interesting move as all the hub-bub surrounding Google’s announcement of the Open Handset Alliance and the new cell platform, Android, was surprisingly devoid [...]
Continue reading...Software Development with Android API
Thursday, December 20, 2007
For the developers out there, Ars takes some time with the Android (gPhone) APIs to develop a quick Twitter application. Ryan points out that while was impressed with his app only requiring 130 lines of code to get off the ground, he found the tools available to make a nice looking UI were severely lacking. [...]
Continue reading...Sprint Launching WiMax, Service Networks Coming
Wednesday, December 5, 2007
Brad Agdern sends in information about Sprint “soft launching” it’s XOHM (WiMax) service in the Chicago, Washington and Baltimore markets. Unfortunately this doesn’t suddenly mean your Sprint phone will be running at WiMax speeds as support for XOHM requires new devices. Sprint has XOHM-enabled devices for the end of the year and dual-mode CDMA/XOHM phones next [...]
Continue reading...Google Trumps Sun’s Mobile Java Play
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
Greg Amerson sent along two very interesting reads (One, Two) about what the Google Android platform means to Sun and the OpenJDK. At first glance Android looks like a harmlessly cool, Java-based mobile platform… so what’s the big deal? At closer glance it appears that Google has invented their own Java VM, the Dalvik VM to [...]
Continue reading...Google Releases Android (gPhone) SDK
Monday, November 12, 2007
Looks like Google has released the Android SDK for mass consumption. What comes in the SDK is mostly expected, but still cool to see: Linux Kernel FreeType OpenGL SQL Lite WebKit (as a web browser, anyone else surprised this wasn’t Firefox 3 platform?) Custom Java Bytecode interpreter that is “highly specialized for the CPU” Common Java API Media File Support based on PacketVideo’s [...]
Continue reading...HTC To Produce 2-3 gPhones (Android) Next Year
Monday, November 12, 2007
Engadget reports that HTC has let slip that they will be producing 2-3 Android-based phones (Originally rumored as the gPhone platform) next year. For the folks out there familiar with HTC’s work, they do a lot (all?) of the T-Mobile branded smart phones, their existing TouchFLO interface and GPS integration all suggest that these Android-based phones [...]
Continue reading...Google’s gPhone Plans Announced Monday
Sunday, November 4, 2007
InformationWeek is reporting that Google will announce it’s plans for the gPhone this Monday, possibly including collaborations with all the cell carriers previously mentioned (T-Mobile, Sprint, Verizon, etc.) as well as handset manufacturers. Bring it on! Update #1: Some prelim information before the official announcement: USA Today has an advance story on Google’s plans to announce a new [...]
Continue reading...Google Common Social Networking APIs
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
John Hering sent in news that Google is prepping it’s launch of OpenSocial Thursday. The interesting think here is that OpenSocial isn’t another social networking service, but instead is a common set of APIs used to develop software against any social networking site participating in the OpenSocial community. Think of this like OpenID, but instead of identification [...]
Continue reading...Gmail Adding IMAP Support
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
Holy mother-bitches… Chris Hunkele just sent in the scoop that it looks like Gmail is finally adding IMAP support. Something I’m almost certain they’ve had sitting in the wings for more than a year now, but with the release of gPhone looming, my guess this begins the beta of IMAP support while will eventually be [...]
Continue reading...Google’s “gPhone” an OS Play, not Hardware
Tuesday, October 9, 2007
A lot of folks, including me, was under the impression that the Google Phone (gPhone) was going to be a complete-solution-play like the iPhone, with custom hardware and software coming out of Google. As NY Times reports (TIP: Install BugMeNot plugin to get around registration) the gPhone is more of an operating system or software play [...]
Continue reading...Google Phone (gPhone) Coming ‘08
Tuesday, August 28, 2007
Thanks to Chris Hunkele for sending this in. Looks like Google Phone is official and will be due out in ‘08. The interesting fun-facts about it: Partnership between Google and HTC (T-Mo Dash, HTC Touch, etc.) Will include custom version of Google Maps + GPS Will include Google Calendar Will include Google Mail Will include Google Talk (including the VoIP [...]
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