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Facebook: “Android sucks, it doesn’t matter”
TechCrunch reports that the lack of an Android Facebook app in the Android Market Place is not a mistake and you probably don’t want to hold your breath waiting. Apparently the bad blood between Google and Facebook started when Facebook chose Microsoft as it’s advertising partner; in and of itself, not that bad of a move. [...]
Continue reading...T-Mobile G1 Android 1.1 Update Tomorrow
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
For all the 10 trillion people that got T-Mobile G1 phones today, you will have an Android 1.1 update pushed out to you over the data network tomorrow. We have no idea how this will work for folks that are still in non-3G areas, it’s possible the phone will detect no 3G connection and prompt [...]
Continue reading...Google Celebrates Android Release with Giant Foam Android
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Hot on the heels of the Android open sourcing announcement by Google, celebration around the office looks to be amping up. Iliyan Malchev snapped this shot of Andy Rubin decorating what I think is the front lawn of Google with a giant foam Android Robot: First thing that popped in my head when I saw it [...]
Continue reading...Google Open Sources Android
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
It’s official, no more waiting, no more secret SDKs and top-secret government handshakes (ok, there never really was), but it’s still nice to hear that Google has officially Open Sourced Android. The preferred licensing for working with the Android platform is the Apache 2.0 license. For folks wanting to contribute directly to the platform you will [...]
Continue reading...No HTC Touch HD for the US, Just the T-Mobile G1 and Beyond
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
As we move into the fall the announcements of mobile devices are going to start leaking out of our ears… especially sexy, Christmas-fodder devices. A lot of folks a few months ago were waiting for HTC’s next “Sexy device” after the HTC Touch ended up sucking balls with slow performance, crappy software and not the greatest [...]
Continue reading...First Google Android Phone: T-Mobile’s HTC Dream
Saturday, August 30, 2008
After the first crap-blurry video of the HTC Dream, Google’s first commercial Android-based phone getting close to release, we have been waiting with baited breath to see what the device will actually look and feel like. It looks like T-Mobile will be the first to roll out the phone this Fall along side the BlackBerry [...]
Continue reading...Video of Android-Based HTC Dream in the Wild
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Hardly the most exciting video ever, but for the folks that have been standing around waiting for Google’s Android-based phones to finally make it to market, this might give you a glimmer of hope. What we have today is a really terrible quality video of the HTC Dream in action: Looks like HTC’s plans to fill out [...]
Continue reading...Installing Android OS on the Nokia N810
Saturday, July 5, 2008
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. [...]
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Wednesday, October 22, 2008
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