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Image Gallery: Almost every screen of the T-Mobile G1 Google Android device

The T-Mobile G1 from HTC is the first Google Android device to be launched and as a result the OS is completely new and unique. Thus, I decided to post this image gallery for people who want to see just about every screen on the device that includes menu items,...

Tags: T-Mobile G1, Device, T-Mobile, Operating Systems, Software, Matthew Miller, product photos, google, android, g1, t-mobile, open handset alliance, htc, smartphone

Image galleries 2008-10-15

Android SDK 0.9 beta (Windows)

Android is an open, mobile-phone platform that is currently under development. This preview of the Android developers kit will allow you to develop Android applications that you can run, test, profile, and debug using the emulator and the other included tools. Note that the look andVersion 0.9 beta is the...

Tags: Mobile-phone, Android, SDK, Microsoft Windows, Beta, Emulator, Open Handset Alliance

Software downloads 2008-09-22

Android SDK 0.9 beta (Mac)

Android is an open, mobile-phone platform that is currently under development. This preview of the Android developers kit will allow you to develop Android applications that you can run, test, profile, and debug using the emulator and the other included tools. Note that the look and feel of the user...

Tags: Mobile-phone, Apple Macintosh, Android, SDK, Beta, Emulator, Open Handset Alliance

Software downloads 2008-09-22

Android Development Tools (ADT) (Mobile)

If you will be using the Eclipse IDE as your environment for developing Android applications, you can install a custom plugin called Android Development Tools ADT, which adds integrated support for Android projects and tools. The ADT plugin includes a variety of powerful extensions that make creating, running, and debugging...

Tags: Mobile, Plug-in, Open Handset Alliance, Android Development Tools Plugin

Software downloads 2008-09-22

Nokia dismisses Google Android threat at its peril

`My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings: Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!' Sometimes, you have to laugh.(Picture from Juan Cole, who was writing about someone else at the time.) Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, "Olli-mandias" and CEO of Nokia, sneeringly dismisses Google's Android effort with a figurative...

Tags: Google Inc., Nokia Corp., Handset, Apple Inc., Motorola Inc., Olli-mandias, Open Handset Alliance, Linux, Cellular Phones, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2007-12-11

Google's Open Handset Alliance releases Android SDK

Google's Open Handset Alliance releases Android SDKSome snappy quotes!"So we have great momentum, we've brought our Windows Mobile 6 software to market, we're driving forward on our future releases and we'll have to see what Google does,""Well of course their efforts are just some words on paper right now, it's...

Tags: Linux, Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, Android SDK, Open Handset Alliance, Android, Linux Platform, Google Inc., SDK, alliance

Discussion threads 2007-11-12

Google introduces Android and the Open Handset Alliance

Google introduces Android and the Open Handset AllianceWhat a non eventSo If I'm reading this right, the "gPhone" is not really a phone, but a SDK/OS platform that has not even been released yet? "because sometime next year they're going to deliver this year's smartphone" - http://www.emergentchaos.com/archives/2007/11/the_magic_phone.html

Tags: Smart phones, Open Handset Alliance, Android, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-11-06

Is a Java power play lurking beneath Google's Open Handset Alliance?

Is a Java power play lurking beneath Google's Open Handset Alliance?Java and Linux are Free Software, Apache Isn'tI'm glad to see Google stepping up to the challenge, but I have a hard time seeing how getting all twisted up in Apache's incompatibilities with the GPL are going to lend clarity...

Tags: Programming languages, OPEN SOURCE, Open Handset Alliance, Java, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-11-05

Google outlines the Open Handset Alliance; Will it succeed?

Google outlines the Open Handset Alliance; Will it succeed?OSS rules the handset marketThat's the dawning of a new era in software that will spell trouble for proprietary OSes.I Go With the Least Expensive-Not GlitsiestI did not buy an iPhone because I refuse to pay $60 a month for cell phone....

Tags: DVD, Wi-Fi, Consumer electronics, OSS, Google Inc., Open Handset Alliance, carrier, Blueray, phone

Discussion threads 2007-11-05

Additional Resources

Google plays a hand of Ogre with Apple

'Ogre' is an interesting - if obscure - analogy. But I would suggest that you'd to better to stick with plain old chess.In my view, the AT&T/iPhone team have a better position, if only by virtue of their early start in the market. But, as a belated entry, Android is...

Tags: Google Inc., AT&T Corp., Ogre, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-10-08

HTC Hero (Sprint)

Sprint was one of the first carriers to join the Open Handset Alliance when it was founded in November 2007 to promote Google Android. However, unlike T-Mobile, which released the T-Mobile G1 and the T-Mobile MyTouch 3G, the carrier wasn't so quick to offer an Android handset to its customers...

Tags: 3G, Cellular phones, Smart phones, HTC Hero, High Tech Computer Corp., T-Mobile, Sprint Communications

Product reviews 2009-09-17

Samsung to release Android phone in June

Official news coming from Samsung says that they are releasing a new phone (the I7500) that runs Android this June. So far, the only company with handsets that run Android is HTC, but it sounds like that won't be for long. The quad band phone has...

Tags: Phone, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Handset, Telecom & Utilities, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Garett Rogers

Blog posts 2009-04-28

Get 30% off "Hello, Android" book

It's out! My new book, Hello, Android, is back from the printers: "Android combines the ubiquity of cell phones, the excitement of open source software, and the corporate backing of Google and other Open Handset Alliance members. The result is a mobile platform you can’t afford not to learn....

Tags: Mobile, Android, Advertising & Promotion, Printers, Marketing, Hardware, Peripherals, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2009-01-08

Android will be more than a phone

Android will be more than a phoneSplashtopAsus joined the Open Handset Alliance last month, and they provide an instant-on Linux-based operating system on most of their motherboards. It's also available in many of their laptops.They could very well replace this operating system with Android on their netbooks. I think pushing...

Tags: Linux, Operating systems, Desktops, OPEN SOURCE, OpenOffice, UNIX, phone

Discussion threads 2009-01-02

Google's future: Predictions for 2009

At the end of each year, the blogosphere is flooded with predictions for the next. It's time for a sneak peak into 2009 for one of the most exciting, and unpredictable, companies in existence -- Google. There are a few things that are almost certain to...

Tags: Google Inc., Web Browsers, Operating Systems, Internet, Software, Garett Rogers

Blog posts 2008-12-25

News to know: Microsoft patches; Office 14; Intuit; SAP

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Mary Jo Foley: Office 14: The near silence is deafening Ryan Naraine: Hackers exploiting unpatched IE 7 flaw to launch drive-by attacks MS Patch...

Tags: Intuit Inc., Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Office, Patch Management, SAP AG, Microsoft Corp., E-mail, Microsoft Windows, Online Communications, Operating Systems, Software

Blog posts 2008-12-10

Android needs more U.S. carrier support

The Open Handset Alliance--the outfit behind the Android mobile operating system--announced 14 new members Tuesday, but perhaps the focus should be on what U.S. carriers remain absent. In a statement, the Open Handset Alliance, which was hatched by Google, outlined a roster of its new members the...

Tags: U.S., Vodafone Group Plc., Verizon Wireless, Carrier, Telephony, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Operating Systems, Networking, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-12-09

Google Android vulnerable to drive-by browser exploit

Google Android vulnerable to drive-by browser exploit"somewhat limited"?[i]A successful attacker will have access to any information the browser may use, such as cookies used for accessing sites, .....However, they can not control other, unrelated aspects of the phone, such as dialing the phone directly[/i]At least if my phone was dialing,...

Tags: Web browsers, Web browser, Ryan, Google Inc., browser exploit, Google Android, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-10-27

T-Mobile G1 arrives. Not quite a Google vs. Apple battle

T-Mobile G1 arrives. Not quite a Google vs. Apple battleVery good points. Google does not have to make a penny on the OS, and willhelp drive the cost of mobile internet devices as low as possible. Price sells, and we will eventually see some pretty cheap and pretty amazing phones.Haha!...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Apple Inc., T-Mobile, Linux, T-Mobile G1, software, Apple iPhone, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-10-22

Will Apple help Android succeed?

I have to wonder how Apple manages to have any sort of developer ecosystem, given how closed the company is and how it regularly treats its developers with what can only be described as contempt. I sincerely hope that Google (and T-Mobile) does a better job with Android's developer community...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Developer, Google Inc., Phone, Apple Inc., Android, Telecom & Utilities, Joe Brockmeier

Blog posts 2008-09-22