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SiRF Creating GPS For Android Phones

SiRF, the company that's responsible for the "GPS" portion of a good deal of GPS devices on the market, has just pledged support for the Google Android platform. What kind of support? The end-to-end kind, which will make "location awareness" a big part of Android. To us this means that not only can you use it to see where you are on Google Maps or get driving directions, you can even use it for geotagging pictures and videos you upload to the net. Or, perhaps even more creative (stalking) uses for applications that would (stalking) benefit from knowing where you are (stalking). [MercExtra]

4:00 PM on Mon Dec 17 2007
By Jason Chen
1,981 views, 5 comments

Latest by n/a: Yes!!! This will be too cool! more »

cellphones

USA Today Falls For AT&T Openness Spin

The article titled "AT&T flings cellphone network wide open" over at USA Today reads like a press release directly from AT&T. It states that AT&T is opening up their network to any handset, including Google's, and is just a PR response to the recent Verizon news to allow more phones on their network. Plus, it's not even new. You could take any unlocked GSM phone and use it on AT&T since...forever. More »

6:20 PM on Thu Dec 6 2007
By Jason Chen
2,834 views, 15 comments

Latest by Sqube: @Convergent_Punk: What do you mean they can't support the "any-device" model? It's easy: - You don't offer the phone for sale in your stores - You don't offer tech support - All you offer is minutes and/or data What's so difficult about that? Any more »

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Verizon Hugs Google, Says Android Is Key to Open Networks

In a breaking BusinessWeek story, Verizon Wireless CEO Lowell McAdam says that it will support Android, Google's new platform for phones and mobile devices, making Verizon a member of sorts in the Open Handset Alliance. While this seems to be the logical conclusion to Verizon's weeklong openness bender, McAdam claims that it was the Android platform that "facilitated" Verizon's move out of the walled garden. Welcome to the same phone swapping policy you can do on GSM networks like AT&T and TMO. Oh but you can swap on those phones without calling your operator and just switching a SIM. More »

9:32 AM on Tue Dec 4 2007
By Wilson Rothman
4,214 views, 14 comments

Latest by n/a: I think there is another angle to the whole Google Android, Verizon 'open' hullabaloo. Not many people have talked about it, but here goes...With open networks we are more likely to see Software Defined Radio (SDR) technology benefit. With 'open' more »

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AT&T Talks With Google About Open Handset Alliance Probably Mean Nothing

AT&T wireless CEO Ralph de la Vega mentioning in an interview on Friday that they'd talked to Google about joining the OHA and are "analyzing the situation" might seem like grist for the rumor mill (and headlines), but it probably isn't news. More »

5:00 PM on Sun Nov 18 2007
By Matt Buchanan
4,273 views, 12 comments

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System Fonts for Android Look Clean and Google-y

Font talk isn't exactly stimulating (unless you're scary weird), but it's worth giving the fonts Ascender's developed for Android's system UI a close look since you'll be looking closely at them in Android's app menus, web browser and other texty situations. Overall, they seem pretty clean with a nice smoothness to them, and if they're being accurately represented size-wise, definitely readable from a decent distance away. More specifics, and your thoughts, this way: More »

3:30 AM on Tue Nov 13 2007
By Matt Buchanan
5,910 views, 22 comments

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Android UI Video Demo Shows off Multitouch, Google Maps, Quake

Google's Sergei Brin and Steve Horowitz show off multiple prototypes of the Android platform, one of which has a Palm smartphone form factor and one that has a higher-end, HTC Windows Mobile form factor. The former shows off text messaging and Google maps (which looks pretty great, btw), and the latter shows off 3G desktop-quality web browsing using webkit. There's also 3D OpenGL rendering, application feature sharing, and iPhone-esque finger gesturing. If you weren't excited about Android yet, just think about how this could turn out to be the open-source iPhone. [YouTube]

1:47 PM on Mon Nov 12 2007
By Jason Chen
40,612 views, 94 comments

Latest by n/a: YouTubeRobot.com today announces YouTube Robot 2.0, a tool that enables you to download video from YouTube.com onto your PC, convert it to various formats to watch it when you are on the road on mobile devices like mobile phone, iPod, more »

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Android Imposter Takes My Name, Runs With It

If you were reading the Google Android developer's blog this morning, you might have come into quite a surprise. More »

1:29 PM on Mon Nov 12 2007
By Jason Chen
2,247 views, 9 comments

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What Android's SDK Reveals: Games, Apps and Four New Smartphone Layouts

As promised, the Open Handset Alliance and Google have launched the Android SDK, and a very quick glance inside shows the plan for four different smartphone configurations, very close to the design aesthetic we'd expect with HTC on board. There are also a bunch of sample images depicting a warm, friendly—I might add, familiar—user interface. We found a lunar lander game, a notepad mockup, and lots of photos measuring 320x220 or smaller. Just one thing, what's the deal with all the chihuahuas? Have a look at the gallery as we plumb the kit for more info. Oh, and by all means check it out for yourselves and report back. [OHA/Google]

12:05 PM on Mon Nov 12 2007
By Wilson Rothman
8,051 views, 9 comments

Latest by n/a: the phone itself is completely secondary here. it's up to the handset makers to come up with interesting ideas and implement them. all that makes it an android phone is having android installed on it. android scales more »

FCC Chairman Backs Open Handset Alliance FCC Chairman Kevin Martin is a fan of the Open Handset Alliance—not shocking, considering the open device requirement for the 700MHz spectrum auction and the recent end to exclusive apartment contracts for cable providers. [CNET]

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Is the HTC Omni the Google Android 'Dream' Phone?

The possible gPhone prototype we pointed out yesterday named the "Dream" might just be this HTC Omni communicator. The first reason is that HTC's actually seen and commented on the internal Google prototype, even going so far as to consider developing a real version of the reference design. Unwired View matches up the description of the device to the leaked specs of the HTC Omni, which mesh quite well in both size, shape and functionality. So is this the real "Google Phone" design? If so, it looks less like a phone and more like a fancy—and pants tearingly-large—communicator. We wouldn't have our Google Phone any other way. [Unwired View]

2:45 PM on Tue Nov 6 2007
By Jason Chen
19,256 views, 22 comments

Latest by b_lcky: Kinda silly. If you're going to waste that much space around the screen, you might as well put a couple of buttons on it to make for easier operation when it's closed (a la iPhone Home key). more »

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Symbian Boss Calls Android Just "Another Linux Platform"

Symbian CEO Nigel Clifford just told reporters at a conference that the Android phone OS presented by Google and the Open Handset Alliance is "another Linux platform." More »

10:54 AM on Tue Nov 6 2007
By Wilson Rothman
2,550 views, 23 comments

gphone

Analysis: Google's Android Phone and the Four Carriers

The opening volley of official announcements from Google and the Open Handset Alliance bring good news for people sick of the carrier choke hold. Of course, it's easy to spot who gets an Android device first: T-Mobile and Sprint. And it's easy to understand why underdogs like them would be the first two carriers to sign on to the initiative. But let's look a little deeper, to see why the gPhone/Android platform is off to a much better start than the iPhone, and why you probably won't have to switch to a carrier you don't want to get a phone you might really love. More »

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5:15 PM on Mon Nov 5 2007
By Wilson Rothman
66,218 views, 40 comments

Latest by strangepork: @diablofreak: Nice solution: replace diverse exiting monopolies with new Google super-monopoly. Does this not remind anyone of Microsoft "opening" the home computer OS market? I know you're all just ever so in love with the results of that bit of liberation...but more »

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Google Uses Adorable Children to Push Android and OHA

Google is going after our hearts as well as our minds with their Android interface and Open Handset Alliance. Just take a look at this adorable video they just released, featuring kids talking about what they want in a cellphone. I actually agree with a lot of it; I'd love my phone to make me cookies and to make animals feel better. I'm just wondering if Google is making promises with this video that they won't be able to follow through on. If Android doesn't provide me with a way to get to the moon, I'll consider it a failure and Google full of liars.

11:40 AM on Mon Nov 5 2007
By Adam Frucci
15,571 views, 29 comments

Latest by MRKisThatKid: Did one kid just say he wants to wear his phone as underwear? Is that for the vibrating ringtone? Kinky. more »