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News about Android phones and software.

It has been a busy couple of days on the Android front. Latest news is that a new version of the Android SDK has been made available. The new version of the SDK promises a new home screen and “many” UI tweaks as well as new task management.
Also new is the requirement for [...]

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HTC Dream from FCC documents

Well, the cat has been let out of the bag, it seems. HTC’s Dream has popped up on the FCC’s website, and it appears to support 3G connectivity on the 1700MHz AWS band that T-Mobile has just recently started rolling out in the USA. As Engadget has also pointed [...]

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Eric Schmidt on CNBC

This is hardly news, of course, but in case you were worried - Eric Schmidt, Google’s CEO, appeared on CNBC today and reiterated that Android would be ready by the end of the year. You can check out the video directly on CNBC.com if you like. Schmidt spends most of [...]

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Bill Hughes of market research firm In-Stat is predicting that 17.1 million Google Android OS based devices will be sold in 2009, nearly double what he is predicting for world-wide Apple iPhone sales. He believes that the Chinese market will be the driving force behind Android adoption, with its 1 billion potential cell phone [...]

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It appears that Google’s Android will have a new, and quite formidable, open source competitor in the near future. Today Nokia announced that it was purchasing the remainder of Symbian Limited, the company that makes the Symbian OS, and that it would be turning over the OS and its own S60 user interface to [...]

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The Wall Street Journal

According to a story posted today by The Wall Street Journal, Google is experiencing some delays that will cause some of the upcoming Android based phones to be pushed back a bit for release. From the start Google has said to expect new devices in “the second half” of 2008, so [...]

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Rich Miner - Photo: John B. Carnett for PopSci.com

I just got finished reading a (very) brief interview with Google’s Rich Miner that was posted by PopSci.com. Miner, Google’s head of mobile platforms, discusses how he doesn’t believe that Google is “getting into the phone business” and that its goal is to organize information - [...]

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Photo courtesy AndroidCommunity.com

At the recent Google IO developer conference, Google’s Andy Rubin hinted that Google is looking to put together a way for developers to easily sell their applications to Android phone users in a way that is similar to what Apple has planned for iPhone apps on iTunes. To quote Andy Rubin:
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Android presentation at Google IO

Yesterday at the Google IO developer conference, Andy Rubin and some other folks from Google ran a demo of the latest and greatest version of the Android platform running on a mysterious piece of hardware that could be the HTC Dream. The Google guys refused to name the device, citing [...]

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Nicholas Heller of Google

Computerworld Australia is reporting that Google’s Nicholas Heller will be presenting a keynote at the Mobile Content World event in Sydney on Wednesday, and that the presentation will include a demo of the Android platform.
Google’s UK-based head of strategic partnership development, Nicholas Heller, will open Mobile Content World with the keynote talk [...]

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