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Andrew Greig, CEO of Koolu, has just informed us that his company is offering the Openmoko Neo FreeRunner for $100 off of the regular $399 price tag for a limited time.  The FreeRunner is an open platform smartphone that can be used with a number of different operating systems, including a beta version port of [...]

The source code for Android 1.0 is now available in a weighty 2.1 gig download from http://source.android.com. Anyone with the brains and manpower is now free to edit, add, modify, use and distribute Android in anyway they see fit at absolutely no cost.
This is pretty significant as it opens up all sorts of interesting possibilities [...]

Divide and Conquer

Karl Rosaen over at the Android Developers Blog has posted about a new game he recently wrote and added to the open source apps-for-android project. Called Divide and Conquer, the game is based on the same premise as the old JezzBall game you might have played when you were younger: you navigate/draw [...]

Photostream for Android

The guys over at the Android Developers Blog have posted a new open source sample application for would-be Android developers to examine. Called Photostream, the application is basically a client for viewing pictures from the Flickr.com photo site.
The sample application source code demonstrates some basic programming methods for adding shortcuts to an [...]

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 [...]

Andy Rubin – Credit: Stephen Shankland, CNETNews.com

CNET has posted a lengthy look at how Google is dealing with the open source aspects of the Android platform, and how some open source advocates are less than pleased with Google’s actions so far. Google’s approach seems to be to develop everything in-house first, under controlled conditions, [...]