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OHA gets 14 new Android fans: ASUS, Sony Ericsson, Garmin & more onboard

By Chris Davies on Tuesday, Dec 9th 2008 No Comments

open handset alliance logo The Open Handset Alliance (OHA) has announced fourteen new members, including ASUS, Sony Ericsson and Garmin, together with carrier Vodafone. While the specific intent of the new members is unknown, they will all either “deploy compatible Android devices, contribute significant code to the Android Open Source Project, or support the ecosystem through products and services that will accelerate the availability of Android-based devices.”

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Motorola to feature Android on upcoming handsets

By Brenda Stokes on Wednesday, Oct 29th 2008 1 Comment

If this were a game of poker, Motorola would have just put all their chips in. In fact, while one of the first members of the Open Handset Alliance, it is only now that Motorola is making their plans public to incorporate the Android OS on a great number of their upcoming handsets.

The idea here is that Android will make it easier for Motorola to develop new handsets faster and will boost profits. Since smartphones are slowly taking over the standard handset market, Android is the perfect way to enter the world of smartphones while keeping costs low.

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T-Mobile G1 Q&A brings further insight to device

By Brenda Stokes on Tuesday, Sep 23rd 2008 2 Comments

g1 watermarked1 359x480 After the demo video finished and the execs announced the pricing and availability, the T-Mobile G1 event turned to the audience with plenty of questions about the device, the platform and everything in between.

Let’s touch on a few of the questions and their respective answers:

The G1 will not tether. You will have to purchase a voice plan as well and it can read Word and Excel files and GMail push will be supported. There won’t be desktop sync, but there will be a back-end one.

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T-Mobile G1 Android powered phone is packed with features; Open Source is focus

By Brenda Stokes on Tuesday, Sep 23rd 2008 1 Comment

Today at the T-Mobile G1 announcement, the long-awaited handset did not disappoint. In fact, it is chock full of features and the demo has thoroughly branded in our heads that “there’s always something new to discover.”

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T-Mobile G1, first Android-powered handset announced; platform to be flexible

By Brenda Stokes on Tuesday, Sep 23rd 2008 1 Comment

When Cole Brodeman, the chief technology officer for T-Mobile took the stage today at the T-Mobile G1 event, he said that today’s announcement would be a game changer to how mobile phones and the Internet “bring us together.” He was right.

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Qualcomm Android Phone – it even runs Quake!

By James Allan Brady on Tuesday, Apr 1st 2008 2 Comments

Qualcomm is at CTIA these year showing off the incredible functionality of some of their chips. One way they decided to show off this functionality was throwing together an Android phone. Then they put Quake on it.

Quake, a Doom-Like FPS from the good old days of PC gaming, is a fairly demanding game, especially considering they had it running, in full, in 3D, at 30 frames per second at a VGA resolution. This just goes to show that not only is Android a freaking amazing platform to be able to pull this off on the software side, but Qualcomms silicon chips are equally amazing for being able to pull it off on the hardware side of things.

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Android PC Case Mod – I think this whole thing may have gone a wee bit too far

By James Allan Brady on Monday, Mar 24th 2008 1 Comment

So some guy (Read: Eric Burke) decided to build a case/computer in dedication to the Open Handset Alliances’ new development platform known as Android. The logo for the platform is some Clip Art quality green robot and this PC essentially looks like the head of said robot.

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Verizon added to list of members of the Open Handset Alliance

By James Allan Brady on Tuesday, Dec 4th 2007 No Comments

In a not-so-surprising move, Verizon, days after announcing they were opening up their network, joined the Open Handset Alliance. The only question is, is Verizon playing along to lure Google away from the 700MHz auction, or are they sincere in their efforts for a more open wireless world?

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Verizon opening up its doors to everyone

By James Allan Brady on Tuesday, Nov 27th 2007 No Comments

Early next year VZW will publish a set of standards allowing anyone to make a device or a program to run on their network. As long as it follows the standards, and passes their tests, you are in.

That means you could literally build a phone on a breadboard, send it in, and as long as it passes the tests, they’ll activate it for you. Who would have ever thought that GSM, EDGE, CDMA, EV-DO, HSDPA, and HSUPA chips would become available to general public for purchase for use in their devices?

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First Blood: seeing what the Android SDK can do more or less out of the box

By James Allan Brady on Sunday, Nov 25th 2007 No Comments

Well, it appears that SkyPop has an Android reference device, basically a phone they can install the OS onto and use to test out their apps. And they have been putting it to good use.

Seemingly on the same day the SDK came out, due to its ease of use, the engineer for SkyPop threw together a Sudoku app, a buddy location finder app, and a team geo-caching app. Pretty amazing for the first couple of days, no?

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