Android

When Google joined the cellular phone market, they created Android, their first smartphone operating system. Based on Linux, the Android OS promises power, flexibility, and extendability.HTC was the first to introduce a device that will run the Android OS, the G1. Android is not only an OS but a software platform. This gives all cellular manufacturers the ability to build new device that can use Android.

The Android platform is completely open-source, allowing any developer to tap into its full power and create some pretty cool apps. Check out some of the winners of the Android Developer Challenge.

Come Tuesday we'll be able to put all of this espionage stuff to bed, for T-Mobile and Google will finally unveil the first Android phone for all to...
15 years 7 months ago
Widely circulated reports have placed a $199 price tag on T-Mobile's HTC Dream, the first Google Android-powered phone.  T-Mo and Google are holding...
15 years 7 months ago
Hey, lookie here (that's my phrase du jour, apparently) ... It's the Google Android phone being demo'd live on video. The branding was covered over...
15 years 7 months ago
I'm telling you straight up before I get to the "reporting" that this is a classic example of me commenting on someone else's story with no personal...
15 years 7 months ago
Forget the blurry spy shots; some very crisp and clear spy shots of the alleged HTC G1 Dream (aka the first Google Android phone) have surfaced.  I'm...
15 years 7 months ago
The HTC Dream has received FCC approval, and that quiet rumbling you hear is the sound of T-Mobile subscribers doing their happy dance across the...
15 years 8 months ago
Yesterday I read a few interesting things about Google's Android mobile operating system.  First was an article in the latest issue of Wired (my...
15 years 9 months ago
Phone Magazine by way of Android Community has posted video and a ton of pictures of the latest build of Google's Android mobile phone OS as demoed...
15 years 10 months ago
Check out the photo below that surfaced in the forum over on mobile-review.  On the top you've got four of HTC's current smartphones.  On the bottom...
15 years 12 months ago
With HTC planning a big media event for May 6th and Summer just around the corner after that, you'd have to think we'll being seeing the first...
16 years 5 days ago
AOL recently announced a new "Open Mobile Platform" and their intentions to compete for a piece of the open source pie. The platform will consist of...
16 years 2 months ago
Engadget has a ton of pics, but - oddly - no video, of aprototype handset running the Android OS at Texas Instruments' booth at MWC in Spain.  The...
16 years 2 months ago
Mobile World Congress is shaping up to be one heck of a show, huh?  Reuters is citing "a source close to the company" in reporting that British chip...
16 years 2 months ago
CrunchGear picked up on a Marketing Week story pointing towards a possible Google-Dell joint announcement at 3GSM in Barcelona next month.  I blogged...
16 years 2 months ago
Wistron NeWeb of Taiwan was showing a very impressive Linux-based smartphone at CES in Las Vegas. The GW4 is ready for Google's Android OS and...
16 years 3 months ago
Google's Software Development Kit for Anrdoid - their Linux-based phone operating system - has been in developers' hands for more than a month now. ...
16 years 4 months ago
Japanese cellular operator Willcom has successfully demonstrated the Google-backed Android mobile OS running on a reference board (a circuit board...
16 years 4 months ago
Okay, so a few press releases, a giant conference call, and an afternoon's worth of reporting and blogging later, here's what I can tell you about...
16 years 5 months ago
A press release showed up in my INBOX 45 minutes or so ago announcing the Open Handset Alliance and Android, "the first truly open and comprehensive...
16 years 5 months ago

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