By Erica Sadun
From the very beginning, Android has planned to support multitouch. The G1’s touch screen is a ClearPad, created by Synaptics—a founding member of the Open Handset Alliance. Synaptics provides the touch interface driver for Android, and will at some time offer “advanced multi-touch gestures for the Android platform.” Over at the RyeBlog, blogger RyeBrye has tapped into the unit’s multitouch capabilities. Continued…..
By James Alan Miller
November 18, 2008
A free, ad supported version of WeatherBug is now available for Google’s Android platform. You can download and install the application through the Android Market on the T-Mobile G1, the first - and so far only - Android-run handset. Continued…….
And this my friends, is the sweetness that comes with a more open platform: cool hackery! I wouldn’t have the programming chops to pull this off, but Brad Fitzpatrick has his G1 handset automatically open the garage door at his house whenever he comes home. Since his phone knows all about his home WiFi network, the device recognizes when Brad gets home and shoots an HTTP request to a webserver that controls his garage door. Brad can either start his application manually on the ride home or simply have the Android handset sniff around for his home network every few seconds. Continued…..
Adobe showed at the Adobe MAX 2008 developer conference Flash 10 running on Android. See a video of full flash running on the T-Mobile G1 below.
The Apple iPhone might never get Adobe Flash because it would impact Apple’s software control over the iPhone. See this new Wired article about this topic. This is a real disadvantage for the iPhone as Flash is very popular on the web especially for video playback and online games.
When the Flash Player 10 will be released on the Android OS is not known yet. Continued……
Adobe Flash. It drains your mobile’s battery, makes proper videos play nice and provokes the ire of the hardest of hardcore tech geeks every time its found lacking in a supposedly killer device.
But while we can’t report any good news about it rearing its head in the iPhone, Adobe has confirmed plans to make it play nice with Google Android devices, including the T–Mobile G1. One of the first Android phones biggest failings is its complete lack of full–on video support. Continued……
Author Gordon Kelly
If the launch last week of the wonderfully impressive INQ1 didn’t make it abundantly clear, there is an intense war now being fought across the mobile phone landscape and it has nothing to do with megapixels, gigabytes or even - despite what mainstream advertising might tell you - touchscreens. In fact, this war has nothing to do with hardware at all because at very long last it appears dopey manufacturers are getting the message that specsmanship is nothing without a solid foundation of software craftsmanship. Continued…
Social networking site Facebook is now available for the Google Android T-Mobile G1 via the Android market. It was only a matter of time before Facebook came to Android to compete with its social networking rival MySpace. Continued….
Google has begun releasing details about the vulnerabilities it patched in two updates to Google’s Android operating system software in the T-Mobile G1 smartphone.
The company had acknowledged some of the work earlier, but it has not posted an official comment about the vulnerabilities. However, Rich Cannings of the Android security team has shared details about the RC29 and RC30 updates that T-Mobile began distributing to G1 customers at least as early as 1 November and 9 November, respectively. Continued…….
A text conversation has revealed a big problem with the G1 mobile phone - powered by Google’s Android software.
The newly discovered bug causes the phone to restart when owners type in the word “reboot” soon after starting up the device.
Google hurried to repair the problem, which causes the phone to interpret any text entered just after the phone was turned on as a command. Continued……
Google G1 users watch out for this one, as it is a serious problem on the Google Android platform, when texting your friends, emailing your business colleagues don’t whatever you do type the word “reboot” in your text as the G1 will take this as a command a reboot the system. Continued…………
Gamelion has launched its first product for Google’s Android platform, although it’s less of a game, and more of an edutainment app.
It’s called Global Factbook, and is based on political, geographical and economic data from the CIA’s World Factbook publication. Continued…….
Google Releases First Android Patch
In the first test for its users response speed, Google just released a patch to its Android operating system that corrects a bug in its browser that came to light about ten days ago, as well as some other minor details. The update process was reportedly smooth and completely automated for T-Mobile’s G1, the only commercially available phone that currently features Google’s mobile operating system. Continued…….
We’re still getting acquainted with our T-Mobile G1, discovering all the little nuances that the Android OS has to offer. But, there’s just something missing from the Android platform… what could it be?
A GameBoy emulator! Continued………
HTC isn’t the only company that knows a thing or two about making Android-powered smartphones, because everyone’s favorite netbook-maker is entering the Google market as well.
Yup, from the same people that brought you the Asus Eee PC comes an EeePhone. I wonder if they’ll change that name. Continued………
Google has begun distributing a patch to its Android mobile phone operating system, an early test for how nimbly the company can respond and how well the infrastructure works to distribute and install updates.
For the Android test phone I’m using, a T-Mobile G1, the update was smoother than the process by which the software problem came to light publicly on October 24. Continued………….
By Tony Smith
Eee PC maker Asus will release a Google Android-based smartphone during the first six months of 2009.
So say unnamed company sources mentioned by DigiTimes, which suggests there’s something in the claim.
It’s also said that the phone could initially appear only in Asus’ native territory, Taiwan. Later, it may be tweaked for what are called “overseas clients” - carriers, presumably. Continued………
IfIf 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. Continued……..
A flaw exists in the Google-led Android mobile platform that could let users be tricked into visiting malware-laden Web sites and unwittingly have their keystrokes recorded, The New York Times has reported.
According to the Saturday article, a researcher and former U.S. National Security Agency computer-security specialist, Charles Miller, told Google about the flaw last week. The article also quotes a Google security engineer, Rich Cannings, as saying the flaw’s impact would be limited due to the compartmentalization of the Android platform. Continued……..
By OM MALIK,
While it may not win any awards for its name, Twitter fans with new Android mobile phones are going to like Twidroid, an application created by Thomas Marban, the man behind Popurls. The app is available on the Android App store and it has pretty much all the features you want from a Twitter client, such as continued………….
One of the most striking things about this early batch of Android apps is how many excellent freebies there are. Ringdroid is yet another sophisticated, intuitive freeware app that will prove a boon to T-Mobile G1-toting ringtone-lovers.
Ringdroid lets you create ringtones from MP3, WAV, and ARM files you load onto your phone through the SD card or that you purchase through the Amazon MP3 store. Continued……
Legend Mobile, Inc., a developer of mobile broadband 3G games and business application products, has announced its intention to build mobile games and applications for the newAndroid ( News - Alert) mobile operating system for Google’s smart phones. Android is a software platform and operating system for mobile devices, based on the Linux kernel, and developed by Google and later theOpen Handset Alliance ( News - Alert). It allows developers to write managed code in a Java-like language that utilizes Google-developed Java libraries, but does not support programs developed in native code. Continued…..
Wal-Mart will be selling the T-Mobile G1, the first phone running on Google’s Android platform, starting Oct. 29, according to a Wal-Mart spokeswoman. The G1 will be available at about 550 Wal-Mart stores nationwide, for $148.88 for new or existing customers who sign a two-year service contract. The Wal-Mart price is $31.11 less than what T-Mobile is selling the device for–$179.99 under the same terms. Continued…….
ANAHEIM, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Location Based Technologies, Inc. (OTCBB: LBAS), a leading-edge family service provider of personal locator devices and services, today announced that Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android smartphone users can now download the PocketFinder® service for their handsets. Continued…….
Atlanta, GA (Vocus) October 27, 2008 — The Weather Channel Mobile today announced the launch of its advanced mobile weather application for the Android platform. Available through the Android Market on the T-Mobile G1 phone, the new application gives users the ability to view fully customized weather maps, detailed conditions and forecasts, local video and severe weather alerts. Weather information can be viewed for neighborhood landmarks such as schools, parks, lakes and more to assist with daily activity planning. In addition, location-enabled severe weather alerts let users know when dangerous weather threatens their area. Continued……..
Security expert Charlie Miller leverages a flaw within an SDK component of Google’s open-source Android operating system. The buffer overrun flaw lets hackers hijack the Web browser on a user’s T-Mobile G1 smart phone, which is Google’s first big entry into the mobile and wireless game to deliver users mobile Web services. Miller bought a G1 early from a T-Mobile employee on eBay to test his exploit. Google said it is working with T-Mobile on delivering a fix to the device. Continued…….
The latest buzz in the world in the new Google Android G1 mobile phone that runs on a Linux based OS, and in tribute to this unique mobile handset from Google, the guys over at gOS have hand built their Android G2 PC.
The Android G2 PC is a custom built desktop computer designed in the image of the now world known Android, and is based on the Via C7 Nana-ITX board, with 1GB of DDR2 RAM, 80GB of hard disk storage space, and an 800MHz processor. Continued……..
Sprint may have signed up with the other 30 or so companies to support Google’s development of the Android mobile phone operating system, but currently they are not so keen.
The CEO of Sprint has proclaimed that Google’s Android OS is not good enough just yet, Dan Hesse spoke in Washington to The National Press Club and informed them that Android is not “good enough to put the Sprint brand on it” yet. Continued…….
The objective of Apple’s iPhone and Google’s Android operating system may be similar–providing a rich mobile Internet experience–but the philosophy behind the two are just about as far apart as you can get in the technology realm.
That divide was illustrated Tuesday not just by Google’s release of the open-source Android software but perhaps even more starkly by its gleeful horn-tooting that even before the day ended, five Android patches from outside programmers had been accepted. Continued………
By Jai C.S.
Mobile games publisher Glu Mobile (News - Alert) recently introduced two new titles, Bonsai Blast and Brain Genius Deluxe, for use with the Android open source mobile platform. Glu is one of the first mobile games publishers to develop and launch games for the Android (News - Alert) platform. Continued…..
