The fragmentation of the Android market (no, not the store) is an advantage and disadvantage at the same time. Despite all those different OS versions out there (see image on the right) there are a lot of devices on the market. This massive diversity of Android phones, produced by dozens of different manufacturers worldwide, each […]
Read MoreAndroid Stand at Mobile World Congress 2011 in Barcelona
Though, I am not very active on this blog, I am very busy in the mobile industry. Therefore, I was in Barcelona about a month ago and attended the Mobile World Congress. A lot of stuff was going on there and it was very exciting to see the industry moving so fast! Google itself wasn’t […]
Read MoreAndroid Smartphones are all over Hong Kong and even on Mini-Buses
Yesterday night I was walking around Kowloon site of Hong Kong and saw a couple of so called “Mini Buses” that were showing hundreds of Android smartphones on an ad that was obviously promoting just Android. Check it out: Zoomed in a bit further, you can see that there are loads of little droids on […]
Read More71% of all Android Users want to keep their Robot!
Folks, check out these new stats from Nielsen Wire! It tells us, that 71% of all Android users want to have an Android phone as their next phone. Though the iPhone users are even more loyal, their 89% number is quite normal for Apple users in General. However, there is not just one phone with […]
Read MoreiPhone Cracked: Android now runs on Apple iPhone 1G
Everyone of you who has an iPhone but wants to run a proper phone OS on it – there is a solution for you now! Check out this video: Kudos to the author! Read his full blog entry here: Android running on iPhone! Thanks to open source, you can now get Pre-built images and source […]
Read MoreAre you an Open Source Developer?
Again, I read an article about the Android system and this time with the title: Open Source Developers Pick Android Over iPhone. I am not really an open source developer, though I truly believe in that concept, I just don’t have enough spare time to put into it. Damn I don’t even have enough time […]
Read MoreThe Nexus One is not a Failure
I just read that article Nexus One: Failure or a Late-Bloomer? I am bit confused by the article and wanted to share that. If I am wrong in any point, please feel free to correct me. The author says: Slow and steady may work for the tortoise against the hare, but sluggish sales of Google’s […]
Read MoreAndroid Developer Labs 2010 in Hong Kong
Today we had the last even of the Android Developer Labs ADL 2010 in Hong Kong – hosted by Google for free! I attended and I was more than surprised about how many Android developers and interested people actually showed up. Traditionally, the development community in Hong Kong is very small. Check out a part […]
Read MoreGoogle Earth for Android Phones
It is done. Google Earth for Android has been published. I just ran it on my Nexus One and it seems to work fine. Very smoothly, nice 3D graphics and all the layers in there with your favorite restaurants. Zooming in and out as well as panning in the 3D world works totally fine. Besides […]
Read MoreLinus Torvalds bought a Nexus One
Though the Nexus One does not seem to be a best-seller, it seems it found its way into Linus Torvalds’ hands. You know, the “Finnish software engineer [who is] best known for having initiated the development of the Linux kernel and git revision control system” (Quote from wikipedia). I already wrote some stuff about the […]
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