Posts Tagged ‘android’
Thursday, October 29th, 2009
Motorola is releasing this beaty very soon! Somehow it reminds me very much of the Google G1. A bit sharper edges and stuff but that seems to be “in” right now. Therefore, most specs are the same with one highlight: the screen resolution will be 854 x 480 pixels. That sounds pretty nice to me! Moreover, Motorola put a capacitive 3.7 inch display in there which means the display definitely supports multi-touch. Micro-SD, Bluetooth, WiFi, GPS, 5 MP auto-focus camera with double-flash.
The US CDMA model will be available for $200 with a 2-year contract on Verizon. Check out the Droid does website.
By the way, I found that note on Golem.
Tags: 2.0, android, droid, g1, google, motorola, verizon
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Wednesday, October 28th, 2009
Tags: 2.0, android, download, sdk, update
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Thursday, August 27th, 2009
Motorola is one of the largest mobile phone makes in the world. With the RAZR phone Motorola had a huge success some years back, but these times are over. The mobile phone giant is struggling and needs to compete with other phone vendors like Apple, RIM, and Nokia. The Motorola platform was never really good. They used Symbian sometimes as well their own Motorola OS and Windows Mobile. Still today the variety of phones and software platforms of Motorola is quite fragmented.
With the announcement some while that Motorola will develop Android powered devices, a step in the right direction was done. The OS is free, open and provides basically all features a modern smartphone needs. It seems they are really going forward with this as I just read on golem that Motorola is due to release a new Android phone at September 10th.
Moreover, the MOTODEV – Motorola Development Center – lists the MOTODEV Studio for Android for download. The studio is based on Eclipse and seems to be some kind of an Eclipse plugin – so it will be easy to use for most developers as everyone has Eclipse anyway, right? 
Everyone who is interested, check out the MOTODEV Studio for Android here: http://developer.motorola.com/
Tags: android, BlackBerry, MOTODEV, MOTODEV Studio, motorola, nokia, RIM
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Wednesday, July 15th, 2009
Hi folks,
as you might have already mentioned, I have not published an article for quite a while. I also haven’t published a proper developement article for even a longer while. Honestly, I really want to change this, but I got one problem: I am lacking in time. I don’t see much more space in future but I will definitely try to squeeze in more time for this blog. I really like the Android platform and basically the whole idea it. It is worth and fun to write about it!
Anyway, what I actually wanted to ask you guys: Is anyone interested in sharing simple code samples with the community?
(Example: DialANumber)
What I can see from the day-to-day increasing access to this site is, there are definitely lots of people interested in this blog and its content. This means I did something right with my previous articles
So if there is someone out there who would like to share his / her experience with the Android platform please drop a comment below this article. I am sure we can make the world better, and bring useful information to the Android community.
Tags: android, community, development, glider, google
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Tuesday, April 28th, 2009
With Samsung we see another major phone manufacturer entering the market of Android phones. The phone is gonna be released at O2 Germany in June ’09.
- 3,2 inch AMOLED-Touchscreen
- 320 x 480 Pixel
- 16 Million Colors
- 5-Megapixel-Camera
- Built-in GPS
- Dimensions: 115 x 56 x 11,9 mm
- HSDPA, GPRS, EDGE, GSM
- WiFi 802.11b/g
- Bluetooth 2.0
- Weight: 119 g
- MicroSD card slot for up to 32 GB
- 3.5 mm headphone jack
Tags: android, i7500, samsung
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Thursday, April 23rd, 2009
I just found this article on a German news site. It says, a new Android powered Notebook just appeared on a Chinese website. It looks like this:
The technical data of this notebook reads as followed:
| Model Name |
Alpha 680 |
| Operating System |
google android |
| Display |
7“ TFT LCD true color |
| LCD resolution |
800 x 480( WVGA) |
| Internet Connection (Optional) |
ADSL, WiFi,（ GPRS, CDMA,EDGE,WCDMA） |
| Memory |
128MB DDR2 (up to 256MB Optional) |
| Solid-State Disk |
1 GB Nand Flash Memory (up to 4GB Optional) |
| CPU |
ARM11 533 MHz 32bit |
| LAN / Connection |
10/100 MB Ethernet ; RJ-45 |
| Wireless |
Built-in WiFi |
| Media |
Support MPEG1/2/4,H.263,H.264,WMV9 |
| USB Output |
USB 2.0 x 2 |
| Media Storage |
SD/MMC card slot ( support SDHC) |
| Input Device |
80 Key standard keyboard; Capacitive TouchPad |
As it is supposed to be used by kids, the artwork can also look a bit more funny:
Website: Skytone Alpha 680
More Chinese companies with Android products:
Update 2009-04-28: Golem.de and Internetnews.com report this device will cost $250. Pretty cheap!
Tags: alpha 680, android, arm, notebook, skytone
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Saturday, April 18th, 2009
Just some days ago we wrote about the Dream G2 Phone “Made in China” that looks like Android but isn’t one.
On that same show I took a flyer with their product showcase and it listed not just the fake Android phone. Bluelans actually plans to publish a real Android powered mobile phone in July 2009. At least that’s what they told me. I am not sure if they can hold their roadmap and release but it would be great to have another Android on the market! When I saw the fake one I first thought: “Why don’t they just take the free Android OS and put it on a phone rather than using a crappy Chinese OS and lots of programmers to wirte a fake Android User Interface?
Anyway, here is the data of the upcoming N12 SciPhone from Bluelans; if it will ever be released:
- Processor: Marvell Monahands (624MHz) + Qualcomm MSM6246
- Operating system: Android/ Windows Mobile
- Dimensions: 117*58*12.7
- Mode: UMTS-2100MHz, GSM-900/1800/1900 MHz
- Bearer: GSM, 3G(WCDMA)
- Display: WQVGA 240*400 pixels, 3.2 inch TFT 262K
- Main camera: 3.2M pixel
- Secondary Camera: 0.1M pixel
- Storage: ROM-256MB+64MB, RAM-256MB+64MB
- Extended Storage: Micro SD, up to 16GB
- USB: USB 2.0 high speed
- Bluetooth: Ver 2.0
- GPS: Yes
- WiFi: IEEE 802.11b/11g
- TV: CMMB
- Battery capacity: 1000mAh
- Standby time(GSM): Up to 220 hours
- Voice talk time(2G): Up to 170 minutes
Here you can download the original scanned Flyer which I took from the fair: N12 SciPhone with real Android OS Flyer.
Tags: android, china, N12, SciPhone
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Thursday, April 16th, 2009
A Chinese company called “Shenzhen Bluelans Communication Co., Ltd.” showed a mobile phone on their HK Electronics Fair booth called “Dream G2″:
I was checking this out and the user interface actually looks like Android, it works like Android and even the programs look like Android. However, it is NOT Android. I also took a flyer and here is the data sheet:
While the phone has GPRS/EDGE, WiFi a camera, email access, audio/video support, instant messangers, an FM radio as well as support Java applications; the interesting point in there is “Google Android style user interface”.
Price: HK$1,000 (US$130)
Website: www.mysciphone.com
Tags: android, china, fake, phone
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Monday, March 30th, 2009
TmoNews just reported: “HTC Magic Passes FCC for T-mobile USA!”.
This looks very similar to the HTC Magic that was presented by HTC and Vodafone. So I guess the specifications are the same and there is just a T-Mobile branding instead of a Vodafone branding on the phone. Though Vodafone already announced the HTC Magic – I haven’t seen it in stores yet. If you have seen it, please leave us a comment or even a picture taken with your G1
I know I have to get up and write some more about the actual Android software development – that’s where this blog has its name from – by the way. I will definitely do some more on this front soon. Stay tuned folks!
Tags: android, dream, g1, g2, htc, magic, t-mobile
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Tuesday, February 24th, 2009
Android Phone from Huawei
About a week ago Huawei announced an Android powered phone at the Mobile World Congress ’09. Huawei is not really known outside of China except as a mobile infrastructure provider. Though many people outside the People’s Republic do not know that brand, everyone in China knows it. Being the biggest mobile phone market (more that 400 mio. mobile subscribers) speaks for itself. The phone itself looks like a direct iPhone copy but with a good OS
Android on ASUS Eee PC
Besides the Chinese dudes I just read from other (free) Chinese dudes in Taiwan over at ASUS. They are working on a custom version of Android to run it on their Eee PCs which come with Windows XP right now. Google’s Carolyn Penner said that Android hasn’t been designed for phone exclusively. It is rather been intended to run on any kind of mobile device – this would include the Eee PC as well. Especially on such extreme mobile device it is quite important to use as less resources as possible. Microsoft’s Windows – no matter if it is XP, Vista or even WM Mobile – was never really fast.
HTC Magic w/o SIM Lock
I just found: HTC confirmed that the Vodafone / HTC Magic will not come with a SIM Lock like the T-Mobile G1. This is good news!
Tags: , android, asus, china, Eee PC, g1, google, htc, huawei, magic, netbook, prc, t-mobile, vodafone
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