Google just announced a new open source sample application called Photostream.  Photostream has been added to the aapps-for-android project, and it's available for you to test drive. Photostream is a simple photos browser and viewer for Flickr. All you need to use it is a Flickr screen name or user name (the application offers a default user name if you just ... continued »

The Google's Android-powered phone for T-Mobile called G1 gets very real with the newly leaked images on a Chinese forum.  We've seen the G1 demoed at Google IO earlier this year and another demo by Andy Rubin, but never have we've seen spy shots in the wild.  So here is the T-Mobile G1 in all her glory! Looking over the images, ... continued »

Google officially announced the winners of Android Developer Challenge.  Out of 50 teams of finalists, 10 teams received a $275,000 award each and 10 teams received a $100,000 award each.  Congratulations to everyone. $275,000 Award Recipients cab4me Konrad Huebner, Henning Boeger Ever been looking for a cab? cab4me is the answer. Anywhere. Anytime. Read more CompareEverywhere Jeffrey Sharkey Shop smarter using your phone. Compare prices, read reviews, ... continued »

Working from the leaked photos, videos and engineers' sketches, artist Neo Carlo Magno has put together this render of what the HTC Dream G1 will probably look like. It's a first attempt, but does include the full QWERTY keyboard and row of shortcuts on the G1's "chin" section, together with the unusual arc slide mechanism. What it doesn't show is the camera, ... continued »

The Android Guys managed to get their mitts on the first real drawings of the T-Mobile G1. The images reveal a lot more information that we've only been able to speculate on up until now. The most notable part of the T-Mobile G1 is the "chin". It's located towards the bottom of the handset where the jogball and buttons are ... continued »

I'm willing to bet the farm that the world's first Android-powered phone is called T-Mobile G1.  I've been watching all the domain names starting with T-MobileG1.com through T-MobileG5.com over the past week.  Up until today, there wasn't any Name Servers attached to T-MobileG1.com and G1Phone.com!  By performing a simple whois lookup, it lists ns1.logicworks.net and ns2.logicworks.net as the Name Servers. So, ... continued »

The HTC Dream phone just received FCC approval where it's listed as type, "Dream" with model number "DREA100."  The Dream phone is the very T-Mobile G1 Android-powered handset that we recently covered that's supposed to get announced in September with an October launch date. Other features of the HTC Dream consist of a "jogball" similar to what you'd find on a ... continued »

One Google IO attendee asked for more details of second round of Android Developer Challenge; more specifically when is the start date.  Jason replied saying that they still need to complete round 1 of the Android Developer Challenge and that it’s most definitely be after Android devices hit the market or probably early next year. About Jason Chen Jason is currently a ... continued »

Right after the Google IO keynote on Tuesday, I rushed off to attend the press conference and as result missing the first few Android sessions.  It's a good thing that Ed Burnette of ZDNet, we have a few more questions answered as well as clearing up some confusion regarding the Android platform. The Introduction to Android platform session lasted around 90-minutes.  ... continued »

Recent rumors earlier today from a source familiar with the situation reported that "although a large number of people are hard at work on the Gphone and the open-source operating system/platform for mobile devices (Android) the actual Gphone will not be ready for release this year. The Android Dream phone demoed during the keynote wowed me along with a whole bunch ... continued »