With at least eighteen Android devices expected to be on the market by the end of 2009, Google’s Andy Rubin has been explaining the three levels of platform adoption open to handset manufacturers and carriers. While Android remains free to use and OEMs are not even required to tell Google about their implementation – that [...]
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Android Community Week in Review – Week 47 2008
This week Pixelpipe was introduced into the world providing all G1 owners the ability to better get photos off of you handset and onto the Internet. Publish photos to your favorite social networking site such as MySpace or Facebook. Brad Fitzpatric has managed to give the G1 a nice little feature that allows users to [...]
Andy Ruben demos Flash on the G1; it won’t be long now
This morning at Adobe’s MAX event, Andy Rubin made an appearance and had a chance to show a brief demo. Do we even have to say what it was he was doing there? Here is a hint, he was doing a demo with the beloved T-Mobile G1. Andy Ruben has officially shown that Flash can run [...]
Android Community Week in Review – Week 40 2008
More and more information about future Android-powered handsets surfaced this week. Samsung and LG apparently won’t be releasing a handset until at least Q3 2009, giving T-Mobile more than amazing sales opportunities. T-Mobile expects to sell half a million handsets in 2008 alone. Motorola has confirmed rumors that they are expanding their Android team by as [...]
Google’s Andy Ruben talks about Android Market
Andy Rubin, head of Google’s Android project, spoke this week about his visions for Android Market. Rubin discussed application bandwidth limits and, more importantly perhaps, how Android Market will differ from Apples iTunes App Store. Unlike the App Store, Google will not impose the many restrictions that iPhone application developers are unhappy about. Bandwidth limitations that [...]
The Future of Mobile Devices, according to Andy Rubin
When he’s not obsessing over Android, director of mobile platforms Andy Rubin is busy obsessing over mobile devices in general. In the latest of Google’s soothsaying articles, the brains behind Android (and the Sidekick) looks at where ubiquitous computing is likely to take us in ten years time. “The phone that you have in your pocket, [...]
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