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HTC “Dream” phone to be available in May?

According to a rumour…HTC could be ready to make an announcement on May 6th. An invitation to a product launch has been sent for a London venue on that date.

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Google Android Developer Challenge I: Deadline is next Monday!

If you were counting on Google’s money to develop your first Google Android application, you better stop snoozing now! The deadline for the Android Developer Challenge I is next Monday, April 14th. Who’s going to get the money? The 50 most promising entries received before the deadline will each receive a $25,000 award to [...]

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AT&T now Wants Google Android phones

Probably mesmerized by the iPhone late last year, AT&T didn’t really showed interest in Google’s Android project. But AT&T Mobility CEO, Ralph de la Vega, apparently changed his mind about Google Android and said at the CTIA Wireless show in Las Vegas, “I like it a lot more than I did before.” He also added, “It’s [...]

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Mobile Phone Playgrounds?

MIT is now offering a class that is wrapped around the new Google Android platform, which is in development by the Open Handset Alliance, and its major members like Google, Sprint, and T-Mobile. Open source and flexible, this new platform is getting a workout at the MIT class. Currently only allowing a few [...]

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Sun Microsystems in the dark

Well, it’s just the beginning of 2008 and Sun Microsystems is pretty much unsure of what to do about the new Android platform, which in all likelihood could come to rival Sun’s own Java. It could, though this is just some speculation, split Java in half in a way. You see, Google Android [...]

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Happy New Year, and Hello DoMoCo

DoMoCo has joined Google as a partner for the future OHA based Google Android project for providing mobile service (basically you get the Internet on your phone). They will be doing much more than that, as they will also work to design a user friendly interface and preloading applications with just the touch of [...]

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Sybase takes the Case

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas for the Open Handset Alliance. Their Google Android platform is maturing and growing up, it’s starting to go from crawling to walking, and the more mature phone platforms, such as Apple’s, are starting to shiver. Because of its stability now third party developers are starting [...]

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AT&T Shudders at Open Handset Alliance

Verizon and AT&T have been responding to the news of the new Google Android platform and Open Handset Alliance in vague, rather not committed press releases which show exactly how far they’re willing to not go. Rather than AT&T joining the OHA, they’d rather sit on the fence with a giant pair of binoculars [...]

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Google Android and Noklear Holocaust

When compared to the industry leader, the Nokia S60, the Google Android platform on Google’s “Dream” phone is pretty much like comparing a rock, some string, and a paper towel to my computer. Don’t get me wrong, the S60 was good, and for the technically adept it is the perfect phone for right now, [...]

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Google Android Phone App shows itself

Recently new Google Android Phone in development, based on the Open Handset Alliance platform, has had several functionality screenshots released – one of which is quite impressive for a phone. It is an entire application that shows you a map, and what is open. Consider the significance of this. It will show [...]

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