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RIP T-Mobile’s Android G1 Phone
Jul 28th
Google Android phones have come a long way!
It seems like Android has been on the market forever competing with big mobile brands like the iPhone.
Google first Android phone was the G1 which showed at T-Mobile on October 22nd, 2008 (someone check my dates…).
And here we are nearly 2 years later and T-Mobile has finally retired the good ol’ boy. The G1 can no longer be found on the T-Mobile website nor in the T-Mobile stores.
You’ll more than likely need to hit up Ebay to find yourself a G1 from now on.
The QWERTY slider was unveiled in October 2008 as the flagship for Android and had many of the same platform features as later Android phones like the Hero. Its age primarily became apparent this year when some apps and Android versions would no longer run on its limited memory and processor.
As of today, the oldest surviving Android phone on T-Mobile and in most places is the myTouch 3G, which arrived in the spring of last year.
We are now looking at Android 2.2 coming to some of the highest end data phones in the history of the industry. Phones like Droid, Droid X, and the HTC Incredible will all be getting Android 2.2 shortly.
how mobile applications against Apple and Google alliance
Jul 28th
Recently, committed to creating open application platform, telecommunications companies Union Wholesale Applications Community (WAC),
Edwin: Android app you can talk to… and it will answer
Jul 27th
from mobiputing by Brad Linder
Edwin: Android app you can talk to… and it will answer: ”
Google Android has built-in speech recognition, which means you can translate speech to text in many apps. But Edwin is one of the few that will talk back. For instance, you can ask Edwin the time, and it will tell you. Ask it for tomorrow’s fo
recast and a computerized voice will read it to you. You can even ask it to translate words or sentences from one language to another or to define or spell words for you.
Edwin also works as an app launcher and controller for your phone’s hardware. For instance, you can tell it to put your phone in airplane mode or turn the Bluetooth on or off. Or you can tell it to open the camera application.
Like most speech recognition apps, Edwin isn’t perfect. Or maybe it’s just my voice that isn’t perfect. Sometimes it misunderstands commands, and while you’re supposed to be able to open applications by saying “launch X” or “open X,” I’ve found that it works a lot better with “open.” But overall, it’s a pretty nifty little application, and best of all it’s available as a free download.
After the break is a video showing how Edwin responds when I ask it for the time, temperature, nearest movie theater, and other information.
via Gizmodo
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Developing for Android with Eclipse
Jul 26th
Same days ago I created my first Android application.
Android is an operating system for mobile device based on Linux with a Java programming interface. It provides tools: a compiler, debugger and a device emulator and Java Virtual machine (Dalvik Virtual Machine – DVM).
Android is created by the Open Handset Alliance which is lead by Google. Android uses a special Java virtual machine (Dalvik) which is based on the Apache Harmony Java implementation. Dalvik uses special bytecode. Therefore you cannot run standard Java bytecode on Android but you have to use the Android compiler to create Android specific byte-code.
Android supports 2-D and 3-D graphics using the OpenGL libraries and supports data storage in a SQLLite database.
For development Google provides the Android Development Tools (ADT) for Eclipse to develop Android applications.Every Android applications runs in own process and it isolated from other running applications. Therefore on misbehaving application cannot harm other Android applications.
Here you find a demonstration how you develop an Android application with Eclipse.
For summarise an Android application consists out of the following parts:
• Activity – A screen in the Android application
• Services – Background activities without UI
• Content Provider – provides data to applications, Android contains a SQLLite DB which can serve as data provider
• Broadcast Receiver – receives system messages, can be used to react to changed conditions in the system
Google releases App Inventor for Android App Development
Jul 25th
How to build your own Google Android apps
There are so many apps available for smart phones these days, it must be really easy to make them, right?
Video Preview: App Inventor
Android users prove frugal; more than half of Market apps free
Jul 5th
The following highlights were noted:
- More than 50% of applications are priced below or equal to $2.00 in all stores, with the exception of BlackBerry App World (which does not allow apps to be priced below $2.99) and
Amazon Kindle app for Android is now available
Jun 29th
from Liliputing by Brad Linder
Amazon Kindle app for Android is now available: ”
Google Android is officially becoming a decent platform for anyone who likes to read eBooks on their phones and other mobile devices. Last week Kobo released an Android app that basically lets you download and read any title that Borders sells in its eBook store. And today Amazon finally got around to releasing a Kindle app for Android, which joins the company’s iPhone, BlackBerry, PC, and Mac apps.
The Kindle app for Android doesn’t have all the features available in the iOS version. The most notable omission is support for audio and video content. But you can now access Amazon’s library of 600,00 digital books on your Android device — and synchronize your books, bookmarks, last page read, and other annotations across multiple devices with Kindle software.
Of the three top US booksellers, that just leaves Barnes & Noble without an Android app, and one is reportedly in the works. It’s kind of silly that it’s taking so long to release though, since the Barnes & Noble Nook eBook reader runs on Android…
You can read more about the new Kindle app for Android at Mobiputing.
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Toshiba AC100 Android Smartbook
Jun 22nd
from Notebooks.com by Carter Sprunger
Toshiba AC100 Android Smartbook: ”
In addition to the Toshiba Libretto W100, Toshiba also announced the AC100, which is the company’s first smartbook. The new smartbook has a 10-inch display, NVIDIA Tegra processor, and Google Android 2.1 OS.
A smartbook is a combination of a smartphone and a netbook, running on an ARM-based processor. It combines the features you would find in a smartphone placed in a netbook or tablet form factor. Though most smartbooks sport a touchscreen, the AC100 does not.
AC100 specs:
- 10.1-inch display (1024
Kobo launches eBook Reader for Google Android
Jun 20th
from mobiputing by Brad Linder
Kobo launches eBook Reader for Google Android: ”
While we’re waiting for Amazon and Barnes & Noble to launch eBook reader applications for Google Android, it turns out that there’s already a pretty decent option available for anyone looking to download and read eBooks on and Android device. Kobo offers a decent selection of free and paid content, including a number of titles from the New York Times Bestseller list. That shouldn’t come as a surprise, since Kobo is working in partnership with book retailer Borders.
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I downloaded the Kobo Android app today and took it for a spin, and while you might not find every book you’re looking for, the selection is pretty good and the prices aren’t bad either. When you download or purchase books they’re added to your library in a matter of seconds, and the Kobo app will keep track of the last read page on each book.
Your data is synced with the Kobo web site, which means you can also pick up another device and keep reading where you left off.Kobo offers a physical eBook reader as well as a a desktop app for PC and Mac (which is currently only available when you buy a Kobo Reader device, but which should be available for download this summer). There are also apps for iPhone, iPad, BlackBerry, and WebOS.
There are a few quirks with the Android app. For one thing, I found deleting eBooks from my library to be a big hassle. There doesn’t appear to be any way to do this from my phone. Instead, I had to login to the Kobo web site, visit my library, and delete books from the web interface. Next time I launched the Kobo Android app those books were gone. But this seems like a clunky solution.
Also, while the Kobo Android FAQ says that you can create bookmarks by pressing the menu button in any book, I didn’t see any option to create a bookmark. Hopefully this will be addressed in a future release.
While I find the free Aldiko eBook reader a bit more intuitive to use, Kobo has one huge advantage over Aldiko, and that’s the excellent selection of paid content.
You can find more screenshots after the break.
via jkOnTheRun
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