Android News Archive

Latest Google Android news and rumors for the mobile platform.

It is rumoured that High Tech Computer (HTC) what will be possibly the first Google Android powered mobile phone to hit the market.
‘Dream’ as it will be called will boast a large touchscreen and full QWERTY keypad with dimensionsset at 5-inches long by 3-inches wide. The keypad itself will be positioned underneath the screen allowing [...]

After his presentation at the Emerging Communications Conference, the group manager for Google’s mobileplatforms Rich Miner made the following statement:
Once you have devices out there from Motorola, HTC, Samsung, and so on, there’s a much larger potential market on Android than for the iPhone. There’s a single manufacturer, it’s targeted at a particular demographic, and [...]

Google have today posted a reminder on the Android Developer Blog to all Android developers that the deadline for the first phase in their developer challenge is looming overhead.
If you’re working on a possible submission you need to get your entry submitted before the April 14th deadline in order to qualify for the contest.
The announcement [...]

Google have recently launched an open source collection of sample Android Applications under the name ‘Apps For Android’.
The aim for Apps For Android is to share some sample applications that will help to demonstrate the different aspects and possibilities of the Android platform.
The first available application included is called Wikinotes, “a wiki note pad that [...]

Here’s an interesting comparison chart detailing the developer features between Android, iPhone SDK, Windows Mobile, ToolChain and s60.

Android at this point in time is very much theoretical, but is certain to give the iPhone a run for it’s money.
[via Engadget]

Speaking on behalf of the Open Handset Alliance at the ETech conference in San Diego yesterday, Google’s Dan Morrill gave a brief Q+A regarding on the Android platform along with a quick application demo.
Using a mock-up application called Google Grapes, Morrill managed to fetch the prices and ratings of several wines direct from a Google [...]

Google and the Open Handset Alliance’s Android OS gets a thorough going over by BBC tech journo Darren Waters alongside Andy Rubin (Google’s director of mobile platforms).
The video shows the operating system running on an unknown 3G touchscreen prototype model with trackball. The overall look of the updated ‘Alpha’ OS is very impressive and clean. [...]