Kyocera has officially joined the alliance and is about to build Android powered phone. While this is excellent news, we are definitely eager to see the phones from Samsung and LG to come to the market. Motorolla might also surprise us, but I doubt that.
Original story:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-10071425-94.html
Next Monday, Android Market will be open to all the developers. Google set a one time sign up fee of $25 to prevent spamming, but then after you pay that fee, you are free to upload as many applications as you want. The market will have a voting and responce systems, to let users influence [...]
Couple of days ago, Myspace.com has launched its Android version of the site. While it is the first major social network to do so, it is reported to be sluggish and not as usefull as the iPhone version.
My bet is all the networks will follow shortly… How soon? We’ll see about that in the near [...]
With the release of the first Android powered device to the public, Google has finally reviewed its Maps API terms of service.
From the official Android blog:
When we released the 0.9_r1 beta SDK, we mentioned that the Maps API included with Android would soon require an API key to function correctly and load map tiles. Part [...]
As of early morning today, 10/22/08 the very first, long awaited Android device hits the markets and will be available in stores. It is called G1 and is available for now exclusively from T-Mobile. It’s definitely exciting news for us all – developers, consumers, entrepreneurs, researchers etc alike.
Cnet has a nice review with a [...]
The day has come! (Yeey!)
Android platform has been open sourced!
Today is a big day for Android, the Open Handset Alliance, and the open-source community. All of the work that we’ve poured into the mobile platform is now officially available, for free, as the Android Open Source Project. (Dave Bort)
http://source.android.com/
Watch the introductory video from the developers on [...]