Christina Milian got a T-Mobile G1 and loves it. She’s pretty cute being so excited about a phone she clearly doesn’t really understand. Can you imagine her purchasing apps from Handango and installing them OTA? Me neither. But cute nonetheless.
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Android apps are now available at Handango. Click the pic or the banner at the bottom to check them out. Some of the apps available include:
I’m curious to see how this app store compares to not only the on-device carrier driven store we’ve been told will arrive, but Android Market. How will Android Market be the great storefront it needs to be with all of these competitors at its door?
Facebook fans will be disappointed to know that Android does not offer an official Facebook app. I’m curious why Facebook decided to invest so much money in the iPhone and BlackBerry and they’ve given zero attention to the G1. There could be some weird politics behind the scenes. Facebook gets its advertising from Microsoft while Google serves up ads for Myspace. There could be a conflict of interest here.
So I put the question to QB readers, how important is it to you to have Facebook mobile?
[Via ShinyShiny]
The Android-powered G1 has been available in T-Mobile stores for a little while now and a lot has happened. A couple hundred people lined up in San Francisco for the black and bronze models, dubbed “extremely limited availability.”
From what I’ve seen on the net so far, I’m not crazy about the look of the UI, but Android is so customizeable that it shouldn’t be a concern for pro users. Also, it’s much better than older versions of the UI which turned out terribly.
Could the Motorola Android device come out looking like this?
Recently, BusinessWeek confirmed that Motorola will be launching an Android phone worldwide. I have not seen any leaked concept images of the device, but I do know a few of the specs. The device will come with a 3.5″ touchscreen, a slide-out QWERTY keyboard and a host of social networking features.
The device reportedly takes some of its design cues from the new Motorola Krave ZN4. This is especially weird to me because the ZN4 is a pretty terrible looking flip phone. I’m surprised they wouldn’t go for something more elegant like the MOTO Q.
Continue reading ‘The Motorola Android device - rumors and discussion’
Tech Radar did an interview with Andy Lees, the Senior Vice-President of Microsoft’s Mobile Communications Business. The interview was focused around the issue of how WinMo is going to survive faced with the iPhone and Google Android.
Do your relationships with mobile operators help you compete with the iPhone and Android?
One of the things that we can do slightly differently to Apple and Google is that they have what I think of as the ‘over the top’ scenario - they’re not doing anything to enhance the mobile operator’s ability to create data plans.
They just want the operator to create the ‘$30 all you can eat’ data plan – what the number is varies around the world. Our approach is to be very operator friendly, so we offer tiered services they can use to have different price plans.
I would tend to agree with Apple in this case. “All you can eat” data plans are the only way that we’re going to get a mobile web experience comparable to what we have on a desktop. If we aren’t moving in that direction, we may as well just give up now.
[Read the interview at Tech Radar]
It’s long been assumed that Google would not be releasing their own phone using the Android platform, but PDAStreet has found evidence to the contrary.
An anonymous source told PBS commentator Robert X. Cringley that Google would be releasing two branded phones: a high-end smartphone and a more traditional mobile phone, both running on the Linux-based Android. According to Cringley’s source, the smartphone will look similar to a BlackBerry, bet featuring a flip-up screen that hides a keyboard. Wi-Fi will be included on both phones, and Google is in talks with Version and T-Mobile about carrying the phones, which Samsung will be building. The smartphone is scheduled for the fourth quarter of this year at an unnamed price, and the mobile phone will hit in 2009 for something less than $100.
Google promised, when Android was first announced, that they would not be releasing a branded phone, so this remains very firmly in the rumor category. Still, it is a very interesting rumor, if true.
The team at PDAStreet has gotten news that Android, the upcoming mobile phone platform from computer powerhouse Google, will be appearing in prototypes by a number of companies at the Mobile World Congress, as will the Linux-based platform called LiMO.
ARM, Qualcomm, NEC, Texas Instruments, Marvell, and others are all planning demonstration phones running Android that will be shown behind closed doors. Samsung, LG, ACCESS and Orange will all be on the side of the Mobile Linux foundation’s LiMO.
There’s been quite a lot of noise about Linux on mobile phones recently, I have to wonder if it’s going to be worth all the hype.
A lot is happening in the realm of Linux-based mobile platforms today.
The LiMo Foundation is planning to launch their Linux-based mobile OS sometime this March, according to IntoMobile. As if that weren’t enough, IntoMobile also found that Google is all set to release a new SDK for Android, which will include a new UI interface, amongst other things.
Between these two and Palm’s upcoming Linux-based OS, it’s certainly a good time to like open source software.
News and rumor site Brighthand has discovered that Dell may soon reveal plans to release a smartphone.
The story comes from MarketingWeek, who were told by “senior industry sources” that Dell’s phone, which will be unveiled at the Mobile World Congress next month, would be running Google’s new mobile OS called Android.
You can check the original article for some background on Dell’s previous mobile phone business and some more information on Android.