Saturday, 17 November 2007

Android

The mobile platform sponsored by Google as part of the Open Mobile Alliance, evolved from their 2005 acquisition of the company with the same name.

Resources:

Date Link Notes
2009
Jan 1 Android netbooks on their way, likely by 2010 Dubious in both title and subject matter (we’ve known that Android could be made to run on PCs for a good while now.
2008
Dec 28 AD IV: Programming Newbie Tim Bray lists a few interesting resources for new developers
Dec 17 Huawei powers up its Android plans For Q3’09. Let’s see what they come up with.
Dec 9 Open Handset Alliance announces 14 new members including Sony Ericsson and Vodafone. Most people missed this last bit, which is fun.
Dec 8 Unlocked Android: $399 Development samples, available for purchase.
Nov 7 Worst. Bug. Ever. Although this was fixed fairly quickly, it is the perfect example of why mobile phones aren’t exactly trivial to “improve upon” using today’s technology.
Oct 31 iPhone vs T-Mobile G1 A short comparison.
Oct 24 Android Phone Teardown How weird is it that this is in Japan?
Oct 22 HTC Dream T-Mobile G1 (black) Smartphone review
Oct 21 Android is now Open Source Let’s see if someone will port this to Intel and get it running on a netbook…
Oct 16 Almost Human: a review of Google’s Android G1 phone Good reading – a thorough appraisal.
State of the Art – A Look at Google’s First Phone Pogue weighs in.
T-Mobile G1 review
T-Mobile G1 Google Android Phone Review
Oct 15 Review: Over 260 images and 5 videos of the T-Mobile G1 Google Android device A tad overkill, but interesting nonetheless.
What Android Can Learn From the iPhone: It’s the Software, Stupid. Brilliant title.
The Google Phone Review: What I Love & Hate About T-Mobile G-1 Om weighs in.
Google answers the iPhone Walt Mossberg’s take.
T-Mobile G1 review Engadget’s lenghty two-part article, covering hardware and software (loads of imagery).
T-Mobile G1, a hands-on introduction to the first Android phone Some interesting videos
Review of the T-Mobile G1 Google phone Pretty comprehensive gallery.
Oct 9 First T-Mobile G1 user review Not particularly gushing.
Sep 23 Video: Android walkthrough on T-Mobile G1 A few demos
Sep 16 Google shows off masked Android handset About a year later, one of the first sightings of actual hardware (but running over Wi-Fi). I don’t get the “masked” bit, though – the hardware’s pretty obvious.
2007
Nov 11 Wikipedia Background info
Nov 12 Android SDK Includes plenty of links to videos and reference information