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Google is currently locked in a battle with Apple. Both companies are fighting to produce the most compelling smart phone platform for consumers, businesses, developers and advertisers. Apple has iPhone; Google has Android. Currently, Apple has the more compelling offering in almost all areas. The Android team is working hard to catch up, and overtake [...]
In recent days, I’ve seen commentary suggesting that, within a short space of time, Android mobile phones will outsell Apple iPhones. I have to ask – why? If you ask the average person on the street, “Have you heard of iPhone?” the answer will be, “Yes”. Conversely, if you ask them, “Have you heard of [...]
Up until today, one of the criticisms of Android was that the “desktop” looked really clunky. That’s all changed. It’s looking much sleeker now. Check out what are the first demos of the new-look Android.
OK – so you’ve checked out the demos. Welcome back! What were your first reactions when watching them? Mine were (in [...]
The technical details of Android, the new Google mobile phone OS platform, are now out. There are many articles on the Web discussing the new platform, many of which seem to get things horribly wrong. So, I thought I’d try to put some perspective on Android here…
First, the web browser. At the Android [...]
I wrote yesterday that it wasn’t clear if, despite all the noise, Google is serious about Android being open (Is Android Really Going To Be Open?). Today, people have today been digging around and found a couple of amusing things on this topic. First up, it’s a quote from the Android FAQ. [...]
With all the news coverage surrounding Google’s new Android platform, I wondered what the state of play was with Sun’s new JavaFX Mobile platform was. It seems that the current state of play is this: software emulators, and actual developer handsets (built by openmoko, at a guess), will be made available near the [...]
It’s been a while now since Google’s Android announcement, and as people digest what details there are, it’s clear that we’re short of more than a few important facts. Of course, the way Android’s communications are handled is entirely up to Google and the rest of the “open” handset alliance. However, for every [...]
As the technical details about Android, Google’s mobile phone operating system, begin to surface, we’re starting to get the first glimpses of how it compares to other upcoming phone OS platforms. One key question is: how will Android compare to Sun’s JavaFX Mobile platform?
While both Android and JavaFX Mobile seem to be what you [...]
Eric Schimdt thinks the fundamental problem with most phones today is that they don’t have full power web browsers. That seems to be it. The “GPhone” platform will have a full power web browser. Wow! If there isn’t more to the GPhone platform than this, there’s going to be [...]