Posts Tagged ‘android’

Google's Android is steadily sweeping the market in the mobile phone space. After HTC (first one to have the Android OS), Sony Ericsson and Motorola, Samsung is now the third major phone manufacturer to have announced Android based phones. And for 2009, Samsung is getting ready with Android handsets and also full touchscreen technology phones with its upcoming releases. Specific capabilities of the Samsung Android ... Full story

So, what is bringing Google Android to the forefront of mobile OS? How is it that more mobile phone makers back Google Android? Obviously for its open source nature. "Android is set to become a significant application framework for mobile phones," Ericsson's head of mobile platforms, Robert Puskaric, said in a statement. The first company set to introduce a mobile device that uses the Android ... Full story

Google has started selling its unlocked G1 phones to developers in 18 countries including India. To be eligible for the purchase, one has to register themselves as a Android developer on the Android market site for a one time fee of $25 (Rs. 1250).  Register users will then get the link to purchase the phone ... Full story

Do you want full fledged Google environment in your Mobile as well? With Google Android, successor of T-mobile G1, here comes the second Android handset from Australian manufacturer Kogan. It is named Agora. The Agora is available in two flavours: the base model packs a 2.5in touchscreen, Qwerty keyboard and 3G. The Pro version also adds ... Full story

Symbian is the software company that develops and licenses Symbian OS, the market-leading open operating system for mobile devices. Six months on from the original announcement that Nokia was to buy Symbian for 264m euros, the Finnish company has confirmed that it has now completed its acquisition. Consequently Symbian employees would become Nokia employees on 1 February, 2009. On Tuesday, the Finnish manufacturer said in ... Full story

Microsoft's next version of Windows Mobile isn't Windows Mobile 7, but is actually Windows Mobile 6.5. Microsoft's CEO while attending the Telstra Investor Briefing 2008, in Australia stated "With releases we'll make this year - releases we'll make with 6.5 next year, Windows Mobile 7 - I think we have a pretty interesting roadmap." He made it very clear about its next release. Sure, Windows ... Full story

Having played the winning games in various platforms such as Windows Mobile, Blackberry and even in recently launched Apple iphones, California based Electronic arts put its stick in Android Market. T-mobile's HTC G1 is first Google Android phone which came as a sample for Open Handset Allainces' crucial growth plans. Android market is an online Apple's AppStore like android applications portal. Since Market has a ... Full story

Motorola's handsets mostly hit the market with its own platform LinuxJava and Symbian UIQ. Many of the handsets are being develoed with UIQ platform. The millions of investment tapped in for those developments are likely to go useless in the row of Motorola's announcement to abandon UIQ platform in their handsets. Company has announced its decision on platforms as Android and Windows Mobile for its ... Full story