admin @ January 2, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Google’s Android mobile development platform has rightly caused a stir.
Based on Linux and with built-in 3D, SMS and web browsing courtesy of WebKit, it’s an entirely self-contained and free mobile operating system.
Though there are only a few devices that currently support Android out of the box, it’s designed as an open, free platform [...]
admin @ October 26, 2008 # No Comment Yet
You know, there’s been far too much talk about too many phones these days. The iPhone? Pah. The HTC Touch Diamond? Pfft.
And now we’re all going gooey over the T-Mobile G1 Android phone. Well, can it take on the might of the Nokia 2110? The phone that Nokia unleashed on the world in 1995 [...]
admin @ October 4, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Well, it’s been coming for centuries. Byzantine monks prophesised the battle between three phones, with each looking for touchscreen supremacy… and now we bring you that battle. We hope the edge of your seat is comfortable…
Home screen
The place where it always all begins: the home screen needs to look good, or else you’ll just get [...]
admin @ September 27, 2008 # No Comment Yet
So Android has arrived with the announcement of the T-Mobile G1. The HTC-manufactured phone certainly has a few nice touches, despite its lack of multi-touch (and with T-Mobile’s particular variant, no accelerometer).
But while this particular handset might not be the technology king to beat the iPhone, the potential’s there. And the OS looks super-hot. Here’s [...]
admin @ September 26, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Everybody was head-over-heels in love with the original iPhone, mainly because of the innovative touch screen, superb web browsing and Apple’s legendary ease of use. Nobody had ever seen anything like it in a phone before, and it’s still streets ahead of the competition in many ways. But can it keep ahead now that Android [...]
admin @ September 25, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Everybody was head-over-heels in love with the original iPhone, mainly because of the innovative touch screen, superb web browsing and Apple’s legendary ease of use. Nobody had ever seen anything like it in a phone before, and it’s still streets ahead of the competition in many ways. But can it keep ahead now that Android [...]
admin @ September 24, 2008 # No Comment Yet
It’s been nearly a year since Google announced plans for a new open-source mobile phone OS. But will Android hit the jackpot for the search engine giant once again, or is it more developer’s dream than consumer cool? We’ve got the complete lowdown on Android…
What exactly is Android?
Without getting too geeky, Android is the name [...]
admin @ September 24, 2008 # No Comment Yet
The world’s first Android-powered handset has finally hit the market under the guise of the T-Mobile G1 with Google, and it certainly doesn’t disappoint in its ‘Google-y-ness’.
First impressions are of a fairly functional business phone, with trackball and a slide-out QWERTY keypad a nice BlackBerry-esque touch.
It should be remembered that HTC is a firm with [...]