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Unlocking Android
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| Miner says that more than 750,000 developers have downloaded the tool
| required to write an Android-based program, four times as many as accessed
| the iPhone’s tightly regulated kit. That means Android users could have far
| more mobile applications to choose from. But we still don’t know how those
| apps will stack up next to Apple’s. Android-equipped phones—set to go on sale
| this summer—should be less expensive than the iPhone, since manufacturers
| won’t have to pay licensing fees for the software. But instead of getting
| free, ad-subsidized service, like Google’s e-mail, you’ll still shell out to
| carriers. Which makes us wonder: Is this really so new, or just another
| offering in the crowded mobile market? We spoke with Rich Miner, head of
| Google’s mobile-platform division, for some clarity.
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| [...]
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| Q: Aren’t there other open-source phones out there?
| A: There’s open-source, and there’s what the industry refers to as open.
| There are other Linux-based initiatives but all of the other things you need
| to build a phone, like media codecs [software decoders], Web browsers, phone
| dialers, databases, security models—all that stuff is built on top of Linux
| in ways that aren’t necessarily open. Linux ends up being a very small
| portion. Everything a developer needs to build a phone, we’re releasing
| open-source.
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http://www.popsci.com/gear-gadgets/article/2008-06/unlocking-android
Recent:
MIT students demonstrate their Android applications
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| This just in; kids that go to MIT are really F-ing smart. I just saw seven
| Android applications that have been developed over the short span of four
| months — with very little (if any) money — as part of a class
| called “Building Mobile Applications with Android”. It was a lot like most
| college presentations, except that HTC, Google, Verizon, Sprint, and the
| press don’t usually show up.
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| Hit the jump for a peek at the applications.
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http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/05/09/mit-students-demonstrate-their-android-applications/
Related:
Research and Markets: Symbian and Linux Enjoy the Highest Penetration in the
Japanese Smartphone Market
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| Symbian and Linux enjoy the highest penetration in the Japanese smartphone
| market and appear to be the beneficiaries in any expansion of smartphone use
| there.
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http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20080102005331&newsLang=en
http://tinyurl.com/34ns9q
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