Nokia has announced that it will buy the shares of Symbian Limited that it doesn’t own and make it an Open Source platform that is free. The Symbian software was started by Eriicsson, Motorola and Nokia in 1998 and has become a dominant platform to date because of the success of Nokia who currently use it.
It looks like the stories of Android being released sooner than we had expected are probably just that- stories. The WSJ is reporting that Android handsets will be delayed and won’t be released until right at the end of the year, later than many had hoped.
The internet is becoming mobile and Android will help push this to the next stage. iPhones are great because of the ease of browsing online. Google is betting on Android to get more people online via their mobiles and to do a lot more of their searching on a mobile device.
A thread on the Android Mobile Forum says that people at T-Mobile are saying that Android mobiles will be out next month. Now I know that this isn’t official but it is at least some evidence that things may happen soon.
Google gave us a peek this week at the Android software system. They have been working on it steadily for a while now and everything seems to be coming together ready for the first mobile devices to come out in the final six months of the year as they have always said. Read the rest of this entry »
AT&T’s announcement today that they are suddenly open and you can now use any phone on their network really isn’t a big deal. It’s just a nice little piece of public relations, the mobile industry is moving rapidly and a company like AT&T does not want to be seen as being left behind or stuck in old ways.
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It seems that Google from yesterday has launched it’s new iPhone interface. The interface is specifically for iPhone users who visit the Google homepage. Google have set this up so that users of the iPhone have all the most popular Google applications in one place via a menu where you can go to things like the calendar and Gmail.
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Part of Google’s master plan with the new Android platform is to completely own mobile advertising. Google’s aim is to use Android to tap into the millions of mobile users and the huge potential out there for advertising on mobile devices. Read the rest of this entry »
Here is a video from Google of what the Android application interface will look like. This is just the beginning of what you will be able to do with your mobile after the developers have created new applications. Read the rest of this entry »
Google are going to give away $10 million in awards to developers who make the best applications on their Android mobile platform. At first the 50 best entrants to the awards will take away $25,000, they will then be able to compete to win ten $275,000 awards or ten $100,000 awards. Read the rest of this entry »