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Guess Android is still in the “over-hyped phase” hence media keeps bugging all of the founding members what’s happening. That being said, SiRF released a strange “working on it” announcement, stating they’ve started the process of “rapidly implementing key end-to-end location-enabling features” to ensure that GPS-enabled Android-powered mobile devices provide an optimal location awareness experience for consumers.
According to SiRF, they will be including such technologies as Secure User Plane Location (SUPL), a standards-based protocol that allows a mobile handset client to communicate with a SUPL Location Platform (SLP), including transport layer security (TLS) for location privacy and multiple session capabilities to provide the most compelling user experience. In addition, SiRF is also implementing support for Android-based assisted GPS (A-GPS) handsets to ensure that the Android platform passes Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) and 3GPP conformance testing for third-party certification… Full release goes on after the break. [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...]
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Android SDK full of bugs, lacks support - developers frustrated
Google is the last company we would have expected to botch a[Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...]. But, in hindsight, they may have rushed things a bit more than would have been prudent. After all, there’s a [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...] coming from Cupertino, and we’re sure Google didn’t want to get burned by holding off on Android any longer than they did.
There’s a problem. Developers are getting frustrated trying to deal with the [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...]’s bugs and lack of documentation. Furthermore, Google’s ommission of a tracking system for reported issues is hindering the Android development push. The general feeling in the land of Android-development is that the platform just isn’t ready to the big-time. Bugs have to be ironed out, documentation needs to be published, and an issue-tracking system needs to be developed.
Still, Ars Technica’s Ryan Paul took a whack at the Android SDK and found that “Despite some of the bugs and limitations in the API, it is definitely a viable and effective platform for application development.” He goes on to say that the API is “conducive to rapid application development, but there are still some gaps… it doesn’t make it easy to create applications that have a really polished look and feel.”
Hey Google, get that documentation out quick. Apple’s iPhone SDK [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...] and you just don’t have the time to fiddle with whatever pet-projects are responsible for this Android-oversight. We can’t wait for those first Android devices next year, they better not be filled with bugs (or look [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...], for that matter)!
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Android in the wild: hacked and running on ARM-based devices, Sharp handhelds
While official Google Android devices are still a good year from hitting the market (at least according to Google), the free availability of the [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...]
and the emulator has brought all those talented hackers out of the woodwork.
Aside from that [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...] that we spotted running Android OS a coupe months ago, there really isn’t much in the way of an in-the-wild device running Android. Well, a Hungarian coding-team that calls themselves Eu.Edge realized that the Android OS is capable of running on virtually any device with an ARMv5TE processor.
What followed was a slew of Sharp handhelds being tweaked to run the highly-anticipated Android OS. The Sharp Sl-C760, C3000M, SL-C3000, and SL-6000 have all gotten the Android-treatment. We should start seeing a lot more Android-based devices hitting the various internets very soon. Props to Eu.Edge!
Read more on hacking devices with Android [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...].
Read more on getting your Sharp Zaurus SL-C760 to run Android OS [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...].
Read more on running Android OS on your Sharp SL-C3000 [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...].
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A La Mobile brings fully functional Android OS stack to HTC Blue Angel
Hey, a la Mobile, 2004 called and they want their smartphone back. In a move to show the world that the Android OS is compatible with all sorts of older, ARM-based devices, a California-based Linux/Open-Source handset software development firm, [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...], has announced that they have installed their own Android OS stack on the 4-year-old HTC Blue Angel (aka Qtek 9090). [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...] is showing off their own set of prototype phone applications for the Android OS. The underlying Android OS platform is no good without application that bring phone-functionality to the table - and that’s where a la Mobile comes in. They’ve built a set of apps, like a browser, camera, and game applications to show the world that they know what they’re doing with Android OS. Now, there’s no officially-supported Android OS stack as of yet, but a la Mobile is hoping that the OHA will at least consider their prototype Android offering.
Wouldn’t it be great if we didn’t have to wait until the end of 2008 for a viable Android OS handset to hit the market?
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Google and NTT DoCoMo confirmed partners, possibly bringing Android handset to Japan
It looks like the deal between Google and NTT DoCoMo to bring added Google-functionality to the carrier’s i-mode internet service has been confirmed by NTT DoCoMo. The partnership would bring pre-installed Google applications to NTT DoCoMo handsets and make it easier for the carrier’s 48 million i-mode customers to make use of apps like Google Maps.
We’re also hearing that Google and NTT DoCoMo are in talks to bring an open-source Android-based handset to Japan. Remember, NTT DoCoMo is one of the original members of Google’s Open Handset Alliance, so it makes sense that the carrier is considering releasing an Android-based handset.
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Partnerships between industry giants are a dime a dozen these days. The latest speculation involves Dell and Google getting cozy in preparation for a mobile phone launch at Mobile World Congress (formerly 3GSM) in Barcelona next month.
The speculation comes from “senior industry sources” but Google has denied any such rumors.
As you may remember, Google was rumored to be bringing a mobile phone to market as the [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...] (GPhone/gPhone), but those rumors were quashed when [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...]. We’re not sure if this latest rumor is just a confused interpretation of Dell’s intention to introduce an Android-based handset in Barcelona, or if Google really is going to launch a GPhone in conjunction with Dell.
If anything, we’d think Dell would be introducing an Android handset next month.
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MIT to teach students how to make apps for Google Android
Even though we still wait to see first tangible results from the Open Handset Alliance, that doesn’t stop MIT to partner with Google and offer its student Android based software development class. Google folks obviously have some strong connections — and have poured some serious cash, we might add — at the famous Institute, as despite other platforms like Windows Mobile and Symbian already holding a lion share of the smartphone market, this is the first phone based development course to be offered by the school. According to MIT’s Andrew Yu, the class will be broken down into teams of 3 to 4 student each that will work on a project for the term. Mr. Yu added that projects will focus on a range of topics, such as those dealing with location based services. The class starts on February 28th and already MIT invited 25 students to join it. Professor Hal Abelson will lead the cl**** which will also feature Rich Miner from Google, Dave Mitchell and Eric Carlson from ConnectedBit, and Rajeev Surati and Andrew Yu from MIT as additional instructors.
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Dell: Not working with Google on new handset - no hardware to show off at Mobile Worl
We love a good rumor. But, if there’s one thing we love more, it’s the back and forth between the blogosphere and spokespeople that these rumors generate. Following on [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...], a Dell spokesperson has denied that Dell has no hardware to debut at the upcoming Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Furthermore, Dell has no intention of attending the expo.
Interestingly, there was no explicit denial or confirmation that Dell was working on a mobile phone. So we could possibly see Dell re-entering the handheld market with an Android-based handset in the future. That’s pure speculation, but hey, it makes sense.
It looks like there will be no announcement about a new handset from Dell and Google in a couple weeks, but we’ll keep our eyes open for other interesting developments.
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First shots of the proto hardware Google is using for the Android project are [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...], and it looks remarkably like a Nokia E61 (or a Blackjack or Blackberry, depending where your loyalties lie). Given this will probably not be the final hardware, a functional design, with qwerty keyboard, was to be expected.
From Gizmodo...
It looks HTC-ish in build, similar to the grainy versions we've seen in the [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...] and the renderings in the [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...] emulator. Our source, a Giz reader, had some feedback to add to the prototype, which he used for a day: Even in early form, it's light and fast, much faster than the desktop emulator at times.
Google’s current Android SDK is a bit lacking, but as [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...] when visiting a developer centric conference in London, a new SDK is coming out within a few weeks, new UI included as well.
“We’ll see a major new release of the SDK in the next couple of weeks. This will show a new user interface and include new APIs and improvements to others. Development is run under the system emulator. This is a full system image - much like is used for Qualcomm’s UI One. The tools seem to be excellent.”
Android is Google’s free open source operating system that runs programs written in a Java-like language known as Dalvik. To many a developers disappointment, unlike Symbian Dalvik will not let you get access to the core functions of the device or “to the metal” as they say. Operators are also a bit weary of Android according to this article because it’s possible for users to screw up their device by installing applications, when that happens users turn to their operator first for tech support. I have to call bullshit on that one. If that argument was valid then no operator, anywhere in the world, would be selling smartphones now.
Anyway, definitely an interesting read that gets into the technical bits of Android without throwing in enough jargon to shrivel your internet ego. </b>
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Android news
Guess Android is still in the “over-hyped phase” hence media keeps bugging all of the founding members what’s happening. That being said, SiRF released a strange “working on it” announcement, stating they’ve started the process of “rapidly implementing key end-to-end location-enabling features” to ensure that GPS-enabled Android-powered mobile devices provide an optimal location awareness experience for consumers.
Google is the last company we would have expected to botch a[Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. 
While official Google Android devices are still a good year from hitting the market (at least according to Google), the free availability of the [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. 
Hey, a la Mobile, 2004 called and they want their smartphone back. In a move to show the world that the Android OS is compatible with all sorts of older, ARM-based devices, a California-based Linux/Open-Source handset software development firm, [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. 
It looks like the deal between Google and NTT DoCoMo to bring added Google-functionality to the carrier’s i-mode internet service has been confirmed by NTT DoCoMo. The partnership would bring pre-installed Google applications to NTT DoCoMo handsets and make it easier for the carrier’s 48 million i-mode customers to make use of apps like Google Maps.
Partnerships between industry giants are a dime a dozen these days. The latest speculation involves Dell and Google getting cozy in preparation for a mobile phone launch at Mobile World Congress (formerly 3GSM) in Barcelona next month.
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