As shown on the Google Android Developers Blog, they just released a sample application called AndroidGlobalTime. They describe it as: “… a 3D world clock developed by an engineer at Google and may serve as an illustrative example of how to use the OpenGL ES APIs in your Android applications.”
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1 comment May 20th, 2008
I don’t know why I didn’t put this up sooner, but Sergey Brin and Steve Horowitz from Google actually made a nice looking demo video for Android. Looks pretty cool. Somewhat reminds me of the iPhone without the iPod music stuff. That could come later though, as developers are still trying to come up with programs for Android.
Here’s the video from YouTube:
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May 14th, 2008
Now that’s a bold statement. Given that the mobile space is so competitive, I am not sure how this is going to happen. On the other hand, if there’s someone that’s able to pull this off, it would most likely be Microsoft. Their super deep pockets and manpower is second to none.
“Around 118 million smartphones were sold last year, according to market researcher Canalys. Symbian captured 67 percent of the OS market, while Microsoft came in second at 13 percent and RIM took 10 percent.” Read the whole article here.
And then you have to factor all the other things that are happening: growth of the iPhone, Google and their Android operating system, as well as the fact that Symbian and RIM don’t look like they are going anywhere any time soon. But who knows, maybe they will surprise us all.
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May 14th, 2008
I have to add onto my previous entry.
Going back to the big $10 million prize money that we talked about before on our own blog as well as the Google blog, the Locale group actually won $25,000 and is one of the finalists of the big grand prize!
This also totally reminds me of how Google got started. Larry Page and Sergey Brin were both Stanford students at that time. Google was their Ph.D project. One thing let to another, and now you have… Google!
Pretty amazing. I am very curious in seeing how all this will pan out.
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May 14th, 2008
Google’s Android mobile system is making an impact on people already. More so on MIT students this time though. An MIT professor recently gave his students an assignment to design a cell phone program (or application I guess) using Google’s Android system.
This is going to totally change the mobile industry. Might be a little early to tell, but It almost sounds like having Linux on your phone. Check out these couple programs:
“One project named GeoLife gives users a way to set to-do lists and get reminders on their phones. Walk by the market, and the device might buzz with a message that you’re supposed to pick up milk. Another effort, named Flare, was designed to help small businesses like pizza shops cheaply track their drivers.
Then there was Locale, which lets users configure their phones to automatically adjust their settings when the devices detect themselves in certain zones. So you might set your phone to automatically go into vibrate mode in the office and silent mode at the movie theater, and ring everywhere else.”
The whole article is on Boston.com.
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May 14th, 2008
Sprint reported a little while ago that they are officially joining into the Clearwire WiMax venture. In fact, I actually wrote about it. The bloggers at Google wrote about the partnership a couple days ago too.
However, IPCS Inc, an affiliate of Sprint Nextel Corp, said yesterday that “three of its subsidiaries have sued Sprint over its plans to create a venture with Clearwire Corp.”
And what is IPCS? “IPCS, which sells wireless services under the Sprint brand with coverage for a potential 12 million customers in states such as Illinois and Iowa, said it has the exclusive right to sell services under the Sprint brand in 81 markets.” (For the whole article, you can read it on Reuter.)
From what I read from various places, analysts have already predicted that some problems will arise from this Clearwire pact between all these big companies. Seems like that’s already beginning.
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May 13th, 2008
In a nutshell, this is what Google said on their own Google blog:
“Today we’re releasing a new beta version of Reader designed for the iPhone and other mobile phones with advanced browsers. You can use it by visiting http://www.google.com/reader/i/ on your phone.”
I just tried it on my Blackjack and it didn’t work. There’s a good chance that it’s because, well, I am using a Blackjack. People that use Windows Mobile should know that not a lot of stuff actually work on our phones, so I am not too surprised.
The screen shots of the new Reader looks pretty good though. I am sure you iPhone people would love it.
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May 13th, 2008
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