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HTC To Make First Android Handset
News HTC, the mobile-handset manufacturer best known for its Windows Mobile smartphones, is set to become the first vendor to release a handset using Google's Linux-based software stack, Android. Sources close to Google confirmed that HTC will be the...
[November 6, 2007, 11:08]
Google 'guarantees' Android Compatibility
News Google and its Open Handset Alliance have released the preliminary software development kit (SDK) for their new mobile platform, Android. HTC recently announced that it would have the first Android-based handset on the market in the second half of...
[November 13, 2007, 7:02]
First Google Android Phone Unveiled
News On Tuesday, Google and T-Mobile unveiled the first handset to use the Android platform: the T-Mobile G1, also known as HTC's Dream. Android is a full mobile stack, from operating system to applications.
[September 23, 2008, 16:15]
ARM To Show Android Prototype
News ARM plans to demonstrate prototype phones based on ARM processors and Google's Android operating system, possibly paving the way for the chip designer to join Google's Open Handset Alliance. But ARM was not on the initial list of companies that...
[February 8, 2008, 10:19]
Google's Non-paranoid Android
Leader Android and the attendant Open Handset Alliance (OHA) are aimed squarely at Redmond. If you were disappointed by Android, the subject of Google's mobile-strategy announcement, then you were hoping for the wrong thing.
[November 6, 2007, 14:43]
Android Maker Talks Mashups And Mobiles
News After years of rumours of a Google phone, the search giant finally unleashed its mobile play: an alliance of handset makers and an open software platform dubbed Android. Google released the software-developer kit, or SDK, for Android and announced...
[November 22, 2007, 11:51]
Symbian, UIQ, S60 To Form Open-source Android Killer
News The mobile open-source world suddenly has a very major new player, after it emerged on Tuesday that the Symbian, Series 60, UIQ and MOAP platforms are to be merged into an open-sourced platform to rival Google's much-feted Android Open Handset...
[June 24, 2008, 11:02]
Symbian Foundation Launch: What Members Said
News The Symbian, Series 60, UIQ and MOAP platforms are to be merged into an open-sourced platform to rival Google's much-feted Android Open Handset Alliance project. Kai Öistämö, Nokia's head of devices, refused to give Google the satisfaction of...
[June 24, 2008, 14:58]
A Rough Guide To Mobile Open Source
News Android is a full mobile stack, from operating system up to applications, developed by the Google-led Open Handset Alliance. Although the first Android handset comes from HTC, many manufacturers could release devices based on the system.
[September 23, 2008, 0:01]
Symbian Vs Android: How They Square Up
News With the announcement on Tuesday of the formation of the Symbian Foundation, the forces of mobile open source appear to be congregating into two major camps: the Symbian Foundation and the Open Handset Alliance, which is developing Google's...
[June 26, 2008, 11:32]
Google Android: Mobile Open Source Door Kicked Open
Blog Android promises to provide developers and handset makers with an incredibly flexible and powerful mobile OS and development environment. The issues regarding the handset level security vulnerabilities that the Android open source Operating System...
[November 5, 2007, 22:23]
Google Confirms Its Mobile Linux Plans
News A new mobile Linux group, the Open Handset Alliance, has been created by Google to develop Android, and it boasts 34 members. Google has announced its long-anticipated cellular play: a mobile-phone software stack called Android.
[November 5, 2007, 17:03]
Microsoft And The Rough Diamond
Blog And when HTC chucks up the first Android handset later this year, let's see how the Windows Mobile team react. Of course, all that intrigue at the invite-stage led to a lot of speculation that the event was to be the launch of the HTC Dream, the...
[May 6, 2008, 17:32]
Gphone Vs IPhone: The Security Debate
News Many of the companies in the LiMo Foundation have also become members of the Open Handset Alliance (OHA), which Google has formed to develop and promote Android. Volzke said it was not possible to compare the security of development practices for...
[November 8, 2007, 15:27]
What The Future Holds For Google's Android
News Android must also compete with a long list of mobile-operating systems already entrenched in the market. On Monday, Google announced Android, a software platform designed to provide open access to mobile phones for application developers.
[November 6, 2007, 8:21]
Google To Unveil 'Android' Mobile-phone Software
News Android was the name of a mobile-phone software company acquired by Google in 2005 and led by Andy Rubin, the co-founder of Danger, the handset manufacturer. Google is expected to license Android under the Apache License, version 2.0, according to...
[November 5, 2007, 7:49]
First Symbian Foundation Handsets Due In 2010
News This timeline puts the SF somewhat behind the Open Handset Alliance (OHA), which is the industry group that Google set up to develop Android. The move is seen as a major strike against Google and its nascent Android platform.
[June 24, 2008, 17:08]
Google Android Looms Large, Blurry
Blog Android's looking smooth and responsive, the functionality looks like it can at least match that found in current Windows Mobile phones (unsurprising, given that the handset shown is almost certainly from WinMob specialists HTC), and I rather like...
[September 17, 2008, 11:17]
Opera Updates Its Mobile Browser
News Asked what Opera's feelings were on Android, Google's mobile handset platform, the spokesperson said it was "a validation of the fact that people will be using the internet on their mobile phones as they do on their PCs".
[November 7, 2007, 11:03]
Android May Spread Beyond Phones
News But Wind River is a notable member of the 34-company Open Handset Alliance that Google gathered to build, support and use Android. The first phone using Google's Android operating system will debut on Tuesday, a model from T-Mobile, and more are...
[September 23, 2008, 8:28]
