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Google's Android Platform Far More Flexible Than IPhone
Talkback In the long run, the iPhone SDK shortcomings may hurt it in comparison to Android, which does allow background processing.iPhone's lack of (3rd party) background processing will hamstring whole classes of new apps.
[March 28, 2008, 12:29]
Google's Non-paranoid Android
Leader If you were disappointed by Android, the subject of Google's mobile-strategy announcement, then you were hoping for the wrong thing. Android and the attendant Open Handset Alliance (OHA) are aimed squarely at Redmond.
[November 6, 2007, 14:43]
Gphone Vs IPhone: The Security Debate
News Will phones based on Android, dubbed "Gphones" by many, be more or less secure than Apple's iPhone, which has been developed using proprietary software? Volzke said it was not possible to compare the security of development practices for Android...
[November 8, 2007, 15:27]
IPhone Gets Wireless Outlook Synchronisation
News The security implications of this are not yet totally clear, although some experts have suggested that the more open approach adopted by Google's Android mobile platform might make that environment more secure.
[November 9, 2007, 10:10]
2007: The Year In Communications
News It was not even a phone, as such, but a mobile platform — Android — with an impressive array of manufacturers and operators already lining up to show their support. Android looks set to solidify a notoriously fragmented Linux handset market.
[December 21, 2007, 15:15]
What's In The Box, HTC?
Blog Comment Am impressed, the HTC dream will be a good alternative to the iPhone, and if Android developers can deliver, mobile phone user experience might just get elevated to a whole new new level!
[April 10, 2008, 17:51]
What Was In Santa's Sack?
Blog Comment Google Android phone? Asus Eee seems to be the best product in Asus' history, but I think it's still far far away from Apple's new gadgets iPhone/iPod touch as the best Christmas gifts. Actually Nintendo Wii is my favorite this Christmas days.
[January 12, 2008, 23:34]
RIM Gives BlackBerry A Consumer Flavour
News RIM's plans are part of a changing smartphone landscape, as new challengers appear on the horizon, including a rumoured enterprise version of Apple's iPhone and Google's Android initiative. RIM argues that it actually likes the iPhone because it's...
[November 8, 2007, 17:43]
Mobile Linux Group Plans Enterprise Push
News Leach added that LiMo's latest announcements reflected badly on its main competitor, the Google-led Open Handset Alliance (OHA), which intends to bring out the Android stack later this year. I think it's been a bit of a poor showing [for Android...
[May 14, 2008, 13:40]
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]
O2: Businesses May Block IPhone Usage
News Asked for his opinion on the announcement that Google and dozens of other companies would be working towards a rival cellular platform, Android, Alder said he would welcome any initiative to improve customers' mobile web-surfing experience.
[November 9, 2007, 13:39]
Google Maps Out Plan For Mobile Success
News The online search giant has been ramping up its mobile applications for some time and unveiled its own mobile operating system, Android, last year. She added that, although Android is Google's platform, the mobile apps team sees it as just another...
[May 14, 2008, 8:40]
Android Maker Talks Mashups And Mobiles
News Rubin, director of mobile platforms at Google, talked to ZDNet.co.uk sister site CNET News.com about what Android phones will look like, whether they will compete with Apple's iPhone, and why the software took so long to build.
[November 22, 2007, 11:51]
It's About Developers And Community...
Talkback And what I can say is that with an open standard such as Android to build upon, Google's mobile initiative is much more likely to survive than if it had gone with a more "standard" approach to entering the phone industry (a la the iPhone).
[November 13, 2007, 9:24]
Google's Android Paves Way For Mobile Supremacy
News Unlike the PC market, Google joins the contest for mobile access to the internet with its Android software while there is still much work to be done. The search giant announced the Android platform for mobile devices and the Open Handset Alliance...
[November 7, 2007, 15:23]
Google Android: Mobile Open Source Door Kicked Open
Blog Comment I see 3 options for Android on the table: Millions of Java developers will be able to write Android apps quickly, as no new language and new IDEs will be required to learn. Option 2) The JVM is not part of Android.
[November 6, 2007, 8:12]
Can Linux Forget Desktops And Servers?
Blog There are phones, too, with Android expected to make an impact. Outside the US, Symbian has had the lion's share of smartphones, and in the US, it looks like Apple's iPhone will draw off a lot of the non-corporate people who can choose phones, who...
[November 26, 2007, 14:48]
Jobs Hailed As Most Powerful Person In Business
News Google's mobile-phone efforts revolve around the ongoing development of Android, an open-source platform for handsets. Along the way Jobs conceived of 'desktop publishing', gave the world the laser printer, and pioneered personal computer networks...
[November 28, 2007, 13:46]
Mobile World Congress Preview: The Year Of Linux
News We can expect to see one or two major companies join or shift between certain mobile Linux groups, and we will also be getting a look at what is already being done with Google's Android and rival Linux-based platforms.
[February 7, 2008, 13:52]
Google Phone Mobile Security
Talkback Android was a big move into what will ultimately become turbulent territory. As I consider the vulnerabilities that the gPhone and iPhone uniquely represent I circle back to the necessity of a mobile security solution in today’s environment.
[November 9, 2007, 7:19]
