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Google demos Android software
News Google Maps' Street View works on Android. Google Maps, including this view with a satellite photo, is available on Android phones. Google demonstrated its Android mobile-phone software on Wednesday at the Google I/O conference in San Francisco.
[May 29, 2008, 12:09]
T-Mobile G1 (HTC Dream): a first look review
Reviews T-Mobile and Google have announced the first-ever handset with Google's new Android operating system. Last but not least, the G1 will offer access to the Android Market, which is an application store similar to the iTunes App Store.
[September 24, 2008, 9:58]
SnappySeeker for Android
Downloads SnappySeeker is very convenient and time-saving for users who love to search the web on their Google Android powered phone. Even more selections are required to use any of the other search types such as maps, images, groups, news, shop, and software.
[October 3, 2008, 8:00]
Google releases final Android SDK
News Google hopes its Android operating-system project will help spur the mobile-phone industry into a more enthusiastic embrace of internet technology. A major part of the Android effort is Google's attempt to woo outside programmers into writing their...
[September 25, 2008, 10:51]
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, 7:46]
Android 1.6: a better experience
Blog The redesigned search in Android 1.6 brings together everything on the phone Overnight, T-Mobile pushed out the Android 1.6 'Donut' update to my G1. Android 1.6 is an incremental update concentrating on usability improvements.
[October 22, 2009, 16:46]
Free Android sat-nav hits TomTom, Garmin shares
Blog Google unveiled the beta version of Google Maps Navigation as Verizon and Motorola launched the Droid phone, the first handset to use the 'Eclair' version of the Android mobile operating system, in the United States.
[October 28, 2009, 16:30]
Google tells FCC: Apple turned down Voice app
News It also translates voicemails into text, and is a popular application on Google's own Android mobile-operating system. In its letter to the FCC, Google also said Apple rejected the iPhone native version of Google Latitude for potentially causing...
[September 21, 2009, 8:45]
Google makes IM/VoIP play
News The company has reportedly been looking into buying up unused fibre optic and radio spectrum, as well as buying wireless companies such as Android. The company, which last week announced plans to raise $4bn (£2bn) in a secondary stock sale, already...
[August 24, 2005, 9:15]
Meet the Dext: Motorola's first Android device
News The phone will run Android 1.5 Cupcake and offer access to Google's various services, including Google Maps with Street View, Google Voice Search, Picasa and GTalk. Motorola said it would announce a second Android phone in the coming weeks.
[September 11, 2009, 9:15]
At what point should Microsoft get scared?
Blog I had an Android phone snoozing by the side of the keyboard. Everything was in the mix; Wave, ChromeOS, Chrome, Google Apps, HTML 5, GMail - oh, was GMail high on the list - Android, even YouTube. I had Google Maps open.
[October 29, 2009, 18:53]
Google Street View comes to the UK
News The company spokesperson told ZDNet UK on Thursday that users of BlackBerry smartphones, T-Mobile's G1 Android phone and Apple's iPhone should be able to see street-level imagery on their handsets from today.
[March 19, 2009, 12:41]
Google gives glimpse of Android software tools
News The Android software development kit (SDK) includes an interface to the Google Maps service. This emulator screenshot shows applications available on an Android phone. The user interface shown in the emulator is a "placeholder" that will change in...
[November 13, 2007, 12:12]
HTC aims Tattoo Android phone at the masses
News The Tattoo also has integrated access to Google Maps, search and the Android Market for downloading mobile apps. HTC on Tuesday launched the Tattoo, an Android-based handset aimed at a wider market than its first self-branded Android device, the Hero.
[September 8, 2009, 15:10]
A look at HTC's Hero Android phone
News The Hero is the first Android phone to be carried by Orange in the UK. HTC launched its first own-branded Android handset, the Hero, in London on Wednesday. The HTC Hero is also the first Android handset in the western world that does not have...
[June 24, 2009, 17:16]
Google Android developers push location-based apps
News Expect there to be at least one application incorporating location-based services in the upcoming Android phone. In accordance with the recent interest around location-based services, a wave of such applications made it through to the first round...
[May 19, 2008, 8:46]
Motorola pins comeback hopes on software
News Motorola chief executive Sanjay Jha would not go as far to say Motorola is unconcerned with hardware these days, hours after unveiling the forthcoming Motorola Cliq (known as the Dext in Europe) at Mobilize 2009, but the balance has clearly...
[September 14, 2009, 15:51]
Photos: T-Mobile G1 (HTC Dream) review
Reviews The T-Mobile G1 is also known as the HTC Dream, and is the first phone to use Android, a new mobile operating system by Google. The T-Mobile G1 comes with a 'compass mode' powered by Google Maps. Shown here is the device's home screen.
[September 24, 2008, 11:40]
Google to launch location-sharing Latitude software
News An update to the Google Android operating system now being distributed to the T-Mobile G1 phone also enables it, and iPhone and iPod Touch users will get the option "very soon", Lee said. Latitude is part of Google Maps for Mobile, the company's...
[February 4, 2009, 7:55]
Apple's iPhone gets Google Earth
News ZDNet UK asked Google on Monday whether a version of Google Earth for the Android operating system — the company's rival mobile platform to the iPhone — would be appearing soon, but was told only to "keep an eye on the [Google] blog".
[October 27, 2008, 10:57]
