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Mar 10

Google rewarding top Android developers with free phone

In a move that hopefully other mobile phone OS companies will follow, Google is now offering a free Android device to developers who have at least one application in the Android Market with a rating of 3.5 stars or higher and more than 5,000 unique downloads.

…I think that this is a great idea and one that I hope will catch on with Apple and more importantly, Microsoft, as the company brings its Windows Phone 7 Series to market. Initially I was thinking that most of the developers who have apps that qualify probably have their own Android device, but even if they did, they now get rewarded with a state-of-the-art Android device, which will only continue to encourage them to develop for the platform….

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Feb 10

Could WiFi become Google’s mobile checkmate?

If Google can send 100 Mbps connections to the home, with minimal investment, why can’t it pick up wireless traffic off WiFi and route it where it needs to go? Especially if that traffic is coming off an Android phone, or (later this year) a Chromium tablet or netbook.

…T, Verizon and Comcast provide, Google would quickly come under severe antitrust scrutiny. So it needs to play this game carefully. Keep the phone companies in the game. Stay out of their way as much as it can, for as long as it can….

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Feb 10

How vulnerable are the iPhone and BlackBerry? VERY!

This week brings the CTIA wireless powwow and a bevy of new (mostly smart) phones. Palm’s Pre is on the runway. HTC is launching new Google Android phones (and ads to go with them).

…Ultimately, this scrum can be defined with two words: Commodity market. And commodity markets are won and lost based on distribution and pricing. This smartphone game will be decided on pricing—so long profit margins—and distribution. The vendor that gets the most shelf space wins. Fortunately for Apple it has its own stores to sell the iPhone because the shelf space will get crowded at carriers….

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Jan 10

Google: Android will be 100% open source

Contrary to some reports, everything that makes Android “Android”, including all the core platform components and libraries needed to port Android to new devices will be open sourced under commonly used, industry standard licenses, says Google.

…Remember that up to now, all the software on your typical cell phone has been proprietary. With Android, carriers like Sprint and Cingular are free to use either open or closed source for any custom applications they install on their new Android phones. And of course, third party programs (like the ones you write) can be open or closed. It wouldn’t surprise me to see completely free/open distributions of Android which eschew any proprietary add-ons in favor of open source alternatives.
posted by Ed Burnette
June 2, 2008…

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