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Jun 10

People of Lava’s Android TV gets tested, only your pocketboo

When we heard an upstart named People of Lava were going to beat Google to the punch with an all-in-one TV set, we were confused,

…Olufsen, which I tend to associate with being a little too expensive and too gimicky. The fact that the Android part is a mode, you can’t overlay a widget in the corner of live TV, suggests that they did not think this through.I think they should drop the “people of” from the name, it’s cumbersome and unnecessary.I expect they will sell, but I don’t know what their expectations are. If it offered widget overlays, I think it would go well in hotel lobbies, restaurants, bars, any commercial establishment with TVs already, with a widget assortment that fits their customers. For personal use, I would just keep using the TV I have and use my laptop….

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Jun 10

‘iPhone vs Android’ report finds Apple has three times Googl

It’s oftentimes easy for us to get swept up in Android mania and forget that Google’s mobile platform is still in its infancy. Then we

…MarkAnderson 1st off I have no problem with choice. I don’t care if you prefer your shitty nokia phones to the awesomeness that is the iPhone.My problem is when the Apple Haters come here and accuse those of us that like Apple Products of being1) Stupid2) Blind loyal fanboys3) Non-tech peopleThe list goes on and on. As for HTC’s sense that is one company. And of course you’ve got Motorola’s “Blur”.I’ve tested and used devices from both companies and the experience wasn’t that great. Definitely not as fun as my iPhone 3GS. Sorry to say but the majority of the market agrees with me.People love their Blackberries, their iPhones, and hell even their old Windows Mobile devices.That to be expected give that each of those phones provides a good experience and actually provides value in some shape or form.Android on the other hand has only 2 things to its name.1) multitasking (which no one cares about)2) open os (again something that the average consumer doesn’t care about).And of course soon Flash will be on…

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Jun 10

Google: Android fragmentation ‘is a boogeyman, a red herring

Google’s Dan Morrill, open source and compatibility program manager in the Android team, just penned a lengthy diatribe against the very concept of f

…Google’s Dan Morrill, open source and compatibility program manager in the Android team, just penned a lengthy diatribe against the very concept of fragmentation on the official Android Developers Blog, basically saying it doesn’t exist. Actually, the language is a little more colorful:
“Because it means everything, it actually means nothing, so the term is useless. Stories on ‘fragmentation’ are dramatic and they drive traffic to pundits’ blogs, but they have little to do with reality. ‘Fragmentation’ is a bogeyman, a red herring, a story you tell to frighten junior developers. Yawn.”
Sure, as Android goes, the term “fragmentation” has meant moderately different things in different contexts over the past couple years — fair enough. But the fact remains that releasing six major revisions of any platform within the span of 19 months (four of which are in heavy user circulation) is unprecedented and potentially unsettling to manufacturers and consumers alike. Your average Joe isn’t going to understand why,…

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Jun 10

iPhone claws web share back from Android

New updates from Net Applicationstoday show that the iPhone may be overtaking Android in actual use online. Despite talk of the gap closing in April, Apple’s phone grew faster in May as it jumped from 30.3 percent the month before to 32.8 percent of the mobile web; Google has just 6.2 percent.

…Browser share and sales volumes are very different beasts. Sales volumes are very, very seasonal and are extremely misleading (Droid may be selling extremely well, while iPhone is in the down season, in anticipation of the new model).

Browser stats can be a fairly reliable indicator of the current platform market share. And while the market share indication may not be so reliable (depending on which sites are used for the data), trends will be much more reliable.

And the trends indicate that, while both iPhone and Android are growing (at the expense of Symbian and others), for every…

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May 10

Counterpoint: fragmentation won’t destroy Android after all

The common belief — and a belief we’ve generally shared here at Engadget — is that Google’s breakneck pace of development and lackadaisical stance toward heavily-customized versions of Android is slowly undermining the platform from the inside out.

…ashleythehottiestYou do realize that this is all talking about the consumers getting fed up with the fragmentation right? A little business knowledge for all of you nerd techs out there. The quickest way to die as a business is to expand to big to fast. People want the biggest and the best, but that never happens with Android because things are only biggest and best for a couple weeks until the the come out with some new software to put on new devices. They then forget about other devices. Simple answer here would be to build a couple devices that can plan atleast a year in advance for new software coming out. Google has been building there android launches for years. They know exactly what is coming out a year from now. So build it into the software that can adapt. Soon everything will just been another android phone if they cannot figure this out. Think logically about what the average consumer knows about a cell phone before you start blurting out your random nerd talk. You know what people outside of the…

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May 10

Android Challenges iPhone, Users Win

Analysis: Google and Apple both seem to take the competition between Android and iPhone as an existential, company-defining battle.

…O, it’ll be held at San Francisco’s Moscone West. Apple hasn’t even formally announced that the event will include a keynote, but I’m assuming there’s a good chance I’ll sit in the same auditorium I was in yesterday, listening to Steve Jobs talk about the next iPhone. Even if he never mentions Google by name, he’ll surely aim some little jibes in the direction of Apple’s competitors, if only during the inevitable prefatory bit where he updates attendees on iPhone’s competitive position. Even if he doesn’t, we already know that he thinks Android is out to “kill” the iPhone.
Google and Apple both seem to take the competition between Android and iPhone as an existential, company-defining battle. They’re both pouring awesome resources into their work. They’re building really good products which, for all their similarities, express strikingly different visions of what a mobile platform should be. And the market appears to be more than big enough for both companies to do well.
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May 10

Android 2.2 Froyo: everything you ever wanted to know

Since its initial launch on the T-Mobile G1 in October of 2008, Google’s Android operating system has evolved rapidly — perhaps more rapidly than any other operating system in recent memory — to become one of the most important and prolific smartphone platforms in the market today.

…Tethering’s for the birds — how about whisking your favorite tracks to your pocket without cabling up? Google’s purchase of a little firm called Simplify Media is making this feature possible, which uses a desktop component to push your iTunes music collection (or portions of your choosing) straight to your Android -powered device over the air. Google has only demonstrated this over WiFi so far, so we’re anxious to give it a whirl and see how well it works over 3G — assuming it works at all.

And while we’re on the subject of magic through-the-cloud tricks, you’ll also eventually be able to push apps from your computer’s desktop to your phone. Simply selecting an app on your desktop and selecting it to transfer will cause it to be both sent to the phone and installed automatically. Considering that most app discovery seems to happen on the device, this might end up not having a lot of practical bearing — but either way, it’s pretty neat.

So, when is this stuff coming? Google’s not saying — it was…

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May 10

Android Gingerbread is ‘planned for Q4 2010′

While we’re all busy laboring in the shadow of Android 2.2’s impending release, here’s Google’s sneaky first indication of the next version’s release

…I was a 15yr old kid hanging out with my 16yr old best bud at his first job. He was doing work experience in a cafe for Christmas and had to put the adverts in the store window using a stencil and some snow spray. When he wasn’t looking I stenciled a ‘J’ over the ‘c’ in Mince Pie, broadcasting to the street that this cafe was the place to come to get your ‘Hot Minge Pies’. Unfortunately it got my buddy kicked out of the job and we haven’t really ever got back in contact, but I still feel it was worth it….

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May 10

Android 2.1 becomes most used version!

Rejoice, oh Android lovers. Thy OS of choice has finally graduated to the point where its latest variant is also the most used — a statistic that is likely to last for only a day given Google’s intent to reveal Android 2.2, or Froyo, at its I/O conference tomorrow. For the first time since El Goog’s been keeping these platform version stats…

…juanvaldez Keep dreaming! And please clean up your comment because you are not clear and concise. Anyway, rant all you want but the truth is in the corner office of these telecoms trying to make money. In America it is about buying and buying often. The cell makers have to sell phones and Android is the business model of choice. So wherever Android goes you go even if it is to a new phone.Google stopped selling the N1, the makers of Android, and then Verizon said go buy a fucking Incredible(made by HTC. They made the N1 also). So who got fucked?Some of you ran to the Android based Droid, went and slept with the N1 and flew over to the Incredible in less than a year. All Android based phones. What the hell were you looking for? But that is what the business wanted and many of you did it.And the reason homey made the comment about Android open source being tied to Google is because since Google makes the Android OS, then as an open source system that is free free free, then you should be able to upgrade your…

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May 10

How Android Phones Became a Hit

Android’s rise is remarkable for a young OS; here’s how it happened and what’s next for Google’s smartphone entry.

…Second, keep it simple. When Google went about attracting application developers to its new platform, it made a big deal about the Android software development kit’s ease of use. And since Android is Linux platform that uses Java as its programming language, most software developers on the market haven’t had much difficulty in writing programs for the operating system.
Google has also gone out of its way to make posting a new application on the Android Market a snap, as the company does not screen any applications sent to the store and will only remove applications if it has received legitimate customer complaints about them.
“We created an account, uploaded our apps and then hit submit,” said Ilya Eliashevsky, the product manager for app developer DataViz’s Android product line, last year. “Then the app just started showing up on devices and we saw sales immediately starting to roll in.”…

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