Amol Sharma at The Wall Street Journal published an analysis of T-Mobile’s Android phone strategy and overall plan to differentiate itself from the pack of massive American cell-phone companies.
[...] It is likely that T-Mobile will be the first U.S. carrier to bring a Google-powered cellphone to market. The two sides have been working together [...]

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Stefano Mazzocchi takes an interesting look at how Google is able to skirt around Sun’s various licensing traps for different Java platforms:
[...] Google announced the release of their Android platform, which would be able to run Java applications on a mobile phone but it would also be released under the Apache License v2.
This raised more [...]

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Today the official Android Developers blog went live!
One of our goals in releasing the Android SDK is to unleash the creativity of application developers on the platform. We’d also like to get feedback early enough that we can make changes before the first Android-powered devices are available to the public. We plan to release updates [...]

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Sergey Brin and Steve Horowitz discuss the availability of the SDK, that it will be open source in the future, and demo applications on the Android platform.
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The “GPhones” shown in the demo vid come in smartphone and touch-screen varieties. They also utilize 3G data speeds which offer quicker load times and [...]

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Just a reminder: Today is the day we are supposed to see the guts of the Android OS.
From the Android developer’s page:
We will make available an early look at the Android™ SDK on November 12, 2007. We invite you to visit us again at this time to download the SDK.
We view Android as a “living” [...]

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The tech web is going crazy right now with the announcement this morning of the Google-led Open Handset Alliance and their Android mobile OS. Right now the OHA is 34 members strong. A handful of partners in the OHA (including executives from Google, HTC, T-Mobile, Motorola) just finished a conference call to announce the phone [...]

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UBS analyst Benjamin Schachter relays word from his colleague in Taiwan, fellow UBS analyst Arthur Hseih, that Google will be shipping approximately 50,000 GPhones on HTC hardware by the end of the year. The only catch is that these are apparently reserved for software developers.
“These initial phones are not going to be for sale,” Benjamin [...]

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