From the Android Developer’s Blog (a favorite for us at GPH):
[...] I’m pleased to announce that Android Market is now accepting priced applications from US and UK developers. Developers from these countries can go to the publisher website at http://market.android.com/publish to upload their application(s) along with end user pricing for the apps. Initially, priced applications [...]

• 3 Comments

I know it’s been a very long time since the site has been updated, but I figured I’d kick it in the pants for this guide on HeHe2.net for jailbreaking your G1. This guide will give you “root” access, which basically lets you do whatever you want to your phone, just like special developer’s G1 [...]

• 0 Comments

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 [...]

• 1 Comment

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 [...]

• 0 Comments

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 [...]

• 0 Comments

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.
[YouTube]

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 [...]

• 0 Comments

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 [...]

• 0 Comments

We have a grip of GrandCentral invitations for all of you readers out there! GrandCentral is a free (during beta, at least) service for attaching multiple devices to the same phone number, along with a killer voicemail system. I’m not going to go into detail in this post, but it’s worth mentioning that GrandCentral is [...]

• 81 Comments