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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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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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 [...]

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Search Engine Land has been running a great GPhone timeline covering important events relating to Google’s various inroads to the phone industry. Sadly, –as of this writing– the timeline hasn’t been updated past August 28th, 2007. Still, it’s definitely a fantastic primer for anyone making attempt to catch up on what’s happened so far.

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As with most Google acquisitions and product launches, registration for Jaiku is now by invite-only. Luckily, I signed up for Jaiku right after the initial launch of the service back in early April of this year. Right now we have 10 invites available for anyone who requests one in the comments. First post, first serve. So hurry while they still last!

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A few days ago the Boston Globe sent a reporter to Google’s offices in Cambridge to dig some dirt on the Google phone. Sadly, there isn’t any new information about the GPhone in the Globe’s video report. However, the accompanying article has a handful of interesting tidbits:
One entrepreneur who has seen the Google phone [...]

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Here’s a quick snip from Reuters regarding Google’s recent increase in mobile usage:
Google Inc. has seen a spike in usage of its mobile services since May, partly offsetting the traditional summer slump in computer-based Web surfing for the first time, an executive said on Wednesday.
“We are seeing more and more mobile activity,” Marissa Mayer, [...]

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