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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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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