Android Portal

While i was surfing around the net looking for new interesting things about android i just found a new video on www.blip.tv of an android device with a new demo of the performance of the android OS which shows a map application and a game demo with quake! i was quite impressed of the speed of the system because as andy said in the video, its just a 300mhz cpu in it, so its half of the iphone cpu. It would be cool if they would demonstrate android on the same hardware as the iphone to show the power of android compared to the iphone “bsd osx whatever OS”. In the last days i was testing some iphones at the office. Its really quite cool to use the iphone and its nice eye candy widgets, BUT i was disappointed that i crashed one easily only by tipping/touching around a little bit to fast on the screen. So if any android developers read this(i hope they do), do everything you can , to make android better than the iphone. If you wanna have a look at the new video of android on a real mobile device, have a look here at blip.tv

A first device running android in real life as we already saw in the google video :

Another “Device” from NEC which is running a modified android GUI which looks complete different to the current SDK theme. But as you can see its only a lcd on a board. So nothing special. Hopefully they will realease a working mobile device in 2008 to bring android asap to success.

A gizmodo.com reader had some days ago the possibility to test a Phone with Android installed on it like its shown in the official video where Steve H. from google shows some first impressions. The reader said that its really fast and slight. Here you can see the device, it seems like a HTC based device. But perhaps something different?! :) Make your own decission and look here:

For details of the gizmodo article. See !

Today m$ announced that they wanna buy YAHOO. Perhaps m$ recognized that they have missed some trends in the past like mobility and other inovative technologies. So lets see what will happen this year. One thing is for sure, it will be a pulsating year for mobile devices and its functionalities.

The Android Developers Challenge is now deadlined to the 14th April 2008. Because of much feedback regarding sdk details by the developers, google decided to release a new version of the sdk asap so that all developers can suffer from this new SDK version and enhance their current applications written for Android.

Here is the new time line:

April 14, 2008: Deadline to submit applications for judging
May 5, 2008: Announcement of the 50 first round winners, who will be eligible for the final round
June 30, 2008: Deadline for the 50 winners of the first round to submit for the final round
July 21, 2008: Announcement of the grand prize winner and runner-up

I am anxious to the winners of this cool challenge and the ideas the people all over the world have in their brains :)