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TomTom’s Tele Atlas On Android
Tele Atlas, a Dutch Digital Map maker has signed a 5 year deal with Google which will see its maps been included in cellphones based on Android including other Google services. We think this deal will do good things for the big G as they …
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Will T-Mobile be the first to launch Android Mobile ?
Earlier, Gary Krakow from thestreet.com launched a controversy when he said that there wouldn’t be a Google’s android based mobile this year. He was totally wrong, according to HTC ‘s CEO , further more mister Krakow has confirmed in his last video that Google despite …
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Gettin’ On The (Message) Bus, Part One
The message bus is a tried-and-true model in application development. Whether it is the humble Win32 message loop or full-fledged publish/subscribe message-oriented middleware solution, software components have long been publishing messages that other components receive, either by explicitly checking some message queue or by virtue …
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Google Should Have Made The gPhone
If you have spent time in the dating game, you know the harsh reality: it is usually better when you are being wooed by someone, than it is when you are running after them. When you are the one who is trying to win over …
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Google Going Canadian for CFO
The new Google CFO is a telco veteran. Newly appointed Patrick Pichette was Bell’s Canada CFO for two years. This is not surprising to see him picked with the recent new goals of Google. Beyond Android, they are going to continue to think mobile. We …
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Google Android Test Center in Taiwan?
Taiwan’s Ministry of Economic Affairs seems to have quite an interest in Google Android. The Department of Industrial Technology is trying to get Google to set up an Android certification center in Taiwan to speed up development of Android for the mouth watering masses. According …
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34 Weeks of OHA: #23
Company Name: Samsung Electronics How the OHA site classifies them: Handset Manufacturer What the OHA site says about them: A leading innovator and provider of mobile phones and telecom systems. What they do: Samsung is scary as hell. Seriously. Head on over to the Wikipedia …
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WIRED Article Details Android’s Long Term Goals
There’s an article in July’s issue of Wired that goes pretty in-depth with Google, Android, and all things related. It’s a nice big read along the lines of 5,000 words. While it might not be a ton of brand new information for loyal AndroidGuys readers, …
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HTC’s Android Dream
Most HTC and Android followers know the name “Dream†quite well. The device will be HTC’s first device based on Google’s Android OS and may very well be the first Android powered device to make it to market. But what is HTC’s dream for Android? …
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Slowing Android Down
The Wall Street Journal reported Sunday that Google’s Android devices will surely be delayed to the fourth quarter of this year. They also said that the companies working on Android are struggling to meet their own deadlines. Last November, Google and their 30+ partners announced …
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Handling Multiple Resource Sets, Part Two
In the last episode of “Building ‘Droids”, we covered how to handle a simple, one-criterion choice between two resource sets: whether we show English or Spanish strings. In that case, having two res/ subdirectories (res/values-en/ and res/values-es/), each with their own set of strings, was …
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My First 48 Hours with the Samsung Instinct
I’ve had a chance to play with the device over the last two days and get a feel for the phone. Outside of my normal 40 hour work week and family time, I’ve spent enough time to learn the handset. Here are a few things …
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Handling Multiple Resource Sets, Part One
Welcome to the new “Building ‘Droids†section of AndroidGuys! This column looks at Android from the developer’s perspective, poking around dusty corners of the Android SDK, and showing how you can create interesting and effective Android applications. Today, we’ll talk about how to have your …
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Would it be Too Much to Ask for Some Answers?
We’re coming up on the second half of 2008 and now only months away from the first Android handsets. So why do we know so little? There are 4 handset manufacturers considered to be founding members of the Open Handset Alliance. These companies (HTC, LG, …
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Sprint: Instinct $199 Price Is Not a Rebuttal To 3G iPhone
After reading our previous post Sprint Answers Apple With $199 Samsung Instinct our readers may be led to believe that the sudden $199 price announcement for the Sprint Samsung Instinct is in direct reprisal to Apple’s announcement that the iPhone 3G will sell for the …
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