Quick note in from Dominic, one of the chaps behind next week’s Droidcon event: Hi Ewan. Have just seen breaking news on the Register that Symbian workers in London and Cambridge have been told to go home this morning. I would like to invite the all to attend droidcon for half price. Any chance you [...]
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DroidCon London is happening this month: Be there
One of the best looking Android conferences I’ve seen in a while. I will aim to be there. If you’ve anything whatsoever to do with Android or you want to reach developers, you should be there too. I’ll be posting more on this shortly. Meanwhile, visit the site and buy a ticket: http://www.droidcon.co.uk/
Would you have a Samsung Galaxy for £22/month?
Michael at MobileBurn highlights a tweet from o2 Germany pointing out that the all new Samsung Galaxy Tab Android tablet will hit the network in October costing €99 up front with a €27.50 contract. If you translate those prices directly to sterling, that equates to £82 up front and £22 per month. Now I reckon [...]
7″ Samsung Galaxy Tab sets the tablet market alight
Well then, it’s what we’ve all been waiting for isn’t it? A decent iPad alternative running Android. At least, that’s what the Samsung Galaxy Tab looks like. It’s 7″ in size. It’s got an integrated SIM card that will deliver HSUPA/HSDPA, Edge and 802.11n. It runs Android 2.2 (“Froyo”). It’s got a camera — two [...]
Just arrived: The Samsung Galaxy S
The rather swanky Samsung Galaxy S device has just arrived. Ben Smith over at The Really Mobile Project is loving his, commenting last night that, “It’s ridiculously fast!” So fast, that Ben has started reaching for his Galaxy first, before his BlackBerry, to check email and so on. Interesting! I’m going to check it out [...]
Cisco’s Cius: An iPad for the enterprise?
That there is the all new Cisco Cius, an ultra-portable ‘mobile collaboration business tablet‘ that ‘offers access to essential business applications and technologies.’ At least, that’s what Cisco reckon. And I’m inclined to agree. Various people around the industry are describing it alternately as an iPad-killer, an iPad-rival and so on. I think it’s certainly [...]
Google Android activating almost 5m devices a month
News in from Google’s VP of Engineering, Andy Rubin on Android’s growth: Every day 160,000 Android-powered devices are activated — that’s nearly two devices every second, used for the first time by people from New York to New Zealand 160,000 x 30 days = 4.8m a month or just short of 58m a year. Utterly [...]
Sony Ericsson X10 Mini: The credit card sized Android wonder
Well I have to say I’m a big, big fan of the X10 Mini. I simply loved the device when I came across it at Mobile World Congress back in February and now that it’s arrived in my hands, I can confirm it’s still fantastic. To be clear, the device isn’t for everyone. If you’ve [...]
In-App carrier billing for Android announced; nobody knows if it’s ‘allowed’ though
Hello Mr Developer, would you like to use in-app payment for Android? Yes? Good. What’s that? You want to know if it’s allowed? Well of course it’s allowed. What about Google? Well, they’re … they… they haven’t really said much about it. So when can we get you signed up? What’s that? You want to [...]
Developer on Android fragmentation: “Really frustrating”
I’ve raised the issue of Android fragmentation quite often when people tell me that Android is ‘here’ and that ‘Symbian is dead’. Symbian has had it’s fair share of fragmentation problems — they’ve been through a heck of a lot of teething troubles and they’ve come out the other end with a very powerful, reliable, [...]
Dell Streak heading to o2
UK operator, o2, are amongst the first to offer the all new Dell Streak Android handset. There’s no pricing or price plan indications as yet so keep your eyes open. Here’s the overview from o2: Dell and O2 today announced that the Dell Streak will launch exclusively on O2 early next month, bringing the internet, [...]
The Android march continues: 100,000 Android handsets activated dailiy
I’ve just sat and watched through the Google I/O Day 2 keynotes about Android. Despite the misgivings I have about the platform’s increasing fragmentation and their rather ‘plain vanilla’ UI that isn’t necessarily that useful for ‘new’ consumers, you have to respect what Google’s doing with the platform. Vic Gundotra, the VP Engineering for Google [...]
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