Archive for February, 2009
Hey Look! It’s Another Chinese Android Slab Phone!
At some point, all these touch screen phones will start to look the same… as if they don’t already. Comparisons to the iPhone should lessen as time goes in the way that nobody compares flip phones to the StarTAC any longer. Here’s yet another slab, touch screen phone from the Chinese. Called the Xphone-SDK, Yuhua has [...]
Yuhua Android Phone, Xphone-SDK Announced
The General Mobile DSTL1 is a good looking Android handset that was spotted in late January and then made an appearance at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The company behind the phone a Chinese ODM named Yuhua and they’ve got a new phone that is ready - right now - for an OEM to pick up and start making. It’s called the [...]
App Review: StreamFurious
Title: StreamFurious Developer: StreamFurious Available: Now, Android Market Cost: FREE Lasting Impression: Streaming music application that delivers on its promise with nothing extra. It doesn’t chew up system resources or slow performance down. It’s small enough that this app ought to stay on your Android handset once it’s [...]
Market Maneuvering: Marketing Starts Here
The Market Maneuvering post series will cover various tactical things you, my fellow Android developers, need to do to gauge and improve your success in marketing your Android applications. When the doors blew off the iPhone App Store on its initial launch, with trivial applications earning developers thousands of dollars per day, I knew that [...]
Motorola Android Will Be Luxury Phone
We could be either really impressed or really disappointed with the Motorola Android phone, rumored to be coming out near the end of 2009. While they’re public MWC showing was incredibly lackluster, there is a Moto Brewr heating. The next few Moto announcements won’t have too much substance but according to Eldar Murtazin, something [...]
Android 3.0
File this in your WTF category until further notice but according to Eldar Murtazin of Mobile-Review (via UnwiredView) Google already has partners working on Android 3.0 with closed demos of the OS on real handsets shown at MWC 2009. Right now we’re on Version 1, Version 2 was labeled “pretty sad” and Version 3 was called [...]
Android Layout Tricks #1
The Android UI toolkit offers several layout managers that are rather easy to use and, most of the time, you only need the basic features of these layout managers to implement a user interface. Sticking to the basic features is unfortunately not the most efficient way to create user interfaces. A common example is the abuse of LinearLayout, which [...]
Android open-source is just ‘marketing’ claims Symbian Foundation
If you thought open-source meant one big happy community, joining hands no matter the platform, think again. Google's Rich Miner has called the Symbian Foundation "misleading" in their openness, after Symbian Foundation director Lee Williams described Android's "open source" credentials as simply marketing. According to Williams, who heads the [...]
WHERE to Launch on the T-Mobile G1 (PRESS RELEASE)
Boston, MA – WHERE™ is launching on the T-Mobile G1 Android device on February 25, 2009. The latest product release includes new features such as News, Movies, the WHERE Wall, and Traffic (coming soon). This new application is built upon the award-winning platform that includes other local content such as Yelp, Eventful, Zipcar, Starbucks, [...]
imeem Mobile’s New MyMusic Feature Helps People Enjoy Their Music Anywhere (PRESS RELEASE)
People Can Now Access their Personal imeem Music Library through their Android-Powered Phones SAN FRANCISCO - February 24, 2009 - imeem, the leading social music service, today launched the latest version of imeem Mobile, its award-winning social music application for the Android platform. The updated version of imeem Mobile includes MyMusic, a [...]
