Google First Android Phone Released in New York
Yesterday, the highly anticipated launch of the Android phone took place in New York. Google's first-born “baby” phone was officially named G1, and is manufactured by HTC.
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24.9.2008 First Android phone in stores today and tomorrow
While I like the fact that T-Mobile let us existing customers pre-order the T-Mobile G1 the day it was announced last month, the benefit of pre-ordering seems to have lost that huge advantage I was thinking we were gaining.
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21.10.2008 Android Dresses Up In Chrome
Microsoft's Google Chrome problem may start on the PC but it ends on cell phones. Microsoft's competitive position is at best tenuous at a time when it needs tenaciousness.
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4.9.2008 How Android Hurts Microsoft
Think "baby seals" with regards to the clubbing Google gave Microsoft today.
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23.9.2008 Google to launch Android Market
Google is set to offer Android Market - its own App Store-like content distribution system for the Android mobile phone platform which will allow users to buy, download and install content for the upcoming Android devices.
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29.8.2008 Google Android, a Windows 7 netbook killer?
Rumours are spreading that Google is in talks with leading netbook producers to offer a version of Android in anticipation of competing with Microsoft's own Windows 7, an operating system designed to be flexible enough to target everything from the basic netbook market to high-end gaming PCs.
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7.4.2009 Android Q4, Windows Mobile 7 Q1 09
At the HTC Touch Diamond launch in South Africa, I had the opportunity to have a little chat with Kevin Chen, General Manager of HTC for MEA and CIS.
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19.6.2008 Nokia denies plans to run Googles Android
In perhaps an unsurprising turn of events the telecommunications giant Nokia have squashed rumours regarding their rumoured move to the Android platform.
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6.7.2009 Test Drive Google Android OS on Windows 7
XDA-Developers forum member xda2_haseeb has managed to extract and run Android Emulator on Windows which comes as a part of Google Android SDK package.
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2.9.2009 I Still Believe in a Microsoft Phone
Michael Gartenberg says I'm wrong about the Microsoft phone. Not so fast, Michael.
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27.11.2008 The Linux phone
With thousands of phones in the market, companies are looking for ways to cut costs to give the users the best overall experience, along with a cheap price tag to attract a user base.
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9.2.2009 Microsoft My Phone beta
Coming soon. Microsoft® My Phone syncs information between your mobile phone and the web, enabling you to.
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7.2.2009 Office 12 Coming to a Smart Phone Near You
From Microsoft Watch:
Office 12 Beta 1 is due to hit any day now. We still don't know which pieces of the next-gen Office family will go to testers, or even how many Office 12 SKUs are likely to debut when the product goes gold in the latter half of next year.
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15.11.2005 Samsung SPH-G1000 Gaming Phone
Samsung has recently launched the SPH-G1000 and SCH-G100 gaming phones in Korea. These phones are powered by powerful industry-leading 3D accelerator and vibration capability, make them quite promising for gamers. Controls which include a dedicated gaming joypad and a multi-key which operates in 8 directions are ergonomic and comfortable. For more detail, check out the specs below.
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24.11.2005 Microsoft, MCI Plan PC-To-Phone Service again
Microsoft and MCI said Monday they'll soon offer a service that lets customers place calls from their personal computers to regular phones. But the service will permit only outbound calls at first, even as rivals Yahoo and America Online allow instant messaging users to receive calls from conventional phones as well as to call out.
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13.12.2005 Microsoft, MCI plan PC-to-phone service
VoIP service will allow with outbound calling during tests
Microsoft Corp. and MCI Inc. said Monday they'll soon offer a service that lets customers place calls from their personal computers to regular phones.
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14.12.2005 Samsung To Release 10 Megapixel Camera Phone
Samsung Electronics will put a 10-megapixel camera phone on the market in South Korea shortly. The mobile phone was first shown at Cebit in Germany in March this year and was originally due to launch in the second quarter.
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11.10.2006 Microsoft clarifies WGA Notifications "phone home"
Microsoft responds to "WGA Phones home" issue, on the MSDN blog.
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9.3.2007 Zune phone? Ballmer says focus is Windows Mobile
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer answered questions Thursday night at a USA Today CEO Forum on the University of Washington campus, and at one point interviewer David Lieberman of USA Today asked about Microsoft's plans for a Zune phone.
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26.4.2007 Microsoft unveils hardware for Web phone push
Microsoft Corp. introduced on Sunday phones, headsets and other devices to work with its software that aim to replace the traditional office phone and deliver e-mails, instant messages and phone calls over the Internet.
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14.5.2007 Microsoft Wins 500,000 Phone-Software Order
Microsoft Corp. won its biggest-ever contract for mobile-phone software, an order from the U.S. Census Bureau that covers 500,000 handsets.
Microsoft, the world's biggest software maker, plans to unveil the deal today, general manager Scott Horn said in an interview.
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5.4.2006 Can owning a Wi-Fi Skype phone land you in jail?
A man in London was arrested for using an open Wi-Fi network from someone’s unsecured broadband link from a nearby house. Similar arrests have happened in the US and this makes me wonder: Can owning a Wi-Fi Skype phone land you in jail?
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23.8.2007 Put Windows Live on your Windows Mobile phone
Windows Live for Windows Mobile is now available to download for your Windows Mobile phone. Windows Live for Windows Mobile lets Windows Mobile users sync their email from Windows Live Hotmail as well as their Windows Live Contacts.
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14.5.2008Samsung plans Android phone for second half of 2009
Samsung has reportedly denied a rumored rollout of its first Android phone next week, saying instead that the phone looks likely for release in the
second half of this year...
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12.02.2009Android comes to Samsung, the I7500 is official
The rumored Android based Samsung handset has now been confirmed by Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd in Seoul, Korea. This makes Samsung the second
handset manufacturer in the world to unveil a handset powered by the Android platform, the other being HTC. Samsung Mobile Press Release: Seoul
(Korea Newswire) April 27, 2009 05:08 PM — Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., a leading mobile phone provider, today unveiled the I7500, its first
Android-powered mobile phone. With a launch of I7500, Samsung became the first company among the global top three mobile phone manufacturers to unveil
an Android-powered phone.
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28.04.2009Android Developer Phone catches up to G1, gets Android 1.1 system image
The latest SDK works to reconcile a curious discrepancy between the Developer Phone and the real one.
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10.03.2009A jailbreak for Google's Android
Hackers have found a way to circumvent controls in the Google Android operating system used on T-Mobile's G1 mobile phone, allowing them to get
around restrictions created by the phone's designers.
The hack gives G1 users a way to read data on parts of the phone that are
normally walled off and could be used to install new programs, or even a new operating system, on the mobile phone. Currently, programs for the open
source Android operating system must be written in Java, rather than other popular programming languages such as C or C++.
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06.11.2008Australia's Agora Android phone to ship worldwide in January
The world's second Android phone, the Agora, is on the way from Australian-based Kogan, and the device -- which features a full QWERTY keyboard --
will be available globally early next year...
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06.12.2008ARM to demo prototype Google Android phone
The British chipmaker will show off the early version of a phone based on Google's new Android mobile operating system at the Mobile World Congress
in Barcelona Monday...
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09.02.2008Motorola confirms Android plans, but won't say how big
Motorola first endorsed Google's Android platform almost a year ago. Yet now that HTC and T-Mobile are about to release the G1 phone, Motorola has
confirmed to BetaNews that it will actually dive into the Android waters...
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30.09.2008Android phone may have Google ads, but no Exchange support
With Google still touting the first Android phone for late 2008, reports state the forthcoming HTC "Dream" phone might lack support for
Microsoft Exchange, and further, that it will come with Google's advertising software pre-installed...
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19.08.2008Rumor: HTC & Vodafone to make Google Android phone
Word has been spreading around the World Mobile Congress in Barcelona that Google will tomorrow (Tuesday) announce the second phone to be manufactured
that runs on its Android mobile operating system. According to reports, the phone will be manufactured by HTC and available in Europe exclusively on
the Vodafone network. The G2, also known as the HTC Magic or HTC Pioneer, is expected to feature WiFi, GPS and HSPA connectivity, contain a 3.2
megapixel camera (although without a flash), and feature an on-screen keyboard - available through Android's "Cupcake" update - unlike the
previous T-Mobile G1 phone which has a physical slide-out keyboard.
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17.02.2009T-Mobile takes the G1 Android phone nationwide
The US geographic market for the G1 Android phone is now expanding a second time, while also this week, T-Mobile USA lobbies the US Congress for new
funding around broadband wireless...
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27.01.2009Will Huawei actually preview an Android phone next month?
After the scuttling of Kogan's Agora smartphone earlier this month, will Huawei be the next to enter the world stage with an Android phone?..
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24.01.2009Official: T-Mobile to premiere Android on Sept. 23
An independent Android developers' blog reports having received an official invitation from carrier T-Mobile to cover a press conference in New York
City Tuesday morning, where the first Android-powered phone will be unveiled...
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17.09.2008Agora Android phone gets curtailed by Kogan
Promising prospective early adopters refunds on their pre-orders, Australia-based Kogan today imposed an indefinite delay on the Android-enabled Agora
phone, citing issues around interoperability, screen size, and resolution...
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17.01.2009HTC rolls out 'Magic,' the world's second Android phone
HTC today unveiled a second Android phone to follow the G1/Dream. It's a tablet-style device called "Magic," first announced for several
European markets although not yet for the US...
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18.02.2009New Android commercial attacks iPhone
Verizon released a new commercial which takes shots at the missing features for the iPhone. The website droiddoes.com has a countdown timer to the
release of the new Android 2.0 mobile phone. The ad attacks a variety of things Apple doesn't do or won't do on the iPhone. The
advertisement attacks Apple's oversights on the iPhone like a real keyboard, running simultaneous applications, being customizable, allowing
widgets, open source development and interchangeable batteries. The advertisement also takes a stab at the iPhone's camera, saying the Android
based phone will have a 5MP camera and will be able to take pictures in the dark. The Android 2.0 phone will release this November on Verizon.
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20.10.2009Google denies renewed rumors of Android delays
Despite continuing rumors around delays in Android, the Google-spearheaded project remains on track to meet its previously stated goal of shipping the
first Android-enabled mobile phone later this year, BetaNews confirmed today...
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24.06.2008First look at a multitouch Android phone
Over the weekend, a proof of concept and downloadable demos for multi-touch on the Android open source mobile operating system were made available to
the community...
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26.01.2009Opera will be available for Android phones
Even though not a single phone equipped with the OS is available commercially as of yet, Opera said Thursday it had ported a version of its browser to
Android...
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12.04.2008Google: Android-based HTC Dream may not be alone for long
Hot on the heels of FCC approval of HTC's "Dream" phone, Google has hinted to BetaNews that the "Dream" isn't the only Android phone
already under way...
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19.08.2008HTC announces another Android handset, the HTC Hero
If you are in the market for an Android based handset, but felt that the HTC Dream and Magic didn't have the features you desired, the new Hero
announced by HTC might just be the one for you. Earlier Android devices lacked some pretty important features, and HTC is looking to make up for it
by incorporating them into the Hero. Some of the highlights of this device are: First Android handset with Adobe Flash out of the box: The Hero is,
according to HTC, "the first Android phone to ship with support for Adobe® Flash® Platform technology".
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