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Sneak preview of Sony-Ericson Android phone codenamed Rachel

Max — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 04:39:46 +0000

I just wrote about how I am impressed by the Palm Pre (and yeah I am mainly impressed by Palm Pre’s UI) and I am concentrating lately on UI design, so I am simply living the UI design lately and I was so much more impressed by palm than iPhone. But I still have a very warm place in heart for Android and the question is – where comes Android. And apparently there are some good news for Android. Some VERY good news for Android. Sony Ericson’s Rachel UI is looking great as well. Here’s a video of a sneak preview:

I am still under the magic of Pre’s cards though – it’s just so slick and cool, you can’t ignore it

Android market share to grow 900% in 2009

Max — Tue, 12 May 2009 03:58:30 +0000

Android market share is prognosed to grow somewhat mighty 900% in 2009 compared to its debuted year — 2008. The platform is definitely still receiving a lot of interest and attention both among the consumers and developers, but with only one headset on the market it tool about 6 month to reach 1 million units sold landmark.

Analytic companies project 900% growth and this is partly conditioned on many more devices to become available in the second part of 2009. T-Mobile has recently leaked some plans on releasing at least 3 devices. The G1 will be pretty much ending its market life span somewhere around back to school time in the end of August and will be replaced by the G2, which already is confusing everyone around with all the nicknames (Sapphire, myTouch etc…). The G2 is rumored to be priced at $179 with the plan.

Even more interest however is drawn to Samsung with its rumored Houdini and HTC Hero – another Android headset, scheduled to come out of HTC labs somewhere by third quarter of 2009.

All in all — there should be many interesting headsets coming out this year that might greatly contribute to popularity of Android headset which eventually will materialize in units sold numbers.

iPhone will definitely steal some heat from Android with 3.0 OS this year and debut of the new Palm Pre phone, which already announced early access to its SDK. And RIM will probably unveil a new phone close to BlackBerry developers conference in early November.

MultiTouch on G1 with modified Android OS

Max — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 03:52:24 +0000

Luke Hatchison has posted a while ago a demo on multitouch functionality of standard Android phone. And just recently he has posted a greatly enhanced post with more examples and directions on how to hack the G1 to allow multitouch functionality. Great and interesting read!

G1 goes to stores!

Max — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 15:49:12 +0000

As of early morning today, 10/22/08 the very first, long awaited Android device hits the markets and will be available in stores. It is called G1 and is available for now exclusively from T-Mobile. It’s definitely exciting news for us all – developers, consumers, entrepreneurs, researchers etc alike.

Cnet has a nice review with a video to get first impression on the device. Overall the review while praising the Android platform, is not in the favor of the device itself.

Also, get the promotional page from T-mobile

G1 White with QWERTY Keyboard Displayed

G1 Black with QWERTY Keyboard Displayed

G1 White Side and Front Views