HTC Hero Android Mobile First Look
HTC has revealed Hero, an Android phone which support for Flash 9 and the new HTC Sense user interface. Apple have not included Flash in the latest OS 3.0 due to limitations of Apple’s iPhone SDK and its associated license. Check out the video.
Google Book Search For iPhone
More than 1.5 million books are now pushed out from the Google Book Search to your iPhone or Android phone. The new mobile editions are optimized to be read on a small screen and come with original illustrations and formatting.
Just go to books.google.com/m on your iPhone to access Google Book Search. From Google Blog: You can search for a title, author, or subject. Or you can browse the list of “Featured books” and various categories like business and economics, the classics, science and math, travel, and more. Once you’ve picked out a book or two, you can easily get back to your selections by clicking on the “Recently viewed books” under the “My books” section.
AT&T iPhone Tethering and Android
AT&T Mobility CEO Ralph de la Vega has confirmed that iPhone tethering plan coming soon. This will allow you to use your iPhone as a 3G modem when connected to your laptop.
But AT&T is not prepared to take on the Google’s Android phone until the open source platform is more mature.
Google Android Phone Released And Unboxed
There is no long lines across the street like the iPhone 3G launch, the G1, an HTC phone offered by T-Mobile that has the Google’s Android operating system, went on sale quietly. Google’s answer to Apples iTunes store, Android Market is now live with a small handful of apps.
Ed Burnett from ZDNet did the unboxing. Here is what he found: keyboard is nice, built-in camera is nothing to write home about, downloading apps is much nicer than on the iPhone as it is done in the background, serious flaw in lack of space for installing programs, battery drains quickly with wireless and GPS turned on.
Google Android Open Source Released
Google will release the Android source code to all developers. From the Android Blog, Today is a big day for Android, the Open Handset Alliance, and the open-source community. All of the work that we’ve poured into the mobile platform is now officially available, for free, as the Android Open Source Project.
You can now obtain the code and use, modify, and redistribute code anyhow you wish.
Source: Android is now available as open source
Google Android Phone Has A Kill Switch
It is now confirmed that Google can implement the kill switch to exterminate third-party applications that violates the developer distribution agreement. Apple can already remotely remove apps from iPhone to the dismay of some users. At least Google is upfront about the kill switch while Apple only inform users after it has been discovered.
Opera Goes For Google Android
Norway based Opera Software has unveiled the first major third-party browser for the Google Android mobile phone operating system. Opera mini will appear on Android as a technical preview release.
Opera CEO Jon von Tetzchner said, “Today we’re glad to deliver our mass-market mobile browser to the Android development groups. Opera Mini will be able to empower users of Android-based handsets with access to all of their favorite Web sites with popular features for smooth effects and scalable, tailored viewing.”.
Source: Opera Previews Browser for Android
