the journal of google phone and android platform
It’s the ’sold-out’ competition! 
Developers from over 70 countries have submitted 1,788 entries to the Android Developer Challenge. 50 semifinalists will be awarded $25,000 each to fund further development next month and then compete for ten $275,000 awards, and ten $100,000 awards. The winners will be announced on July 21.
Source: PCWorld
Android’s developers might waited to read this news:
IBM’s DeveloperWorks has published a tutorial on using the Eclipse-based developer tools for Google’s Android mobile phone platform to work with XML. Frank Abelson’s latest exploration of Linux-based Android platform shows how to use XML to build a mobile RSS reader.
The Google Adroid platform for mobile devices is getting ready to go now. Supported by Taiwanese handset maker HTC, Google Android device will be called the Dream.
…the Dream is just over 5 inches long and 3 inches wide and has a keyboard that is located under the display. There is some mechanism for sliding the display out of the way to use the keyboard and Engadget has created a mock-up of a device that has these characteristics. HTC announced last year that they would be the first to market with a Google Android device, but Samsung is also working hard to roll out their device.
And Google’s Android will lead the way.
According to ZDNet blogger, the iPhone and the Google Android platform, actually aren’t mobile telephones, but Internet clients.
Strapped for cash? Well you can put your brains to earn some cash by participating in the Google Android Developer Challenge. Google provide US$10 million for great apps built on the Android platform. That’s a lot, Man!!
Verizon Wireless seems to consider to join the 34 Open Handset Alliance members in supporting Android mobile phone platform.
When Verizon Wireless announced its plans to open its wireless network to third-party apps and unlocked handsets, last week, there was little question amongst members of the press that Google’s recently announced Open Handset Alliance had played something of a role in pushing the nation’s second largest wireless carrier–long known for being the most restrictive–toward this newfound openness.
During a Q&A session at the end of the press conference, one reporter asked Verizon chief executive Lowell McAdam whether the company’s new open intiative, set to be launched toward the beginning of next year, also signaled that the company was more seriously considering joining the 34 companies that had signed up for Android–a move Verizon had previously been very weary of making.
Source: PCMag
Learn and download the *Unoficial* Android’ GTalk Client Application here. Hurry up!
To some extend, I believe that gPhone (or Google Phone with its Android’s platform) would be the phone of the future.
The idle screen of a cellular phone now can show mobile advertisement. A Dutch company i-wood has made it possible. The most interesting thing is that the banners are stored locally and are synchronized periodically with the servers of i-wood.
Sounds nice, why do we need Android (gphone) at all
? I-wood even has quite witty promotional video, much better than Google’s
