Sure, we’ve seen plenty of Android demos in the last 8 months, but it’s not every day that Andy Rubin steps in to give a demo of the OS. That’s exactly what he did for CNET Asia the other day. Rubin used a device that “had a shape and dimensions very similar to the HTC TyTN II”, but CNET was not allowed to photograph the device. Rubin stated that the OS requires a minimum 200Mhz processor, so we know whatever the device was it ran at or above that speed. Read the rest of the article over at CNET.
UPDATE: The Revamp is almost complete, just need to drop in my logos and it should be good to go. Let me know if anything is missing. Also, there is no integration of user accounts between the blog and the forums.
In the next couple of days, expect some serious downtime for the site. We’re preparing for a large release of Android on a solid platform, which means heavy traffic. Up until now, AndroidBoards was kind of a side project, but with the new traffic and interest I’ve seen in the site, I think I’m going to take this off the back burner and give it it’s own personal server.
I could always use some help with submissions!
For those of you who care, the new version of AndroidBoards will be running on Wordpress with a PhpBB forum back-end. I am going to export the current phpBB database, rebuild a new version and drop Wordpress on top of it all with user integration (hopefully!). This could take a bit more time than I expected, so if you see the site down for several days, I’ll probably be glad to accept some help getting it back up.
It’s been spotted. Check the video below to see a great step forward in Android. I’m stoked.
Video of the Keynote, given by Google vice president Vic Gondotra, is available on YouTube. The Android walkthrough by Google engineering director Steve Horowitz starts at 21:07.
Thats what the chief operating officer of the chipset division at wireless technology and solution firm Qualcomm had to say about Google Android’s purpose while speaking to the Register.
That was not all, he went on to state that Google wants to ensure that there is no equivalent of Microsoft Office in the mobile phone market. So it seems Google’s plan for Android is more than just offering an Linux based Open-Source operating system, making sure that Microsoft does not get a iron grip on the mobile market with it’s office products is very important.
Microsoft’s Office Suite in my opinion is the best that they have to offer, and as bad as they are that fact cannot be denied. Google Applications are very important for Google going forward with Android, i mean, thats one of the reasons they push for openness in the FCC Wireless Spectrum so Google Applications are no lomger restricted from being downloaded on to Android Devices.
Maybe it was a slip of the tongue, or simply naivity of the “ramifications” of having an open-source (Read: not locked down by AT&T) phone, but yesterday at CTIA, Ralph de la Vega of AT&T stated in regard to Android that “If it’s good for customers we’ll offer it like any other OS.”
Well, we all know that it is good for the customers, so lets see some follow through, AT&T!
AndroidBoards is back online! But there’s a lot left to do. Currently we still need to integrate the forum (androidboards.com/forums) with the new software.
We’ll be hard at work to get it all up and running soon.
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