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T-Mobile promises Android handset by Q4 of this year

While chances are good that someone will beat them to the punch, it looks like T-Mobile intends to come out swinging in the Android race. The company has just announced that it plans to ship its first Android-based handsets by the end of 2008. T-Mobile revealed precious few details about the actual device, but did [...]

Android gets ready to go game crazy

 
Thought Google’s upcoming Android mobile operating system was all about productivity and Google integration? Think again, Batman. We’ve just got wind of 6 new Android games that are currently under development. To be fair, none of them are going to give Bioshock a run for its money, but as far as mobile gaming applications go [...]

Run Android on your HTC TyTN II? No problem

 
Thanks to a crafty developer over at the XDA-Dev community, we’ve got a real live HTC TyTN II running a real live version of Google’s Android OS. The video is woefully short, but does show the user loading and running a working version of Android onto their HTC handset. The interesting thing here is that [...]

Opera for Android gets previewed

Opera has just released a technical preview build of their mobile browser for Google’s upcoming Android mobile Operating System. The company is currently encouraging developers and programmers to download the new software, hoping to gain as much technical feedback from the beta release as possible. While the Android SDK has been floating around for quite [...]

Is Google Getting a Bit Too Big for its Britches?

Rich Miner, Google’s VP of Mobile, used eComm yesterday to rekindle buzz surrounding Google’s upcoming mobile OS Android. How did he attempt to accomplish this? The same way most others do these days; he talked about the iPhone. Some might say that a truly innovative product speaks for itself. Creators can discuss its capabilities, as [...]

T-Mobile to have 3G by Summer, Android handset by end of 2008

Alright, so this is probably a bit too little, too late, but T-Mobile has just let slip their plans for the oft-rumored American 3G data network. According to comments made by CEO Hamid Akhavan, the company plans to roll out their 3G network in the States by sometime this Summer. There have been a significant [...]

Verizon joins the Android party

 
Resistance is futile, or so it seems, as everyone looks to be jumping on Google’s new Android mobile handset operating platform. The newest convert to the ways of Google is Verizon. The company has just announced that they will plan on using Android in one form or another. We’re guessing that this means they’ll be [...]

Google releases Android SDK

A month ago uttering the phrase "Android SDK" would have elicited little more than "whaat?" Thankfully Google has infused the term with a sense of meaning and urgency. As promised, the company released it’s software developers kit for the upcoming Android mobile phone platform. The SDK itself is cross-platform compatible, running on XP, Vista, OS [...]