February 4, 2008 at 5:35 am · Authored by Ewan · Filed under Devices

The Gizmodo chaps have got hold of the above picture apparently of a Google Android prototype ‘in the wild’. The bit that catches my attention? How *fast* it apparently operates. Bodes well. I am OK with Windows Mobile devices nowadays, but I still have a thing about how s.l.o.w. they are — you can often literally feel the operating system arsing about loading sound files and animations that are hugely annoying when you just.want.it.to.work. Android and Apple’s iPhone… they’re really (hopefully) pushing the incumbent mobile manufacturers to innovative. We’ll see how innovative come Mobile World Congress next week.

Link: Android Hardware In The Wild: Google Android Prototype In the Wild

Here’s the first gorgeous shot of an Google Android prototype in the wild. It looks HTC-ish in build, similar to the grainy versions we’ve seen in the official videos and the renderings in the SDK emulator. Our source, a Giz reader, had some feedback to add to the prototype, which he used for a day: Even in early form, it’s light and fast, much faster than the desktop emulator at times.