All Posts Tagged With: "android"
BuddyMob caught my attention. I’ve been looking for an Android IM client — and it appears that is BuddyMob… and thensome.
The release states that:
BuddyMob is a single tool that enables continuous contact with friends via instant messaging, geo-tagged multimedia content sharing, micro-blogging, positioning on GoogleMaps, and a live instant feed to and from users’ [...]
Just in case there weren’t enough reasons to stay clear of the G1, it appears there’s an issue with security and root level access to the Linux kernel.
Rumour mill has hit overdrive of late, with an issue over privileged access to the operating system’s core being exposed.
Google has put out a fix for this issue, [...]
Research firm iSuppli has it the G1 costs just $144 to build, where it’s selling for $179 in the states.
All the materials and components used just add up to a meagre amount, a lot lower than we would expect in terms of the profitability normally associated with handsets.
The HTC manufactured device, minus the software, research [...]
I’m thoroughly enjoying reading the perspectives of the executives we’ve contacted to give us their viewpoints on the new T-Mobile G1.
Andrew Henning is CEO of Redweb (a leading digital agency). Redweb has a team of over 45 people turning over 2.5 million a year working with the likes of Norwich Union, Sky and the [...]
As reported in the Sydney Morning Herald Kogan Technologies, a small Australian discount electronics manufacturer, has announced it will launch a $199 handset by December 15th. Details are a little thin on the ground, but owner Rusian Kogan told the Herald:
…[the] phone would look similar to the iPhone in that it would be a touch-screen [...]
Play.com are already showing the ‘HTC G1′ (that’s the T-Mobile G1 to the rest of us) available SIM-free, available from mid-November. The details and pictures look right, with a prominent HTC logo on the side in lieu of the T-Mobile one, but this seems a bit soon after the launch to be officially sanctioned…
At £599.99 [...]
What’s the industry thinking about the G1 launch? Let’s hear from one of the top chaps at Amdocs. If you haven’t come across them, they’re a $3 billion 17,000 employee behemoth, serving the back-offices of many huge providers in the telecommunications industry. (Think China mobile, Japan Telecom, Vodafone, BT, Cable & [...]
Continue ReadingFor the last four hours I have been trying to get the G1’s IM client to add another account. I’m using my main Mobile Industry Review account on the device — but I have a load of other accounts that I’d like to use — MSN, Yahoo and so on — but I can’t [...]
Continue ReadingI paid the 500 quid for the StarTac back in 1999. It was a brilliant, revolutionary handset. My favourite feature was the fact it carried a credit card sized sim card. Not that useful but I liked the concept. Of course the form factor was simply amazing.
I was the coolest kid at [...]
It’s raining updates for the users of T-Mobile G1. While most of us are yet to lay our hands on the first Android phone, the lucky few who went ahead and bought it already have had to update the build OTA.
While the popular word is that the build number is RC28, one reader over at [...]
I’m particularly excited about getting proper hands-on with the T-Mobile G1 to look at it’s email functionality. I didn’t get much of a chance to check out the functionality in-depth during the T-Mobile launch party as we were filming the whole time (see the results here).
I wondered how business-critical the Gmail functionality [...]
When, on the 30th of October, you walk out your local T-Mobile Shop with your brand new G1 Google Android phone, what applications will you be able to download?
Well, I’ll tell you.
We’ve got the list from T-Mobile:
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Shopping
Barcode Scanner v2.1 – Scans and recognises the barcode of any product
ShopSavvy – Compares prices [...]
Wow! Doesn’t time just fly by? I’ve been away for a month – organising myself with school and the various activities I’m involved in, and it feels like forever! Never fear though, because now I’m back. Well, for once a week that is!
Now school’s are a hostile environment (well, at least mine is), and navigating [...]
If you haven’t seen this weeks Mobile Industry Review Show, then go and check it out now!
If you have seen it then you can now play with Android yourself here.
As you can imagine all the functions are not available, however for those of you who have only read about the device this is your opportunity [...]
Continue ReadingThis week, we’ve turned Google.
And courtesy of T-Mobile UK’s branding of their launch event, we’ve — generally — gone pink, too. Yes indeed, last week we were at T-Mobile’s Winter launch, checking out what’s coming for the all-important Christmas period.
The Nokia N96, the LG Renoir, the E71, one of the top Samsungs, as [...]
Nokia’s much talked about digital music site, Nokia Music Store has been officially launched in Spain today allowing all the spanish customers to enjoy portable music whenever they wish to.
The Nokia Music Store currently boats a wide catalogue of over 4 million songs, with tracks from record labels and indie artists alike. The spanish version [...]
Ah hah!
I just had a note in from Oliver regarding the T-Mobile event we’re filming at next week. There’s going to be Android units galore to check out. I’m looking forward to that — and I’m looking forward to seeing what the MIR Show team, Dan Lane, Ben Smith and James Whatley, make [...]
Phil Chambers is currently CTO at Qype.com, having previously been responsible for scaling Gumtree.com’s platform and before that building large-scale systems for Accenture.
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Qype is the largest local review site in Europe and thus Phil a rather direct interest in the arrival of Android, since they have a heck of a lot [...]
Rikke has been around the block in the mobile and telecoms industries — in fact she’s worked in and around the marketplace for over 20 years. Currently Managing Director of Global Telecoms at Dexterra (and also VP of EMEA), I wondered what she made of Google and T-Mobile’s Android announcements. Here we go:
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Julian is wondering if Google Android is the real deal. Let’s see what he’s got to say:
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First of all it’s great to see a new platform entering the market as this extra competition is just what the market needs to spur it on to more innovative development. It’s a great challenge [...]
Jonathan is CEO of mobile marketing specialists, Reactor. I was rather interested to see what he’d make of the Android launch. Here we go:
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At last the first phone based on Google’s Android platform is here but will it be enough to capture consumer enthusiasm?
The promise of an open platform [...]
I’m thoroughly enjoying reading the Android perspectives of executives across the telecoms industry — and beyond. I’m really pleased to be able to bring you a slightly different viewpoint from Christian Howes, Digital Solutions Architect at web marketing & analytics leaders, WebTrends.
Over to you, Christian:
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The cynics amongst us might suggest [...]
I’m delighted to be able to bring you Stefan’s viewpoints on Google Android. Formerly Master Blogger at Ringnokia.com, Stefan is a total nokia fiend. So much so he’s moved to Finland to be near the ‘mothership’ (as our very own James Whatley describes it). Although heavily involved with Nokia, I suspected that Stefan [...]
Continue ReadingDan Pullen, our resident new student (lots coming from him over the next few days, by the way) has been peering closely at the Android launch and has this good summary to report:
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Yesterday T-Mobile, Google and HTC officially realised their first mobile device to hit the world market. The HTC Dream [...]
Our man Mark is there, hands-on, playing with the T-Mobile G1…
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