Looks like Motorola is pouring some real resources into getting an Android mobile phone out into the market. They are in the process of expanding its current 50-man Android development team into a head count of about 350.

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Google Android SDK v1.0 released

Posted Sep 24, 2008 by kihbord under Java Mobile Stuff,, , Write a comment

Our new T-Mobile G1 toy will not be complete if we won’t be able to hack it using the latest SDK. So just in sync with the just release T-Mobile G1 mobile phone, Google has released version 1.0 of the Android SDK. You can get it from the Android download page. Even though, I haven’t got a T-Mobile G1, I’m downloading the SDK right now. :-)

Android mobile phone launch just moments away, web site is up

android robotWith just moments away from the launch of the very first mobile phone to use Android open mobile platform, the T-mobile web site to launch the HTC Dream based mobile phone of T-mobile is already up and running.

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Mywaves, a top mobile entertainment provider has inked an agreement with Sony Ericsson. Mywaves will be preloaded on Sony Ericsson Java Phones according to the agreement. Mywaves provides videos, games, ringtones and wallpapers for mobile phones.

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Java-enabled phone = decrease mobile phone sales

Posted Sep 9, 2008 by kihbord under Java Mobile Stuff,, , Write a comment

I was reading an article about how the worldwide mobile phone market grew to 15 percent during the second quarter of this year but not so good compared to 60 percent earler in the year when I got stunned…

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Poll results: IDE used for mobile Java development

Posted Aug 29, 2008 by kihbord under Java Mobile Stuff,, , Write a comment

For several months, I have posted a survey of which Integrated Development Environment is being used by the visitors of javamidlet.com web site. Here’s a final tally of the results of the poll.

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Google Android Challenge list of winners released

After months of waiting (for us) and months of eye-popping adrenaline coding (for the participants) the list of Google Android Challenge winners are finally out. My congratulations to the winners of 275,000 (cab4me, CompareEverywhere, Ecorlo, GoCart, Life360, Locale, PicSay, Softrace, TuneWiki, Wertago) and 100,000 USD prices.

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Dream specs for Google Android mobile phone

Posted Aug 27, 2008 by kihbord under Java Mobile Stuff,, Write a comment

Lots of news and forum talk about Google and HTC’s upcoming mobile phone the HTC Dream. From the looks of it, the cell phone will have a 528mhz CPU from Qualcomm.

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Android bluetooth API won’t be in SDK 1.0

I’ve just read an email about Google’s explanation of why the bluetooth API for Android won’t be in version 1.0 of the SDK. It’s kinda sad ‘coz we’d have to also see some delays in I would imagine pretty good ways of using bluetooth in an open mobile platform. Google explains …

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The last couple of weeks has kept me pre-occupied a lot but its good to be back and posting online once again. I sure missed a lot of things that has been happening like Google’s recent release of version 0.9 of the Android SDK. I’m downloading it right now to give it a spin.

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