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.
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 …
With Nokia already owning about 48% of the Symbian company, they have made an offer to buyout the other owners (Sony Ericsson, Samsung and others). This is in addition to its recent buying spree — they just bought a Social Network startup called Plazes.
Google showed off a demo of it’s Android open mobile platform at the Google I/O conference this week. I’m very excited about the upcoming mobile phones sporting the Android platform. You can take a look at some of the great videos and photos of the Google Android demo.
After the launch of the 10 million dollar pot for the Google Android challenge which introduced Google’s open mobile platform, the top 50 Android software list is now out.
Want to learn more about Eclipse or Android tools on Eclipse? If you’re anywhere near Googleplex on June 24, here’s your chance. Eclipse Day at the Googleplex is a half day event for developers to learn about different Eclipse projects and related technologies.
Opera has announce the technical preview release of its Opera Mini web browser for Google’s open mobile platform, Android.
Some pretty exciting things have really been happening in the mobile space. Nokia has just launched its Mobile Games Innovation Challenge to dare developers to ‘rock’ mobile games world. The Challenge is open to both Symbian and J2ME mobile games with great prices in store for the winners.
Looks like somebody got adventurous and resulted in getting the Android open mobile platform running on the Nokia N810. Pretty cool don’t you think?
Does it look like we won’t be waiting that much longer for the first Android mobile phone from HTC? Pocket-Lint has posted an article about an invitation by HTC for a launching event entitled “Witness the next wave of HTC Innovations”.
