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While we are still waiting for its nüvifone mobile phone, intended for 2009, marketing director of Garmin Asia Pacific, Tony An, announced that they want to develop a range of mobile phones based on Android. This range could be available during the second half of 2009. And no, unfortunately, no more information to eat …
The more you look it, the more the T-Mobile G1 mobile phone resembles to an unfinished product, something that would be corrected on the G2. According to the rumors found on the Internet about the T-Mobile G2, it includes a full touch screen, no physical QWERTY keyboard. The trackball is still there, and there are opportunities that it will be released in April because of software problems. It’s likely that T-Mobile is the operator of choice, as G1, G2, G3 and so on are the brands of the operator. The G2 mobile phone seems logical, since the HTC Touch HD isn’t available in US.
Huawei confirms the release of a mobile phone with Android in the 3rd quarter of 2009. No idea of the countries where this mobile phone will release, and no idea about its specifications. Just have to be patient …
Documents To Go, this software suite for mobile phones (already available on Palm OS, Windows Mobile and Symbian) to create, edit and view Excel, Word and Powerpoint documents will therefore appeared on Android in the year 2009. Finally, the release date was not revealed, but you can still register on http://www.dataviz.com/android to be notified as soon as it becomes available.
What’s the best mobile phones in the world today? After excluding the high-end mobile phones of Amosu and Vertu, we still have the iPhone or something similar. Well, sorry to upset you, but the iPhone has a serious competitor: the Lenovo Ophone. This Android smartphone with a touchscreen has been specially designed to work with the Open Mobile System of China Mobile. In other words, you will not find the Lenovo Ophone operate outside China, then hope that the guys from HTC will build and release a similar smartphone in the future.
Our Australian friends can enjoy the last Android smartphone without having to buy the G1 – it’s the Kogan Agora Pro. The Agora Pro includes the following specifications:
The Agora Kogan Pro costs a price of $AU 399 ($US 260), but if you take the basic version (without the camera, Wi-Fi and GPS), it costs $AU 100 ($US 65) less. These smartphones will be available only from 29 January 2009.
The Flash technology is used on 98% of desktops, but Adobe has difficult to integrate it into mobile devices. The only alternative is Flash Lite which is not supported by most platforms. At the Adobe MAX developer conference, the company has demonstrated Flash 10 on a device running with Windows Mobile and another with Android.
On the other hand, it seems that the advent of the Flash technology on Apple iPhone is still a sweet dream, but according to Adobe, the problem would be especially on the side of Apple. Indeed, the Cupertino firm argues that Flash is too greedy (CPU) and is not optimized for the ARM11 processor of the iPhone.
Just a few days after the discovery of an “vulnerability” in the T-Mobile G1 to gain root access to the system, Google has updated its Android operating system, which is used for the RC30 version. This new version fixes this vulnerability, of course, prohibiting the same time full access to system files.
The work once again by Jay Freeman, author of Cydia, Cycorder and WinterBoard for iPhone, who has managed to bring Debian on the G1 of HTC. Note that Debian does not replace Android, but just mixing with it, all without any loss of functionality. The complete tutorial to install it is on the blog of the author.
