The Google Android team recently launched a challenge to encourage development for their new cellphone based platform. Part of the first phase was to narrow down the 1,788 submissions to the best 50 application ideas. Theyā€™ve posted the complete list of winners on their website and put together a little slide show(PDF) as well. As part of the challenge some $10,000,000 is up for grabs from Google.
Google has made a habit of throwing its considerable weight behind a project and making it succeed. The company’s Android project, its effort at creating a Linux-based smartphone, is running into delays, while a similar effort by the LiMo Foundation already has produced handsets.
Making good software for mobile phones is hard — even for a technically adept company like Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) Latest News about Google.
Indeed, it’s so difficult that the fleet-footed champion of search advertising E-Mail Marketing Software - Free Trial. Click Here. finds itself in the unaccustomed position of playing catch-up to normally slow-moving industry behemoths.
As Google scrambles to release its mobile phone code sometime later this year, a nonprofit consortium of some of the world’s biggest telecommunications companies and handset makers has quietly beaten the search giant.
Given the hype around anything with a single-letter prefix–m-commerce, e-learning, iPhone–last year’s speculation over a Google “gPhone” sent the blogosphere into overdrive. The Android mobile phone platform that Google actually launched, however, took things in quite a different direction.
Like Patton cutting across France, Google looks set to give mobile Linux its worldwide breakout with its GPhone announcement, now expected on November 5.After parsing through all the stories and speculation, it seems Google will announce a mobile Linux reference platform, an initial manufacturer, and an advertising-driven business model for mobile services. Each one of those steps could spark a revolution:
According to man-about-town, Robert X. Cringely, Samsung is readying not one, but two separate Android-based phones, one of which is due in September, with another model following around Christmas. If you believe what you read (and what his tipster says), these phones will not be labeled Samsung, rather they will be released as Google-branded Gphones. The model released in the Fall will be a “higher-end” model which apparently looks “somewhat like a Blackberry Pearl” but with a screen that flips and “a keyboard for texting” (though to be honest, that description makes little sense, as the Pearl has a keyboard). The second device will be a cheaper model (under $100), and will likely be released after the holidays. Of course, right now this is just speculation — given the large gap of time between now and September, these plans could be completely rearranged or nixed altogether… even if they are accurate.
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Sorry people, but there is no Gphone like we expected, but.. there is Open source-like system called Android.
Android is a software stack for mobile devices that includes an operating system, middleware and key applications. This early look at the Android SDK provides the tools and APIs necessary to begin developing applications on the Android platform using the Java programming language.
Only 2 days left untill Google will say something to us. Like we said before November 5th is the date when all rumors will be shuted down. When the Wall Street Journal mentions a date or a place, you tend to pay attention. The stock-market rag is now reporting that the infamous Gphone will be making its official appearance on Monday. On the flip side, some say the story is that Google-partner Android will deliver news of an SDK for a new mobile OS — a “complete software stack” based on Linux. Of course, we’re not going to be placing any bets on said activity, because with the way things have been playing out thus far, it seems pretty unwise to make wagers - unless they’re on the fact that no one really knows right now. So, if by Monday night you’re sobbing uncontrollably because the obviously-life-changing device / software never made a showing, don’t say we didn’t warn you.
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by ValleyWag was reporting earlier today that Marissa Mayer, Google “eccentric queen of search,” could be “skipping out” on the Web 2.0 Summit today in San Francisco. T’aint so, says Google PR.
I just spoke to Google PR operative Larry Wu, who told me that “I just spoke to her admin,” and Mayer is still on for her talk at the Summit later on today (not to mention her one-on-one with this reporter). The rumor that Mayer might be a no-show belongs to the body of fear, rumor, and speculation I like to refer to as “El Goog.”
Pssst, hereā€™s the latest Google rumor: A UBS analyst has confirmed that Taiwanese handset manufacturer HTC will ship about 50,000 cell phones (Gphones)running on a mobile operating system made by the Mountain View, Calif.-based search giant by the end of this year.
Last week a Wall Street analyst reported that Googleā€™s shares would crack $700 with plans to make its own phone. Most, however, suspect that Google (GOOG) is making a mobile operating system that could work on any mobile device.
