After the first released for iPhone on mobile, Google Earth is now available on Android platform. In this release, Google is also introducing Roads layer in the new mobile version, you can add a road labels layer on top of the satellite imagery. Grab a copy of the software from Android Market if you are on Android OS 2.1.
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Pro Android is the first book that includes coverage of the new Google Android 1.5 SDK (including the branch formerly called Cupcake). This essential book covers the fundamentals of building applications for embedded devices thru through to advanced concepts, such as, custom 3D components. continue reading…
Google just released the new Android 2.0 SDK on October 27, 2009. Many new features introduced and added in the new version. Based on the official website, the Android 2.0 platform introduces many new and exciting features for users and developers. This document provides a glimpse at some of the new features and technologies in Android 2.0. continue reading…
(Techcrunh.com)
During Google’s third quarter earnings conference call today, one message came out loud and clear: Google’s mobile strategy is starting to pay off. “Android adoption is about to explode,” declared CEO Eric Schmidt, explaining that all the “necessary conditions” are set for growth: There are now 12 Android phones out there (most recently the Motorola Cliq) across 32 carriers in 26 countries. continue reading…
(Taken from Computerworld)
Verizon and Google have entered into an agreement to jointly develop wireless devices based on Google’s open-source Android mobile platform.
During a teleconference today, Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam and Google CEO Eric Schmidt outlined the companies’ new strategic partnership that will develop Android-based smartphones, PDAs and netbooks, and deliver users with applications sold through the Android Market app store. Verizon says that it will have two Android-based handsets on the market by year-end with more to come by 2010. continue reading…
(Taken from Computerworld)
While the Google-backed Android mobile operating system currently runs on less than 2% of all smartphones, Gartner Inc. predicts it will surge to 14% of the global smartphone market in 2012 — ahead of the iPhone, as well as Windows Mobile and BlackBerry smartphones.
In that year, Gartner forecasts Android will actually rank second globally, behind the Symbian OS, which is used in Nokia devices that are highly popular in Europe and many countries outside the U.S. Symbian now runs on about half of all smartphones, but will fall to 39% in 2012, Gartner says. continue reading…
Android OS is an operating system developed by Google based on Linux kernel. Firstly this OS is for mobile phones in respond of Apple’s iPhone but now it can be installed on netbooks also. I have not tried yet to install it on my notebook because my notebook already full with three operating systems inside it (Windows, Opensolaris and Slackware 
). So I install the Android OS on Virtualbox to have a try. continue reading…
(Taken from PCMag)
Android smart phones. Cheap Android phones. Android phones on the Nextel/Boost iDen network. Motorola CEO Sanjay Jha said many of next year’s Motorola phones will run the Google Android OS in a call with analysts today, continuing a big bet on the Linux-based system.
“The majority of our new devices will be smartphones, as we expand Android across a broader set of price points,” Jha said. continue reading…
