November 2008
5 posts
2009 - The Coming Android Explosion
With an Australian Android handset and several Chinese Android phones set for release towards the end of this year and into 2009, I think it’s safe to say we’re looking at an incredible increase in global Android market penetration, particularly in Asian markets.
The concurrent announcement from China Mobile that they will be opening a Chinese “app store” means that not...
Market Researcher: Google Phones Will Overtake...
A fascinating post from this past July, over at googleandblog.com:
“Bill Hughes, from the market research firm In-Stat, predicts in 2009 Google Android phones will have 17.1 million units sold which is almost twice the predicted amount of iPhones at 9.5 million - with the help of China.”
Frequent comparison of the iPhone and Android is a media favorite. Does the scale of...
Smuggled G1 Phones Flooding Beijing
Some interesting news via JLM Pacific Epoch:
“U.S.-ordered G1 handsets have been pouring into China illegally since October 26, and are currently selling for about RMB 3,999 (USD$585.04) in Beijing’s Zhongguancun”
Perhaps this kind of demand in China itself will kickstart third party manufacture of alternative Android platform handsets for the rest of us elsewhere?
China's TechFaith making an Android handset in...
By way of talkandroid.com, originally from Interfaxchina (subscription):
“The development of a prototype Android phone has basically been completed. However, the launch of commercial products is unlikely to happen before the end of this year,” Ji Changxi, a senior vice president of TechFaith, told Interfax.
TechFaith manufactures a wide variety of GSM and CDMA “dual-sim” and...
Android on Openmoko Phones
David J, a reader, points out today: An Openmoko project hacker named Benno seems to have Google Android running on a Neo 1973. The Neo 1973 was the first phone produced by the Openmoko project, an effort to produce a fully open source phone running Linux.
It ain’t exactly running fast yet, and not everything it working 100%, but I think most of the tricky bits are done.
There’s also an...