Handset manufacturers are scrambling to get their wares mated to Google’s Linux-based Android OS, and it looks like Qualcomm’s lending a helping hand. The chip-making giant has announced that it’s hooked up with several OEMs looking to launch an Android-powered handset by 2009. It makes sense for Qualcomm to help these handset manufacturers develop their…
New Motorola MotoZINE ZN5 picture
We already know that Motorola is working on a 5 megapixel monster with a Kodak shooter. The Motorola MotoZINE ZN5, as it’s called, is already known to be sporting a Montavista Linux OS, 5 megapixel Kodak branded camera, and the Morph keypad that we see in the Moto ROKR E8. But, we haven’t had a…
Interview: Enkin, augmented reality for Google’s Android
Enkin from Enkin on Vimeo. I was so impressed with the work Max Braun and Rafael Spring did with their Enkin application that I enthusiastically requested an interview. If you would like to know more about them, what they think about Google’s Android and where they see location based services heading in the future then…
HTC Dream, T-Mobile MDA Compact IV spotted?
Remember those mysterious HTC smartphones that made an appearance in the picture that Stefan found? Right, well it seems that those two HTC Kaisers (HTC TyTn II’s), HTC Touch, HTC Touch Cruise, and HTC P3470 were joined by what could be the HTC Dream. Take a look at the picture again. You see that QWERTY-sliding…
Video: Enkin, GPS based augmented reality for Google’s Android
The concept is simple, point your phone at the horizon and look at your screen to get more information about your surroundings. Rafael Spring and Max Braun wrote a program Enkin for Google’s Android that does just that as their submission to the Android Developer Challenge. With the recent announcement that KML is now an…
OpenMoko FreeRunner to be available for $399 – Open-source Linux handset set to launch
Fans of the OpenMoko Neo1973 open-source Linux handset will be glad to hear that they’ll soon be able to get their hands on the Neo1973’s successor in the near future. The OpenMoko FreeRunner sports a faster processor than its predecessor and adds three-axis motion sensors to the mix. As we saw previously, the overall aesthetic…
Opera Mini ported to Google’s Android
Opera Mini, probably the best piece of mobile software even written in the past few years, I strongly encourage you to check out Beta 4.1, has been ported to Google’s Android operating system. The processes was fairly simple, they took the original Opera Mini code base and used a wrapper that would translate J2ME API…
Mozilla Firefox codename Fennec is 600% faster than the built in browser on Nokia’s Maemo platform
Ars.technia is testing the latest nightly of the new Firefox browser for mobile devices, codename Feenec, and it appears that it is significantly faster than the one in the latest public version of Nokia’s Maemo operating system which runs on the N810 and N800 internet tablets. How much faster? How about a 6x increase in…
Nokia N810 can run Android, too!
While we’re all eager to see what will HTC announce on May 6th, some people can’t stand waiting. Hence they are presenting us a Dream tablet. Yap, they’ve succeeded to port the Android to Nokia N810 and from what we can tell, it looks pretty cool. Forget about phone functions, who needs them anyway. Stick…
Hands-on with the Sony Mylo 2 Personal Communicator
Sony launched the Mylo 2 Personal Communicator to little fanfare recently, and Akihabara scored their very own unit for a hands-on Mylo 2 experience. That hugely beautiful 3.5 inch WVGA display is mated to a slide-out QWERTY keyboard with a 1.3 megapixel camera, WiFi (802.11 a/b/g), Skype support, 1GB on-board storage, Memory Stick Duo/PRO Duo…