Archive for the ‘Android’ category
ICD Vega Android tablet
April 8th, 2010
Vega Tablet
Android’s progressive spread to non-smartphone devices continues, with the latest manufacturer to jump on the open-source Google bandwagon to be Innovative Converged Devices (ICD). The ICD Vega will initially have a 15.6-inch 1366 x 768 resistive touchscreen, paired with NVIDIA’s Tegra chipset, Android 2.0, integrated WiFi b/g/, Bluetooth 2.1 and 3G WWAN data, with the company expecting to ship the tablet in the first half of 2010 across hroughout North America, Europe, Latin America and the Middle East.
Reference:
http://www.slashgear.com/icd-vega-15-inch-android-2-0-tablet-arrives-2010-1363451/
http://convergeddevices.net/products/vega.html
Nexus One – The Google Phone
January 6th, 2010After the launch of the Android platform targeting mobile phones and netbooks, Google is now launching its own phone.
More details here and here. If its being driven by the Snapdragon processor from Qualcomm. Then the gap between phones and computers in terms of processor speed has become that much narrower. Snapdragon was designed to run at speeds in excess of 1GHz. If your brand new phone is already looking paler, we are on the same boat 
Android Development Phone Video
November 29th, 2009Sorry for the abrupt ending. Come back for more.
What is : Android
October 28th, 2009Android is an operating system for ‘mobile’ devices. Mobile devices here means any class of device that has a processor with sufficient capacity to run a light weight operating systems. E.g. Mobile Telephone, Net Books etc. Android is promoted by Google.
Android Logo
At the top level, any body can download SDK provided by Android and write applications for Android products in Java language. For E.g. an application to take notes, an address book, a camera application etc. These applications can be published to Android users for free or for a fee through Android Market Place. There are many applications available in Market Place for consumption.
Some of the interesting applications are: one that combines the location information read from your mobile devices GPS module combined with Google Maps to show meta data information on interesting places nearby. Or the one in which you can point your mobile phone camera at the night sky and get information on what constellation you are pointing at and if you are seeing any of the planets.
At a deeper level, each of the user level applications run on JVM ( Java Virtual Machine ). Yes each of the application run on its own JVM called ‘Dalvik‘. Each instance of Dalivk runs in its own thread context. And at the heart of Android is Linux – a customized version suitable for Android application. So Android also has a stripped down version of libC called ‘Bionic‘.
The source code for the Android and along with Java modules can be downloaded and compiled. (Will post about how to do this will follow in days).
T-Mobile G1 (HTC) was the first phone to feature an Android framework. Now almost all major players have at least one model with Android or have plans in pipeline for one.
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