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2010-06-11   Soccer fans using Sprint can watch most of the 2010 FIFA World Cup Soccer matchesLive with ESPN Mobile TV on Android’s

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 HTC EVO 4G.

Verizon customers’ will get to wat ch all 64matches via live st reams f rom Univision (aSpanish-language broadcasts) of the 2010FIFA World Cup soccer matches viaVerizon’s Mobile TV, V-CAST .

2010-06-

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The much anticipated world’s first 4G (Wi-Max)

capable Smartphone, the HTC EVO 4G with 4.3”screen released by Sprint. See link above for specification, pictures, and video.

2010-04-29

HTC Incredible released by Verizon . Thisis similar to t he Nexus One but newer,better, and with more features. Verizondecide t o cancel t he Nexus One (which isalso a phone made by HTC) and int roducedthis phone instead.

See what other networks are carrying.

2010-04-27

 ARM (Video) Interest ing video showing an Androidpowered robot solved Rubik’s cube puzzlein record t ime.

2010-04-19

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2010-04-15 GPNC(Korea)

(Announced) Second Android TV announced . This oneis f rom Korea and was announced just 10days aft er the first one came out (seepicture).

2010-04-05

‘People of Lava’(Sweden)

(Announced) World’s First Android TV.

 A company in Sweden called “People of Lava” announced the World’s First HDTVthat runs on the Android operation system.The first model introduced is a 42-inch tobe f ollowed by 47 and 55-inch models. Init ialrelease to the European market bySeptember 2010.

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2010-04-02

Compared to any other Smartphoneplatform, Android’s web traf f ic data has

increased dramatically. See graph here.

2010-03-18

SAIC (China) (Announced) World’s First Android Car .

SAIC (Shanghai Automotive Industry

Corporation) announced the first car to beequipped with Google’s Android operat ingsyst em. Now in product ion and will behitting the streets by April 23, 2010. Pictureand article.

2010-03-16

Black DuckSoftware

  Open Source Developers pick Android

over the iPhone. According to the BlackDuck Sof tware analysis, Android opensource developers are now 3 times morethan the iPhone desp ite iPhone early lead.

2010-03-16

  Google release the AT&T’s version of HTC “Nexus One Google phone”. Thisversion supports the 3G/UMTS bands(850/1900/2100 MHz) for AT&T (U.S.) andRogers Wireless (Canada). The T-Mobileversion was released on 2010-01-05.

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2010-03-15 Tim Bray, a prominent developer, and a

co-inventor of the XML web st andard,

 joins Google. In a blog post , he explainsthat he is drawn to Google in part becausehe hates the closed and controllingenvironment of the iPhone.

2010-03-12 (Cellphone

inventor)

  Martin Cooper, the inventor of the first

handheld cellular phone (1973) ditchedthe iPhone for an Android cellphone.

He admitted this on C-SPAN cable TVnetwork saying that he loves the idea of anopen, and f ree OS. He ditched t he iPhone infavor of the Verizon’s Motorola DROID. Hesaid that so f ar he has some favorableresults. Here is the 32 minute video f rom C-SPAN with Martin Cooper as their guest .

2010-03-

08

Swype Swype - of ficial beta release for 

Android.

Swype has just announced their first officialBeta release f or Android. Swype is analternative keyboard t hat allows you toswipe t hrough the let ters of a word rather than typing them one-by-one. This is amuch more eff icient way t o use the virtualon-screen keyboard. See video here.

2010-03-08

Intel, Sony,Logitech,and DishNetwork.

Google has t eamed up Intel, Sony, andLogitech to create an open standard for 

the cable and satellite TV set- top boxesto run Android. It is reported that test ing isalready underway in conjunction with theDish Network. See article.

2010-03-08

Android Nat ive Developer Kit (NDK) revision3 released. Revision 3 a llows support for astandard graphics interface called OpenGL ES2.0 with a minimal se t of headers for C++support . This allow for graphic intensive software

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development such as gaming.

Most Android app lication run in a variation of theJava programming environment. This aid apps tomove more easily from one hardware device toanother without any compa tibility issues. G oog lealso lets those apps bypass the Java layer for some direct communications with the hardwarethrough its NDK interfaces.

2010-03-07

Motorola Backflip, AT&T’s f irst Androidphone released. Will also appear in Europeand Asia somet ime in 2010. Featured aphysical keyboard that can be f olded backbehind t he screen allowing for a larger keyboard. Backflip automatically entersalarm clock mode when in the tabletopstand configuration.

Link to pict ure and specif icat ion. Phonecost one cent (free) through Amazon with AT&T service contract.

2010-03-03

DARPA (Announced) DARPA picks Android over iPhone or Windows Mobile.

The U.S. Department of Defense's DARPA(Defense Advanced Research Project s Agency) unveiled a proposal seeking newapps for small device useful for militaryusage. DARPA required that "all apps

should t arget the Android platf orms".

2010-03-

03

(New app) Gesture Search. Google's just announced

a brand new app that lets you search your phone by drawing let ters. It works byidentifying your on-screen gestures andusing them to dig through your contacts,apps, bookmarks, and music. Available ondevices running Android 2.0 and above.

2010-03-02

(Lawsuit) Apple announced a bizarre lawsuit againstHTC on patent infringement of the iPhone. HTC isthe Taiwan cellphone manufacturer which makes

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the first Android G1 phone and also Google's'Nexus One'. Many view this as a desperateproxy suit against Google.

In a compla int filed in the De laware court, Applecried "Apple has suff ered irreparable injuryfor which there is no adequate remedy atlaw and will continue to suffer suchirreparable injury".

One of the patent infringement include such basictechnology like supply less voltage to conservepower, the same technology found on many of today's laptop computers. Others include objectoriented graphics on a cell phone, touch screenunlocking, and multi-touch gesture co ntrol. Moreon this from the dailytech.com.

2010-02-22 Myriad(Switzerland)

 Android Sof tware Accelerator launched.

Dalvik Turbo Virtual Machine release byMyriad (Zurich-based mobile technology firm).Myriad's Dalvik Turbo basically replaces the

existing Dalvik engine with a more po werfulversion, speeds up app lication execution byup to 3 times, preserves battery life, and allowsfor more powerful apps - like games. This isdesigned for phone manufacturers and OEM. It isnot something yo u can install on your phoneyourself. It currently runs on Android 1.5, 1.6, 2.0,and 2.1. That pretty much cover almost all Androiddevices to-date.

 A side- by-side video comparison of a benchmarktest showing Dalvik T urbo is 3 times faster thanstandard Android.

 A side- by-side video comparison of Dalvik Turboon a 3D graphic benchmark.

2010-02-22 (New App) Google Earth release f or Android 2.1

2010-02-16(MWG)

(Announced) During a Webcast presentat ion at t heMobile World Congress (MWG) inBarcelona, Spain, Google CEO Eric Schmidt

 

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 stated that 60,000 Android cellphones

now ship every single day. He added t hatthe company now boasts 26 diff erent

models of Android handsets supportedby 60 carriers currently on the market in 49

countries. This works out t o about 5.4million cellphones per quarter, or 21.9 millionper year.

2010-02-04

(Rejection) Apple banned the word “Android” from Apple’s App Store. Apple’s f ear f or Androidis somewhat obvious but t o go t o thisextreme? Did this get started becauseGoogle enabled the mult itouch feature t wodays ago (see below)?

Link to PCWorld Magazine art icle.

2010-02-02 Google enabled multi-touch feature on

Android 2.1 Update-1. Multitouch featureis native to Android but was disabled for the U.S. market . This has been somewhatpolit ical. Note that this happened just twodays af ter St eve Jobs angry “Make nomistake” statement.

More info on t his here.

2010-02-03

  The Weather Channel of fers an innovativeway f or Google Android phone users t odownload their app directly f rom a TV.

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2010-01-31 (Angry) "Make no mistake they want to kill the

iPhone" says angry Steve Jobs, CEO andFounder of Apple. He also add t hat "we did

not enter the search business, they

entered the phone business”, insinuat ingthat Apple did not compete with Google bystart ing a search engine business soGoogle has no right to enter the cellphone

 

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 business, however f orgett ing that Appleitself was never a t elecommunicationcompany t o begin with. Coincidence thatthis outburst happens just six days aft er the IDC forecast (see below)?

Link to 1st news article. Link to 2nd art icle.

2010-01-25 IDC (Indust ry Analyst)

Premier globalprovider of marketintelligence,advisoryservices for IT,telecom., andconsumer technology.

(Announced) IDC forecas t that Android will experience thefast est growth of any mobile operating

system.

Starting with only 690 thousand in 2008, IDCpredicts that the total Android- powered shipmentwill reach 68 million units by 2013.

Globa lly, this will make Android ahead of iPhone (from Apple) , BlackBerry (from ResearchIn Motion), and Windows Mo bile (from Microsoft).

The IDC projection nearly mirrors the recentfindings (4 months ag o) by G artner Inc. See2009-10-06.

2010-01-20 (Announced) Mot orola's VP f or Asia Pacif ic, SpirosNikolakopoulos, told Cnet Asia t hatMotorola plans to launch 20 to 30

Android-based smartphones in 2010.

2010-01-20 T-Mobile released a special new Limited

Edition of the myTouch (simply a HTCMagic) called “myTouch 3G Fender ”. Thisphone is targeted t o guitar fans

specifically Eric Clapton. The Limited

Edition Fender phone is meant to evoke thesunburst f inish of a classic Fender guitar.

Link to picture and specification.

2010-01-18 Rumor about a WiMAX (4G) cellphone

f rom HTC called “Supersonic” with a

4.3” screen, 11 mm t hick, running Android2.1 (Flan). Mobile WiMAX is a 4th generationcellular standard (4G), allowing for a

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 theoretical downlink data rate of 128 Mbps(broadband speed). In pract ice the Sprint’s4G speed is in the range of 3 t o 6 Mbpswith a peak of 10 Mbps.

2010-01-17 Akazawa(Japan)

Akazawa of Japan demonstrat e anAndroid cellphone controlling a robot.

Link to a video demo.

2010-01-14

(China)

Outside U.S.(China)

ZTE of China announced that it has joinedthe Open Handset Alliance (OHA) andconfirmed plans to launch Android-

powered smartphones in the first

quarter of 2010. This will be the 2nd major company from China (after Huawei) to bedesigning and manufacturing Androidphones.

2010-01-12 Android 2.1 SDK “Flan” released.

2010-01-07 (CES)

TouchRevolution

Touch Revolution is a company that offersa t ouch-screen technology t hat usesAndroid on kitchen appliance such asMicrowave Oven, and Washing Machine.Link to pict ures.

2010-01-06 (CES)

(Announced) CEO Ralph de la Vega of AT&T Mobilitydivision, announced their first 3 Android

smartphones for the AT&T network. Thephones will be from Motorola, Dell Mini 3,

and HTC. "All of t hese phones will go onsale in the first half of this year (2010)".

2010-01-06 (CES)

According t o President and CEO, Dr. Scott Ahn of LG Elect ronics Inc. (Korea) isplanning to release more than 10 Androidbased smartphones in 2010.

2010-01-06 (CES)

Dell Mini 3 was first announced on Nov 13,2009 f or China and Brazil’s market . Today

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 Dell announced t hat t he market will beexpanded this year (2010) to the U.S.

(AT&T), Malaysia (Celcom), Singapore (M1& Starhub), Europe (Vodafone), Brazil(Claro), Australia, and New Zealand. 

2010-01-06 (CES)

GT540:

(Europe -

February 2010)(Globally - April2010).

LG’s announcements and press releases havebeen somewhat confusing and difficult to follow.

LG GW620 "Etna" (formerly "Eve/Slider") wasfirst announced on 9/14/2009 as the first Androidphone from LG. It has a slideout physicalkeyboard, 3” screen, 5 Megapixel camera, and Android 1.5 (Cupcake) .

LG GW880 “Amundsen” was announced on11/25/2009 as the 2nd Android phone from LG.Touchscreen keyboard only, 3.5” (800 x 480pixels), 5 Megapixel camera, and built- in CMMB(China Multi Media Broadcasting) TV tuner.

LG GT540 “Swift ” is supposed to be their 3rd Android phone but LG is calling this their 2ndphone, somehow ignoring their GW880, perhapsbecause the GW880 is being marketedexclusively to China. The GT540 is a mid-end Android phone with only 400 x 240 pixel 3”screen, but its 3 Megapixel camera comes withface tracking feature, and no physical keyboard.

2010-01-05(CES)

 

or unlocked.

 

Google announced ‘Nexus One’, a Googlebranded Android phone manufact ured byHTC, a Taiwan company. $180 t hrough T-Mobile (T-Mobile’s 5th Android phone) or $530 unlocked. Vodafone in Europe later 

this year (2010).

This phone was also planned for theVerizon network but was replaced wit h abetter phone called the HTC Incredible on April 29, 2010. It was also released for  AT&T on March 16, 2010.

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Timelinefrom Androidbeginningto 2009

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