Android marches on

Posted on May 30, 2009 by Mark Urbin

Andy Rubin, Google’s senior director for mobile platforms claims that Android will be on 18-20 mobile phones from over a half dozen manufactures by the end of the year. It will be interesting to see how much of the iPhone/Blackberry Smart Phone market all the G-Phones manages to get. Google’s Android on more platforms than WINCE [...]

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The first Android Netbook

Posted on April 26, 2009 by Mark Urbin

Back in early November of last year, I predicted that Android would be running on Netbooks before Windows 7. Last month, it came out that Asus had Android running on one of their netbooks in a lab. Now ComputerWorld is reporting that Guangzhou Skytone Transmission Technologies Co. Ltd, based in Communist China, will have their Alpha 680 [...]

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New Android Phones

Posted on March 19, 2009 by Mark Urbin

The makers of the G1 announce that they are working on three new Android based phones. Details only on one.  About the same size as the G1, but no physical keyboard. I’m interested to see how Google responds to the latest iPhone firmware announcement.

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Android as a Netbook OS

Posted on March 4, 2009 by Mark Urbin

There has been grumbling about the lack of cell phone platforms available for Google’s Android OS. Perhaps it is because the cell phone platform was just a Beta test for Android. Rumors about Android being targeted for Netbooks have been around for a while.  Well, it’s not a rumor anymore.  Android has been successfully loaded [...]

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Google’s GDrive

Posted on January 26, 2009 by Mark Urbin

The rumors are flying hot and heavy that Google will start offering online storage.  Ya, you get space with Gmail and with their online photo storage service, but this would be generic storage space. It will be interesting to see how much ‘free’ space Google offers and how much they will charge for additional space. [...]

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Palm’s new OS

Posted on December 23, 2008 by Mark Urbin

Palm has been working on a new OS for the past four years, code named Nova.  The rumor is that it will be released at the Consumer Electronics Show in early 2009. A Palm executive makes an interesting observation in BusinessWeek, ”The next 10 years is all about the transition from notebooks to mobile computing.” Palm’s [...]

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A long post on Operating Systems.

Posted on November 6, 2008 by Mark Urbin

It’s an interesting time for operating systems. The landscape was Microsoft dominating, Apple with a small, but fanatically loyal share and LINUX pulling up a distant third with a tiny hardcore geek base. Then Microsoft decided to make its users relive the ME days with Vista, only worse. The timing was horrible, since Apple was [...]

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The First Android Phone

Posted on October 21, 2008 by Mark Urbin

Popular Mechanics has a review of the T-Mobile G-1 phone. Here is the short form review.   A nice 1.0 product.  A bit bigger than the iPhone, but it has a physical keyboard! Folks with stubby fingers have been complaining about the iPhone virtual keyboard since day one. The G-1 also has a vitural keyboard [...]

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