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The Internet giant and more than 30 partners announced in November a bold plan for a new breed of handsets based on a suite of mobile software called Android. At the time, Google said it planned to have the new phones on the market by the second half of this year. Google now says that the handsets won't arrive until the fourth quarter.
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From strictly a consumer perspective, the newest iPhone will undoubtedly create much buzz, interest and sales (and all very rightly so)... I was less than enthused about what was discussed yesterday regarding a device that has repeatedly been touted as "ready for the enterprise". Some reasons for my disappointment -
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Qualcomm Inc has been involved in the launch of Android from an early stage and developed many chipsets compatible with it. The company expects that, if Android becomes popular, more chipsets for mobile phones will be shipped.
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Sun Microsystems is developing a Java Virtual Machine for Apple's iPhone and plans to release the JVM some time after June, enabling Java applications to run on the popular mobile device. The JVM is to be based on the Java Micro Edition (ME) version of Java, said Eric Klein, vice president of Java marketing at Sun, on Friday afternoon. Apple had not shown interest in enabling Java to run on the iPhone, but Sun plans to step in and do the job itself after having pondered Thursday's release of an SDK for the iPhone by Apple.
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The most important thing about Android, the open mobile operating system and platform sponsored by Google, is arguably not the technology or the implications for handset cost: it's the development of business models.
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I heard this idea probably 3-4 years ago when somebody mentioned to me that the biggest grid in existence is the grid comprised of all the cell phones out there. Think about it: every cell phone acts as a grid node, it has certain (albeit minimal) processing power and can easily communicate with any other cell phone in the world peer-to-peer (well, in practical sense, almost easy). ... And I think it (Android) made it possible now to come back to the idea of ad-hoc swarm grid computing with mobile devices. We, at GridGain project, are exploring possibilities of such integration.
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This week was a first look at Google Android. ... Android is something I'm very excited about and you'll find out why when you listen! Matt has other thoughts about the potential of Android. We discuss what Android is, why it is important, and what we each think it will turn out to be.
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If you were to make a shortlist of Engadget's most sought after executives, Peter Chou, CEO of arguably the most advanced cellphone manufacturer in the world, HTC, would be right near the top. We finally got a chance to sit down with the man who helped reshape what a cellphone could be (and in doing so put Windows Mobile on the map), and discussed HTC's new partnership with Google on Android, whether WinMo has a stagnant platform, challenges for companies trying to break into the US wireless market, and even the 700MHz spectrum auction.
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