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A two-part recording shew of the Skytone Alpha 680 netbook streaming the Android OS has been released.  The Alpha 680 is witting to be a budget netbook with a target toll of $250; for that, though, you’ll at small intend a touchscreen.

Unfortunately the touchscreen is pretty such the move and modify of some decorous specs, with the rest of the Alpha 680’s abilities existence earnestly underwhelming.  An ARM11 533MHz processor, 1GB of hardware (4GB max) and meet 128MB of RAM (256MB max) are unsatisfactory modify in netbook circles, thus Android streaming on the 680 pretty such as it does on a G1.

The videos also shew the difficulty with swing what’s correct today a ambulatory OS onto a large device, without reworking to meet the large display.  The Skytone’s touchscreen haw exclusive be 7-inches, but Android ease looks comically distribute out. 

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[via netbooknews.de]

Vodafone Espana have released the HTC Magic, fighting their UK counterpart to launch.  The Magic is acquirable today finished the carrier’s online store, and module be in retail stores from incoming week, priced between €19 ($25) and €199 $262) depending on tariff.  An all-inclusive internet plan, priced at €12 ($16) per month, is mandatory.

Both black and albescent versions of the Magic module be on offer, apiece with a 3.2-inch QVGA touchscreen, GPS, HSPA and WiFi b/g.  The Magic also has Bluetooth 2.0, a 3.2-megapixel camera and 500MB of onboard storage, unitedly with activity up to 8GB microSD module cards. 

As with another Android devices, the Magic has the Google flat of applications, including admittance to the Android Market, GMail and a flooded internet browser.  solon info on tariffs and pricing at the official Vodafone Espana blog; more on the HTC Magic here.

[Thanks Tony!]

It haw exclusive hit been officially announced this morning, but already the prototypal springy photos of the Samsung I7500 Android radiotelephone hit emerged.  Mobile-Review grabbed whatever hands-on time with the AMOLED touchscreen handset, confirming that HTC’s Magic haw hit whatever rivalry when it comes to captivating Android devices.

The Samsung I7500 measures 115 x 56 x 11.9 mm, though the consort has not addicted the handset’s weight.  As you crapper wager from the room below, Samsung hit squeezed in a 3.5mm headphone diddley on the crowning panel, which module become as a gratifying assail for anyone frustrated by HTC’s copyrighted frequence connector.

The microUSB opening is also on the top, patch along the left-hand lateral there’s a intensity rocker.  On the right-hand lateral are what countenance to be a camera and a voice-control shortcut, though the photos are likewise blurry to feature exactly.  solon on the Samsung I7500 here.

O2 FRG hit officially announced the Samsung I7500 Android cellphone, the prototypal figure for both Samsung and the carrier.  Tipped over the weekend, the I7500 has a 5-megapixel camera with diode flash, unitedly with a 3.2-inch AMOLED touchscreen streaming at 320 x 480. 

Other glasses allow GPS, WiFi b/g and HSPA, unitedly with 40GB of hardware (8GB internal; up to 32GB via a microSD card).  There’s also Bluetooth 2.0, a 1,500mAh shelling and the customary bevy of Google applications and admittance to the Android Market.  The full abstract measures 115 x 56 x 11.9 mm, and ease finds shack for a 3.5mm headphone socket and microUSB port.

The Samsung I7500 module be acquirable only from O2 in FRG from June 2009.  Pricing for the phone itself has not been announced, but the traveler has addicted that no limited tariffs or assist plans module be required; buyers module be healthy to opt some from O2’s range.

Press Release:

O2 only launches: the prototypal Android ambulatory phone with Google Services from Samsung

? Samsung I7500 with 5 megapixel camera and magnificent occurrence display
? Simple and illogical use
? Access to Google Mail, Google Maps and the Android mart by one
click

MUNICH. Telefónica O2 FRG strongly expands its ambulatory phone product
range for the ambulatory internet. The prototypal Android style ambulatory phone with
Google Services from Samsung kicks soured the newborn offer. The Samsung I7500 is
the prototypal Android ambulatory phone provided by a directive sort concern and
will be only acquirable from O2 as of June 2009. In constituent to the form
factor and organisation with plain 11.9 mm thickness, it primarily stands discover by its
simple and illogical use. The ambulatory internet offers a enthusiastic undergo for
beginners and professed users alike. The Samsung I7500 combines an
expandable Android papers with first-class equipment: a magnificent touch
screen display, and a 5 megapixel camera with diode Flash and GPS.
“The Samsung I7500 offers our customers the prizewinning internet undergo supported on the
Android papers provided by Google“, says Lutz Schüler, Managing Director
Marketing and Sales for Telefónica O2 Germany. “The Samsung I7500 kicks soured a
series of elating devices for the ambulatory scheme which we module start in the incoming couple
of months. There is something for everyone: from beginners to onerous users. And, we
put our pore on brawny brands, ultimate ingest and design.”
Classic applications from the PC concern crapper be comfortably accessed by one utter on
the bounteous occurrence concealment when users are on the move. Thanks to the unstoppered papers of the
Google operative system, users are healthy to optimally make the figure to their
own requirements. A difference of applications and services is acquirable in the Android
market. The occurrence to friends is secure by desegrated and freely acquirable Web
2.0 applications same Facebook, Flickr and Instant Messaging. Customers are always
up to fellow anywhere they go cod to the semiautomatic coordination of emails, contacts
and appointments of Google accounts. All another favourite telecommunicate accounts crapper also be
accessed.
The desegrated GPS earpiece enables the broad ingest of Google Maps: local
positioning, careful line statement and ultimate navigation. The application
Wikitude acquirable in the Android mart allows customers to admittance info of
unknown sights via photos on the web. The compounding of a camera, GPS and an
internet application turns into a individualized and mutual guide.
As the prototypal Android ambulatory phone, the Samsung I7500 offers a 5 megapixel camera
with diode Flash. The bounteous 3.2“ AMOLED pass ensures the magnificent state of
photos and videos and reduces the shelling noesis cod to the energy-saving
technology. The shelling has big dimensions (1500 mAh) and ensures that
users savor daylong calls and admittance to the web. The figure also includes WLAN
(802.11 b/g) and Bluetooth 2.0. Supporting different transmission codec formats the
I7500 is a transmission all-rounder. With ist module power of up to 40 GB it offers
enough expanse for pictures, penalization and videos.
The Samsung I7500 module be only acquirable in every O2 Shops, the specialized
trade or on the internet from June 2009. The figure crapper be compounded with every tariffs
and accumulation packages.

Even though an Android supercharged Samsung has been in the entireness for a some months, it looks same Samsung meet ordered the realty pace achievement for rumor to fact in, what seems to be, inferior than a day. She’s slim, she’s sexy, she has no keyboard and she’s way for “major dweller countries from June, 2009”.

So let’s fortuity it down:

• Quad-Band GSM
• Tri-Band HSDPA (900/1700/2100MHZ) Score one for TMo U.S.!
• 3.2′ AMOLED Screen
• WiFi
• GPS
• 5 MP Camera w/ Flash
• 1,500mAh shelling (ie meliorate shelling chronicle than your shitty have G1)
• 8GB Internal Storage, Complimented with Expandable MicroSD
• 3.5mm Headset Jack

Full Press Release:

April 27, 2009, Seoul, peninsula - Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., a directive ambulatory phone provider, today undraped the I7500, its prototypal Android-powered ambulatory phone. With a start of I7500, Samsung became the prototypal consort among the orbicular crowning threesome ambulatory phone manufacturers to show an Android-powered phone.

“Samsung is among the early members of the Open Handset Alliance and has been actively agitated nervy to inform the most original Android ambulatory phone,” said JK Shin, Executive Vice President and Head of Mobile Communication Division in Samsung Electronics. “With Samsung’s assembled profession activity in ambulatory phone business and our conformable strategy to hold every existing operative system, I conceive that Samsung provides the meliorate choices and benefits to our consumers” he added.

The Samsung I7500 is a cutting-edge smartphone, featuring a 3.2″ AMOLED flooded contact concealment and 7.2Mbps HSDPA and WiFi connectivity, gift users admittance to Google™ Mobile services and flooded scheme feeding at dazzling speeds.

The Samsung I7500 offers users admittance to the flooded flat of Google services, including Google Search™, Google Maps™, Gmail™, YouTube™, Google Calendar™, and Google Talk™. The desegrated GPS earpiece enables the broad ingest of Google Maps features, much as My Location, Google Latitude, Street View, topical see and careful line description. Hundreds of another applications are acquirable in Android Market. For example, the covering Wikitude, a ambulatory movement guide, allows consumers to admittance info of uncharted sights via location-based Wikipedia articles.

Based on Samsung’s proven creation leadership, Samsung I7500 comes with stylish transmission features. The super and pure 3.2″AMOLED pass ensures the magnificent state of transmission noesis and pleasant flooded contact ambulatory experience. Along with activity a 5-megapixel camera and different transmission codec formats, the I7500 also provides a daylong sufficiency shelling chronicle (1500mAh) and big module power up to 40GB (Internal memory: 8GB, External memory: Up to 32GB) to savor every the applications and transmission content. The phone also boasts its thin and auto organisation with plain 11.9mm thickness.

The Samsung I7500 module be acquirable in field dweller countries from June, 2009.

[via Engadget]

Android Developer Advocate Dan Morrill meet prefabricated a place on the Android Developer Blog locution that Google I/O 2009 module be the Android Developer Event Of The Year and explains ground Android Developers should be especially amped. First and prizewinning is the theoretical sessions, 9 of which are already traded on the Google I/O sessions site which I’ve posted below:

Turbo-charge your UI: How to Make your Android UI Fast and Efficient (Romain Guy)
Learn applicatory tips, techniques and tricks for making your Android applications alacritous and responsive. This conference module pore on optimizations advisable by the Android support aggroup to attain the prizewinning ingest of the UI toolkit.

Pixel Perfect Code: How to Marry Interaction and Visual Design the Android Way (Chris Nesladek)
A enthusiastic individual undergo incorporates threesome pillars: structure, behavior, and expression. This speech module explore the panoramic difference of interaction organisation patterns we hit shapely into the Android grouping support to support civilize you on the prizewinning artefact to ingest these pattern-based behaviors for an optimized individual experience.

Supporting Multiple Devices with One Binary
The Android papers is fashioned to separate on a panoramic difference of element configurations. Learn how to verify plus of the covering support to attain your covering separate on a panoramic difference of devices without having to physique a bespoken edition for each.

Android Lightning Talks (YOU!)
Join your man developers for a program of lightning talks. If you’ve finished a modify grapple involving Android, if you’ve devised a adroit framework for a ordinary problem, or modify if you meet poverty to intend up on your soapbox for 6 transactions to attractiveness to your man developers, this is the conference for you. We’re inaugural up this conference for a ordering of 8 6-minute slots, where anyone crapper declare a topic. Attendees module balloting on the talks they’d same to center most, and then it’s soured to the races. But be shy of the 6 instance limit, or discernment the ira of The Gong.

Debugging Arts of the Ninja Masters (Justin Mattson)
Ever hit one of those chronicle where your covering meet doesn’t separate correctly, and you can’t amount discover why? Well, we’ve been there, and we’re feat to exhibit you how to mend it. In this session, Justin Mattson module edifice you on the modern practice of Android debugging tools same traceview, the organisation viewer, and the arranging system. He’ll also inform individual housing studies where Google utilised these tools to cipher actual concern problems, and exhibit you the before-and-after results.

Coding for Life — Battery Life, That Is (Jeffrey Sharkey)
The threesome most essential considerations for ambulatory applications are, in order: shelling life, shelling life, and shelling life. After all, if the shelling is dead, no one crapper ingest your application. In this session, Android organise Jeffrey Sharkey module expose the myriad structure — whatever unheralded — that your covering crapper guzzle noesis and irritate users. You’ll wager most how networking affects shelling life, the correct and criminal structure to ingest Android-specific features much as consequence locks, ground you can’t adopt that it’s alright to change module for time, and more.

Writing Real-Time Games for Android (Chris Pruett)
Do acme arrays ready you up at night? Do you hit nightmares involving framerates and circumstance loops? If so, this conference strength hit the aid for your condition. Chris Pruett module handle the mettlesome engine that he developed, using it as a housing think to vindicate the ordinary pitfalls and prizewinning practices for antiquity graphics-intensive applications. You’ll wager how to correct scuttlebutt mettlesome and performance code, control art surfaces, and combine 2D and 3D graphics cleanly.

Looking Beyond the Screen: Text-To-Speech and Eyes-Free Interaction on Android (TV Raman, physicist L. Chen)
The Eyes-Free Project (which you strength hit seen featured by the New royalty Times) aims to enable smooth eyes-free ingest of ambulatory devices streaming Android. Target uses arrange from eyes-busy environments same in-car ingest to users who can’t or don’t poverty to countenance at the seeable display. Hear from physicist Chen and T.V Raman from the Eyes-Free aggroup most the Text-To-Speech (TTS) API, as substantially as whatever of the UI innovations for attractive plus of the contact concealment without needing to actually countenance at the screen. This speech module inform a short high-level overview of the TTS accumulation and the attack dialer signaling method, then club into the info of how you crapper ingest these technologies in your possess Android applications. Your hosts module then achievement you finished antiquity a actual eyes-free app, and provide you a steal look at whatever of the upcoming features in accumulation for the Eyes-Free Project.

Mastering the Android Media Framework (David Sparks)
Some monks strength verify a dedicate of silence, but Android trusty hasn’t. Attend this session, and support your app encounter its voice. Android organise king Sparks module explore the transmission capabilities of the Android platform, lifting the covers on the stock to exhibit you how it entireness and the correct (and wrong!) structure to ingest it. You’ll wager how things impact low the hood, how to falsity the ordinary media-related developer pitfalls, and how to indite bonded and battery-efficient media code

There module be modify more Android morality than mentioned above at Google I/O including a domicile chitchat with the Android Core Technical Team. But what is perhaps the most provocative is what Dan Morrill permit unsaid:

We’re also feat to hit quite a whatever folks representing whatever of our app developer and Open Handset Alliance partners at Google I/O, but I’ll spend those info for added post.

and

I’m also agog most a whatever surprises we’ve unsmooth up… but I can’t feature anything most those, or they wouldn’t be surprises, would they?

Seem to suggestion at whatever pretty modify announcements occurring at Google I/O so we’ll ready our receptor on this for sure. Google I/O is on May 27th and 28th in San Francisco and if you run before May 1st you’ll intend in for $300. Otherwise you’ll hit to clear $400. Unless you are a Professor, Student or Faculty - then you’ll intend in for $50. If you’re not in edifice verify them you go to Phandroid University and wager what they say.

The HTC Magic is definitely doing the rounds. After a pre-order on Vodafone UK a lowercase over a hebdomad past the HTC Magic was meet declared on Vodafone Spain and A1 Austria this morning. But it doesn’t kibosh there. The HTC Magic has also meet been announced for SFR which is Vodafone’s land brand:

And serendipitous for us the embedded a lowercase land HTC Magic promo video. We especially savor that because instead of us disagreeable to alter lots of land and informing you meet what every this means, you crapper meet check the video!

It seems the figure goes ON SALE (online) May 6th but won’t be acquirable in stores until 2 weeks later, according to our land speech tipsters.

[Via HTC, Thanks Gorfou and Philippe!]

Earlier this period Google launched the Early Look Android 1.5 SDK. Today the SDK moves from beta to official promulgation as Android 1.5 SDK promulgation 1 and is today available for download to developers. It belike isn’t drastically assorted than the Early Look but it DOES stingy that it is certifiably steady as witnessed by HTC actuation the 1.5 grouping ikon acquirable for download and ingest on Android Dev Phone 1.

You every undergo what this means, don’t you? Cupcake incoming on our plates is inching fireman and near every azygos day. Deutsche Telekom, the parent consort of T-Mobile USA, released the mass evidence most T-Mobile G1 software updates on weekday (referring to Cupcake update) locution it module be launched for newborn and existing G1 owners in the first of May:

T-Mobile has liberated a broad code update that brings its original phone into distinction with the stylish Android papers development. It comes with newborn functions, loads of enhancements, and more improvements to the organisation of most signaling screens. From the first of May, T?Mobile module be transport newborn handsets with this stylish software, and module substance existing T?Mobile G1 customers the ambulatory update for download with an semiautomatic artefact over the expose and liberated of charge. Alongside its code updates, T-Mobile module be increase expanding the Android radiophone phone portfolio during 2009 to inform newborn handsets.

More convenience, more fun

One of the software’s newborn features is an semiautomatic flat or plumb layout for the contact concealment display. This allows the T-Mobile G1 to be utilised in genre info modify if the pass is concealment the fleshly keyboard. Another key newborn feature is the realistic keyboard, which makes it doable to signaling call drawing or book exclusive by impinging the screen. T-Mobile G1 owners crapper thence opt between a realistic or a fleshly QWERTZ keyboard. And, of course, the contact concealment keyboard is acquirable in semblance and genre format.

The code update today allows flick fans to ingest the 3.2 megapixel camera on the T?Mobile G1 phone to flick videos. A playback duty gives their power an additional boost. The highlight: films crapper be uploaded straightforward to YouTube™ and shown not exclusive to friends and acquaintances, but to anyone temporary the favourite website worldwide. Another plus is that users crapper today upload photos effort with the T-Mobile G1 straightforward to their individualized Picasa Web Album™. On the frequence side, the Android developers hit upgraded the Bluetooth interface. With the newborn code installed, the T-Mobile G1 phone crapper be synchronal via Bluetooth with in-car units and biaural headsets (support for the A2DP and AVRCP profile).

Beside these features, the code update enhances the organisation of numerous individual interfaces and offers newborn widgets, e.g. for the calendar and the penalization player. Other improvements allow the ascent functions, the e-mail computer and the scheme browser.

Tick. Tick. Tick. We poverty cupcake.
Tock. Tock. Tock. Beginning of May.
Tick. Tock. Tick. This is unarticulate what am I modify doing?

[Thanks  Ted!]

In a potentially momentous invoke of events, Verizon Wireless - who has condemned an contestant to Android thusly farther and seems to hit fundamental differences with Google - is today hiring an Android Devices Expert to impact Full-Time in their Waltham, Massachussets offices. The employ organisation is institute publically acquirable on Careers.VerizonWireless.com with employ ID 233333 and spinous discover by  an eagle-eyed Phandroid (Thanks Brian!) who has been persistently scoping whatever and every Verizon Android news.

According to the employ listing, the function module be convergent on nonindustrial Android applications on “existing or pre-commercial handsets” (whatever that means) with an initial pore on Voicemail applications. Looks same Verizon wants to intend Visual Voice Mail employed on their prototypal Android Phone!

Here is the kicker - skills traded as “preferred” allow undergo with RIM JDK AND undergo with Android. Why would an Android Devices Expert order noesis in the RIM JDK… and ground is it traded ABOVE undergo with Android on a employ function specifically targeting an Android expert? Could a BlackBerry Android Phone be headlike to Verizon Wireless be in the works?

Ladies and gentlemen this is null brief of HUGE programme for Android, the whole ambulatory concern and sure Verizon Wireless customers. We knew that Verizon Wireless and AT&T would stop discover on activity the Android mettlesome until they change they had to endeavor and conecede to the combative plus of Android’s Open Source platform. We argued that would hap presently kinda than later nearly a assemblage past and advisable they owe it to their customers and shareholders… this employ bill is proving us right.

There is a LOT to handle here folks. What does Verizon hit preparation here? How is BlackBerry involved, if at all? Will it be a phone they are employed on or whatever another figure desegregation Android? What is the timeframe here? Is this for Verizon Wireless’ proactive acceptation of Android or conception of the spectrum they won in the sell that is required to be “open” to whatever degree?

Discuss. This is feat to be fun!

Here is a copy/paste of the employ organisation foregather in housing it mysteriously disappears:

Job Title: Android Devices Expert
Job ID: 233333
Location: MA - Waltham

Full/Part Time: Full-Time
Regular/Temporary: Regular

Responsibilities

This is a grownup doc function for ambulatory devices on theoretical track. This function module impact as person concern proficient and advance for Java supported devices. It module be answerable for modify to modify conveying of original drinkable supported ambulatory applications on existing or pre-commercial handsets with an initial pore on voicemail applications. It is also due to intend covering development; carry required investigating and provides creation support.

A eligible politician will:
- Provide activity to a aggroup of designers and utilization engineers throughout the covering utilization process
- Lead multi-departmental teams in an try to deploy and combine voicemail services on devices
- Manage relationships with figure vendors and authorisation bodies, as substantially as interior marketing teams

40% It module be answerable for architecting figure requirements and composition careful figure requirements specification, broad and careful take organisation documents
20% Interface with figure OEMs and OS/platform developers to secure sympathy and unchangeability with affectionateness to the vocalise products and applications.
20% Research and see newborn devices technology, carry cipher reviews, organisation and requirements sessions, calibre sureness and control vendors
20% Develop covering image and support for newborn devices

Qualifications
- BS honor in EE or CS. MS or MBA preferred
- 4+ eld undergo employed with Core Java technologies
- 3+ eld of ambulatory covering utilization undergo on j2me, Android, Limo or another drinkable supported platforms
- Hands-on undergo XML, scheme services, XSLT
- Ability to create theoretical specifications, including requirements specification, API specifications, Functional specifications
- Deep discernment of the ambulatory figure playing and trends in ambulatory devices
- Strong playing knowledge
- Vendor and outsourcing direction experience
- Demonstrated knowledge to foregather deadlines, rank essential instance huffy tasks, alter apace to terminal time changes and control binary projects simultaneously
- Strong Facilitator
- Strong test and cursive act skills
- Good analytical skills
- Attention to details

Preferred

- Familiar with Verizon wireless systems, accumulation centers and processes a bounteous plus
- Familiar with Web supported technologies (DHTML/CSS, JSP/servlet/ASP, scheme servers, Tomcat/JBoss/Weblogic/WebSphere/IIS)
- Experience with RIM JDK is a bounteous plus
- Experience with C++/C/.NET/ASP
- Experience with Android
- Experience employed with Relational database and SQL
- Understanding in the mass theoretical areas: module management, enter systems, networking, multi-threading programming
Equal Employment Opportunity
We are an coequal possibleness employer m/f/d/v.

Earlier this farewell we declared that the HTC Magic was acquirable for acquire on Vodafone Spain. Next up: Austria. Thanks to a advisor (Thanks Old Schepperhand) we’ve patterned the HTC Magic for understanding on the A1.net shop!

The Tipster says declared for “beginning of May” but nowhere on the creation tender crapper I encounter whatever name of date. In fact, there is an telecommunicate signup so you crapper be directly notified when the creation goes up for sale. We undergo that these emails don’t ever invoke discover substantially so we strength propose subscribing to our RSS take in addition… you know, country gain identify stuff.

I’ve heard whatever solicitation from Australians discover there but not Austrians… yet… intercommunicate today or forever stop your pact - are you agog for the Magic to start on A1?