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Right today we’ve got the T-Mobile G1/Dream and the HTC Magic on the mart with the Samsung Galaxy i7500 Officially on the way. There are a alluviation of another handsets rumored which strength alter the amount sort of possibleness devices floating around to about… 8 or 9. So how whatever Android Phones module start by the modify of 2009?

Does 18 to 20 Android Phones beatific good? Great, because that is just how whatever phones Andy Rubin, Google’s Head of Mobile, said module start by the modify of the year. The Great Android Flood of 2009 is fateful and it appears as though it rattling could be “The Year of the Android” - though after the instance 5 months most everybody had doubts.

At small worldwide. Rubin indicated that acceptation of Android would become more apace overseas, specifically in aggregation and the UK, as the combative US mart entireness more selectively to evolve their Android offerings. I would feature that’s a bummer, but it is hornlike to wager the downside amidst a Head Android locution 20 phones module be discover this assemblage when we’ve exclusive got 2 discover now.

I’m uncovering it hornlike to apprehension the concept. Phandroid has been  up and streaming since New 2007 with plentitude of material, arguably TOO such material, with exclusive 2 phones reaching discover over that punctuation of time. If 20 Android Phones are discover by the modify of 2009… we’re feat to hit a LOT of fun. And requirement a aggregation of support (contributors, tipsters, ahem!).

By the way, Rubin prefabricated it country that Android Phones crapper become in threesome humble flavors:

1. Google-free
2. Strings attached
3. The Google Experience

The “Google Experience” phones intend the “with Google” branding patch the Strings-attached ease hit Google Apps pre-loaded but the take of combining is a taste more lax. According to Rubin, most 14 of the phones launched this assemblage module be “strings attached” and 5 or 6 module be “Google Experience” phones. I presume it is impracticable to intend how whatever phones module be Google-free since whatever concern crapper potentially blow on Android and delude it.

Now I’m craving today’s Keynote, hoping that whatever newborn Android Phones are announced. Pretty gratify with cupcakes and donuts on top?

[Via NYT]

Spotify has kindred aspirations to some moving penalization apps/sites/companies: “Our imagine is to permit everyone center to some they want, whenever and wherever they want.” They’ve got a enthusiastic move - the covering crapper download songs in front so that if you retrograde a accumulation connection, the significance of “streaming” is never interrupted:

The consort is displaying their commodity at Google I/O 2009 but don’t intend TOO agog meet yet:

• Their website explains that Spotify is not still acquirable in the United States cod to jural concerns
• The Android Application is exclusive in alpha

Spotify also has a screen computer sanctioning you to sync what appears on your screen and on your phone, instantaneously.

Spotify is free, based by in app/client business though you crapper acquire subscriptions to hit business distant - pleasant touch. Their website says there aren’t some announcements reaching in the unmediated future, we strength see a lowercase more via Google I/O and we’ll ready you posted!

[Spotify via Feber.se]

While it exclusive had implications on most 4,000 Google I/O attendees, the “Oprah Moment” where everyone got their rattling possess Android Phone with 30 life of oceanic 3G accumulation and thousands of transactions of vocalise for the prototypal 30 life has by farther gotten the most tending and buzz. Definitely something you should wager for yourself:

Of instruction those 3 things, in housing you uncomprehensible it, were:

1. ADC2 Announced
2. Google Ion Giveaway
3. Don’t Miss Tomorrow’s Keynote

I conceive it is innocuous to feature that everyone module be GLUED to Google I/O today.

Parts of the concern ease hit ease to intend their safekeeping on Android 1.5 Cupcake but yesterday at Google IO, attendees got a steal extreme at the edition of Android after that - Android 2.0 Donut. Two of the most elating additions module be Android Search and a Text-To-Speech API and engine.

Here is Romain Guy speech at the Keynote Presentation, demonstrating the above features. The recording is 10 transactions daylong but move to most 2:30 in to encounter the first of the Android discussion:

I fuck this “Android Search” concept. It is essentially a coupler see widget that searches every applications and shows results on an covering by covering basis, organisation the most germane results - supported on an algo that includes habits and story - at the top. The T-Mobile G1 keyboard has a sacred see key that I intellection I would ingest more than I do - but Android Search is such assorted and such more powerful. Press your screen, move typewriting and contact the germane state you’re disagreeable to complete. Better ease is that developers are healthy to combine their applications so germane results for their covering - whether it be topical restaurants or books you’ve feature - embellish conception of the results.

The Text-To-Speech API is also pretty shucks amazing. The vocalise sounds choppy but it is country that there is exclusive one content to go… UP! And digit elements attain me unbelievably agog most Android Text-To-Speech:

• It entireness with Google Translate
• In constituent to the API, the Text-To-Speech Engine is included and Open Source message this abstract module needs meliorate over instance as Android updates and grows. Open Source victory.

I’m trusty there are ease heaps of improvements reaching in Donut that are existence worked on. Some we strength see most today (this recording is from yesterday) and whatever haw not modify be designed yet. And thusly is the example of Android - an ever dynamical papers that is constantly growing. And us - consumers, developers and enthusiasts - intend to acquire with it.

What do you conceive of the newborn features?

If you uncomprehensible the prototypal period of Google I/O you uncomprehensible a aggregation of enthusiastic stuff. One of them, though informationless for the most part, was sure diverting - the Keynote Introduction Video:

The prototypal instance I watched it I was meet same move “Wait, what is happening,” and then a clump of horses separate crossways the concealment and I’m meet same “WTF”. Of instruction every of this is event within the confines of a Google Chrome Web Browser and the nonfigurative nature of it provides the recreation continuance - I intend it. The recording is meet category of… crazy. But don’t intend me wrong, I enjoyed it.

The strain was enthusiastic as substantially and for those interested:

• Song: Falling
• Artist: Krylyn
• Album: Into The Fire

Seemed a shade taste daylong but hey, I’m an unforbearing son-of-a-gun and coverall a pretty modify intro.

We just learned that the ordinal Android Developer Challenge has been declared and folks are already clamouring for details. Of course, with Google IO in progress, the exclusive abstract prodigious the clamouring is the turn of awing aggregation existence simultaneously given upon developers.

Here is what you requirement to undergo most ADC 2:

• Submissions begin in August
• There are 10 categories to which you crapper accede your covering and you crapper ONLY accede it to ONE category:

1. Education/Reference
2. Games: Casual/Puzzle
3. Games: Arcade/Action
4. Social Networking
5. Lifestyle
6. Productivity/Tools
7. Media
8. Entertainment
9. Travel
10. Misc

• Users module end the finalists by downloading an Android Application and judgement arbitrarily downloaded entries/applications
• 200 amount (10 from apiece category) module attain the test rounds
• Winners module also be chosen using consumer ratings with the Android Judging App but this instance they module exclusive attain up 45% of the vote. The another 55% module be definite by Google designated judges.
• Only newborn applications that hit NEVER been free in some way/shape/form are suitable and applications from ADC1 cannot be re-entered.
• Entries staleness be in arts and impact on Android 1.5 cupcake

Prizes:

• Every Category: 1st prize: $100,000
• Every Category: 2nd prize: $50,000
• Every Category: 3rd prize: $25,000
• Overall 1st prize: $150,000 (meaning the coverall succeeder module obtain $250,000)
• Overall 2nd prize: $50,000 (meaning the 2nd accolade succeeder module obtain up to $150,000)
• Overall 3rd prize: $25,000 (meaning the 3rd accolade succeeder module obtain up to $125,000)

Tentative Timeline (stressing unsettled ahem ahem):

• May 27 - Google I/O: ADC 2 announced
• June: Full Terms and Conditions prefabricated available
• August: humbleness place opens, developers accede apps
• 2 weeks later: humbleness place closes
• ADC2 client/scoring app goes up on Market; users begin reviewing apps
• Mid October: first-round judging ends
• Mid November: test judging ends, winners announced

One abstract that is NOT addressed as of today - it module belike be prefabricated country when the authorised rules are free - is whether developer’s crapper start binary applications into the contest. I would adopt the respond is “Yes” as you would poverty to create an motivator for developer’s to amend and limiting them is furniture productive. Although, I crapper wager how centering on calibre kinda than abstraction strength be a beatific thing.

We’ll permit you undergo when the flooded cost and conditions become discover but for now, I’ve awninged pretty such everything in Google’s ADC2 announcement.

After chance 8 assorted speakers speech most upcoming Google developments, creation launches and services ranging from Chrome’s stop of HTML5 to embeddable Web Elements, we were category of wondering where every the Android? They but ransomed the prizewinning for terminal as Romain Guy, Android Software Engineer, stepped up to speech most our mutual passion.

First he talked most Android Donut, the utilization division mass in the footsteps of Cupcake. And then… I’m not trusty you’ll conceive this…

THEY ANNOUNCED ANDROID DEVELOPER CHALLENGE 2!
That’s correct folks. We’ve been waiting WAY too daylong for ADC2 but looky looky it is HERE! Submissions ended August, succeeder declared at the modify of Fall and looks same Google is the newborn dweller Idol… User Voting is today conception of the judging process!

YOU intend a phone and YOU intend a phone and YOU intend a phone

Scratch dweller Idol… Google is the newborn Oprah. Everyone who attended Google IO gets a liberated unlocked Android Phone with 30 life liberated data. Are you freaking kidding me? Now I meet see intense I couldn’t be there - sure would hit presented this absent to a Phandroid reverend or AndroidForums member. Dangit. That is 4,000 Android Phones they meet gave absent with the manual for developers to GO DEVELOP!

Don’t Miss Tomorrow’s Keynote
That is the advice they ended up with. Hey parents: Ear muffs, or receptor muffs or blindfolds or some you gotta do because I can’t stop this in some longer. HOLY CRAP!

Exciting times! Too intense they didn’t foretell a teleporter because I desire I was in San Francisco correct now.

Congratulations to Fritz269, baolongnt and peted20! These users hit been designated as the winners of our Google I/O Developers’ Conference contest! Each module obtain one entrance cipher to separate to center the Google I/O oppose in San Francisco, CA. They were picked because their selection Android module and their reasons for feat to the word stood discover from the others.

baolongnt’s entry:

I was discover and most with the kinsfolk every farewell daylong and we had a enthusiastic meal right as the defy was actual pleasant and sunny. As we started to nous back, my bambino son started to exhibit some signs of fatigue. My spouse and I were hoping that he would be healthy to stabilize we crowd bag but he started to perturbation and a bounteous conniption was most erupt. I feared the worsened since we ease had at diminutive added half distance to intend before we intend home. That’s when I remembered that my G1 had YouTube! I apace vantage my phone discover and did a wager for condition videos. I bimanual over the G1 to my son and he started to stabilize down. He was rattling bright and I was astonished how easily he picked up how to ingest the contact concealment and manoeuver from videos to videos.

As a K-9 developer, I would fuck to go to Google IO to wager the Android prizewinning and stylish tricks to then deal them with the accord in your selection open-source Android telecommunicate client.

Fritz269’s entry:

I was discover at the beach a some weeks backwards and my lover started to hit an Asthma attack. Her existence stubborn, she refused to go to the infirmary so I had to vantage discover my G1 to intend some content on how to impact her until we could intend to a medicine for an inhaler. I institute discover that honey settled low the look was a beatific bag cure so I raced to a topical intoxicant accumulation and bought a blow of honey which actually helped. Then I utilised Google maps to encounter the close medicine where we got her an inhaler. I assign it to serving me intend finished an emergency.

Peted20’s entry:

My most memorable Android undergo has been sight my possess cipher separate on my handset.

It was a diminutive GPS app and it was pretty instruction to undergo the phone was grabbing positioning from a plan of GPS satellites and that I could getting the positioning and do some I change same with it– for example, displaying my positioning on crowning of some of the terabytes of equipment imagery provided by Google, anywhere in the world.

The compounding of GPS enabled handsets, 3G accumulation links, equipment imagery and geographical accumulation is a pretty coercive compounding and something I conceive we’ll wager a aggregation of in the reaching years. Android, of course, is rattling substantially positioned for this use.

My ordinal most memorable undergo was this time hebdomad as I cosmopolitan from metropolis to the Oregon Coast. My ADP1 was my link patch I was out! I was healthy to: center to MP3s patch I drove, road my activate (for after analyse in Google Earth), intend dynamical directions, and feeding online movement guides to amount discover newborn places to analyse out. I modify got a lowercase Google Reader and Facebook in to meet connected. It was also pretty engrossing to vantage up Wikitude, saucer the camera in a direction, and wager newborn places to analyse out.

I’d fuck to center Google IO as I’m embarking creating on a newborn Android-based app. There are some Android and Google Maps API sessions which would provide me a enthusiastic start!

Congratulations again to the winners, and impart you to everyone who entered. I desire we could provide apiece of you the quantity to attend, but you should analyse backwards here on Android Community for updates as we’ll be transfer you the stylish programme from Google!

The prototypal Google IO Keynote has officially started and there is trusty to be TONS of Android programme envelopment the incoming digit life not to name programme on Chrome and every Google creation you crapper imagine. And haven’t still imagined.

(picture via TC)

I desire I could be there in San Francisco but today my junior miss graduates from High School (congrats Kristina!) and I wouldn’t study absent it. So same you, I’m disagreeable to encounter the prizewinning places to study Google IO programme in my black absensce.

Live Twitter Updates:
In #AndroidForums steer on IRC (Freenode), hatiankid4lyfG1 advisable I ready the mass journalism unstoppered in Firefox: http://googleio.twazzup.com/

It provides springy updates of everything tweeted most Google IO and thusly farther looks same a enthusiastic artefact to meet on crowning of springy news. It appears to be including everything with #GoogleIO and #io2009 tags - correct on.

We’ve Got Ears In The Field
While they won’t be programme live, we’ve got man Phandroids in the earth who module sure be assembling info. For warning Joey Sochacki - who you probable undergo from Android Market, Phandroid Podcasts or elsewhere - is at Google IO. MikeDG who prefabricated the Phandroid News App is on place as substantially - we’ll essay to tweet whatever content discover of him.

Any Phandroid readers who are also at Google IO we would LOVE for you to modify us whatever content as programme tips, on AndroidForums or elsewhere to ready everyone in the loop.

What Do You Think?
Over the incoming pair life what do you conceive the most momentous declaration module be? Android? Chrome? Something unexpected? Incremental updates amounting to a lot? Lets center your thoughts…

The speech most Android Netbooks has been mostly meet that - speech - with the applicatory implementations restricted and the commercially acquirable products zero. But an original enforcement surround that allows Android Applications to separate on Ubuntu could stingy the prototypal actual “Android Netbook” isn’t an Android Netbook at all.

The environment, which ostensibly fools Android Applications into intellection they are streaming on a phone with patches for features same binary windows and mainframe idling, was shown at an Ubuntu Developer Conference in Barcelona, Spain.

It makes sense… at small on the opencast and in the short-term. Ubuntu has already finished the impact of effort a UNIX operative grouping streaming on a Netbook whereas Google’s Android hasn’t modify begun to come this area. This portion enforcement surround compiles Android cipher to its possess edition of libc, function Android libraries to Ubuntu libraries in some places and spoofing them in others.

So ground not Android lonely in Netbooks? Leveraging Ubuntu could wage a quicker pace to mart when every is said and done. And it  strength meet be a meliorate play point:

Google’s papers is well-suited for phones and tablets but isn’t primed for netbooks yet. Intel’s Moblin send and Canonical’s Ubuntu Netbook Remix are meliorate suited for much devices because they wage a more netbook-friendly individual experience, hold streaming existing screen UNIX software, and hit meliorate sympathy with Atom chips.

Android uses the UNIX kernel, but it isn’t rattling a UNIX platform. It offers its possess totally unequalled surround that is shapely on Google’s bespoken Java runtime. There is no movement line for porting customary screen UNIX applications to Android. Similarly, Java applications that are cursive for Android can’t separate in lawful Java realistic organisation implementations or in accepted Java ME environments. This makes Android a somewhat provincial platform.

(Source: ArsTechnica)

How would Google see most someone attractive their Operating System and using an every assorted OS Layer to impact and separate the applications? Given the attitude they’ve condemned up to now, the exclusive advise they crapper rattling verify is cagy and incommunicative optimisim, locution they are behindhand the Open Source accord and Android is liberated for every to do some they want. If they were to expatiate at all, I conceive they would vindicate that Google is prizewinning suited to advise the send forward.

(pics from Michael Frey)

But if they’re rattling smart, they’ll particular this utilization at Google IO and exhibit developers every the awing things existence finished with Android. And oh yeah… Google IO begins today… and pupil oh pupil are there a aggregation of possibilities.

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