Yes, I am writing a series of articles on Android Aesthetics or in common words make android apps look like iphone apps. I will be putting them up shortly via Google’s Knol service, link to my knols i son the right hand side of this blog.
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Most United States carriers will be rolling out some flavor of “4G” technology this year except for AT&T which has chosen to wait till 2011 for LTE. AT&T Mobility CEO Ralph de la Vega thinks there will be a shortage of LTE devices in 2010 and chose to wait till 2011 when they will be widely available.
So how does AT&T fill the gap till next year while all the other carriers beef up their networks? A recent interview with Fierce Broadband Wireless suggest AT&T will follow T-Mobile’s strategy of using HSPA+.
Mr. De la Vega said his company will deploy HSPA+ (which is capable of 21 Mbps) in certain locations, but they are still working out the details on which markets to cover.
If AT&T is holding off on LTE till 2011 for more handsets, does that mean we could see more HSPA+ devices this year? T-Mobile is launching their HSPA+ network tomorrow and expects to have broad national deployment of its faster mobile web by the end of 2010. Their first device is a USB modem, but it is widely expected T-Mobile has a surprise HSPA+ handset to pair with their very fast network.
Is anyone else holding out on 4G data speeds for their next Android handset? Sprint will have a 4G handset this summer, but surely T-Mobile and Verizon have something up their sleeve.
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I have started to re-organized and update my Android Development Programming Knols. The first one that is updated with new additional resources is, Android Resources for Application Development.
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According to Electronista yesterday, Vodafone has killed off its paid-for GPS service Wayfinder, resulting in the loss of around 90 jobs in the turn-by-turn navigation department.
“We could not charge for something that others gave away for free” Vodafone UK spokeslady Anna Cloke told Sweden’s Sydsvenkan, in an unusually and brutally honest assessment of the situation.
And that’s Google Maps Navigation, one of the reasons why paid-for GPS is on the way out – along with Nokia’s recent move to start giving away its Ovi Maps tool.
And isn’t it enough just to have a look at good-old traditional Google Maps every few miles to make sure you’re on track anyway?
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90 jobs go as Vodafone chops GPS division in wake of free competition
This is better – a price starting with the number “2″ makes the idea of shelling-out for a SIM-free contract-less Android phone so much more palatable.
The retailer is UK-based PixMania, which is currently selling the critically-deemed-adequate Acer Liquid for £290 – and is knocking that down to £284 thanks to an online promotion it’s running at the moment.
Here it is. It’s the white-trimmed variant that’s on offer:
We’re about 92% sure that the Acer Liquid S100 is the same phone as the Acer Liquid, and indeed the Acer Liquid A1 – Acer got itself in a bit of a mess with model numbers when announcing the thing. So don’t worry about getting the wrong version with a 1″ screen or anything.
If you want the black variant of the Acer Android phone, that’s yours for an extra tenner.
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Here’s a little round-up of a few of the more “mainstream” mentions of Android from the various media portals of world this week, ones that we didn’t mention for our own bizarre little reasons.
For a relaxing Saturday read.
Microsoft plants Bing on Google-free Chinese Androids
A dull fact-based story we couldn’t be bothered writing up, to be frank. It’s Bing, it’s China, it’s Motorola. We are not that bored yet.HTC create another Legend
Mainstream UK tabloid ‘The Sun’ has really been pushing Android of late – last week it plugged the MILESTONE, this week it’s the turn of the Legend. Someone at The Sun obviously wants to blag a free upgrade or two…
HTC Supersonic meets Mr. Blurrycam, leaves us wanting more (video)
We’re not blowing our load on HTC Supersonic coverage until we see some proper photos. We shall ignore all mention of it until there’s nice publicity shots.S. Korea may block Google’s Android market on unregulated game contents
Forgive us for not mentioning the very latest in HOT South Korean licensing regulatory body movements.Cell phone pioneer Cooper an Android man
MAN OWNS PRODUCT, SHOCKER!
LG unveils its first Android phone
We can’t take LG seriously after spending a very miserable weekend with a review “Viewty” a few years ago. A terrible phone, that.Android NDK taps into high-speed graphics
Didn’t write anything about this, as part of our new policy to not write about anything we don’t entirely understand.Malware found on out-of-the-box Vodafone HTC Magic smartphone
Virus-found-on-thing is hardly news. We doubt Vodafone PUT IT THERE in a deliberate attack on its consumers. In fact the story even SAYS THAT, yet still people reported it like it was some sort of scandal.
That’s enough for this week. We’re starting to get angry and write in capital letters 
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WEEKLY WRAP: The Android news we missed or deliberately snubbed
I was struggling with myself for a long time whether to do this or not, and finally I did it.
I uploaded my first Android application in Market yesterday and actually I feel excited about it…
It is not a full-feature application, just a simple Ebay-Search client which will let you search through Items in Ebay…no buying or bidding yet!!
since unfortunately I don't have any Android-enabled phone at the moment so I would really appreciate it if you could download this application, give it a go and let me know how it works on a real device.
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An iPhone-loving friend of mine recently sent me an article by Michael Gartenberg, author of the Entelligence column on Engadget. Mr. Gartenberg’s article, “Entelligence: Will Android fragmentation destroy the platform?”, presents some interesting things to consider, but is surprisingly inaccurate on a number of critical details. I thought it would be useful to summarize his [...]
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