Android

a set of simple, open source android apps for common tasks (great if you need, say, a plain file manager or gallery app for a gimped version of Android)

An app to activate MDM/Android Work Profiles and easily segregate and limit troublesome applications.

A remote administration and tracking solution for Android devices.

A pretty good SSH client that almost works perfectly with a hardware keyboard.

A Scala library for Android development

A handy overview.

Probably the sanest way to do it.

or sidestepping it altogether…

an Android-based OS for x86 PCs

a busybox-like bundle of CLI commands that can even rebuild Android itself

ADB screen mirroring

A Mac OS X driver for using USB tethering to Android devices.

source code component for a modern calendar view

Useful for a number of purposes.

Not that exciting.

If that is your thing.

Still unusable, basically.

A bigger chunk for the fragmentation advocates.

Told you it wasn’t that simple to just sell phones online…

A better overview.

A pretty comprehensive overview

Hardly a surprise if you take into account that there is only one Apple.

Ha.

It does look nicer.

More features, less battery life.

Faster without Flash.

More statistics.

a fully charged iPhone running Android will last only an hour or so.

in a nutshell, Google won’t admit to fragmentation of user experience.

Oh ffs. The thing doesn’t even exist yet, and they’re pontificating already?

Gotta love stats. One little thing, though - Android apps are more likely to be free and ad-driven, so anything coming from an ad server isn’t necessarily a good market penetration metric for a platform.

Oh, the enthusiasm.

There you go, mate.

Don’t think so, but it’s sure going to be interesting to watch them try…

More pretty charts (US-centric, therefore meaningless). The difference here is that there are umpteen versions of Android devces and far fewer of other platforms…

Why add the charger instead of replacing it?

Interesting.

Will it change anything?

Oh, yeah, sure. Like baseband firmware fixes poor coverage.

Another try, I guess…

No comment

About time.

An odd review.

Learning can be painful.

I find it amazing that they’d write this much about ordering a phone online on a third-party store, but that’s the US mobile market for you.

Pretty detailed and comprehensive review, as always.

Comparing 20K against 1.6 million iPhones on the first week is a bit unfair considering the way it’s sold.

Interesting. More here and here.

Much ado about nothing in particular, basically.

A coherent list of specs, although there are plenty of meaningless stats bolted on to beef up the article.

About the same estimated production cost than a 3GS, except that Apple has likely done a better bulk deal on parts… Also, nice comparative tables.

Not an iPhone killer. Hardly capable of killing a fly, apparently.

not much in terms of review, actually.

$529 unlocked, shipping to the US, UK, Singapore and Hong Kong, or with a two year T-Mobile US contract for $179. There go a lot of pipedreams about it being sold direct to the public at “astonishingly low” prices.

This teardown mania is somewhat fun, but one wonders how long it will take until people realise that only a very small minority of what is “unearthed” is news…

And this is probably where I stop keeping track of this particular device…

Here’s to some heroic debugging.

Looks like a baseband issue alright.

Wouldn’t be surprised if it was a baseband upgrade.

Pogue doesn’t seem terribly impressed.

A more balanced review.

Hilarious video review.

A month later, reality calls.

Wow.

A nice summary of the reviews so far.

It isn’t the RAZR, but it’s a decent figure.

Worth looking at.

I’m still wary of stats (local copy of PDF), but I hear it’s selling pretty well indeed.

Now that’s gotta be… Useful.

Yep.

The e-mail client looks nice, but I’m curious as to usability.

Nothing to worry about except that it’s the start of a trend.

Not rocket science, but a bit exaggerated, since nobody can really look that far into the future in this industry.

Now this is a clever move.

This is just what I think is needed in oh, so many other places.

The price matching approach is interesting, but then again in the US handset prices don’t work quite the same way as in Europe.

Best overview yet

A pretty decent feature set overview.

Let’s see how this pans out. I’m quite curious, actually, to see if Verizon can pull this off in the sense of generating genuine buzz around an operator-specific set of Android devices.

The quip about an Apple version is not to be missed.

Looks nice indeed, but let’s wait to see how well map caching works.

I can’t figure out why these people keep wasting space in hardware keyboards.

But the UI guidelines are still a bit on the loose side.

Well worth reading through, and mirrors my own views. One to re-visit a few years from now indeed.

Well, at least compatibility is assured.

It took them this long to add screenshots to apps in the Market?

Modified firmware for some devices. Just had to happen.

A nice summary table of devices

Mostly agree, although this is too US-centric for it to be considered the whole truth.

This is going to be interesting to watch.

Flash turns out to not be that exciting. Or useful. Plus the phone is plain ugly, and a lot thicker than what the first shot makes it look.

Flash, keyboard and ruminations

An interesting tech note on how Android handles home screen widgets.

Interesting stats about usage patterns.

Loads of fun for various reasons.

People keep confusing the platform with the services.

Very few decent shots

A few more shots

Using Google Checkout, of course.

Apparently US-only, which is a pity.

A very nice (if shallow) analysis that bunches together some interesting tidbits of info.

And after adding these links, this page now merits a direct, obvious, reference to my disclaimer.

Interesting hint of fragmentation.

Dubious in both title and subject matter (we’ve known that Android could be made to run on PCs for a good while now.

For Q3 2009. Let’s see what they come up with.

Development samples, available for purchase.

including Sony Ericsson and Vodafone. Most people missed this last bit, which is fun.

Tim Bray lists a few interesting resources for new developers

Although this was fixed fairly quickly, it is the perfect example of why mobile phones aren’t exactly trivial to “improve upon” using today’s technology.

Let’s see if someone will port this to Intel and get it running on a netbook…

Not particularly gushing.

Good reading - a thorough appraisal.

A tad overkill, but interesting nonetheless.

Om Malik weighs in.

Walt Mossberg’s take.

A short comparison.

How weird is it that this is in Japan?

Engadget’s lengthy two-part article

Some interesting videos

Pretty comprehensive gallery.

David Pogue weighs in.

Brilliant title.

About a year later, one of the first sightings of actual hardware (but running over Wi-Fi. I don’t get the “masked” bit, though - the hardware’s pretty obvious.

A few demos

Includes plenty of links to videos and reference information

Background info