After HTC it’s Australian company Kogan that is joining the mobile phone market with Linux based phone powered by Googles Android. Agora and Agora pro phones feature touch screens and full keyboards and design similar to Black Berry or Nokia E71. The price starts at 195US$.
Posts Tagged ‘android’
Another Android mobile phone on the market
Tuesday, December 9th, 2008Android is multitasking! Nothing new.
Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008Multitasking isn’t new on smartphones. Symbian and Palm have it for ages. 3rd party development is what makes one IT architecture popular!
Mobile Windows 7 delayed -Android on the way
Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008Microsoft announced the delay of the next mobile Windows release. It might not be ready before the second half 2009. Its better to delay than to release unstable mobile operating system. Phones don’t have ctrl-alt-del key combination. 
If this is the reason why HTC switched to Android, it’s got to be stable as itself was delayed for a while.
HTC and Linux = Android
Thursday, September 18th, 2008In May I wrote about Google’s mobile operating platform called Android. Today we know that the first manufacturer to bring it to life will be HTC. So the HTC’s dream to have a Linux based mobile phone is coming true. And T-mobile operator decided to call it “Dream”. So who in this story dreams of electric sheep? Android does have a big dream of entering to the boxing ring with Symbian. And more over, the official announcement will come on Tuesday. So Tuesday’s announcement are not reserved for Apple!
Android applications distribution
Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008It has been announced around the blogosphere that applications for Google’s future mobile phone, Android, will be distributed on a so called Application market. This market will be based on an Open Source approach, or post at will and is compared to the YouTube mechanism for posting videos. Android developers would have to become members of the comunity in order to post their applications. It is not declared what level of testing (self or third party) would applications need to pass before being able to get installed on Android phones and be able to use different phone features. In the first place only freeware applications could be distributed over Android market. It will be interesting to see the distribution model for commercial applications. Obviously Google has many cases to learn from, but the current announcement is still far from Apple’s iTunes model for distribution of iPhones applications or Nokia’s S60 label model. It is closer to Nokia’s MOSH for applications and content sharing that is still in Beta.