One thing I love about Google is the way it supports the use of clean and green technology especially in the area of power generation. Google is already using solar energy to power its data centers. Today, Google has just announced another milestone by signing a 20-year agreement to use wind power.
The year 2008 saw that Linux has the potential to take on Windows on the netbook market. The smaller brother of the notebook, netbooks is now the craze. Because of it’s size it has the potential of creating a whole new meaning to portable computers. As technology like SSD gets wide acceptance, prices of these devices will inevitably find its way into netbooks. Low power CPUs and improvements in battery technology will also make these netbooks a “all in a day’s work/school” gadget.
Linux’s smaller footprint, more robust architecture, openness and cost effectivity makes it a perfect match for the netbook. The growing acceptance and awareness of the ordinary consumer will contribute to it’s increasing market share. But it looks like that’s not the only thing that will contribute greatly to the acceptance of Linux.
A private group of developers called “cupcake” is poised to merge into the next release of Google Android a bunch of fixes, changes and enhancements. Google is in the process of merging the private branch into mainstream that will take the changes into the public mainstream. I’m particularly happy to hear that video capture and A2DP bluetooth will now be available.
Several months after the official launch of the T-Mobile G1, I have yet to see the second commercially available Android-based mobile phone. The title of “Second Android-based mobile phone” is still up for grabs since someone has yet to deliver on their promises and someone has yet to blog about their just delivered Android mobile phone.
As far as I am concerned, all of these articles going around the Net is simply just vaporware and marketing hype. Poised to come out with an Android-based mobile phones next year are companies like Motorola, Asus, Toshiba, Vodafone and Sony Ericsson.
Wait no longer. If you’re dying to get your hands on a SIM-unlocked and hardware-unlocked Android-based T-Mobile G1 mobile phone, here’s your chance. For just USD 399.00, you can get your own T-Mobile G1 mobile phone that you can use for developing those nifty Google Android applications. You can even hack and create a custom Android OS and install it on the unlocked T-Mobile G1. Great opportunity also for those wanting to have an Android mobile phone and you don’t live in one of T-Mobile’s geographic locations.
If you’re a developer, you can even get your own hacks into the Android kernel and install it on the unlocked Android Dev Phone 1 device to create your own customized version of the T-Mobile G1 cell phone.
I’ve just read this interesting article from Slashdot, Google Adopts, Forks OpenID 1.0, which discusses an article published in NeoSmart about Google’s forking of the OpenID standard.
Open ID is a great concept of creating your own universally acceptable user login id that also allows you to protect your personal data for floating around all over the Net.
Google has released an update to it’s Gmail client for mobile phones. The new version, which is now 2.0, offers some very useful features.
The source code to the Android operating system has now been released to the public. We can now truly call Android as the first truly open mobile platform.
Still hot on its heels with the release of the T-Mobile G1, Google and company is already on it’s way to creating the next generation of the Android mobile phone. Dubbed the T-Mobile G2, an image mock up shows up at Phones Review.
It looks like that not only will the G2 have twice the resolution (wow, that would be a 960×640) than the G1, it will also have those gorgeous new interface show in the photo. Less dead space, smaller chin, tilting screen, tabbed browsing to name a few of what’s in store. I’d also want a better camera, A2DP bluetooth, virtual keyboard and video capture with that to go.
Looks to me like a lot of people wants to get hold of the Android-based G1 mobile phone (me included) ‘coz T-Mobile just sold 1.5 million of them on pre-order alone. And to top that T-Mobile has ordered another 2 million from HTC (wow, looks like HTC is going to have a wonderful Christmas).
The G1 mobile phone is expected to hit the shelves in a week or so. Even though people have expressed some dissatisfaction with the first Android-base mobile phone’s features 1.5 million people have still pre-ordered the cell phone.
Once it hit the shelves, it would really be interesting to see what people will do with the mobile phone. I’m sure some guys are just itching to get their orders to start hacking the phone.
