It’s been a while since I’ve made an updated list of the available Android mobile phones in the Philippines. I recently had a look at the mobile phone shops to find out what new Android mobile phones are now available locally. It looks like some more Android phones have already started to find its way in cell phone shops.
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.
A couple of days back, I was reading this news article about the upcoming availability of the Blackberry Bold 9000 from Smart and Globe. Smart has also announced that their new HSDPA mobile network will be able to provide up to 7 Mbps of bandwidth speed for HSDPA enabled phones.
Since I am shopping for a new mobile phone, I decided to look into the features and specs of the Blackberry Bold 9000. The specifications are actually what you’d expect in a business-centric mobile phone but I was just wondering how on earth can it be perfect for Smart’s new HSPDA network when the Blackberry Bold only supports up to 3.6 Mbps?
So I went and check out some other mobile phones that can theoretically use the 7 Mbps network speed (I say theoritically because, the actual speed depends on a lot of factors).
The MTJ project of the Eclipse Foundation has released version 0.9 of the Mobile Tools for Java. Mobile Java developer support under Eclipse gets better and better thanks to the Guys at Motorola. And of course lets not forget the initial work done by Craig of EclipseME fame.
If you’re a developer, here’s your chance to make it big with your location-aware wireless software. The NAVTEQ Global LBS Challenge offers up to $5.25 million in cash and prices. So get that killer app working and join the Challenge.
Mywaves, a top mobile entertainment provider has inked an agreement with Sony Ericsson. Mywaves will be preloaded on Sony Ericsson Java Phones according to the agreement. Mywaves provides videos, games, ringtones and wallpapers for mobile phones.
Sony Ericsson has made available the Project Capuchin SDK. Project Capuchin is a Sony Ericsson’s software development kit for connecting mobile Java or Java™ ME and Adobe® Flash Lite™. The SDK is a set of APIs, a packaging tool, documents and getting-started tutorials.
Sony Ericsson has created a bridge to enable J2ME and Flash lite to collaborate on your mobile phone. The bridge enables developers to use Flash lite as frontends and J2ME as backends on mobile applications.
Mobile Java development using the Eclipse IDE can be as easy as 1-2-3. Simply follow some basic setup steps and you’ll be up and running and ready to develop your “killer” mobile game or application in no time at all.
I just stumble upon, without actually visiting the website “Stumble Upon” 
, an article posted in unwiredview about Nokia’s patenting a 3D touchless control interface.
