Posts Tagged ‘android phones’

New Android Forum opens covering all Android Phones!

Friday, January 21st, 2011

As you may be aware AllGooglePhones.com part of a family of Android discussion forums and blogs. Our family of sites try to cover all phones and all skill levels to offer users an easy place to have fun and enjoy their phones while getting help and learning things they may have never even thought they would want to know. Our main goal is to provide a friendly, fun and educational community to like-minded individuals who have a common passion. Today marks a great milestone on this journey of ours with the introduction of Android.net.

Android.net grew out of our desire to launch a website to cover Android phones worldwide under one roof. We will continue to start and run device (and network) specific sites but we also felt that many of our more rabid users wanted a general Android site as well. Android.net fills that need.

We would like to invite you to be one of the first members on the site. Since this site is brand new we have some exciting features available to members who are first to register. We realize that some users just love having low Member ID’s… so if your quick, you can register your account and secure your low Member ID #. Even better then that though is a feature we are really excited about… an @android.net email account.

When you register on the site you are able to create a unique email address and forward all mail to that address to your existing email account. You can pick your own username but pick wisely as you will not be able to change it. In addition the names are available on a first come, first served basis.

Another feature that is available on the site are Android.net hosted ROMS, Themes and Media Files. We have seen a glaring hole in hosting available to the community. We aim to be the largest (and free) Android hosting service around. If your a developer, themer or just want to share ringtones with our members then we can arrange our Downloads area to host your files. We are not requiring registrations for members to download files so it should be a great way for you to get your work out to the masses without having to use some of the more troublesome free hosting providers. Please contact an Admin to be moved into the proper usergroup to be able to upload files to the site.

With that said, we would love to have you as a member on our site. To register you can click this link: Register at Android Forum – Android Phone Forum – To visit the site, simply click here:Android Forum – Android Phone Forum

Thanks for your time and thanks for being a member! If you are as excited as us and want to share a link with your friends we would greatly appreciate it!

– Android Forum

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Google Says Employees Are Testing Android Phone Internally

Sunday, December 13th, 2009

Bloomberg reports:

Google Inc., seeking to push further into the market for mobile phones and advertising, said employees are testing a device that uses its Android operating system.

The phone is based on hardware manufactured by a partner and it will allow the company to experiment with new features, Google said yesterday in a blog post. Employees worldwide are testing the device, the company said.

Separately, the Wall Street Journal reported that Google will sell the device directly to consumers next year.

Google, owner of the most-popular Internet search engine, is expanding its products for mobile phones as demand increases for devices that can surf the Web, take pictures and play music. Google’s Android software was first offered on phones last year, and Verizon Wireless released a device called Droid in November that uses the program.

Offering its own device would put Google into direct competition with Apple Inc., maker of the iPhone, and Research In Motion Ltd.’s BlackBerry. It would also create new rivalries with manufacturers such as Motorola Inc., which already make Android devices.

Google said its employees are “dogfooding” its new device, a term that refers to companies using their own products, or “eating your own dog food.”

Google and T-Mobile USA Inc. introduced the first Android phone in September 2008, a bid to lure consumers away from the iPhone and BlackBerry. The Journal, citing people familiar with the matter, said the new phone will be called Nexus One and is being made by HTC Corp.

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Official Google Phone Coming in Next Year!

Saturday, December 12th, 2009


Leaked image from TheUnlockr.com
TechCrunch reports that Google has begun testing a new Android device with their employees. The new device is said not to be just another Android-based phone, but the official Google Phone that has been rumored for some time. From TechCrunch:

Google is building their own branded phone that they’ll sell directly and through retailers. They were long planning to have the phone be available by the holidays, but it has now slipped to early 2010. The phone will be produced by a major phone manufacturer but will only have Google branding (Microsoft did the same thing with their first Zunes, which were built by Toshiba).

There won’t be any negotiation or compromise over the phone’s design of features – Google is dictating every last piece of it. No splintering of the Android OS that makes some applications unusable. Like the iPhone for Apple, this phone will be Google’s pure vision of what a phone should be.

This new phone is said to be a no-compromises version of an Android phone and has been reported to include these details/features:

- Sold as an unlocked GSM phone, so in the U.S. T-Mobile and possibly AT&T
- Android 2.1
- Uses Snapdragon chip and is “really, really fast”
- High resolution OLED screen
- Thinner than iPhone
- Two mics, one on the back to reduce background noise
- “Weirdly” large camera
- Touchscreen keyboard
- Voice to text for dictation

The Google Phone is said to be due for release in January 2010. The Snapdragon chip appears to be based on the same generation of ARM processor as the iPhone 3GS, though could be running at a higher clock speed. Apple, of course, is rumored to be working on their next generation iPhone, though it is not expected for release until mid-year.

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