On it's way! Google smart-phone to challenge Apple

[uncleyap]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1235662/Google-plans-sell-Nexus-One-smartphone.html

Google to launch its own branded smartphone in a bid to topple Apple's iPhone


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Last updated at 10:31 AM on 14th December 2009

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This picture of the Nexus One was one of many that have appeared on Twitter over the weekend

Google is to launch its own branded mobile phone in a bid to take on Apple's iPhone.
Dubbed the Nexus One, the smartphone will be the search engine giant's attempt to make headway in the lucrative market.
Employees have been given handsets for testing, according to technology blogs.
Until now Google's foray into the mobile market has been limited to producing the Android operating system, which has been installed on the phones of other manufacturers including Motorola and Sony Ericsson.

The new Google device has a touch screen similar to the iPhone and users can search the web by speaking search terms into it.

It has been built in conjunction with Taiwan-based manufacturer HTC and could go on sale as a standard unlocked handset next year.
Customers would still need to have a contract or pay-as-you-go agreement to use it. It is not yet known if any of the UK's network providers will champion the machine in the way O2 offered the iPhone exclusively.

Ben Schachter, an analyst at San Francisco-based Broadpoint AmTech Inc, said: ‘If all of a sudden everyone is getting on the internet via their mobile device, Google needs to make sure it has an influence on that.

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‘They need to make sure they have influence on how the mobile web will develop.’
Experts believe aim of the launch is to gain access to valuable consumer data that can be used to sell ads at premium prices, rather than to make money from direct hardware sales, as companies such as Nokia does.

The Nexus One will act as a direct competitor to the iPhone (pictured)


Google said that it had given out handsets for staff to test, so they could ‘experiment with new mobile features and capabilities’ and give quick feedback on the new technology.
Mario Querioz, Google’s London-based vice president of product management, wrote in his blog on Saturday: ‘At Google, we are constantly experimenting with new products and technologies, and often ask employees to test these products for quick feedback and suggestions for improvements.
‘We recently came up with the concept of a mobile lab, which is a device that combines innovative hardware from a partner with software that runs on Android to experiment with new mobile features and capabilities.'
Rumours of a so-called 'Googlephone' have appeared regularly ever since the internet company bought a Californian mobile software startup company, also called Android, in 2005.

 

[uncleyap]

The real significant is Android the Quality Open Source handphone platform.

It means Chinese handphone makers will be able to produce well designed cheap and good handphone armed with Open Source Android. And like Linux, it will fly in development speed due to Open Source, because it is NOT JUST GOOGLE developing Android but THE ENTIRE WORLD instead.

Because it is Open Source, everyone can contribute to it's development, virtually the entire world's developers will be able to CONTRIBUTE and SHARE. It is thus a huge and rather UNLIMITED amount of resources together.

Therefore it will surpass Apple and become the best eventually after rapidly developing.

Apple i-phone is NOT Open Source.

Mac OX is also NOT Open Source.

That means there is only just ONE SINGLE Company Apple developing them ALONE. Therefore a single company can never beat the whole world in any way. Even a single company as big as MS can not beat the whole world.



If you want to join development of Android click the URL below:

http://source.android.com/

 

[uncleyap]

http://source.android.com/posts/opensource

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Android is now available as open source

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You'll be hearing a lot about Android devices. We've all put a lot of effort into the first Android device, and I'm really happy with the way it turned out. But one device is just the beginning.

Android is not a single piece of hardware; it's a complete, end-to-end software platform that can be adapted to work on any number of hardware configurations. Everything is there, from the bootloader all the way up to the applications. And with an Android device already on the market, it has proven that it has what it takes to truly compete in the mobile arena.

Even if you're not planning to ship a mobile device any time soon, Android has a lot to offer. Interested in working on a speech-recognition library? Looking to do some research on virtual machines? Need an out-of-the-box embedded Linux solution? All of these pieces are available, right now, as part of the Android Open Source Project, along with graphics libraries, media codecs, and some of the best development tools I've ever worked with.

Have a great idea for a new feature? Add it! As an open source project, the best part is that anyone can contribute to Android and influence its direction. And if the platform becomes as ubiquitous as I hope it will, you may end up influencing the future of mobile devices as a whole.

This is an exciting time for Android, and we're just getting started. It takes a lot of work to keep up with the changes in the mobile industry. But we want to do more than just keep up; we want to lead the way, to try things out, to add the new features that everyone else is scrambling to keep up with. But we can't do it without your help.

What will you do with Android?

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[uncleyap]

傳Google首款自有品牌手機　明年初上網賣單機

<label></label> 更新日期:<q>2009/12/14 07:57</q> 記者蘇湘雲／綜合報導
Google Andriod平台的智慧型手機獲廠商青睞，問世成員愈來愈多，而Google也終於決定要推出第一款自有品牌手機，名為「Nexus One」，將由台灣宏達電（HTC）製造，預定以單機透過網路於明年初上市。宏達電13日表示，看好未來與Google合作關係。
HTC是第一家推出Android手機的廠商，目前已有四款，分別是G1、Magic、Hero、Tattoo（候三款均有在台灣販售）。而根據《華爾街日報》引述知情消息來源報導，「Nexus One」仍由HTC生產，不過，Nexus One的設計幾乎全部出自Google團隊，可能採用全新第二代平台Android 2.0，強化照相、瀏覽器、藍牙以及雲端等功能。
報導說，Google近日已開始將Nexus One發給員工試用，有部落格文章提到，Google已把一款執行Android的「行動裝置」發給全球員工，讓他們體驗新流動功能及性能，有Google員工戲稱他們應該會「樂意試食自家出品的狗糧」。
特別的是，Google打算以單機方式將Nexus One透過網路平價銷售，售價可能壓在1萬元台幣左右，價格誘人，但也因為不與電信營運商合作，買了Nexus One的消費者要自行另購手機資費服務。

 

[uncleyap]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091214/ap_on_hi_te/us_tec_google_phone

Google employees testing new mobile device

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<!-- end .byline --> LOS ANGELES – Google Inc.'s employees are testing a new mobile device that runs on the company's Android operating system, as the search giant continues its push into the wireless market and toward more direct competition with Apple Inc.'s iPhone.
In a blog post Saturday, Google said the new device combines hardware built by an unnamed partner with its Android software. The free software is crucial in Google's efforts to make its search engine and other services as accessible on cell phones as they already are on personal computers.
Google handed the device out to employees across the globe so they could "experiment with new mobile features and capabilities," and give quick feedback on the new technology, said Mario Queiroz, vice president of product management, said on the company's blog.
The Wall Street Journal, citing unnamed sources, reported Sunday that Google plans to sell the phone directly to consumers, instead of through a wireless carrier. Such a move would mean Google would go head-to-head with Apple's iPhone and Research in Motion's Blackberry, as well as current makers of Android phones.
Mountain View, Calif.-based Google launched its first Android phone in September 2008, the G1 sold by T-Mobile USA. Verizon Wireless last month released the Droid, the first smart phone to run Android 2.0, and expects to launch another Android phone this year.

 

[Alamaking]

As long as it's not Window Mobile OS, got chance to topple iPhone, looking forward to it

 

[uncleyap]

As long as it's not Window Mobile OS, got chance to topple iPhone, looking forward to it

Wah Piang MS Crap OS handphone? Get spyware and virus how? I rather throw away!

:p

 

[sgp_blackout]

OK. Now I know that i-phone prices will drop like crap ASAP. And suckers who had just bought them recently, I am so sorry for you!
:(

 

[Alamaking]

OK. Now I know that i-phone prices will drop like crap ASAP. And suckers who had just bought them recently, I am so sorry for you!
:(

Price havent drop leh, but i know this batch of Made-in-China iPhone got problems 1, keep hanging 1.

 

[Slim_10_Sg]

Price havent drop leh, but i know this batch of Made-in-China iPhone got problems 1, keep hanging 1.

When China phone used Google software that will not have such problem.

 

[Char_Azn]

Wah Piang MS Crap OS handphone? Get spyware and virus how? I rather throw away!

:p

As it stands, there are currently new security risk, virus and etc found on the IPhones almost on a daily basis then there are on any other mobile platforms. Reason is simple, its popular. Same reason why Windows has tons more virus etc then the other OS. Market share!!!!

 

[uncleyap]

As it stands, there are currently new security risk, virus and etc found on the IPhones almost on a daily basis then there are on any other mobile platforms. Reason is simple, its popular. Same reason why Windows has tons more virus etc then the other OS. Market share!!!!

I already told you too many times that this market share theory is a Complete MYTH. Although MS crap have large number of user but that is not the reason thate they are so vulnerable and insecure.

Apple II running Apple-Soft, NEC Basic, CP/M, Atari OS, were the popular OS before MS. They are not so plagued by malware attackes.

MS virus began during the era of PingPong; Stone; Cookie Monster era.

I followed these history personally.

MS is flawed in their entire OS concept. They compromised their starting point of security from the very beginning of design concept, until today can not be fixed. There is no other OS so flawed like MS.

The origin of security in Unix-like system is by default grant NO access unless otherwise and explicitly permitted. MS is totally the reversed, where by everything is unblocked and only patched up minimally at where they had faced problems and complains.

The big PLUS came together with Open Source, since it brought transparency, allowing security problems to be isolated and fixed by any programmer. Giving no room for troubles to be hidden or left unfixed. Therefore ANY threats can be the most easily located and studied and then removed.

You can write a virus to attack Linux or other open source platform and release it out today, but within the same day of your attack, smart victims already studied how you had exploited the security, and solved the problem at the source level. Updates for fixing your exploitation will be available by the next day to entire world's users. The hole will be plugged before your attack could reach most of the other potential victims.

That's how well it works. FOC!

In the case of MS, if you unleashed a new attack today, there is most next to nothing much that MS will do about it. The anti-virus profit makers will at your virus's signature into their scanner, and update may reach some users the next day, however only limited to those who paid and subscribed to this non-free service. The other users will still become victims. And there are really TOO many threats out there to be effectively protected this way.

Anti virus DOES NOT PATCH the broken security vulnerability at all. It is just merely training the ineffective passive scanner to recognize only some of the threats that will exploit some known vulnerabilities, leaving the vulnerabilities STILL OPENED for exploitations.

For EACH of these vulnerabilities however, unlimited number of virus each bearing a different scan signature can be generated or written to exploit it. There are code factory programs that will churn out millions of different code version to attack each of these vulnerabilities.

Because no one got MS source code to fix these vulnerabilities, they are left opened until it is finally patched by MS.

Each of these vulnerabilities is like an individual hole, a million differently written or morphed virus knows how to enter a particular hole, some of them are programed capable to attack more than one of these holes left opened by MS.

This is the more complete picture of the problem. Or crisis rather.

There is not much at all to do with market share, The market share only contributed to higher motivations for hackers to exploit, because their opportunities are vast. However the specific value for each of these victims are on the lower end. On the higher end where there are high value and high interest at stake to guard, e.g. security centers; military; banks; governments; Internet infrastructures... they will not subject their assets to lame MS insecurity. These targets are however the real jackpots for the really professional hackers, e.g. the CIA spies, these are the type of targets that hackers get paid $million dollars to attack.

But the market shares for these high value targets is very tiny. Only one in a dozen million computers is worth so much to the hackers.

The market share is therefore really nothing to do with the systems' security problems, the truth is it has got to do with how fucked up these systems are.

 

[dysentry]

Android still doesn't have any killer app to justify catching up on iPhone. I've been using HTC phones due to the Bluetooth support, but will switch to iPhone once they have full support for Bluetooth profiles.

 

[johnny333]

As it stands, there are currently new security risk, virus and etc found on the IPhones almost on a daily basis then there are on any other mobile platforms. .....

Isn't that an exageration, the only virus I've heard of that might affect the Iphone, is if the Iphone has been jailbroken.

 

[uncleyap]

Android still doesn't have any killer app to justify catching up on iPhone. I've been using HTC phones due to the Bluetooth support, but will switch to iPhone once they have full support for Bluetooth profiles.

Because it is open source so I believe that Android will be developing and improving very rapidly, simply due to the unlimited number of developer who can contribute to improve it and take advantage of it.

A healthy feature of open source spirit is that any one who want to take advantage of it have to contribute back to it. Then it cause the advantages to multiply rapidly.