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Android Genesis

July’s Wired tells the story of Android.
“As soon as programmers started playing with the emulator, they saw how big Google’s ambitions were. The company was trying to make programming for a cell phone analogous to programming for a PC or the Web. Coders were told that their applications would have constant access to the Net, [...]

Posted 26 June 2008 § mobile ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , , , ,

Open source mobile phones

Robert Strohmeyer writes about the Open Cell Phone Project, a project intended to create an open software and hardware platform for the creation of GSM mobile devices. As Robert correctly comments, the way most mobile phones are made today (closed platforms, generally hard to modify) doesn’t provide very good support for the backyard hacker community.
“Hardware, [...]

Posted 06 January 2007 § mobile ‡ Comments (2) ° Also tagged: , , ,