Google to launch 18 Android phones
Google to launch 18 Android phones
May 29, 2009
At the Google I/O Developer Conference , google announced that it will ready at least 18 Android phones to ship in 2009. Google will launch part two of its Android Developer Challenge contest in early August.
Google I/O Developer conference touched upon a wide variety of development issues, such as the new “Google Web Elements” widgets that can be added to websites, and a “Google Wave” rich-media communication and collaboration technology that combines email, IM, and photo-sharing.
Android developers, received their fair share of attention at the San Francisco event, with sessions available on Android design and speed-up tips, battery life issues, real-time games, debugging, the Android Media Framework, text-to-speech and other eyes-free interaction interfaces, and “supporting multiple devices with a single binary.” According to The New York Times, Andy Rubin, Google’s senior director for mobile platforms, announced the company’s estimate that 18 to 20 Android phones would ship this year, from eight or nine different manufacturers.
Many of these phones, are minor variations on a theme, for example from Samsung and HTC this year. However, the list does not include devices that use a basic Android system. It was also learned that carriers will be slower to release phones in the U.S. than in Europe, due to the desire to make distinctive modifications in the more competitive U.S. market.
Nice article. I belive that it provides a lot of opportunity to the developers who are working on adndroid.