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It seems Google has violated quite a few copyrights/patents by using Java in Android. At least that’s what Sun’s parent company, Oracle, thinks. The company filed a lawsuit against Google on Thursday at the U.S. District Court in San Francisco and is seeking a jury trial. Google included Java technology called Dalvik along with the Android OS. As per Oracle, Dalvik directly competes with Java and infringes several of its patents.
Some good news from Dell. The company will ‘soon’ be launching the much awaited Streak in the U.S. Although no final dates have been released yet, the phone is already available for a pre-order. In fact today (27th July) is supposed to be the last day you can do that. The price is a little steep, well at least most smartphone geeks will think so. But at $299 with a two-year contract from AT&T and $549 for the unlocked edition, the Dell Streak is already one of the most talked about phone in the market.
The Nexus One is no longer for sale at Google’s online store. Well…we all knew it. Google did inform this would happen, and it finally did. But in case you are from Australia, France, Germany, Italy, Spain or the UK, there are other options. A few carriers in these countries do have it for sell based on contracts. But for most buyers of Nexus One here in US, without a doubt it is a unhappy day.
Looks like things are getting even more serious between Apple and Google. In case you are not aware, the search giant recently acquired a digital music streaming service called Simplify Media (sometime around May 20, 2010), which made it evident that Google wants to compete directly with Apple iTunes. Israeli newspaper Calcalist reported that Android product manager Gaurav Jain has confirmed that the company will launch its own digital music service alongside the launch of its next Android (version 3.0) update a.k.a. Gingerbread, that is scheduled to be released sometime end of this year.
Just when you thought that the recent release of Android 2.2 a.k.a. Froyo was here to stay, brief specs for the upcoming Android 3.0 has already surfaced. Obviously this isn’t official, so changes in the specs is quite possible. Code named Android Gingerbread, the OS will feature a significant upgrade that will demand high-end hardware and provide a much better user interface/experience.
Whether you would agree or not, Nokia N900 is still the most powerful mobile phone in the list of zillion phones manufactured by the Finnish giant. And most phone geeks will almost certainly agree that this particular phone is a hacker’s paradise. As if just to further prove that, a hacker tried to run Android 2.2 a.k.a. Froyo. And guess what? It runs pretty well. The hardware support was pretty neat and so was the web browsing.
Google has confirmed that the company has recruited Palm’s webOS senior director of user experience, Matias Duarte. If you had liked Palm Pre’s UI, then let’s just say Duarte was the guy behind it. Of course this is great loss for Palm a.k.a HP, as Duarte would start his career as the new User Experience Director for Android. And this is yet another move which indicates how serious Google is about Android and its usability.
The recent mega-success of the Apple iPad has triggered a spark across all other hardware manufacturers to take internet media tablets (IMT) seriously. Until the iPad arrived, people didn’t quite understand the potential of this kind of computing device. IDC estimates that because of the example set by Apple, the collective shipments of IMTs will reach 7.6 million by the end of 2010. By 2014, several more manufacturers are likely to join the bandwagon taking the number up to 46 million.
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