Ash Report

Mr Jobs had better watch out coz the Android is here. Google showed off a number of exciting new developments by the company and the one that got the biggest response was Android - an open-source platform being designed for “smart” phones and other mobile devices that surf the Web. Looking set to challenge iPhone - Steve Horowtiz (engineering director) showed how an Android phone, using an internal compass, could dynamically adjust Google Street View images to match the facing of the phone user, to a collective gasp and applause from the 3000+ programmers in a conference in San Francisco.

I would surely love the idea of a standard that is available for anyone to build their applications. Imagine if we could build our own add-ons for HTC,SE,Nokia smartphones. The ability to develop applications as add-on is the real killer-apps for succes stories like Facebook or Firefox. It can be an avenue for our entreprising Petaling Street vendors - modified smartphones GUI and applications for as low as RM30 each. This time - it could be legit though.

Check out the video of the keynote presentation of Google’s I/O below. It’s a long video and the Android demo is on 23 min:

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