Updated March 23rd 2010
- What are all the Google Android phones?
BOLD if available now / ITALICS is rumored release date
- Acer beTouch E110 – March
- Acer beTouch E400 – April
- Acer Liquid – A1
- Alcatel OT-980 – May
- Bluebird Pidion BIP-6000
- Chinavision The Robot Superphone – CVNC-M80
- Cool F910 – Apanda A60
- Compulab Exeda
- Dell Aero
- Dell Mini 5 – Streak
- Dell Ophone mini3i – Benzine
- Foxda C8901
- Garmin Nuvifone A50
- Geek Phone One
- General Mobile Brava
- General Mobile Cosmos – March
- General Mobile Cosmos 2 – June
- General Mobile DSTL1
- General Mobile Touch Stone – Late 2010
- Gigabyte GSmart Codfish G1305
- Gigabyte GSmart – S1200 Android
- Haier H7
- HighScreen PP5420
- HighScreen Zeus
- Hisense HS-E90
- HKC Pearl
- HTC Bahamas
- HTC Click – Fiesta – Tattoo
- HTC Desire – Bravo – Incredible – March 26th
- HTC Desire 6200 – Verizon Droid Eris
- HTC Dragon
- HTC Dream – T-Mobile G1
- HTC Evo – Supersonic – A9292
- HTC Hero – G2 Touch
- HTC Halo
- HTC Huangshan
- HTC Legend – March 30th
- HTC Lancaster
- HTC Liberty
- HTC Memphis
- HTC Paradise
- HTC Magic – Sapphire – T-Mobile myTouch 3G – Google Ion – Dopod A6188
- HTC myTouch Slide – MyTouch 2 – Espresso – May 17th
- HTC Passion – Dragon – Zoom 2 – Nexus One – GooglePhone
- HTC Predator
- HTC Scorpion – Late 2010
- Huawei RBM2 – Der Allrounder – Red Bull Mobile
- Huawei U8220 – U82226 – U8230 – T-Mobile Pulse
- Huawei U8100 – U8110 – T-Mobile Pulse Mini
- Huawei U8300
- Huawei U8800
- Inbrics M1
- Innocomm Skate
- Kogan Agora
- Koolu Freerunner – Openmoko GTA02
- Kyocera Zio M6000 – July
- Lenovo O1 Ophone
- Lenovo LeName
- LG Andro-1 – KH5200
- LG GT540 Swift – April
- LG GW620 InTouch Max – Eve – Etna
- LG GW880 Amundsen
- LG LU2300 – June
- LG Prada 3 – LS680
- Lumigon T1 – May
- Lumigon S1 – June
- Lumigon E1
- Motorola Backflip – Motus
- Motorola Devour A555 – Calgary – February 25th
- Motorola Droid – Sholes – Tao – Milestone
- Motorola Heron
- Motorola i1
- Motorola LaJolla
- Motorola MB511 – Ruth
- Motorola MB200
- Motorola MB300
- Motorola Mirage – Shadow – Nexus Two
- Motorola Morrison – Cliq – DEXT
- Motorola Motoroi – Sholes Tablet – XT720
- Motorola MT710
- Motorola Opus One – Boost Mobile i1
- Motorola Sholes – XT701
- Motorola Quench – Cliq XT – Zeppelin – XT800
- Philips V808
- Philips V900
- Qigi i6
- Samsung Beam i8520 – Halo
- Samsung Behold 2 T939
- Samsung Bigfoot
- Samsung Galaxy i7500
- Samsung Galaxy Lite i5700 – Galaxy Mini – Spica – Galaxy Portal
- Samsung Galaxy S
- Samsung Houdini
- Samsung i899
- Samsung M100S – SHW-M100S
- Samsung Moment – InstinctQ m900
- Samsung Saturn i6500
- Saygus VPhone V1
- Sciphone N12
- Sciphone N16
- Sciphone N17
- Sciphone N19
- Sciphone N21
- Sony Ericsson Sunny
- Sony Ericsson Susan
- Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 – Infinity – March
- Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini – Robyn – June
- Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini ProJune
- Sunno S880
- Tiger G3
- Vibo A688
- ZiiLABS Zii Trinity
- ZTE Blade
- ZTE Smooth
- ZTE Racer
- What are all the non-phone Google Android devices?
BOLD if available now / ITALICS is rumored release date
- 1Cross Tech MIDHybrid
- Acer Aspire One laptop AOD250
- Alex Android eReader – April
- Archos 3 Vision
- Archos 5
- Archos 7 – April
- Archos 8 – May
- Astri MID
- Barnes & Noble Nook
- Binatone iHome Phone
- Camangi Webstation
- Cloud Telecomputers Glass
- Compaq Airlife 100
- Creative Zii Egg
- Dell Streak
- Delyca Digital Reader – S600k
- ENT ET-M4301
- enTourage eDGe –
- eviGroup Wallet MID
- FirstView PC607V MID
- Gigabyte EB10
- GiiNii Movit Maxx
- GiiNii Movit Mini
- Hard Kernel ORDROID
- Hivision PWS700A
- Hivision PWS700CA
- Hott MD500
- HP Compaq AirLife 100
- Huawei SmaKit S7
- ICD Ultra Tegra 2 Tablet – Vega
- Inbrics MID M1
- Menq EasyPC E790
- Mio MiBuddy
- Motorola HS1001
- MSI Harmony Tablet
- Neofonie WePad
- Notion Ink Adam – June
- Philips GoGear Connect
- RAmos T11
- Ramos W7 – Blue Magic
- Samsung Tablet
- Shenzhen Eston HD ENT N97
- Spring Alex
- Skytone Alpha 680
- SmartDevices SmartQ MID 1080P Player
- SMiT Android MID-560
- SnS Design Ikan
- Touch Revolution NIMble
- Viewsonic VTablet 101
- Viliv P3
- What is Google Android?
It is a open-source software stack for mobile devices that includes an operating system, middleware and key applications to allow developers to develop Internet style applications on the phone.
It is based on the Linux OS and coded in a Java-like language, but It will only utilize Google’s Java libraries. Android is NOT Java technology even though it uses the Java programming language.
- What is the gPhone?
Any phone that utilizes Android software - Google announced there won’t be a gPhone per se as they currently have no interest in actually manufacturing the phone itself to directly compete with the iPhone.
- What are Android’s tech specs?
Android runs off Linux 2.6 using a Dalvik VM (virtual machine) that is optimized for a minimal memory footprint.
Every Android application will run with its own instance of Dalvik, but it is not a JVM, according to Google’s developer advocate, Jason Chen.
- What is the Android Developer Challenge?
Starting in January 2nd, 2008 Google has funded $10 million to challenge developers to develop applications for Android and there were 1788 submissions from 75 countries that joined the contest.
The first round concluded on April 14, 2008 with fifty entries being announced on May 5th and they each received $25,000.
On August 28th, 2008 twenty of first round entries won either $275,000 or $100,000.
Winners include cab4me, CompareEverywhere, Ecorio, GoCart, Life360, Locale, PicSay, Softrace, TuneWiki, Wertago, BreadCrumbz, Cooking Capsules, Maverick, PebbleBox, PhoneBook 2.0, Piggyback, Pocket Journey, Rayfarla, ShareYourBoard, & Teradesk e-Storage
The Android Developer Challenge 2 had its winners declared on Monday November 30th, 2009 and they include Plink Art, A World of Photo, Speed Forge 3D, What the Doodle!?, SweetDreams, Buzz Deck, WaveSecure, Ce:real – Everyday trends, Trip Journal, Rhythm Guitar
- What was the first public application run on Android?
Snake, Google provided in the Android SDK release on November 12th, 2007, the classic game from the 1970s with the player controlling the direction of the snake as it constantly moves within a grid andeats food increasing its size. The purpose of this game is to last as long as possible by avoid running into itself or any of the boundaries.
- What is the current Android SDK (software development kit)?
The current Android SDK is Revision 4 from December 3rd 2009 for Windows, Mac, & Linux.
- How was Android started?
Andy Rubin started Android with Rich Miner in the Fall of 2003 as an idea to provide the mobile code for free, but profit by providing the support such as email management, security, and parent standards.
Andy Rubin is now the Director of Mobile Platforms at Google while Rich Miner is the Group Manager.
Mr. Rubin claims the mobile market is three times bigger than the Internet in 2008 as he points to the statistic of cell phone users totaling 3.2 billion compared to 850 million PC users.
- What is the Purpose of Android?
A free open operating system and source code mobile platform in the spirit of Linux, so any coder could write for it, and the reach of Windows, so any handset maker could use it.
- When did Google purchase Android?
July 2005 at the estimated purchase price of approximately $50 million.
- Who is currently developing Android?
Google & The Open Handset Alliance.
- Who is in The Open Handset Alliance?
Formed on November 5th, 2007 it currently includes 65 companies such as Sprint Nextel, T-Mobile, Intel, MIPS, NVIDIA, Qualcomm, Texas Instruments, LG, Motorola, Samsung, & Ebay.
- Who will create the gPhones?
Currently Samsung, LG, Sony Ericsson, HTC, ASUS, ACER, Garmin, Huawei, Toshiba, & Motorola.
- What networks will support Android and the gPhones?
T-Mobile, AT&T, Verizon, Sprint Nextel, Vodafone, China Mobile, KDDI, DoCoMo, Softbank Mobile, Telecom Italia, & Telefónica.
- When was the first gPhone available to the public?
Wednesday October 22nd 2008 is when the HTC Dream was released by T-Mobile as the G1.
Sources: Google and direct sources
