Some Of Android Facts And FAQ"S

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What are all the Google Android phones?

1. Acer beTouch E110 – March
2. Acer beTouch E400 – April
3. Acer Liquid – A1
4. Alcatel OT-980 – May
5. Bluebird Pidion BIP-6000
6. Chinavision The Robot Superphone – CVNC-M80
7. Cool F910 – Apanda A60
8. Compulab Exeda
9. Dell Aero
10. Dell Mini 5 – Streak
11. Dell Ophone mini3i – Benzine
12. Foxda C8901
13. Garmin Nuvifone A50
14. Geek Phone One
15. General Mobile Brava
16. General Mobile Cosmos – March
17. General Mobile Cosmos 2 – June
18. General Mobile DSTL1
19. General Mobile Touch Stone – Late 2010
20. Gigabyte GSmart Codfish G1305
21. Gigabyte GSmart – S1200 Android
22. Haier H7
23. HighScreen PP5420
24. HighScreen Zeus
25. Hisense HS-E90
26. HKC Pearl
27. HTC Bahamas
28. HTC Click – Fiesta – Tattoo
29. HTC Desire – Bravo – Incredible – March 26th
30. HTC Desire 6200 – Verizon Droid Eris
31. HTC Dragon
32. HTC Dream – T-Mobile G1
33. HTC Evo – Supersonic – A9292
34. HTC Hero – G2 Touch
35. HTC Halo
36. HTC Huangshan
37. HTC Legend – March 30th
38. HTC Lancaster
39. HTC Liberty
40. HTC Memphis
41. HTC Paradise
42. HTC Magic – Sapphire – T-Mobile myTouch 3G – Google Ion – Dopod A6188
43. HTC myTouch Slide – MyTouch 2 – Espresso – May 17th
44. HTC Passion – Dragon – Zoom 2 – Nexus One – GooglePhone
45. HTC Predator
46. HTC Scorpion – Late 2010
47. Huawei RBM2 – Der Allrounder – Red Bull Mobile
48. Huawei U8220 – U82226 – U8230 – T-Mobile Pulse
49. Huawei U8100 – U8110 – T-Mobile Pulse Mini
50. Huawei U8300
51. Huawei U8800
52. Inbrics M1
53. Innocomm Skate
54. Kogan Agora
55. Koolu Freerunner – Openmoko GTA02
56. Kyocera Zio M6000 – July
57. Lenovo O1 Ophone
58. Lenovo LeName
59. LG Andro-1 – KH5200
60. LG GT540 Swift – April
61. LG GW620 InTouch Max – Eve – Etna
62. LG GW880 Amundsen
63. LG LU2300 – June
64. LG Prada 3 – LS680
65. Lumigon T1 – May
66. Lumigon S1 – June
67. Lumigon E1
68. Motorola Backflip – Motus
69. Motorola Devour A555 – Calgary – February 25th
70. Motorola Droid – Sholes – Tao – Milestone
71. Motorola Heron
72. Motorola i1
73. Motorola LaJolla
74. Motorola MB511 – Ruth
75. Motorola MB200
76. Motorola MB300
77. Motorola Mirage – Shadow – Nexus Two
78. Motorola Morrison – Cliq – DEXT
79. Motorola Motoroi – Sholes Tablet – XT720
80. Motorola MT710
81. Motorola Opus One – Boost Mobile i1
82. Motorola Sholes – XT701
83. Motorola Quench – Cliq XT – Zeppelin – XT800
84. Philips V808
85. Philips V900
86. Qigi i6
87. Samsung Beam i8520 – Halo
88. Samsung Behold 2 T939
89. Samsung Bigfoot
90. Samsung Galaxy i7500
91. Samsung Galaxy Lite i5700 – Galaxy Mini – Spica – Galaxy Portal
92. Samsung Galaxy S
93. Samsung Houdini
94. Samsung i899
95. Samsung M100S – SHW-M100S
96. Samsung Moment – InstinctQ m900
97. Samsung Saturn i6500
98. Saygus VPhone V1
99. Sciphone N12
100. Sciphone N16
101. Sciphone N17
102. Sciphone N19
103. Sciphone N21
104. Sony Ericsson Sunny
105. Sony Ericsson Susan
106. Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 – Infinity – March
107. Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini – Robyn – June
108. Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini ProJune
109. Sunno S880
110. Tiger G3
111. Vibo A688
112. ZiiLABS Zii Trinity
113. ZTE Blade
114. ZTE Smooth
115. ZTE Racer

What are all the non-phone Google Android devices?

1. 1Cross Tech MIDHybrid
2. Acer Aspire One laptop AOD250
3. Alex Android eReader – April
4. Archos 3 Vision
5. Archos 5
6. Archos 7 – April
7. Archos 8 – May
8. Astri MID
9. Barnes & Noble Nook
10. Binatone iHome Phone
11. Camangi Webstation
12. Cloud Telecomputers Glass
13. Compaq Airlife 100
14. Creative Zii Egg
15. Dell Streak
16. Delyca Digital Reader – S600k
17. ENT ET-M4301
18. enTourage eDGe –
19. eviGroup Wallet MID
20. FirstView PC607V MID
21. Gigabyte EB10
22. GiiNii Movit Maxx
23. GiiNii Movit Mini
24. Hard Kernel ORDROID
25. Hivision PWS700A
26. Hivision PWS700CA
27. Hott MD500
28. HP Compaq AirLife 100
29. Huawei SmaKit S7
30. ICD Ultra Tegra 2 Tablet – Vega
31. Inbrics MID M1
32. Menq EasyPC E790
33. Mio MiBuddy
34. Motorola HS1001
35. MSI Harmony Tablet
36. Neofonie WePad
37. Notion Ink Adam – June
38. Philips GoGear Connect
39. RAmos T11
40. Ramos W7 – Blue Magic
41. Samsung Tablet
42. Shenzhen Eston HD ENT N97
43. Spring Alex
44. Skytone Alpha 680
45. SmartDevices SmartQ MID 1080P Player
46. SMiT Android MID-560
47. SnS Design Ikan
48. Touch Revolution NIMble
49. Viewsonic VTablet 101
50. Viliv P3

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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

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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.

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