Google I/O was last week and with it came a ton of great great news. Everything from Google's entry in to the living room, to codes, launches, Android, and more. There's so much, in fact, that I'm lumping it all into this one post. Details on Google TV, Froyo, Places API, WebM, and more are all after the jump.
The Dell Flash is the third in the group of the major Dell leaks from the end of last week. The Flash is what Dell is calling their mainstream midrange device. If this is their midrange, then what's their high-end? They say it will be made from a piece of curved glass, rocking a 3.5 WVGA LCD screen, 850/1900/2100MHz HSPA (AT&T's new spec, which means speeds up to 14.4Mbps down/5.6Mbps up), 5MP camera, half a gig of RAM, and microSD up to 64GB. The processor is a Qualcomm clocked at 800Mhz.
via Android ReleaseGoogle's Android has been gaining traction, but losing consistency. See, Android is open source. What this means is that all the code that goes into making the OS is available for everyone to see and anyone to edit and use on their own. Open Source software is great, but as Android stands right now, it has been fragmented beyond usability. Because of multiple versions (Android 1.5, 1.6, 2.0, 2.1) and multiple takes on the OS (Dell Areo, MotoBLUR, HTC Sense UI), there are far too many iterations of the OS on the market right now.
Because the difference versions of the OS support different features that are baked in, in order for a third party like HTC to update their Sense UI to sport new features, they have to rebuild it on the new version of the OS. Well, Google thinks they might have a solution.
android, fragmentation, froyo, gingerbread, google, mobile Your one essential destination for the latest tech news on a need-to-know basis. Stop worrying about that bloated RSS reader. We've got you covered.
What's more, is that The Circuit isn't just your one RSS feed to subscribe to, it's also a weekly show that delivers a week's worth of up-to-date tech news in just 15 min.
The Circuit is an FTW LLC Production. Original digital content and products that just can't lose. Hit Us Up →
© 2010, FTW LLC. All rights reserved.
