GPhone Android

Surprisingly there was not too much to report this year at CES, certainly not as much Android related stuff as we had anticipated. The week started off with a young girl getting the little Android bot tattooed on the inside of her arm. She goes by the name “Kommodore” and ironically enough lives in Texas, which is known for having a rather large open source community.

Mr. Blurry Cam also managed to bring us a few pictures of the not so new or exciting Kogan Agora Pro.  Later we found that the specs of the Agora Pro were not up to par enough for Android applications, this in the tech world would be called an Epic Fail. At CES we managed to see a few Android’s on display. The one in particular was more of a prototype to show what Android is capable of rather than a handset. Qualcomm demoed Android on a large WVGA screen with 1.5GHz dual-core CPU complete with integrated HSPA+, support for1080p high definition, mobile TV and also GPS capability. With all of the heavy Internet based functions Android is a perfect solution.

This week, Sir Luke Hutch crated a video demonstrating that multi-touch can be done on a stock T-Mobile G1 by modifying only one system class in the Java-based user interface stack. The 2009 roadmap for HTC has supposedly leaked revealing a very interestingly colored “Android Hero” device.  Following the same chin style of the G1 this device is nothing really new, but it is a great deal thinner. This year at CES we managed to get a look at the GiiNii Movit Internet Tablet running Android.

FlyCast is now available in the Android market for those who just are not that into Pandora. Streaming music to your G1 seems to be the name of the game with these applications. Why use up space on your microSD card when you don’t have to right? CompuLab has just announced their new Expeda handset running Android. This very odd looking device has a full QWERTY keyboard just below what appears to be several navigation controls.

There are more Android rumors this week as we hear that ASUS is working on an Eee Phone. After playing with the latest of ASUS’s products we certainly hope that they are actually developing one. At CES we stopped by the OpenMoko booth to check out their Neo FreeRunner running Android. It runs as you would expect it to, we really were hoping that they would have changed the specs just a bit but it just did not happen.

There was a video making its rounds of a mobile phone that had the makings “Dream G2” just under the battery with the word “Dream” on the front. This device does not appear to be real, there is no indication that the primary operating system is indeed Android and not Android running on top of Windows Mobile.  Dan O’Sullivan has created a G1 hat to help give better over the phone support to his family members.  He created it so that he would be able to see what it is they were doing. Now users who are experiencing poor battery life can now purchase a massive 2600mAh extended life battery to replace the little 1150mAh stock battery. To end the week we have managed to get some more convincing info stating that there are certain elements of the cupcake update that will make an appearance in the new T-Mobile G1 update that Google will push out next.