Google Android News Flash

Smartsoft Mobile will now be offering an aggregation of platform information and rumors in a special four part blog series. For the Second Installment Google is highlighted… Enjoy!

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• Adoption growth in Q1 2010 is 20% greater for Android devices than iPhone
• User demographic is has a 73% male adoption rate
• Google-HTC-T-Mobile Nexus One “project” terminated
• Motorola Droid X has no front facing camera (no video conferencing)
• HTC will be launching four new Android phones in Sep 2010 with multiple carriers
• HTC Droid Incredible is the fastest selling Android OS phone in the world
• Sprint added 112,000 subscribers mainly due to new 4G network, first subscriber gains in years, exceeded analysts’ expectations
• Verizon also a Droid seller will have a 4G network before year end
• Google Android is now the fastest growing consumer grade device OS in both the US and UK
• Dell is now a Smartphone manufacturer with Dell Streak running Android exclusively and a $199.00 price point running Android OS
• Droid has gained an extra 10.2% of total UK market share just in Q1 2010
• Droid Incredible (HTC) and Droid X (Motorola) have been in backorder since late Jun 2010 due to high demand, both devices will have supply replenishment Aug 8, 2010 for HTC and Aug 16, 2010 for Motorola
• Augen a 7.1 inch Android tablet to sell at Kmart for $149.00 in Oct 2010
• Google has announced that it will be rolling out a copy protection mechanism for Android Market
Google sets up a special licensing server, which keeps record of application purchases. Developers can use libraries provided by Google that query this server each time the application is started.
o The server then tells the application if the user has a valid license to use the application.
• HTC Glacier will release in fall 2010 running a dual core Snapdragon processor and will be 3x faster than the EVO 4G

The Samsung Galaxy Q will have:
3-inch Super AMOLED screen (720x480)
1 GHz Hummingbird processor
8MP camera with LED flash
1.3 mp front-facing camera
QWERTY keyboard
Android 2.2
16GB internal memory (Micro SD expandable to 32GB)