The mobile platform sponsored by Google as part of the Open Mobile Alliance, evolved from their 2005 acquisition of the company with the same name.
The following is a link dump regarding both the platform and those devices more closely associated with it:
Resources:
| Date | Link | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 2013 | ||
| Feb 1 | HoRNDIS | A Mac OS X driver for using USB tethering to Android devices. |
| Jan 27 | androrat | A remote administration and tracking solution for Android devices. |
| 2012 | ||
| Aug 3 | From Zero to Boot: Porting Android to your ARM platform | A handy overview. |
| Hacker’s Keyboard | A decent soft keyboard for technical use. | |
| Jun 12 | Connectbot | A pretty good SSH client that almost works perfectly with a hardware keyboard. |
| Jun 10 | Android Development on the Command Line | Probably the sanest way to do it. |
| 2011 | ||
| Oct 18 | Speeding up the Android emulator | or sidestepping it altogether… |
| Feb 23 | Native android icons in vector format | Useful for a number of purposes. |
| 2010 | ||
| Jun 30 | Android 3.0 Gingerbread getting revamped UI, Froyo living on for lower-end phones? | A bigger chunk for the fragmentation advocates. |
| Jun 29 | Google: Android 2.2 (Froyo) comes to Nexus One | Not that exciting. |
| Jun 22 | Adobe Flash Player 10.1 for Android Gets Official | If that is your thing. |
| Jun 07 | Yep, the iPhone runs Android 2.2, too | Still unusable, basically. |
| May 29 | The Verdict On Android 2.2 ‘Froyo’: It’s Sweet | |
| It does look nicer. | ||
| May 25 | Froyo Speed Test | Faster without Flash. |
| May 24 | Flash For Smartphones Is Finally Here, And It Is Terrible | Ha. |
| May 23 | Entelligence: Is Android fragmented or is this the new rate of innovation? | in a nutshell, Google won’t admit to fragmentation of user experience. |
| May 21 | iPhone 3G’s Android port is ready to download | “a fully charged iPhone running Android will last only an hour or so.” – ‘nuff said. |
| Speedy Android 2.2 hits with tethering, push framework, more | A better overview. | |
| Everything You Need to Know About Android 2.2 | A pretty comprehensive overview | |
| May 18 | Android 2.1 becomes most used version, just in time to be obviated by Froyo | More statistics. |
| May 15 | Google fails to revolutionize the cellphone market | Told you it wasn’t that simple to just sell phones online… |
| May 13 | Android 2.2: Tethering & Hotspots | More features, less battery life. |
| May 10 | Is Android Really Outselling Apple? | Hardly a surprise if you take into account that there is only one Apple.  |
| Apr 28 | Flash Support in Android 2.2 | Oh, the enthusiasm. |
| Apr 28 | Jobs detects an imbalance in the force | Gotta love stats. One little thing, though – Android apps are more likely to be free and ad-driven, so anything coming from an ad server isn’t necessarily a good market penetration metric for a platform. |
| Apr 26 | Nexus One launches on Vodafone UK this Friday, April 30 | There you go, mate. |
| Apr 14 | Yes they can | Don’t think so, but it’s sure going to be interesting to watch them try… |
| 5 Things Google Must Do to Make Its Tablet Competitive | Oh ffs. The thing doesn’t even exist yet, and they’re pontificating already? | |
| Feb 26 | Nexus One coming to Vodafone UK in April, says Telegraph | No comment |
| Feb 15 | Nexus One could be more Environment Friendly | Why add the charger instead of replacing it? |
| Feb 14 | New Nexus One ROM leaks, fixes more radio issues? | Another try, I guess… |
| Feb 11 | Nexus One 3G problems persist after update—is it a design problem? | Oh, yeah, sure. Like baseband firmware fixes poor coverage. |
| Feb 09 | Google makes biggest gain in smartphone market share | More pretty charts (US-centric, therefore meaningless). The difference here is that there are umpteen versions of Android devces and far fewer of other platforms… |
| Feb 08 | Google reduces its Nexus One termination fee | Interesting. |
| Feb 03 | Nexus One gets a software update, enables multitouch | Will it change anything? |
| Jan 26 | Google: Nexus One 3G issues result of poor coverage, bugs; patch possibly within a week | Wouldn’t be surprised if it was a baseband upgrade. |
| Jan 21 | Google’s Nexus One is no iPhone – and that’s OK | A more balanced review. |
| Jan 14 | Nexus One Phone | Hilarious video review. |
| Jan 13 | In the First Week, Google May Have Sold 20,000 Nexus One Phones | Comparing 20K against 1.6 million iPhones on the first week is a bit unfair considering the way it’s sold. |
| Google Charges ETF For Nexus One On Top of Carrier’s | Interesting. More here and here. | |
| Jan 12 | Google at the crossroads: a review of the Nexus One | Pretty detailed and comprehensive review, as always. |
| T-Mobile gives reps troubleshooting tips for Nexus One’s 3G issues | Looks like a baseband issue alright. | |
| Google learning that users want real support for Nexus One | Learning can be painful. | |
| On-duty with the Nexus One: form factor, battery, Android | An odd review. | |
| Android 2.1 SDK | About time. | |
| T-Mobile makes mention of 3G issues with Nexus One, hopes to have ‘more information’ soon | Here’s to some heroic debugging. | |
| Nexus One: $174 Cost to Build | About the same estimated production cost than a 3GS, except that Apple has likely done a better bulk deal on parts… Also, nice comparative tables. | |
| Jan 06 | Vodafone promises Nexus One ‘in a few short weeks’ | And this is probably where I stop keeping track of this particular device… |
| Google’s biggest announcement was not a phone, but a URL | I find it amazing that they’d write this much about ordering a phone online on a third-party store, but that’s the US mobile market for you. | |
| Google Isn’t Targeting iPhone Users; It’s Targeting Everyone Else | Much ado about nothing in particular, basically. | |
| Nexus One teardown reveals 802.11n WiFi and FM transmitter | This teardown mania is somewhat fun, but one wonders how long it will take until people realise that only a very small minority of what is “unearthed” is news… | |
| State of the Art – Google Shakes but Doesn’t Upend the Cellphone Market – NYTimes.com | Pogue doesn’t seem terribly impressed. | |
| Jan 05 | Google Phone Unveiled Today | A coherent list of specs, although there are plenty of meaningless stats bolted on to beef up the article. |
| Jan 05 | Google’s Nexus One is official | $529 unlocked, shipping to the US, UK, Singapore and Hong Kong, or with a two year T-Mobile US contract for $179. There go a lot of pipedreams about it being sold direct to the public at “astonishingly low” prices. |
| Jan 04 | Nexus One review | not much in terms of review, actually. |
| Jan 03 | Exclusive: Google Nexus One hands-on, video, and first impressions | Not an iPhone killer. Hardly capable of killing a fly, apparently. |
| 2009 | ||
| Nov 30 | Droid Doesn’t: It’s Not Ready For Prime Time · Alsop Louie Partners | A month later, reality calls. |
| Nov 23 | Stats show Motorola Droid is the new elephant in the Android room | I’m still wary of stats (local copy of PDF), but I hear it’s selling pretty well indeed. |
| Nov 11 | Motorola Droid torn down despite desperate cries of ‘no disassemble’ | Worth looking at. |
| Droid Does… only have 256MB of storage for apps | Now that’s gotta be… Useful. | |
| Analyst estimates 100,000 DROID smartphones sold in first weekend | It isn’t the RAZR, but it’s a decent figure. | |
| Nov 05 | “Andy Ihnatko on Verizon Droid “iDon’t ads: baloney | Yep. |
| Personal Droid Data Plan Will Cost $30 Per Month, Even With Exchange | I honestly don’t get why they are trying to charge it this way. | |
| Nov 03 | Exchange Access for Droid: $15 Extra Per Month | Wow. |
| Oct 30 | Android Phones Get Free Turn-By-Turn Directions | Best overview yet |
| Google adds free turn-by-turn navigation, car dock UI to Android 2.0 | The quip about an Apple version is not to be missed. | |
| Google Navigation video hands-on: you want this | Looks nice indeed, but let’s wait to see how well map caching works. | |
| Oct 29 | The Droid Has Landed…Unboxed! Plus a Few Facts | Nothing to worry about except that it’s the start of a trend. |
| Oct 28 | Droid Launches Nov. 6 Priced To Match iPhone | The price matching approach is interesting, but then again in the US handset prices don’t work quite the same way as in Europe… |
| Motorola DROID first hands-on! | I can’t figure out why these people keep wasting space in hardware keyboards. | |
| Verizon Droid Phone: Nov 6th, $199 | A pretty decent feature set overview. | |
| Google Releases Android 2.0 SDK | But the UI guidelines are still a bit on the loose side. | |
| Oct 27 | Android 2.0 Highlights | The e-mail client looks nice, but I’m curious as to usability. |
| Android 2.0 is Official — Quick Contacts Look Nice | This is just what I think is needed in oh, so many other places. | |
| Droid to be Verizon’s Android Product Line — Not a Single Phone | Now this is a clever move. | |
| Oct 24 | Verizon’s Droid is a series, not just a phone; Droid Eris coming from HTC | Let’s see how this pans out. I’m quite curious, actually, to see if Verizon can pull this off in the sense of generating genuine buzz around an operator-specific set of Android devices. |
| Oct 20 | Android thoughts two years later | Well worth reading through, and mirrors my own views. One to re-visit a few years from now indeed. |
| Oct 7 | Android, not iPhone, is Bigger Symbian Challenger Says Gartner | Not rocket science, but a bit exaggerated, since nobody can really look that far into the future in this industry. Still, here’s the chart:  |
| Sep 23 | Cyanogen | Modified firmware for some devices. Just had to happen. |
| Sep 15 | Android 1.6 SDK is here | Well, at least compatibility is assured. |
| Sep 10 | A nice summary table of devices |
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| Sep 3 | Some News from Android Market | It took them this long to add screenshots to apps. |
| Aug 17 | The Android Opportunity (addenda) | Mostly agree, although this is too US-centric for it to be considered the whole truth. |
| Jun 24 | HTC Hero running Android and Sense UI leaks from HTC‘s own website | Flash turns out to not be that exciting. Or useful. Plus the phone is plain ugly, and a lot thicker than what the first shot makes it look. |
| HTC Hero hands-on: Flash, keyboard and ruminations | ||
| Adobe demos Flash on the HTC Hero | ||
| Apr 29 | Vodafone suggests future Android phones could have less Google | People keep confusing the platform with the services. |
| Apr 27 | ||
| Loads of fun for various reasons. | ||
| Apr 20 | Introducing home screen widgets and the AppWidget framework | An interesting technote on how Android handles home screen widgets. |
| Apr 2 | Some Fun Facts About The Google Phone | Interesting stats about usage patterns. |
| Mar 5 | HTC black Magic (Sapphire) hands-on: a Vodafone exclusive | Very few decent shots |
| Feb 25 | Google blocks paid apps for unlocked G1 users | Interesting hint of fragmentation. |
| Feb 17 | HTC Magic is official, bringing Android to Vodafone sans keyboard | And after adding these links, this page now merits a direct, obvious, reference to my Disclaimer |
| HTC Magic in-depth hands-on, with video! | ||
| HTC Magic first eyes-on! | ||
| Photos: Hands-on with the HTC Magic Android phone | ||
| HTC Magic – The new Google Android mobile phone from Vodafone | ||
| Feb 13 | Android Market update: support for priced applications | Using Google Checkout, of course. |
| Android Market: Open for Business | A very nice (if shallow) analysis that bunches together some interesting tidbits of info. | |
| Feb 12 | TeleNav Does Turn-By-Turn on Android | Apparently US-only, which is a pity. |
| Jan 1 | Android netbooks on their way, likely by 2010 | Dubious in both title and subject matter (we’ve known that Android could be made to run on PCs for a good while now. |
| 2008 | ||
| Dec 28 | AD IV: Programming Newbie | Tim Bray lists a few interesting resources for new developers |
| Dec 17 | Huawei powers up its Android plans | For Q3’09. Let’s see what they come up with. |
| Dec 9 | Open Handset Alliance announces 14 new members | including Sony Ericsson and Vodafone. Most people missed this last bit, which is fun. |
| Dec 8 | Unlocked Android: $399 | Development samples, available for purchase. |
| Nov 7 | Worst. Bug. Ever. | Although this was fixed fairly quickly, it is the perfect example of why mobile phones aren’t exactly trivial to “improve upon” using today’s technology. |
| Oct 31 | iPhone vs T-Mobile G1 | A short comparison. |
| Oct 24 | Android Phone Teardown | How weird is it that this is in Japan? |
| Oct 22 | HTC Dream T-Mobile G1 (black) Smartphone review | |
| Oct 21 | Android is now Open Source | Let’s see if someone will port this to Intel and get it running on a netbook… |
| Oct 16 | Almost Human: a review of Google’s Android G1 phone | Good reading – a thorough appraisal. |
| State of the Art – A Look at Google’s First Phone | Pogue weighs in. | |
| T-Mobile G1 review | ||
| T-Mobile G1 Google Android Phone Review | ||
| Oct 15 | Review: Over 260 images and 5 videos of the T-Mobile G1 Google Android device | A tad overkill, but interesting nonetheless. |
| What Android Can Learn From the iPhone: It’s the Software, Stupid. | Brilliant title. | |
| The Google Phone Review: What I Love & Hate About T-Mobile G-1 | Om weighs in. | |
| Google answers the iPhone | Walt Mossberg’s take. | |
| T-Mobile G1 review | Engadget’s lenghty two-part article, covering hardware and software (loads of imagery). | |
| T-Mobile G1, a hands-on introduction to the first Android phone | Some interesting videos | |
| Review of the T-Mobile G1 Google phone | Pretty comprehensive gallery. | |
| Oct 9 | First T-Mobile G1 user review | Not particularly gushing. |
| Sep 23 | Video: Android walkthrough on T-Mobile G1 | A few demos |
| Sep 16 | Google shows off masked Android handset | About a year later, one of the first sightings of actual hardware (but running over Wi-Fi). I don’t get the “masked” bit, though – the hardware’s pretty obvious. |
| 2007 | ||
| Nov 11 | Wikipedia | Background info |
| Nov 12 | Android SDK | Includes plenty of links to videos and reference information |