Video of HTC’s Sense UI running on G1

clipped from www.androidauthority.com Video of HTC’s Sense UI running on G1 Just to show you that it can be done, below is a video of the augmented Android user-interface, HTC’s Rosie/Sense, running on a plain old G1. Thanks to HDblog.it, we can see the full glory of HTC’s Sense on the G1. Although your ‘With Google’ device may not be able to automatically gain an upgrade to this new HTC user interface, it doesn’t mean that without a little hacking, it won’t.

Dell may release an Internet ‘tapping’ device this year

clipped from www.androidauthority.com Dell may release an Internet ‘tapping’ device this year By James Tromans • June 30, 2009 • No Comments According to the WSJ, engineers at Dell are working on a pocket device for ‘tapping into the internet’. The more interesting part is that this device is alleged to run Google’s Android and measure up a little larger than an iPod touch. What’s more, the device may become available as early as later this year, as opposed to a 2010 launch that would probably be expected. With that said, rumour has it that the device could die an earth death in Dell’s labs before making it out onto shop floors.

Archos IMT with Android coming September 15?

clipped from www.androidauthority.com Archos IMT with Android coming September 15? We’ve already reported on the upcoming Android Archos internet media tablet, and in truth we still are awaiting official release date announcements and the full specification sheet. However, according to Register Hardware, Tony Limrick, Managing Director of Archos Northern Europe, advised those in attendance of their private London event held yesterday to keep 15 September free for an Archos IMT Android announcement. We can only presume this will be when everything is going public. Other than that, there is little in the way to update you on. We still have no further word on specifications, so we can only guess as to whether the 500GB device will still fit into a 1cm think shell and offer 7.2Mb/s HSDPA with a 5-inch display. We sure hope so. Other specifications are said to include:

Russian Android phone boasts dual displays

clipped from www.linuxfordevices.com Russian Android phone boasts dual displays — Vobis Computers is readying what it bills as the first Russian-market Android phone. The Highscreen PP5420 appears to be an Android-converted version of the Windows Mobile-based Mobinnova ICE smartphone, and includes a 528MHz Qualcomm processor, HSDPA support, and a secondary OLED touchscreen, says the company. ...

Nokia's open source mobile stack gets Qt

clipped from www.linuxfordevices.com Nokia's open source mobile stack gets Qt — Nokia's Maemo.org announced that with the upcoming "Harmattan" version of its Linux-based distribution, it will switch from the Gnome/GTK+ application framework to Qt, enabling both the use of KDE desktops and cross-platform development for Maemo and Symbian. Meanwhile, Nokia has dismissed a rumor that it's developing an Android-based netbook. ...

223 million open source smartphones by 2014?

clipped from www.linuxfordevices.com 223 million open source smartphones by 2014? — Shipments of smartphones with open source operating systems (OSes) will jump from 106 million this year to 223 million by 2014, according to a Juniper Research report. Meanwhile, Research and Markets has released its own study on mobile open source OSes. ...