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Google Android Gets Boost from Kyocera, Wind River
Dec 3rd
Kyocera will be building a smartphone using Google’s Android operating system, as reported by CNET News dept’s “Kyocera joins Android phone bandwagon“. Plus, according to the Android Community’s “Kyocera announces development of Android platform” Kyocera, who was not part of the Open Handset Alliance (OHA), will be working with Wind River to incorporate Android OS in a “new product platform” (as of Oct. 21, 2008 – Wind River).
Hopefully by 2009 Kyocera will have completed their “new product platform” and we’ll have another Android-based cell phone on the market. Now if only there was a cell phone that could run Android, iPhone OS, or Storm (Blackberry) OS.
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Android-powered T-Mobile G1 is Garage Door Opener
Nov 18th
Brad Fitzpatrick, a Google employee from San Francisco wrote and adopted some Android software on what I am assuming is his T-Mobile G1 to scan for his garage door opener’s server (yes! his garage door opener has a server!) then when its detected an authentication process and logging takes place and his garage door begins opening in time for him to pull in.
INTERESTING QUOTE:
I now have an Android Activity (GarageDoorActivity) which interacts with an Android Service I wrote (InRangeService), letting me start and stop the service’s wifi scanning task. The service gets the system WifiManager, holds a WifiLock to keep the radio active, and then does a Wifi scan every couple seconds, looking for my house.
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Minor language warning for the young ones
Android Garage Door Opener, part 2
