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Recently Android Developers team released Android Training on their official website for free.

It’s just the beginning. Android Developers team plan to add many more classes, expand and refine existing classes, and build Training Courses that help you enhance your apps using objective-oriented collections of classes.

You’ll find a collection of classes that aim to help you build great apps for Android, using best practices in a variety of framework topics such as Designing for Multiple Screens, Optimizing Battery Life, Developing for Enterprise, Monetizing Your App and Designing Effective Navigation.

There are so many Sample Code that you can learn from and also Troubleshooting Tips for common Android errors. So let’s create Android app.

When you purchased Dell Streak apparently got Android 1.6. But now you should try to follow for instruction on how to update it to Android 2.1 on O2 official website.

Recently SoftBank in Japan announced SoftBank 001DL aka Dell Streak featuring Android 2.2 with Dell Stage. SoftBank will begin taking pre-orders on November 12th, with the first shipment expected in early December.
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Earlier this month, Google started selling Nexus One as the first super phone that would be sold by the company itself, rather than a manufacturing or carrier partner.

One of the minus point of Google Nexus One because didn’t ship with a multitouch capable web browser even though the hardware and Android 2.1 OS is fully capable of doing it.

Nexus One has a touchscreen but users can only tap on it with one finger. So none of the two-finger pinch-and-zoom gestures that are popular among iPhone users are available in Nexus One’s native web browser.Apparently because the issue of iPhone’s copyright in US market. Posibly N1 outside US has multitouch capable web browser.
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On January 10, The Straits Times reported that several Nexus One owner seem to have experienced 3G problem.

Especially what happen to the Straits Times correspondent Oo Gin Lee, 40, probably the first buyer in Singapore to have received his set yesterday (January 9), said his new toy could not connect to the Internet on his telco’s 3G network.The problem persisted after he rebooted the phone twice and checked his Internet settings thrice.”I expected a lot from Google, so I am very disappointed,” said the self-professed geek who writes for the paper’s Digital Life publication.
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Android getting more hype at CES 2010 because Google Nexus One launched 2 days before the event.

At CES 2010 event, the executive vice president of HP’s PC division,Todd Bradley,turned up on stage during a keynote address by Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs to demo a device based on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon chip and running Google’s mobile Android software.
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Google launched its Android phone,the Nexus One (N1), on January 5th,2010. Personally I’m very interest to have this Google Super Phone.

Compare to Motorola DROID, Nexus One is faster. Although there is no keyboard but you can do a lot of activity by voice. You can send sms, search the web, use Google maps/streetview, update Facebook status by talking to the Nexus One.
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Camangi Corp from Taiwan started selling Camangi WebStation,the world First 7-inch (800×480) touchscreen android- based internet tablet.

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Recently the first publicly available Android phone the HTC Dream T-Mobile G1 is available for a year since October 22nd, 2008.
Google has development Android OS until the latest version Android OS 2.0
Many manufacturer announced their commitment to release Android-based devices, not only Smartphone but also GPS, Netbook, Portable Media Player, MID, PID etc.
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Last week Androidinius featured Samsung Moment for Sprint, apparently will be Samsung’s first U.S. Android phone.

Recently Motorola introduced DROID, Android 2.0-powered smartphone developed by partnership with Google and Verizon Wireless.

Here’s some facts about Motorola DROID :

• The world’s first Android 2.0-powered Smartphone.
• The world’s thinnest QWERTY slider at 13.7mm.

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Google just released Android 2.0 platform (also known as Eclair). So many improvement on this new version. What we think that you might like were :

1. A new platform technology for Bluetooth 2.1 and new BT profiles: Object Push Profile (OPP) and Phone Book Access Profile (PBAP).
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