Updated Android SDK Available For Download
Android SDK m5-rc14 now available.
Highlights
* New user interface
* Layout animations
* Geo-coding
* New media codecs
* Updated Eclipse plug-in
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The Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week may see the first mobile phone to incorporate Google’s open-source Android platform.
ARM, a U.K.-based company that makes embedded and graphics processors, as well as processors for mobile devices such as cell phones and PDAs, will introduce a prototype for a telephone that uses Android as its operating platform.
Another New Mobile Linux Platform
Another mobile Linux platform, this time from Azingo, hit the market on Wednesday. Azingo offers phone makers an entire package, including kernel, middleware, applications, development tools and integration services.
Azingo will also compete against Android, Google’s high profile Linux-based mobile phone operating platform, which includes an operating system, middleware and applications. Android phones are expected to become available in the second half of this year.
MWG has announced that by mid-year, it will ship Windows Mobile phones that can be charged wirelessly, via magnetic induction. MWG appears to be the first company to employ inductive charging in a mobile phone.
n addition to freeing consumers from using power cables, Splashpower’s magnetic induction technology is touted as enabling multiple devices to get their fix of electrons from a single charger. Another touted advantage is short charging time, thanks to high-efficiency energy transfer.
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Free Highly Compatible Mobile Web Browser for Windows Mobile
Skyfire a startup company has announced a free Web browser for Windows Mobile, which would be fully compatible with modern technologies like AJAX, Java, and Flash.
Skyfire uses these proxy servers to do some processing which means the device requires less memory and processing power.
Skyfire allows users to bookmark specific areas on the web pages, which allows the users to return to the content, rather than the start of the page.
Users can sign up now for a “private beta” of Skyfire for Windows Mobile 5 or 6.
Free Highly Compatible Mobile Web Browser for Windows Mobile
