Jon von Tetzchner, Opera’s CEO told to PCmag.com, that his company is working on a version of Opera Mobile which will run on the Android platform. Opera Mobile is already available for the Symbian and the Windows Mobile platforms. Now, it remains to be seen, how well it would be accepted in the Android world, as Android powered devices already ship-in with Web-kit based browser, which is considered to provide one of the best browsing experiences. Also, Opera mini is already available for Android.
So all the Opera fans, its time for you to make merry. Your favourite web browser will now run full-fledge on your favourite OS, Android.
According to a senior executive, Google plans to include features that would help businesses who give phones to their employees, to work on-the-go. In an interview, Andy Rubin, vice president of engineering at Google said, “Today, we don’t support many enterprise applications but in the future, I think enterprise will be a good focus for us”.
Currently, the king of this market is Rim’s BlackBerry. But according to Rubin, Google can easily compete with the company, with the help of its Google apps like email, documents and calendars.
Rubin further added that he is aiming for integrating social services deep into the operating system. According to him, phone communication should function with people being the pivot point, instead of photos, contacts and birthdays of a single person being stored at different files and folders.
After Windows Mobile and Apple, Google is planing to give a touch time to Balckberry, which mainly focuses business customers. So Android users, who want business functionalities at rates far less than Blackberry, gear up for your dream machines.
Nokia, one of the major cell-phone manufacturers, is planning to enter the Android arena. This may not sound amusing. But the interesting part is that, it is planning to launch an Android netbook, and not an Android powered cell-phone. If this news is to be believed, this would be one of the first netbooks to be launched by the manufacturer.
Lazard Capital Markets analyst, Mr.Daniel Amir said “In our conversations with ODMs, we have confirmed that Nokia is planning to enter the netbook market with a Google Android, ARM-based netbook that would be sold at carriers. Considering this market is dominated by the PC players, we believe Nokia could face an uphill battle to succeed in this market.”
This is a really big move by the mobile phone biggie. The main reason could be the availability of the open source OS for free, whereas Microsoft charges a fortune for its Windows OS. Also, Android will prove to be a great fast-boot netbook.
We all have been using Flash in our PCs since a very long time. Now, how about using the same Flash in your mobile phone ? It is possible now, provided you own a Android powered phone or Palm pre or Nokia smartphone.
Adobe is working on reengineering its softwares, so that the Flash games and videos can run on the smartphones without being modified. “Smart phones are where the game is now,” Kevin Lynch, Adobe’s chief technology officer said, “Our chips are on the table. We’ve made our bets.”
Trial version of the software will be available for Android, Nokia and Palm by the year end. But, why has Adobe not considered to release the software for Windows Mobile smartphones and Apple iPhone ?
Kinpo is in the process of making a 7-inch Tablet PC, powered with, surprisingly, Android OS. The video clearly demonstrates, how beautifully Android can be ported into netbooks and Tablet PCs.
If the real product really comes out to be as good as our expectations, Android OS would very well be able to blow out every other netbook OS in the market (read it as Windows).
Acer has decided to make first few models of its netbooks dual boot, with the other OS being Windows, as opposed to a news somtime back, that Acer is planning to launch the first exclusive Android powered netbook.
This was supposed to be the first Android powered netbook in the market. So, Acer was worried about the acceptance of the netbook in the market. So, to play safe, Acer decided to bundle Windows along with Android.
But, this would make the price of the netbook same as that of Windows netbooks, as the customers woukd have to pay the license fee of Windows OS, whereas Android is free.
The Android can very well be used to make a fast-boot netbook, as compared to the time taken for a Windows netbook to boot. Most of us would be a bit comprehensive about buying an Android netbook at the first place. And, the main reason would be incompatibility of most of our important applications, with the Google OS. So, this is, in my opinion, a very smart move by Acer.
