Google attacks: Android at Mobile World Congress
By Sean Cooper 
posted Feb 11th 2008 9:06AM
posted Feb 11th 2008 9:06AM
Seeing as Mobile World Congress is all about the cellular experience, we weren't too surprised to bump into some Android goodness while here. Texas Instruments had the handset you see above -- from an unknown vendor -- to demo the OS running on an OMAP 3430 at 500 MHz. The interface is dead quick and rather glorious, and while we had no internet connectivity on it, we still were able to have a peek at various applications -- check the gallery for more photos. NEC / Wind River were also showing off an Android prototype platform running on a Medity2 testbed -- also at 500 MHz -- though it's a pretty early implementation and was pretty wonky. Interestingly, neither of them had functional input in the browser, so while the NEC version was online, we couldn't point it anywhere useful. Radio types in the devices were GSM but we expect they'll likely have HSDPA once they finally land in our hands. In a few words, we like what we see.
Oh boy am I excited for this one.....Looks very compact, keyboard looks extremely comfortable as well..
OH SNAP!
Very interesting...although with the bloody AOL ad drifting across every bloody picture I looked at it was hard to say for sure. The ad asks "What do you think?" I'll tell you what I think of AOL (and Engadget for accepting that annoying ad.)
Gotta agree with you Endroren, are you on Firefox Endroren? It happened to me with FF last night at home, but doesn't with IE7 here at work...interesting.
Another nail in Palm's coffin. If Android is superior to WinMo, and it appears that it is, then Palm's attempt at a Linux OS will become irrelevant.
Meh, the applications screen looks like it was based on Windows 3.1.
Is that a Palm Centro Google Android?
Jeez, they could make the fonts a bit larger on the keypad!
A proto with the same interface of the SDK of months ago? Wouldn't be what I'd call "attacks"
one question NEC: WHEN?
Look at the charging port on the bottom of the white TI handset... Isn't that HTC's extUSB port? Mark down one vote for HTC as the manufacturer.
Now let's see an Android kitchen for my Libra!
i would gladly sell my iphone for the TI version. that phone is so sexy. i must have it.
*yawn*