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The Android Developer Challenge (ADC) was launched earlier this year to spur Android development and dangle a $10 million prize pool in front of developers. Today, we are presented with the winners of the ADC. Of the 50 developers and development firms that made it in to the final round of judging, 10 were cut $250,000 [...]

As other handset makers are struggling to turn a profit in the dog-eat-dog world of mobile phone manufacturing, and other manufacturers are cutting prices to shake up the competition, HTC is solidly maintaining its course to take over the Windows Mobile and Android-powered smartphone market. Following on numerous HTC Touch Diamond and HTC Touch Pro [...]

Google is pushing their Linux-based mobile operating system, dubbed Android, to the development community as the mobile platform destined to revolutionize the mobile space. And, under the search-giant's mantra of "do no evil," Google has been touting Android as a completely "open" mobile platform for which anyone and everyone can develop mobile applications. Turns out, Google [...]

Can't wait to get a taste of Google's Linux-based Android OS? Well, Nokia N810 Internet Tablet owners are in luck. With Android getting ported to handsets like it's going out of style, it was only a matter of time before an easy-as-pie Android Installer came to light. Enter the Android Installer for the Nokia N810 Internet [...]

Filed under: Handsets , Announcements digg_url = 'http://digg.com/gadgets/Google_demos_the_HTC_Dream_at_I_O_conference'; Word on the street is that Google just busted out a live demo of the oft-rumored HTC Dream doing its Android -flavored thing at the company's I/O conference in San Francisco. Reports tell us that the device is a roughly 3-inch by 5-inch touchscreen phone with a slider keyboard. Not a lot is known right now, though apparently the device packs an accelerometer which allows you to tilt the unit to scroll across Google Maps or Street View. A video is on the way, so stay tuned for more information (and images) as we get them. Update: Video after the break! [Via PHONE Magazine ] Continue reading Video: Google demos the HTC Dream at I/O conference Permalink | Email this | Comments

Remember that little mobile OS initiative from Google and the Open Handset Alliance (OHA)? Yea, well, we haven't heard much from the Android-camp in a minute, so we're glad to see that the Android platform is still going strong. The BBC's Darren Waters got a chance to sit down with Andy Rubin, Google's director of mobile [...]