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Visa to develop apps on Android, Nokia phones
Visa said Thursday that it will develop applications for Android and Nokia phones with mobile payment systems planned for the latter. First up, the company said Chase Visa cardholders could get notifications about transaction activity on Android phones (statement). Visa added that location-based services, maps and merchant offers will also be delivered to Android phones. Visa plans to expand the program to other account holders at other banks and financial institutions. Visa has been expanding into mobile payment statements for the day where phones can become currency. In a statement, Visa noted it wants to "accelerate the migration from paper forms of payment to digital money." Visa, along with partners such as Google, Intel, Nokia and Singapore Post, was demonstrating new payment ...
Android Market is Google’s competitor to the Apple iPhone store
I was sent a link to the Android Community site this morning that led to the Android Developers blog post on the upcoming Android Market that looks to rival the Apple iPhone store for Android-powered devices. They decided to call it a market rather than a store to try to give it that "open" feeling for developers to provide content. There are several screenshots for you to check out too, including the one to the left. The Android Market will let users find, purchase, download and install content on their devices. The content does not appear to be screened by Google since you just need to register, upload and describe your content to get published. Hopefully it doesn't turn into a ...
T-Mobile’s Android Phone Has Limits Outside Google (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Now that analysts are getting their hands on the T-Mobile G1, talk is beginning about what the first Android-powered phone doesn't offer. T-Mobile launched the HTC-made device Tuesday, complete with full touchscreen functionality and a slide-out QWERTY keyboard for a mobile Web experience largely driven by Google products, including Search, Google Street View, Gmail and YouTube.
Google Vaults into Global Wireless Ring with G1 Phone
The Google phone, called the G1, made its long-awaited debut Tuesday in New York, officially marking the arrival of Google to the big-stakes game of global wireless.T-Mobile is the first U.S. carrier to offer the device, which will cost $179. Consumers must sign a two-year contract for data and voice. Data plans will start at $25 a month. The device won't be available until Oct. 22, but buyers can pre-order on T-Mobile's Web site.Technically, it was T-Mobile's announcement, but there was no doubt about who was running the show: Google. To get the device, consumers must register for a Gmail account, Google's e-mail service.Rich Miner, group manager of mobile platforms at Google, says the requirement is tied to synchronization of the device's calendar, address book and other applications. The synchronization process owes to the design of Android, the new mobile operating system used by the G1, which was also developed by Google.Miner says G1 achieves what Google had hoped for: a device "that delivers the best mobile Google experience" possible.In another nod to Google, the G1 is being co-branded. The tagline: "G1 with Google."Cole Brodman, T-Mobile's chief technology officer, says the carrier likes the association because, "Google is the face of the Internet." Brodman downplayed the Gmail requirement, noting that customers don't have to actually use it. "You just have to sign up."Still, some may find the requirement "objectionable," says Morgan Gillis of LiMo, a global coalition that supports the idea of open-platform mobile phones. "This brings up a big question about freedom of choice."Roger Entner, senior vice president of Nielsen IAG, says the Gmail requirement serves a larger purpose for Google: It creates a "unique identifier" for each customer that can be used, eventually, "to target ads to you. That's why they did Android -- to help satisfy Google's...
SDK Shoot-Out: Android vs. iPhone
Neil McAllister delves into the Android and iPhone SDKs to help sort out which will be the best bet for developers now that technical details of the first Android smartphone have been announced. Whereas the iPhone requires an Intel-based Mac running OS X 10.5.4 or later, ADC membership, and familiarity with proprietary Mac OS X dev tools, the standard IDE for Android is Eclipse. And because most tasks can be performed with command-line tools, you can expect third parties to develop Android SDK plug-ins for other IDEs. 'By just about any measure, Google's Android is more open and developer-friendly than the iPhone,' McAllister writes. This openness is essential to Android's prospects. 'Based on raw market share alone, the iPhone seems likely to remain the smartphone developer's platform of choice â€" especially when ISVs can translate that market share into application sales,' McAllister writes. 'In this race, Apple is taking a page from Microsoft's book, while Google looks suspiciously like Linux.'
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