All the Android coverage you want is at Engadget right now

by Joshua Topolsky, posted Nov 12th 2007 at 2:16PM

If you're not keeping up on the news, you may want to know that Google released its Android early look SDK to the waiting public today. Not only that, but we've got videos and pics of the prototype phones in action, doing all kinds of nasty OS activities, like browsing, Google-mapping, and most importantly: playing Quake. Confused? Excited? Freestyle-breakdance your way over to Engadget, where you'll find the breaking news and videos of Android at work, as well as a charming visual tour of the UI that we've put together for you.

Read -- Google's Android OS early look SDK now available
Read -- A visual tour of Android's UI

Filed under: Handsets, Software, Announcements, Android

Tags: android, android os, AndroidOs, google, google os, google phone, GoogleOs, GooglePhone, gphone, open handset alliance, OpenHandsetAlliance, sdk, software development kit, SoftwareDevelopmentKit, ui, user interface, UserInterface

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Michael Savage @ Nov 12th 2007 3:08PM

I don't know that Android is going to be all it's cracked up to be..

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Doug @ Nov 12th 2007 4:00PM

And that's based on what, exactly? It looks to me as if Google has taken some nice first steps here - I really like the look, and although I doubt it'll be as responsive as it was in the video released with the SDK announcement (it'll depend on the hardware, of course), it was moving a lot snappier than anything I've run on any smartphone I've owned. Maybe on par with my Treo 650 from back in the day.

In my opinion, the beauty of Android is what I expect will be a multitude of functional third-party apps that people won't need to jailbreak their phone to use. And I think it's *likely* that even if those apps fail to materialize, Android will play nicely with all of Google's apps. Which will be fantastic.

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