Google attacks: Android at Mobile World Congress

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.













Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
daynewatkins @ Feb 11th 2008 9:22AM
Oh boy am I excited for this one.....Looks very compact, keyboard looks extremely comfortable as well..
Dave @ Feb 11th 2008 10:28AM
OH SNAP!
Endroren @ Feb 11th 2008 10:16AM
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.)
daynewatkins @ Feb 11th 2008 10:36AM
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.
RalphDGibson @ Feb 11th 2008 10:19AM
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.
raulr @ Feb 11th 2008 10:51AM
Meh, the applications screen looks like it was based on Windows 3.1.
Johnccs @ Feb 11th 2008 11:34AM
Is that a Palm Centro Google Android?
rpa @ Feb 11th 2008 11:37AM
Jeez, they could make the fonts a bit larger on the keypad!
Fernando @ Feb 11th 2008 11:56AM
A proto with the same interface of the SDK of months ago? Wouldn't be what I'd call "attacks"
dan @ Feb 11th 2008 12:12PM
one question NEC: WHEN?
yokken @ Feb 11th 2008 1:29PM
i would gladly sell my iphone for the TI version. that phone is so sexy. i must have it.
slamEVIL @ Feb 11th 2008 5:30PM
*yawn*
Me @ Feb 14th 2008 3:40PM
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!