Android gets handled, now with Street View
While Apple might have your attention at the moment with that impending SDK, the Android OS seems to be coming along quite nicely over at Google and the Open Handset Alliance. BBC's Darren Waters got to peek "under the bonnet" with Andy Rubin himself, and has video to prove it. The OS was running on an unknown 3G touchscreen prototype, which also had a track ball at the bottom. The interface has come a long way since we saw it first, and browsing the web looks snappy and intuitive. Andy also showed off a version of Street View -- complete with smooth panning and zooming, of course -- and the fan-favorite Quake demo. Not bad at all for a 300MHz-ish processor, and while Android is still in "Alpha" stage, it's already got a lot of good things going for it. Video is after the break.
[Thanks, Omar A.]
[Thanks, Omar A.]














Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
codelicious @ Feb 28th 2008 11:14AM
wow!!! cannot wait for it to come out!!!
murray @ Feb 28th 2008 3:55PM
Convenient that he used San Francisco to demo street view, since that's the only city, AFAIK, which has the higher-res imagery which actually resolves more as you zoom in (I wish the other cities had that).
Looks pretty nice, anyway.
Randy @ Feb 28th 2008 4:13PM
Awesome! I can't wait!
atomicmatt @ Feb 28th 2008 6:30PM
Did you notice he was having some trouble going back to the Home button. Just pointing it out, not to start a flame or anything.
slamEVIL @ Feb 28th 2008 11:42PM
yeah i noticed the same thing, i thing it totally froze. though freeze or not, color me unimpressed.