Last week Apple with its undeclared rules are removing applications that are considered by THEM to be “overtly sexual content…there will be no more applications that are for any purpose of excitement or titillation”

The Android Market welcomed “titillation” this weekend alone with a PornHub, Strip Blackjack, and even a Sexy Feet app while adding “excitement” with the Google Earth application today (for Android 2.1).

The Android Market is not great but its kept honest since it embraces an open market system by allowing other independent markets and means to acquire Android apps.

So if it teeters on becoming a cess pool or inundated with adult/crap applications then people can go elsewhere, thus to hedge this from happening it allows Android users to have a voice in voting and notifying which applications should be reviewed.

Google will then review the application within 3 days and remove it – this has only been an issue to date of approximately 1% of all Android applications.

In a way the Android Market becomes a sort of Statue of Liberty for applications, adopting a similar credo etched onto the statue itself, “Keep your ancient lands, your storied pomp! Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”

The rules Apple applies become even more nebulous since it has undefined constraints to applications that independent developers devote time and money toward before ultimately getting rejected while FHM, Sports Illustrated, & Playboy get a pass.

What choice do you have comrade since the politburo at Apple knows whats best for you and doesn’t need any checks and balances since the App Store is the ONLY means of acquiring apps for the iPhone.

The iPhone also made sure it has its own Berlin Wall blocking out Flash to secure its grip over any possible means of acquiring or using unapproved applications.

An interesting possible explanation of this is from PC World arguing that Apple’s plan is to secure children first by getting them hooked on the iPod as a sort of gateway drug and then they can graduate to the iPhone before ultimately using the iPad as an educational resource – as such it can’t sully this environment with adult material.

So the iPhone is a sort of Disney phone keeping people locked in a sort of Never Never Land, but I prefer the more “exciting and titillating” rides at Six Flags so I will go with an Android phone.

Android of Liberty is Made for Adults

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There are already over 100 different Android phone choices worldwide scheduled to be made available in 2010 after the recent announcements at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

Google CEO Eric Schmidt declared today at the Mobile World Congress keynote that Google and their hardware partners are now shipping 60,000 Android handsets each day.

That would total almost 22 million Android handsets a year which is in line with iPhone’s historical yearly sales.

Surely this trend will increase for Android as approximately 50 Android phones are currently on the market and that number will at least double by the end of this year based on the Android phones reported to be coming out as tracked here at GoogleAndBlog.

BOLD if available now / ITALICS is rumored release date

1. Acer beTouch E110 – March
2. Acer beTouch E400 – April
3. Acer Liquid – A1
4. Alcatel OT-980 – May
5. Bluebird Pidion BIP-6000
6. Chinavision The Robot Superphone – CVNC-M80
7. Cool F910 – Apanda A60
8. Compulab Exeda
9. Dell Mini 5
10. Dell Ophone mini3i – Benzine
11. Garmin Nuvifone A50
12. Geek Phone One
13. General Mobile Cosmos
14. General Mobile DSTL1
15. Gigabyte GSmart – S1200 Android – February
16. Haier H7
17. HighScreen PP5420
18. HighScreen Zeus
19. Hisense HS-E90
20. HKC Pearl
21. HTC Bahamas
22. HTC Click – Fiesta – Tattoo
23. HTC Desire – Bravo – Incredible – March 26th
24. HTC Desire 6200 – Verizon Droid Eris
25. HTC Dragon
26. HTC Dream – T-Mobile G1
27. HTC Hero – G2 Touch
28. HTC Halo
29. HTC Huangshan
30. HTC Legend
31. HTC Lancaster
32. HTC Liberty
33. HTC Memphis
34. HTC Paradise
35. HTC Magic – Sapphire – T-Mobile myTouch 3G – Google Ion – Dopod A6188
36. HTC myTouch Slide – MyTouch 2 – Espresso – May 17th
37. HTC Passion – Dragon – Zoom 2 – Nexus One – GooglePhone
38. HTC Predator
39. HTC Scorpion – Late 2010
40. HTC Supersonic – A9292
41. Huawei RBM2 – Der Allrounder – Red Bull Mobile
42. Huawei U8220 – U82226 – U8230 – T-Mobile Pulse
43. Huawei U8100 – U8110 – T-Mobile Pulse Mini
44. Huawei U8300
45. Huawei U8800
46. Innocomm Skate
47. Kogan Agora
48. Koolu Freerunner – Openmoko GTA02
49. Lenovo O1 Ophone
50. Lenovo LeName
51. LG GT540 Swift – April
52. LG GW620 InTouch Max – Eve – Etna
53. LG GW880 Amundsen
54. LG Prada 3 – LS680
55. Lumigon T1 – May
56. Lumigon S1 – June
57. Lumigon E1
58. Motorola Backflip – Motus – March 7th
59. Motorola Devour A555 – Calgary – February 25th
60. Motorola Droid – Sholes – Tao – Milestone
61. Motorola Heron
62. Motorola HS1001
63. Motorola LaJolla
64. Motorola MB511 – Ruth
65. Motorola MB200
66. Motorola MB300
67. Motorola Mirage – Shadow – Nexus Two
68. Motorola Morrison – Cliq – DEXT
69. Motorola Motoroi – Sholes Tablet – XT720
70. Motorola MT710
71. Motorola Opus One
72. Motorola Sholes – XT701
73. Motorola Quench – Cliq XT – Zeppelin – XT800 – March 10th
74. Philips V808
75. Philips V900
76. Qigi i6
77. Samsung Beam i8520 – Halo
78. Samsung Behold 2 T939
79. Samsung Bigfoot
80. Samsung Galaxy i7500
81. Samsung Galaxy Lite i5700 – Galaxy Mini – Spica – Galaxy Portal
82. Samsung Houdini
83. Samsung i899
84. Samsung M100S – SHW-M100S
85. Samsung Moment – InstinctQ m900
86. Samsung Saturn i6500
87. Saygus VPhone V1
88. Sciphone N12
89. Sciphone N16
90. Sciphone N17
91. Sciphone N19
92. Sciphone N21
93. Sony Ericsson Sunny
94. Sony Ericsson Susan
95. Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 – Infinity – March
96. Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini – Robyn
97. Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini Pro
98. Sunno S880
99. Tiger G3
100. Vibo A688
101. ZiiLABS Zii Trinity
102. ZTE Android

***Please notify me of any inaccuracies as this is compiled information I did from investigating many sources – Thank You***

Over 100 Different Android Phone Choices in 2010

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I believe the creation of a defacto branded Google Phone with the Nexus One was a misstep both for Android & Google itself.

I have been an early supporter of Android as the young upstart open mobile platform versus the Apple iPhone with Android being backed by major mobile players in the Open Handset Alliance, principally Google.

I just want to be sure this leader of the mobile rebel alliance does not become Darth Vader or to another extreme an Edsel.

First, I understand Google is in it to make money by providing a “free” service in order to make money in the back end with advertising, so yes a Trojan horse approach while circumspect to it evolving into the Borg.

Google has tried to avert the Borg feeling with its “Don’t Be Evil” credo which every person I met from Google seems to embody, be it Romain Guy & Jean-Baptiste Quero of the Android team to the head of webspam, Matt Cutts.

So the Google Phone announcement was perhaps a premature disrobing of a wolf in sheep’s clothing to both the handset makers & mobile service providers that are the vast majority of the Open Handset Alliance itself.

*** Chris DiBona, the open source manager at Google, stated what may have been the true purpose of Google publicly forcing a phone out under their brand as a play for more developers, “This is going to sound really cynical, but the only thing that really matters is how many of these we ship – how many Android phones. There is a linear relationship between the number of phones you ship and the number of developers.” ***

The key growth statement from the Google Android Press Gathering last week was the fact a year ago Android was one phone on one network in one country & one language but fast forward to today, its 20 phones on 59 carriers in 48 countries & 19 languages.

While the Nexus One is a great phone that can make plausible arguments at being better than the iPhone I would not say it was revolutionary nor what I would consider worth the moniker of a Google SuperPhone.

A true SuperPhone would have NO dependence on ANY mobile service provider – That solution may reside in white spaces with VoIp service as I touched upon at SES Chicago in a WebProNews interview from early December 2009.

Not only that but the blowback in supporting a branded GooglePhone gets confusing and frustrating since Google is the one directly selling it online while its actually made by HTC and serviced predominantly by T-Mobile.

Perhaps Google thought what it called the Superphone wouldn’t need much support.

Then compounding the support issues are the double termination fees, buggy 3G service & $174 worth of parts in the Nexus One which together builds into the animosity against both the Google brand & the growth of Android.

I almost wish the genie was put back in the lamp with the Nexus One simply being the HTC Passion, but it seems Google wanted to prempt both CES & the next iPhone launch to get public attention toward Android.

I agree the public should be aware of Android but not sure Android is truly ready for the GENERAL public yet.

So even with this misstep, I agree with TechCrunch that Android can maintain a path toward becoming the defacto standard for mobile phones in the near future – Enter the Borg

The GooglePhone Nexus One Was a Google Android Misstep

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Yesterday Google revealed one of the worst kept secrets in both the Android and mobile phone world in general with the Nexus One, but behind the scenes Google is soliciting the FCC to administer white spaces.

My feeling is that for a true Google SUPER phone it would need to completely bypass the mobile service providers by allowing VoIP anywhere calls which the recently freed up white spaces could provide.

Google stated in 2007 that, “white spaces — could be used to expand Internet access through low power personal devices, akin to Wi-Fi. Best of all, new spectrum sensing technologies can ensure that this spectrum could be used for mobile broadband service without interfering one bit with television signals.”

Google initially formed the White Spaces Coalition back in 2006 to deliver high speed broadband internet access via these whites spaces in unused television frequencies between 54-698 MHz which was freed up in June 2009 with the analog to digital TV conversion in the US.

Google even formed a Free the Airwaves campaign in 2008 to prod the FCC to allow unlicensed use of this spectrum but has since dropped the site along with the campaign and according to PC World changed tactics.

Just as Google said it wouldn’t themselves create or sell a “Google Phone” they also stated a year ago they would not seek to administer white spaces.

Since the FCC requires a database to be created before the white space can be used, Google is now advocating that the FCC consider an open architecture for this database, with a clearinghouse that would collect and distribute changes to other database providers with Google as the admin.

So if the FCC approves of Google to be an administrator for this white spaces database then that could be one of the final hurdles for VoIP anywhere calls that would usher in a true SUPER Google phone in my opinion.

Google Play for White Spaces During Nexus One Hoopla

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Android turns 2 officially today as its first SDK release was made publicly available 2 years ago to the day on November 12th, 2007.

Last week on November 5th was the 2 year anniversary of the Open Handset Alliance which are the manufacturers and service providers along with Google that are behind Android.

But today November 12th is what Dan Morrill and other Android engineers consider themselves as the true birthday of Android itself.

Also interestingly before Android releases went on to the pastry naming scheme starting with Cupcake for version 1.5 there was a previous naming scheme.

This became apparent with the Halloween decoration of the Droid statue as there was a tombstone next to it with the inscription of RIP Petit Four as I originally thought it was for the Droid dog statue that was stolen.

Jean-Baptiste Queru notified me that the 1.1 release was actually called Petit Four before the Android team settled on the alphabetic pastry naming pattern.

So here is to more Android birthdays which will continue to add more pastry statues outside the GooglePlex.

Happy Birthday Google Android!

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