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Updated February 8th 2010

  • What are all the Google Android phones?

BOLD if available now / ITALICS is rumored release date

  1. Acer Liquid – A1
  2. Alcatel OT-980
  3. Bluebird Pidion BIP-6000
  4. Chinavision The Robot Superphone – CVNC-M80
  5. Cool F910 – Apanda A60
  6. Compulab Exeda
  7. Dell Ophone mini3i – Benzine
  8. Geek Phone One
  9. General Mobile Cosmos
  10. General Mobile DSTL1
  11. Gigabyte GSmart – S1200 – February
  12. Haier H7
  13. HighScreen PP5420
  14. Hisense HS-E90 – January
  15. HKC Pearl
  16. HTC Bahamas
  17. HTC Bravo – Incredible – March
  18. HTC Click – Fiesta – Tattoo
  19. HTC Desire 6200 – Verizon Droid Eris
  20. HTC Dream – T-Mobile G1
  21. HTC Hero – G2 Touch
  22. HTC Halo
  23. HTC Huangshan
  24. HTC Legend
  25. HTC Lancaster
  26. HTC Liberty
  27. HTC Memphis
  28. HTC Paradise
  29. HTC Magic – Sapphire – T-Mobile myTouch 3G – Google Ion – Dopod A6188
  30. HTC myTouch Slide – MyTouch 2 – Espresso – May 17th
  31. HTC Passion – Dragon – Zoom 2 – Nexus One – GooglePhone
  32. HTC Predator
  33. HTC Supersonic – A9292
  34. Huawei RBM2 – Der Allrounder – Red Bull Mobile
  35. Huawei U8220 – T-Mobile Pulse
  36. Huawei U8230
  37. Innocomm Skate
  38. Kogan Agora
  39. Koolu Freerunner – Openmoko GTA02
  40. Lenovo O1 Ophone
  41. Lenovo LeName
  42. LG GT540 Swift – April
  43. LG GW620 InTouch Max – Eve – Etna
  44. LG GW880 Amundsen
  45. LG Prada 3 – LS680
  46. Motorola Backflip – Motus – March 7th
  47. Motorola Devour A555 – Calgary – February 25th
  48. Motorola Droid – Sholes – Tao – Milestone
  49. Motorola Heron
  50. Motorola HS1001
  51. Motorola LaJolla
  52. Motorola MB511 – Ruth
  53. Motorola MB200
  54. Motorola MB300
  55. Motorola Mirage – Shadow – Nexus Two
  56. Motorola Morrison – Cliq – DEXT
  57. Motorola Motoroi – March
  58. Motorola MT710
  59. Motorola Opus One
  60. Motorola Sholes Tablet
  61. Motorola XT701 – XT720
  62. Motorola Zeppelin – Cliq XT – XT800 – March 10th
  63. Philips V808
  64. Qigi i6
  65. Saygus VPhone V1 – 2010
  66. Samsung Behold 2 T939
  67. Samsung Bigfoot
  68. Samsung Galaxy i7500
  69. Samsung i5700 – Galaxy Lite – Galaxy Mini – Spica – Galaxy Portal
  70. Samsung Houdini
  71. Samsung i899
  72. Samsung M100S – SHW-M100S
  73. Samsung m850 Q
  74. Samsung Moment – InstinctQ m900
  75. Samsung Saturn i6500 – 2010
  76. Saygus VPhone V1 – 2010
  77. Sciphone N12
  78. Sciphone N16
  79. Sciphone N17
  80. Sciphone N19
  81. Sciphone N21
  82. Sony Ericsson Robyn
  83. Sony Ericsson Sunny
  84. Sony Ericsson Susan
  85. Sony Ericsson XPERIA x10 – Rachael – Infinity – March
  86. Sunno S880
  87. Tiger G3
  88. Vibo A688
  89. ZiiLABS Zii Trinity
  90. ZTE Android


  • What are all the non-phone Google Android devices?

BOLD if available now / ITALICS is rumored release date

  1. Acer Aspire One laptop AOD250
  2. Alex Android eReader
  3. Archos 5 MID
  4. Astri MID
  5. Barnes & Noble Nook
  6. Camangi Webstation
  7. Cloud Telecomputers Glass
  8. Creative Zii Egg
  9. Dell Mini 5
  10. Dell Streak
  11. Delyca Digital Reader – S600k – February
  12. ENT ET-M4301
  13. enTourage eDGe – February 2010
  14. eviGroup Wallet MID
  15. GiiNii Movit Maxx
  16. GiiNii Movit Mini
  17. Hard Kernel ORDROID
  18. Hivision PWS700A
  19. Hivision PWS700CA
  20. HP Compaq AirLife 100
  21. ICD Ultra Tegra 2 Tablet – Vega
  22. Inbrics MID M1
  23. Mio MiBuddy
  24. MSI Harmony Tablet
  25. Notion Ink Adam – June 2010
  26. RAmos T11
  27. Ramos W7
  28. Shenzhen Eston HD ENT N97
  29. Spring Alex
  30. Skytone Alpha 680
  31. SMiT Android MID-560
  32. Touch Revolution NIMble
  33. Viewsonic VTablet 101
  34. Viliv P3


  • What is Google Android?

It is a open-source software stack for mobile devices that includes an operating system, middleware and key applications to allow developers to develop Internet style applications on the phone.

It is based on the Linux OS and coded in a Java-like language, but It will only utilize Google’s Java libraries.  Android is NOT Java technology even though it uses the Java programming language.

  • What is the gPhone?

Any phone that utilizes Android software - Google announced there won’t be a gPhone per se as they currently have no interest in actually manufacturing the phone itself to directly compete with the iPhone.

  • What are Android’s tech specs?

Android runs off Linux 2.6 using a Dalvik VM (virtual machine) that is optimized for a minimal memory footprint.

Every Android application will run with its own instance of Dalvik, but it is not a JVM, according to Google’s developer advocate, Jason Chen.

  • What is the Android Developer Challenge?

Starting in January 2nd, 2008 Google has funded $10 million to challenge developers to develop applications for Android and there were 1788 submissions from 75 countries that joined the contest.

The first round concluded on April 14, 2008 with fifty entries being announced on May 5th and they each received $25,000.

On August 28th, 2008 twenty of first round entries won either $275,000 or $100,000.

Winners include cab4me, CompareEverywhere, Ecorio, GoCart, Life360, Locale, PicSay, Softrace, TuneWiki, Wertago, BreadCrumbz, Cooking Capsules, Maverick, PebbleBox, PhoneBook 2.0, Piggyback, Pocket Journey, Rayfarla, ShareYourBoard, & Teradesk e-Storage

The Android Developer Challenge 2 had its winners declared on Monday November 30th, 2009 and they include Plink Art, A World of Photo, Speed Forge 3D, What the Doodle!?, SweetDreams, Buzz Deck, WaveSecure, Ce:real – Everyday trends, Trip Journal, Rhythm Guitar

  • What was the first public application run on Android?

Snake, Google provided in the Android SDK release on November 12th, 2007, the classic game from the 1970s with the player controlling the direction of the snake as it constantly moves within a grid andeats food increasing its size. The purpose of this game is to last as long as possible by avoid running into itself or any of the boundaries.

  • What is the current Android SDK (software development kit)?

The current Android SDK is Revision 4 from December 3rd 2009 for Windows, Mac, & Linux.

  • How was Android started?

Andy Rubin started Android with Rich Miner in the Fall of 2003 as an idea to provide the mobile code for free, but profit by providing the support such as email management, security, and parent standards.

Andy Rubin is now the Director of Mobile Platforms at Google while Rich Miner is the Group Manager.

Mr. Rubin claims the mobile market is three times bigger than the Internet in 2008 as he points to the statistic of cell phone users totaling 3.2 billion compared to 850 million PC users.

  • What is the Purpose of Android?

A free open operating system and source code mobile platform in the spirit of Linux, so any coder could write for it, and the reach of Windows, so any handset maker could use it.

  • When did Google purchase Android?

July 2005 at the estimated purchase price of approximately $50 million.

  • Who is currently developing Android?

Google & The Open Handset Alliance.

  • Who is in The Open Handset Alliance?

Formed on November 5th, 2007 it currently includes 65 companies such as Sprint Nextel, T-Mobile, Intel, MIPS, NVIDIA, Qualcomm, Texas Instruments, LG, Motorola, Samsung, & Ebay.

  • Who will create the gPhones?

Currently Samsung, LG, Sony EricssonHTC, ASUS, ACER, Garmin, Huawei, Toshiba,  & Motorola.

  • What networks will support Android and the gPhones?

T-Mobile, AT&T, Verizon, Sprint Nextel, Vodafone, China Mobile, KDDI, DoCoMo, Softbank Mobile, Telecom Italia, & Telefónica.

  • When was the first gPhone available to the public?

Wednesday October 22nd 2008 is when the HTC Dream was released by T-Mobile as the G1.

Sources: Google and direct sources

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Comment by Tim Heath
2009-08-12 04:53:42

Michael,
Glad you have published this. I have been keeping a list for myself.

Assuming you are including OMS (Open Mobile System) phones in the Android category, then there are a few more you should definitely include:

Amoi
Coolpad
Dopod
Hisense
TCL Mobile
Yulong

It might also be interesting to compile a list of the silicon vendors that will be included in those aforementioned handsets. Here is a start to that list:

Chongqing Chongyou
Leadcore
Marvell
MediaTek
MIPs
Spreadtrum
ST Ericsson
T3G
TI
Qualcomm

As you can see, although the first Android phones to hit the market have been released in North America and Europe, the primary manufacturer (HTC) and greatest amount of foreseen activity is in Asia. It will be interesting to see how this all unfolds.

Open Kernel Labs plays a key role in the easing of development of Android devices. Our microvisor, OKL4, is the market leading embedded virtualization solution currently in more than 300MM devices, including some Android terminals. To get a better idea, check this out:

Webinar: Migration at the Speed of Light

Migrating to Android on a low cost, single core processor
https://event.on24.com/eventRegistration/EventLob...

This webinar examines how OKL4, a microkernel-based embedded hypervisor enables a system architecture that dramatically eases migration to Android – the hottest new mobile device software platform – allowing developers to maintain existing investments, reduce development overhead, speed time to market, satisfy customer demand, and do it all on a lower cost, single core device.
Accompanying whitepaper will be available for download.

Cheers,

Tim Heath
Open Kernel Labs

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Comment by Steve
2009-08-23 15:26:35

In the list of Phones, after # 25, you have Oct 11th. I understand that several android phones may be announced around that date, but I don't recognize the phones below that line as being part of that list (of coures, you are more of an authority than I am). So what's up with those last few phones?

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Comment by Michael_Martin
2009-08-23 15:49:45

Steve,

That was due to my poor formatting as I proceed with the site's design change – I should have this resolved shortly.

To clarify October 11th is the rumored release date for the Samsung InstinctQ.

 
 
Comment by Eric
2009-10-22 21:01:49

Great list…have more Android devices than I am aware of….

Please also check out my list here…..
My list includes more details, such as the complete specifications.
http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=rdm8c2ZfSD...

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Comment by Michael_Martin
2009-10-24 19:25:05

Eric,

Great specifications list!

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Comment by @sts_fin
2009-11-04 21:00:52

You are missing the acer aspire one laptop AOD250

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Comment by Michael_Martin
2010-01-26 18:51:10

Thank you for that omission – Updated.

 
 
Comment by KJL
2010-01-26 18:37:56

Unfortunately, I only can place a pre-order at http://www.cndigit.com/sunno_s880, the customer support told me. This phone is popular. So it may wait other week. Hope it can arrive soon…exciting~~~~!!! :) :)

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Comment by Michael_Martin
2010-01-26 18:49:32

KJL,

What made you choose the Sunno S880?

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