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It’s the end of year and everyone is having their best of 2008 so lets see where the G1 and Android stand.
Consumer Reports ranked the G1 as the 11th best smartphone behind The Samsung Blackjack II being number 1!
Although technically tied with the iPhone at 7th place, its still odd such a low ranking but yet [...]

The G1 from HTC and offered by T-Mobile will get an update in January 2009 to finally allow it to record video, stereo Bluetooth support, an onscreen keyboard and other improvements.
These improvements will come from Android’s Cupcake development branch.
“The cupcake branch will be merged into the master branch… Due to the United States’ holiday season, though, this [...]

Fast Company announced the first Android Developer Meetup in New York City to be held on Tuesday December 16th, 2008.
Thirty top Android developers in the New York City area will talk about their applications and working with Android from 6:30pm to 8:30pm at the Fast Company offices on the 29th floor of the World Trade [...]

The Open Handset Alliance which develops Android announced 14 more members today including Sony, Toshiba, ASUS, Garmin, and Vodafone bringing the total membership to 47 including Google.
Speculation is that the long delayed Nuvifone from Garmin may have been intentionally delayed so that it embeds Android as its mobile software stack.
The companies joining The Open Handset [...]

How does Google and the Open Handset Alliance benefit by providing the Android open mobile software stack for free?
Cheng Wu of Azuki Systems stated succinctly the purpose of Android for Google, “The only thing they want to control is the kernel of the operating system and the ability to data mine for search and advertising [...]