Sony Ericsson is planning to upgrade the phone Xperia X10 ROM to Android 2.3 Gingerbread by the end of Q2 or early Q3 2011.

Previously, Sony Ericsson said that they will not upgrade ROM to Android versions higher than 2.1. This news disappointed many Xperia users. Fortunately, their plans have changed now and they will upgrade generic trade kits of this device, that means those on branded handsets will not receive this update. However, this can by easily fixed by flashing to a generic ROM.

Android 2.3 will bring better performance and new user interface. Sony Ericsson said that this upgrade is being developed in final stages. We should notice that some features of X10 will no longer exist after you upgrade. For example, the camera will have a standard user interface rather than the Sony Ericsson interface, and some features such as face and smile recognition will disappear then. The Sony Ericsson Backup and Restore client will also be removed as it is not compatible with Gingerbread.

X10 started shipping about a year ago and became the first Sony Ericsson’s smartphone running Android. It features a 1GHz processor, a 4 inch 480×854 touch screen, and a 8 megapixels camera.

In related news, Xperia X10 mini, mini pro and Xperia X8 will still use the Android 2.1. There are no plans to upgrade for these phones as Sony Ericsson decided to focus only on Xperia X10.

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Hardware

This is a phone that’s a mere 115 x 59.8 x 11.63 mm, and only 130g. The display again is a 3.7-inch Super LCD with WVGA resolution, this making it the same number of pixels as the original Desire, but with Super LCD instead of AMOLED. The original Desire had an optical trackpad where this one has none, moving toward a touchscreen-only model that many manufacturer are trending at nowadays, perhaps due to the oncoming Honeycomb / Ice Cream world of Android where no physical buttons are necessary.

Volume and USB are along the left, top has a power/lock button and headphone jack. On the back is one of two cameras (the other on the front) as well as a speaker near the top and a removable panel near the bottom with access to your SIM, microSD, and battery. This reminds us of the HTC Inspire 4G which has each of these accessible in two panels instead of just one.

The whole body of the handset is what Chris notes as “a very successful design,” speaking on the matte finnish, discreet chrome bits here and there, and the “HTC chin” which makes it easy to take from and replace this handset in your pocket. Also specifically Chris notes that it feels solid and, with a less-plastic design than the original Desire, it’s “hard not to imagine that this could have been the design for the second Nexus, had Google stuck with HTC as a hardware partner.” A pretty nice compliment!

Inside you’ll find a Qualcomm’s single-core 1GHz MSM8255 processor, 768MB of RAM, and 1.1GB of internal storage. Connectivity includes dualband HSPA/WCDMA, quadband GSM/EDGE, WiFi b/g/n, and of course Bluetooth 2.1. There’s also GPS, a g-sensor, digital compass, proximity sensor and ambient light sensor.

Hands-On Demo

Software

This handset will be HTC’s first to launch with the Gingerbread version of Android. This release will be Android 2.3.3 with HTC’s newest version of Sense placed on top, ever so slightly newer than the version you’ll find on the HTC Incredible S. The only place you’ll truly be able to SEE the change to this new version of Google’s mobile OS is in the info page where you’ll see the numbers stacked up. HTC Sense will here give you seven homescreens, widgets galore, and several grids of apps in your app folder rather than a free-scrolling list. HTCs usual suite of excellent apps is included, those being Car Panel, Flashlight, FriendStream, HTC Hub, Locations, Peep, and the also simple and totally useful Mirror.

Your pull-down Android status bar is a tiny bit different, this time having a new tab at the bottom of notifications leading you to Quick Settings, that being such things as GPS, Wifi, Bluetooth, and Mobile Network switched on or off, plus a link to your full settings. Chris notes that HTC’s set of utterly invaluable phone options is included in this handset as well, that being the ability to have your phone ringer adjusted based on if its out in the open, in your pocket or purse, or in your hand, and allows you to have the ringer automatically shut off when you flip the phone over.

Chris makes an important point in his review as he notes that there’s no native TV or film streaming and no OnLive gaming service, both of these items set to be included on the HTC Flyer tablet. Chris notes that with only a single-core system, this phone may well be outdated in less than a year. Will a new wave of chip-intensive apps be released in that amount of times, many of them leaving single-cores in the dust? It seems very possible as well as more than likely.

Camera

While the backside camera of this device, weighing in at 5-megapixels, isn’t the worst camera Chris has ever laid a hand upon, it’s certainly not the best. Comparing it to the Incredible S, Chris notes that shots in the macro were noticeably grainier, shots in the micro much harder to focus on and slightly blurrier in the end. The front-end camera is junk save for simple video chat.

While using the video function on the rear-facing camera, Chris noted that this hardware is definitely alright, but could definitely use some improvements. Whilst turning side-to-side there is a tiny bit of tearing, while touch-to-focusing does work while video recording, there is a certain jerk that pops up each time an adjustment is made. Another odd item is sharing, you not being able to share a photo anywhere unless you’re in gallery mode and you long-press a thumbnail.

Weird!

Phone and Performance

Calls to and from the phone seem to have faired decent when tested by Chris, his only note being that the mic on the phone could be cranked up a bit. As far as benchmarks go, Chris found it odd that even though this phone has the same chipset and RAM as the Incredible S, the Desire S scored a mere 1147 in Quadrant benchmarking while the Incredible S received a 1559. Those not tapping the buttons on both phones at once will more than likely not take a while lot of notice of this situation.

Battery

Battery, oh battery. You’ve become such an issue that you need your own section. Chris found that the HTC Desire S ran for an entire day utilizing Gmail, browser, messenger, camera, and calls. With a display that’s relatively small compared to the rest of the HTC line, you’re going to find that you’re surprised that your phone is still on even though you forgot to charge it the night before – what a treat!

Wrap-Up

In a world where 4-inch displays are common, where screens even larger than this are becoming the status quo, HTC Desire S is almost a daring move. That and the fact that it’s a single-core phone in a rapidly evolving dual-core landscape makes this phone a mid-range phone where a year ago it would have been top of the line. Because of this, and because it’s not a year-old phone by any stretch of the imagination, you can, like Chris notes in his full review on SlashGear, use the S in the name Desire S to signify “Solid.”

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Article by Sirena Alex

Mobile Industry is experiencing a devastating change phenomenon. A small communicating handset has transformed into a mini computer maintaining its original functionality also. Numerous Companies have integrated the qualities of computer on mobile phones for enhanced functioning. Experience Google’s role in this dynamism.

Google is a supreme power for the past decade in the web industry. It processes billions of search requests every day. However, Google’s dominance is only limited to desktop PC, which is gradually being replaced by the small screen mobile devices. Every year sale of mobile is increasing; currently it is three times more as compared to desktop. The launch of Android OS is Google tactic to expand its infiltration into the speedily growing profitable mobile market.

The Android platform is Google’s outstanding business model. Android technology is an entirely open-source platform. Developers can create mobile applications by using the phone’s core features. Android developers equipped with the tools that allow applications to collect data using a variety of the platform like the Internet or other users.

The Android OS committed to bringing the same experience users have on a desktop personal computer to the mobile phone. Mostly, mobile phones operate in a closed environment where applications permitted by the producer can be allowed to run on devices. However, With Google’s Android, software developers can install any software they develop, quickly. The cost reduction in application development opens a new market segment for software developers.

Google is the owner of multibillion dollar advertising business on the web and planning to shift this to the mobile domain. Smaller display screen is a big challenge to advertising space. In spites of some limitation, mobile devices have opened the new doors of opportunities due to location based adverting. Market can target directly to potential consumers. All Androids mobile devices are connected to the Internet to help achieve location-based advertising services.

In this competitive world, developing space in the market is not an easy task not even for the big boss like Google. There are numbers of barriers for Google before reaching the success point. The main obstacle to Android’s victory is the indolence with which mobile network service providers are adopting Android machine.

The Google’s Android mobile OS have also faced opposition from phone manufacturers for multiple reasons. Some of them feel that operators and users will totally re-customize phone application that makes their own applications useless and destroys their unique identity. Others fear mobile OS without licensing fees could flood new company into the market. This will adversely affect their market share for the existing mobile company.

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Word has surfaced that Google has made another hire, and he is a prominent hire indeed. The new Google worker is one James Gosling, the dude that invented Java. Interestingly Google and Oracle, who now owns Java, are in a legal battle over the alleged use of Java code in the Android stack.

The poaching of the man behind Java can’t sit well with Oracle. Gosling has stated in a blog post that he doesn’t know what he will be working on yet. Yeah right, Gosling is headed to the Android team if he is going anywhere.

Gosling noted that he passed on several spots before landing at Google. He wrote, “[the new job] looks like interesting fun with huge leverage.” Gosling developed Java in 1911 at Sun and the language went live in 1995.

[via Mashable]

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RIM courts Android developers with BlackBerry PlayBook app player
‘App players’ for tablet will enable it to run Android and Java applications – but only those approved for App World store Research In Motion has moved to bolster the catalogue of apps for its soon-to-launch BlackBerry PlayBook tablet, announcing a pair of ‘app players’ for the device that will enable it to run Android and BlackBerry Java applications . The players won’t be available until the …
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Android is an operating system for mobile devices that includes middleware and key applications, and uses a modified version of the Linux kernel. It was initially developed by Android Inc., a firm later purchased by Google, and lately by the Open Handset Alliance. It allows dev to write managed code in the Java language, controlling the device via Google-developed Java libraries.The unveiling of the Android distribution on 5 November 2007 was announced with the founding of the Open Handset Alliance, a consortium of 65 hardware, software, and telecom companies devoted to advancing open standards for mobile devices. Google released most of the Android code under the Apache License, a free software and open source license.Developing for Android is not expensive. All you need is a Mac, or a PC that runs Windows or Linux. To start developing Android applications you need to :* Download and setup the Eclipse IDE* Download the Android SDK and then expand the content of the zip file into a folder* Install the ADT plug-in in Eclipse* Configure Eclipse to point to the Android SDKAndroid Market scenario:Many devs have developed apps for Android and can be downloaded from Android Market, Android market is the online software store for Android devices – it’s Google’s answer to Apple’s Appstore on iTunes and for much of its short life (born 22 October 2008), it has been but a pale imitation of the all-conquering iPhone’s biggest strength. Just 12 months ago Android Market held less than 3000 apps compared to the AppStore’s 35,000 but the marketplace is now beginning to roll, and devs are responding, and with 8,000 + apps added in each of the last two months, the Android Market now holds 50,000 apps and should pass 100,000 by the end of the year.Now of course the number of applications is no indication of quality or usefulness, but it’s fair to assume that most applications in the AppStore now have an equivalent in Android Market and, given that at the current rate the Market will double in size before the end of the year, if there isn’t one now, there soon will be. This is a big challenge for a Android application development that the quality and quantity of the apps on the Android market keeps improving in numbers as well as user downloads.

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The news doesn’t come as a big surprise, as Google pre-announced the feature’s impending launch last week so that developers could prepare for it. But it’s still a big deal. In-app purchases have proven to be very lucrative for developers on Apple’s iOS (which launched in-app payments back in 2009). They’re particularly important for free applications, which often entice new users with a price-tag of ‘free’ and then upsell new levels, upgrades, and customizations.

As with application purchases, Android Market charges a fee of 30% for anything sold via in-app billing, which is the industry standard.

Hopefully this will help developers more effectively monetize their applications on Android Market — historically users have been less willing to pay for apps on Android than they have on Apple’s App Store.

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LA JOLLA, Calif., March 30, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — Surprising statistic: Today’s four billion global mobile phone users outnumber both Internet users and land-line owners. And now, yes, there is an app development certificate for that.

To help meet the need for app developers for cell phones and other wireless devices, UC San Diego Extension is now offering a Mobile Applications Certificate Program. Led by the Digital Arts Center, the one-year, two-night-a-week certificate is an advanced training program for smartphone application enthusiasts and industry professionals seeking opportunities to expand their design, programming and software development skills.

The mobile applications development certificate program is designed to give students comprehensive training encompassing programming, interface design and interaction design. During the final two quarters, students produce a complete mobile application for devices including iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad and Android-based smartphones.

Mobile applications have infiltrated virtually every area of our lives both personally and professionally. Mobile applications range from giving access to a specific database to complete web access. Mobile applications help users streamline and organize their lives with a touch of a screen. Apps can provide a wide range of services from educational to informational, and social to recreational, helping users navigate their lives as well as their surroundings.

“Mobile applications are produced by thousands of mobile application companies across the world,” says Susan Varnum, director of the Digital Arts Center at UCSD Extension. “Our mobile apps program is a great complement to our already successful casual gaming program and both curriculums address the booming mobile media industry. Through our comprehensive training in game and app development, we offer individuals the skills needed to engage with and succeed in this rapidly evolving billion dollar industry.”

Continuing education students work directly with instructors who are practicing mobile application developers. Together they conceive individual and group concepts for mobile applications and execute the prototypes in a team-based or individual setting. Mobile software is designed to run on handheld computers, personal digital assistants (PDAs), enterprise digital assistants (EDAs), smartphones, such as iPhone, Android and Windows Mobile and some conventional cell phones.

Students in the one-year professional certificate are required to take eight courses with a tuition of $1,400 per course (equipment fees and course materials are extra).

The Digital Arts Center, a branch of UC San Diego Extension, offers professional training in various digital media art fields such as game design, graphic design, mobile apps development, video production and web design. For additional information and registration visit: http://dac.ucsd.edu/index.cfm?vAction=mobile-applications or call 858-534-6705.

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As the continuing education and public programs arm of the university, UC San Diego Extension educates approximately 56,000 enrollees a year, which translates to over 26,000 students in more than 4,900 courses.

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