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We have been saying that Android 2.1 is the Flan, we have to apologize that, Android 2.1 or 2.0 system with the same called Eclair, since the Android 1.1 has not its own special code appears, perhaps Google is so taken into account: X.1 does not separate from name, only the X.0, X.5 and X.6 have their own names.

Then the next generation of Android system is supposed to be Android 2.5? Android senior product manager Erick Tseng mentioned that the development of next-generation system  in an interview with Engadget interview, that the code-named Android is Froyo, rather than before the famous Flan.

Google’s super phone Nexus One was released, and Microsoft says :”I have to do something”, but Windows Mobile seems to be delayed again, so, Windows Mobile 6.6 is coming:)

HTC’s HD2 has already proven that it’s possible to cleanly support capacitive touch on a 6.x-based device, so it’s reasonable to think that this is legit — but what we don’t yet know is how this dovetails with 6.5.3, whether they’re the same thing, and if Microsoft is doing this simply to buy itself a few precious extra months to bake WinMo 7 to a crispy, golden brown perfection. We’d already heard before that 6.x and 7 will have an opportunity to coexist in the marketplace, so it’s entirely possible that 6.6 is the version that’ll carry that torch on the 6.x side of things — but if this gets announced alone without a mention of Robbie’s ground-up rewrite at MWC, we’d wager there’ll be riots in Barcelona.

This is confirmed by an official response to a customer’s question on this issue. And of course, Windows Mobile 7 is really coming to  HTC HD2, at least this is confirmed by this response below:

Dear Toby

Thank you for your enquiry about HD2

What we do it ROM Upgrades from our website, however 6.5 windows mobile has only been out 2 months and windows mobile 7 hasn’t even been developed. This wont be out until next November at the earliest. But when it is available it will be a free download.

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Google today released the SDK of Android latest version 2.1 Flan,  click here to download the SDK manager. In addition, USB driver for Nexus One is also simultaneously released.

This tells everyone that Android 2.1 Flan is not exclusive for Nexus One.

As reported, Microsoft will not release Windows Mobile 7 until the Mobile World Congress (MWC) event in mid-February in Barcelona.

Microsoft Entertainment and Devices Division President Robbie Bach basically said as much in his January 7 Financial Analyst Briefing at CES (which I listened to via Webcast). In response to an analyst question, Bach said to expect in WM7 “things will be talked about at MWC.”

According to an estimate from ISuppli Corp, Nexus One has component costs of about $174. Qualcomm Inc.’s Snapdragon chip, which runs the phone’s software, probably costs $30.50, is the most expensive one of the all 18 components of Nexus One. The phone’s 3.7-inch display screen is supplied by Samsung Mobile Display Co. and has an estimated cost of $23.70.

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The next version of the Nexus One Smartphone will be an enterprise version for business purpose which might have a physical keyboard to boot.  However not too much was revealed on what exactly the enterprise version of the Nexus One will actually consist of in terms of software applications.

Interviewed by All Things Digital’s Walt Mossberg today, Google VP of Engineering Andy Rubin talked about the advent of a new breed of “superphones” and Google’s vision for the way phones should be purchased and sold. An earlier question was asking How involved was Google in the development of Nexus One?

We threw out crazy ideas to our partners at HTC and they were pretty good about plucking the good ones out of the air and building them into the device.

Answered Robin, and Walt asks about the new business model Google’s launched in concert with Nexus One. Was this something the company planned all along? Read the rest of this entry »