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No, or?
SEs Xperia has windows mobile 6.1 as operating system (OS)
And Android is an OS, same for Windows Mobile and symbian.
[ This Message was edited by: xironghostx on 2008-05-14 13:20 ]
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Posted: 2008-05-14 14:20:12
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Like xironghostx said:
SE's Xperia is a handset series. X1 is one particular model running WM. Like P is a series with P1 a particular model using Symbian as an OS.
Android is an OS, like Symbian, or WM, or LJ
[ This Message was edited by: aksd on 2008-05-14 16:04 ]
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Posted: 2008-05-14 17:02:04
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Moreover, Google doesn't have the capability of manufacturing phones, at least not at the moment.
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Posted: 2008-05-15 03:22:15
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Google would be stupid to get into the mobile phone market, their expertise is software.
That said, what's to keep Google from spending development resources ensuring that their OS will run on as a many hardware platforms as possible?
Getting Android to run on HTC, Motorola, SE, Nokia, etc. sets should technically be a simple matter of writing the device specific drivers and compiling the OS and application stack for specific hardware architectures.
Just take a look at the Open Handset Alliance members.
http://www.openhandsetalliance.com/oha_members.html
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Posted: 2008-05-15 07:49:59
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http://www.motorolafans.com/f[....]hread.php?goto=newpost&t=18555
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Posted: 2008-05-15 08:03:40
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@aksd,
LJ?
is it short for latoya jackson, michael jackson's sister?
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Posted: 2008-05-19 04:16:04
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Is that supposed to be funny?
LJ = Linux Java or MotoMAGX, the OS thats on present generation Motorola phones, its based on LiMo which is the Linux Mobile FOundation, the SDK(Software Development Kit)for MotoMAGX should release next month and it looks great.
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Posted: 2008-05-19 04:38:20
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A bunch of Android questions:
What will be the strengths of Android as opposed to WM? IOW, what features will Android bring to the market that WM may lack or doesn't do as well? Or is it merely a viable alternative to Microsoft?
What about the upcoming WM7 ? Would WM7 and Android be on par with each other as far as market and capabilities?
Another question is "Will Android handsets be targets for Google advertising?"
...and one more ? Does Android specify a required platform (chipset) or will Google have to manage the code translation to all of the various current and future chipsets?
[ This Message was edited by: WhyBe on 2008-05-19 05:24 ]
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Posted: 2008-05-19 05:50:07
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Excellent Question
Firstly Android is basically a Linux core, BUT the applications installable on it are a type of Java, more similar to J2SE than J2ME, using googles own Virtual Machine known as Dalvik(google proprierty).
Regarding Android Vs WM
1. Out of the box supposedly Android does not support Native apps, but there have been people who have been able to write native apps for the Android platform in its current form, if theres no Native suppport it might be an issue for some people. From the way things are looking it should'nt be much of a problem, the Dalvik implementation looks powerful enough. What you could do with a WM phone you'd be able to do with Android as well.
2. Due to its linux core and open source nature it will be a lot more stable and you will have continuous updates fixing issues and adding new features. The support will be far better than for WM. The OS is far more moddable to make it more personal
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3. The UI is far less intimidating when compared to the current WM interface, it feels more end user oriented, how this compares with WM7 we cant say till final product of both platforms are released.
4. Android will be quite nice out of the box, with google talk clients with VOIP and the whole google family of apps preinstalled.
5. The developer base for Android will be quite large as Google have targeted both Linux and Java devs with this product which constitutes to quite a large majority of the developer world.
6. In my opinion the only area where WM will still trump Android are the Today screen plugins that WM offers.
7. Windows mobile offers a great deal of freedom to the end user from a modding and programming perspective, Android will actually be better than that, but offer the user experience offered by Symbian, with a lot more animations and transitions etc.. Therefore with Android you get the best of both worlds
, but wrt to WM7, its really difficult to tell at this point.
8. And now for the best part, Android is designed with the MSM architecture in mind although it will run on other processors as well. So speaking on a very generic level you actually might be able to dual boot Android and WM on say the X1 or diamond, but other hardware components would need drivers and other such problems might arise. But as Android is supposed to be open source you might have developers working on drivers for the above models, people at xda-developers have got Android running on the TyTnII and Polaris.
Usually WM phones are bit over priced, while Android are targeting from low end to high end of the market. We should see if the same happens with WM(but to effectively target entry level smartphone buyers they need to improve product design and the UI). It also comes down to if you're a google user (the vast array of services offered by google), then Android would be a googd way to go. Personally I'd go android in the current market scenario, but I may change my mind when WM7 is announced.
As far as Android being a google advertising base, I think not, google have announced as far they strategy goes, Android is just another OS to them such as WM or Symbian(S60/UIQ)
Hope this answers your question.
Regards,
Akshay
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Posted: 2008-05-19 06:28:58
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So how does Google profit from Android? Licensing?
If Android is on top of a virtual machine and Java apps sit on top of Android, isn't this an inherent inefficiency (just like Java is inherently inefficient compared to C++). IOW, games or CPU intensive apps would suffer or be scarce, wouldn't they?
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Posted: 2008-05-19 06:49:42
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