Hop-on is launching its new open “Android  Platform” phone at the Consumer Electronic Show in Las Vegas in January 2009. This phone will be priced at $200.
The Open Handset Alliance came up in November 2007, with 34 members. The members were mobile handset manufacturers, application makers, mobile carriers, chip makers, and Google, but Nokia,AT&T and [...]

The much-ballyhooed “Google phone” is finally here — and it’s a worthy competitor to the iPhone, even though it’s clearly still a work in progress.
The phone itself is ugly and quirky, but the T-Mobile 3G network speed (when you can get it) is speedier than AT&T’s, and the Android operating system, while a bit rough [...]

Of Android’s barriers to adoption in the region, lack of enterprise e-mail support remains a significant one for companies, according to an analyst.
Bryan Wang, research director, connectivity, at Springboard Research, said the lack of support for enterprise e-mail platforms such as Microsoft Exchange on Google’s newly released mobile OS will be a big barrier to [...]