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Germany’s TV networks are getting ready to compete with Hulu before the U.S. site has even launched in Europe: The RTL Group and the Pro 7 Sat 1 Media AG plan to open their own Hulu-like site, offering catch-up TV for up to seven days. Read more »

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Google may be having some teething problems with its foray into the topsy-turvy world of mobile handsets, but don’t count it out just yet. Analysts estimate that Google could sell 1-3 million Nexus One units in 2010, generating $500 million-$1.6 billion in incremental revenue. Read more »

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Yes, Virginia, there really is a Google Phone! And no, I don’t mean all those Android-powered devices, but instead a Google-branded phone that’s made by an original equipment maker. The company has started giving away these devices to its employees, who started tweeting about it last […] Read more »

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It’s Tuesday and that can only mean it’s time for our weekly feature, the BlackBerry Buzz. The Buzz is where you’ll find out what’s been going on in the BlackBerry brambles. You’ll hear about everything that’s worth knowing in the awesome world of the BlackBerry. RIM […] Read more »

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According to a report this week on The Mac Observer, Apple and AT&T have been presented with a class action lawsuit by a customer who accuses them of misleading the public by advertising the MMS capabilities of the iPhone 3GS despite not making those capabilities available […] Read more »

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[qi:gigaom_icon_google-android] We’ve gone back and forth on the existence of a Google phone for a long time now. In the beginning, there was a talk of a Google Phone that turned out to be Android, Google’s mobile operating system targeting handset makers such as HTC, Motorola […] Read more »

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The big Android news this week, without question, was the launch of the Motorola Cliq, a smartphone that sports a sliding keyboard and is optimized for social network interaction. The Android platform, of course, is designed to make the most out of a continuous web connection, […] Read more »

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Motorola has followed through on its promise to enter the Android smartphone market, unveiling the Cliq, a small phone with a sliding QWERTY keyboard. The company has added its own home screen magic, called Moto Blur, that graphically integrates all user messaging accounts. Messages received appear […] Read more »

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Motorola has followed through on its promise to enter the Android smartphone market, unveiling the Cliq, a small phone with a sliding QWERTY keyboard. The company has added its own home screen magic, called MotoBlur, that graphically integrates all user messaging accounts. Messages received appear on […] Read more »

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Andy Rubin, the software guru who helped create Google’s Android operating system, is going to join me for a fireside chat at Mobilize 09, our mobile Internet conference being held on Sept. 10 in San Francisco. Rubin has helped shape Google’s mobile OS strategy overall and […] Read more »

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The Android world got another app store this week, one aimed at so-called “high-end” devices such as the forthcoming ARCHOS 5 Internet Tablet. But in the meantime, existing owners of some not-so-high-end Android handsets were warned the only way they’ll be able to get OS updates […] Read more »

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When it comes to Apple and the iPhone, it was a weekend of fear and loathing. From loving Google Voice to Apple’s pending doom, we read it all. While I agree with some of the points that were raised, I see little to no evidence that […] Read more »

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Android took a giant leap into the mainstream this week with the release of an Amazon.com app for mobile phones running on the Google Android OS. With it, now Android phone users can comparison shop on Amazon while on the go. Read more »

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A quick scan of T-Mobile USA’s second-quarter earnings report, released earlier this morning, makes clear why the company has been banging that marketing drum around the new Google Phone (aka MyTouch) and its 3G data services so loudly these days. It’s seeing its growth stall, its […] Read more »

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The booming sales of smartphones such as the iPhone and the growing popularity of mobile app stores has prompted a renaissance in the mobile industry and of course a big surge in startup activity. It’s reflected in the growing investments in mobile companies based in the […] Read more »

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[qi:gigaom_icon_google-android] Google has dessert on the brain. After naming the current version of Android Cupcake, the company this week admitted it’s naming all the Android updates after dessert items, and in alphabetical order. Next up will be Donut, followed by Eclair and Flan. Far more significant, […] Read more »

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[qi:gigaom_icon_google-android] The biggest Android news by far this week actually dealt with the release of another platform from Google. The search giant announced Chrome OS, an operating system targeting netbooks and desktops. As part of the announcement, Google made it clear that Android will stay around […] Read more »

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The launch of the Google G1 phone, which the firm Mike and Maaike helped Google design, came after years of speculation and months of waiting. Now the San Francisco-based design firm that had such influence on the look of the G1 has come up with the […] Read more »

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The biggest news in the Android world this week came from embedded systems developer BSquare, which said it’s developed a version of Flash Lite for the Google phone OS. The BSquare Flash module will be distributed to OEMs as a browser plug-in for inclusion on devices […] Read more »

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Dominating the Android world this week was the announcement by handset giant HTC that it will be releasing the most innovative phone to date using the OS by Google, the HTC Hero. This thin, curvy handset shares some of the features of the Android-powered HTC Magic, […] Read more »

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HTC, maker of many of the most popular phones in the Android and Windows Mobile markets, today unveiled the HTC Hero. While the hardware on this Android-based smartphone is as good as anything out there, of particular interest is the new user interface, dubbed HTC Sense, […] Read more »

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The Android world may have been overshadowed by the release of the Palm Pre and specs of the new iPhone this week, but developments for the Google phone OS continued unabated. A new way to build simple apps for Android was released, and word came that […] Read more »

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Last September, on the eve of our first Mobilize conference, John SanGiovanni, co-founder and VP of product design at Zumobi, talked to us about the coming era of the superphone. Eschewing the smartphone moniker, SanGiovanni noted how this new class of handsets — led by none other than the iPhone — was starting to become part of our everyday lives. Fast-forward to today, and we are standing on the cusp of what will be the summer of the superphone. Read more »

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More companies readied their Android phones for release this week, while others were hard at work figuring out how to use the operating system in non-phone devices. Handset maker HTC revealed that it’s helping AT&T get ready to join the Android team with a new phone. […] Read more »

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Where, a location-based mobile application from Boston-based uLocate, is quickly becoming a must-have on newer mobile platforms such as the iPhone and Android. It’s been download 2 million times and garnered a million registered users, numbers that are likely to head further north once Palm launches […] Read more »

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One of Apple’s great successes this decade has been its ability to unite the cell phone, the portable MP3 player and the music store in one ingenious handheld device, the iPhone. As new applications arise that allow on-demand streaming music on non-Apple phones such as those […] Read more »

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People who like to read books on their iPhones (including myself) will be pleased to hear that Amazon has grown tired of playing catch-up with Stanza on the platform and instead bought out the much smaller company behind the app, Lexcycle. The Stanza makers are reportedly […] Read more »

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Robert Dotson, chief executive of T-Mobile USA, delivered a keynote speech this week at CTIA in Las Vegas. It was full of revealing facts and figures about Google’s G1 smartphone, which launched last fall. An estimated 1.5 million of these phones were ordered, though it’s still […] Read more »

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On the day I give up on my iPhone and trade it in for the iPod Touch, AdMob, a mobile advertising startup released its report that shows a big uptick in mobile Internet usage via Wi-Fi in the month of January 2009. According to AdMob, Apple […] Read more »

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Integration is the theme of the day today, with Broadcom announcing that the Android operating system will run on its multiradio chip, which offers Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and FM radio. It also announced open access to those drivers, allowing developers to play with the functionality offered by […] Read more »

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With 2008 coming to a close and CES just around the corner, I’m thinking about what 2009 will bring us. One idea, which at first may sound far-fetched, gets easier to believe if one considers two of the hottest trends right now: netbooks and Android. Could […] Read more »

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UPDATED: Some folks downloaded a lot of stuff from the app market for the Google phone, aka the T-Mobile G1, in the first 24 hours after it opened its doors, according to mobile ad and analytics firm Medialets. And yup, that’s about as precise as they’re […] Read more »

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Since Google pays News Corp millions of dollars to be its friend, it is no surprise that MySpace, the elder social networking service, would be one of the first companies to release an Android-version of MySpace Mobile just ahead of the commercial release of the Google […] Read more »

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Craig Rubens and I had a chance to play with YouTube on the new Google Android-powered T-Mobile G1 today. Here’s a little video we made of our walkthrough, for which we also brought along an iPhone 3G. See also: Om’s review. Our takeaways: – The Android […] Read more »

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There are many problems with T-Mobile USA’s 3G plans, as we outlined yesterday. None compare to the seemingly foolish 1 GB bandwidth cap on “unlimited” data plans they are hawking along with the Google Phone. Today, in response to a New York Times query, they seemed […] Read more »

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So the big day is finally here: Google has released its Android operating system, the latest entrant into the mobile OS wars. The Android-based, HTC-made G1 was launched earlier today at a ceremony in New York, and among the attendees were our intrepid reporters Liz Gannes […] Read more »

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