Nexus S in the wild gives us a blurry Gingerbread walkthrough
The old adage "when it rains, it pours" certainly applies with leaks -- and to that end, the Nexus S we saw a a few hours back is now turned on and ready to give us a frustratingly blurry preview of Android 2.3 (which you may know better as Gingerbread ). Of course, Eric Schmidt himself did the same on stage at the Web 2.0 summit recently, but there's a difference: Schmidt wouldn't admit he was holding a Nexus S, wouldn't show us all of Gingerbread's UI tweaks, and wouldn't take a bunch of dark, low-quality shots and submit them to xda-developers . There's not a lot to see here, but you can make out some of the icons on the redesigned, blacked-out status bar, the redone phone keypad, and the About screen where we get confirmation that it really is a Nexus S running 2.3 (granted, this screen is incredibly easy to fake, but we'll allow it in light of all the other visual evidence we've got going on here)
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: adage, developers, keypad, leaks, make-out-some, phone, quality, schmidt, shots, tweaks
Nexus S teaser by Eric Schmidt now available on video
Ah, the " unannounced product " that Eric Schmidt brought along for his latest interview -- you want to see more of it , don't you? We know you do, so we've naturally tracked down the full 44-minute marathon chat session between Eric and his Web 2.0 Summit hosts, which thankfully kicks off by delving right into the phone that we know and love under the Nexus S name.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: ceo, down-the-full, engadget, eric, full-44-minute, gingerbread, interview, nexus s, pre-release, schmidt, video, web 2.0 summit
Eric Schmidt shows off a Nexus S at the Web 2.0 summit, says Gingerbread coming in ‘next few weeks’
We had a feeling Eric Schmidt would be doing something surprising at the Web 2.0 summit, and the man didn't disappoint -- he just showed off the Nexus S running on T-Mobile, and revealed it has NFC features, a technology he thinks will eventually replace credit cards. Unfortunately, he also called it an "unannounced phone" from an "announced manufacturer," and the logo was taped over, so we're not any closer to a release date here. Update: We've added some more pics to the gallery, including some close-ups that show the carrier is indeed T-Mo
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: breakingnews, cards, Carrier, entry, eric-schmidt, gingerbread, including-some, mobile, more-details, nexus s, release, schmidt, summit, Ups, web2.0summit
The Nexus S: a closer look
Google CEO Eric Schmidt showed the world the Nexus S from a distance just a little while ago, but we knew you'd want more, and so we managed to convince the man to show us the device in person just a few minutes ago.
Categories: Android, BlackBerry, Mobile Phone, nexus one Tags: black, BlackBerry, button, Buttons, closer, engadget, eric-schmidt, i9020, nexus, nexus one, result, samsung, schmidt, though-patchier
Google’s Eric Schmidt says Android is profitable, could eventually be a $10 billion business
It may not exactly be a huge surprise given the recent market share numbers , but Google CEO Eric Schmidt has recently confirmed that Android is, in fact, profitable for the company.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: advertising, ceo, cover-the-cost, engadget, entry, eric, eric-schmidt, ericschmidt, money, perspective, revenue, rubin, schmidt, source
Google’s Schmidt says requiring stock Android would violate ‘the principle of open source’
The suggestion has been made countless times that manufacturers who customize their devices' builds of Android (that is to say, nearly all of them) should have the decency to offer users the option of reverting to a completely clean, stock version of the platform if they so choose. The concept came up at a press lunch featuring Google CEO Eric Schmidt last week, and the dude responded with an interesting explanation for why they don't require that of their partners: "if we were to put those type of restrictions on an open source product, we'd be violating the principle of open source." Of course, "the principle of open source" is open to wild differences in interpretation, the source of well over 20 years worth of intense debate in the developer community and the reason why countless types and versions of open source licenses exist (GPL, BSD, MIT, and so on)
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: capitalism, engadget, eric-schmidt, luncheon, market, opinionated, schmidt, video
Apple vs. Google gets personal: "Steve Jobs simply hates Eric Schmidt" (video)
Image Credit: Daniel Adel, New York Times Nothing sells papers (or ads) like turning a little corporate competition into something personal. Case in point, a New York Times piece from the weekend titled "Apple's Spat With Google Is Getting Personal," that opened with this rather ominous, one-sentence paragraph: "It looked like the beginning of a beautiful friendship." Cue the orchestra. The lengthy piece chronicling the relationship between the Silicon Valley titans was formed by two dozen interviews with industry watchers, investors, and current and former employees covering a timeline spread that began with Google and Apple working in harmony to prevent Microsoft's domination of online services and mobile devices
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone Tags: Battle, credit, ericschmidt, fight, iphone, lawsuit, result, schmidt, silicon, stevejobs
Live from Eric Schmidt’s keynote at MWC 2010
We've just been ushered into the rather gigantic Auditorium 1 of Hall 5 at Mobile World Congress 2010 where we're awaiting none other than Google chief Eric Schmidt to take the stage. What's in store -- Buzz news?
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: buzz, congress, ericschmidt, mobile, mwc, mwc 2010, schmidt
Google's Schmidt: "Android Adoption is About to Explode" | AndroidGuys
Yay for headlines like that. Today was Google's Q3 earnings conference call and one of the hot topics was the growth in their mobile division. As well all.
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: announcements, apple, general-news, google-mobile-strategy, htc, mobile, Mobile Phone, schmidt
Verizon Wireless, Google team up to develop new Android smart …
The earnings narrowly beat Wall Street expectations, and Verizon said demand for cell phones and its new home TV service were holding up well in the recession. Verizon gives free Wi-Fi to some Internet customers with Windows PCs ...
Categories: Android, BlackBerry, htc, Other, Phone Street Tags: apple, business, consumer-electronics, government, htc, mobile-communications, new-york, north-america, schmidt, telecommunications, united-states, verizon, verizon-wireless, wireless