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Android Headlines: The Hits Just Keep Comin'

It was only back in March when I wrote this post, Why is Android Stalled? In it, I wondered why there weren't any new smartphones running on the Linux-based operating system, or any other notable news to speak of. It's amazing how quickly that has changed. There are approximately 30 new Android handsets coming from top manufacturers this year, several companies are putting Android on netbooks (a hot hardware category), and there are even new strains of Android appearing. Here are just a few of the notable Android developments from the past few days.


The Android Momentum Continues

In recent weeks, the Android operating system has seen tremendous, encouraging? momentum. After the Mobile World Congress show took place earlier this year, with very little Android news of any kind there, some speculated that the open source operating system might be an outright failure.? Now, though, there are signs of interest in Android from the number two personal computer manufacturer in the world, new forks of the operating system arriving, and lots of new Android smartphones on deck. GigaOm has a summary of the past week's important Android headlines, including the possibility of a new Android tablet device, and we've been on the Android watch as well.?



Report: Android Now Has 6 Percent of the U.S. Smartphone Market

In spite of rumblings that the Android operating system isn't spreading out to more handsets, consider this finding from researchers at AdMob: The Android OS now has 6 percent of the U.S. smartphone market and is tied with Palm as the fourth-largest OS. AdMob's latest research on the smartphone market also found that growth in requests [to AdMob's network] from devices running the Android and iPhone operating systems continued to outpace other platforms in March, despite the relatively limited number of devices in market. The growth in requests from devices is largely being driven by very healthy growth in usage of the app stores for both Android and the iPhone. Here are some of the other key points from AdMob's report.



Data and Thoughts on How the Android-Based G1 Phone is Faring

GigaOm has an interesting item up on the keynote speech that Robert Dotson, chief executive of T-Mobile USA, gave this week at CTIA in Las Vegas. An estimated 1.5 million G1 Android-based smartphones have been ordered, and Dotson provided a lot of notable statistics about the usage patterns people are showing for the phone and Android. I've been using the G1, and my usage lines up with some of Dotson's stats.


Multi-Touch Seen Working On the G1 Android Phone

The T-Mobile G1 Android phone was missing one key ability that iPhone competitors are expected to have: multi-touch, reports JKOnTheRun.? The hardware is capable of supporting multi-touch features like the famous ?zoom pinch? but it was missing from the phone when it was released. Android is an open source platform, though, and, sure enough, a developer has tapped into the OS kernel to get multi-touch enabled. You can see video of it working here, and I expect we'll see several multi-touch Android phones arrive this year. Check out more thoughts from JKOnTheRun.


Security Flaw Discovered in Google's G1 Mobile Phone

Reports are emerging of a serious security flaw with the Android software that powers T-Mobile's newly-launched G1 smartphone. Charles Miller, the researcher who discovered it, says he notified Google of the flaw this week but decided to also go public with the information to protect users from becoming exploited by people with nefarious intent.



The Google Phone: There's a Problem in the Fine Print

The Web is already teeming with analysis of the T-Mobile G1--the first phone to run the Android operating system, which we covered yesterday. Today, our sister site JKOnTheRun has some good critiques of the phone and its data plan, inlcuding lack of Exchange support, and no way to sync with a computer. However, a reader of WebWorkerDaily who responded to a post on the phone that I wrote alerted me to a problem with T-Mobile's data plan that in fact be the deal-breaker for some people. It's in the fine print, and here's the problem, below the fold.