Samsung Android phone

Samsung seems to make announcement of its first Linux based Android phone . This Linux based phone will be a first release of Android phone from World's number two OEM after NOKIA. Samsung comes second after Nokia in the smartphone market share worldwide. This release of Samsung's Android Phone is a real booster for Android and OHA dominance over other mobile platforms like LIMO.


Samsung is core member in both the prominent industry collaborations namely LIMO and OHA of Linux based Open Mobile Platforms. An insider report which says about Samsung working on Android phones release seems that the equilibrium seems to get tilted towards OHA & Android.

Report also reveals that there has been addition in workforce of Samsung's Android Phones Development team. Though different in expected looks from HTC G1 this Samsung Android phone is rumoured to be launched in Q2 by the same carrier T-Mobile in USA. No confirmations has been from either side.

Samsung Android Phone is supposed to be a touch screen smartphone with support for various Google services. It will be really nice to see whether Motorola comes up with Android Phone before Samsung or not. Motorola has announced about its ongoing work for Android based Phone in early October of 2008.

Moca Medical Diagnostic Application

Well i think this application actually gives hint of what can be an imaginative use of development for Web 2.0 & free Linux software like Android. Moca is an Android based application for HTC G1 which merges mobile technologies & telehealth. It is designed to provide better medical diagnostic, screening, and therapeutic services in developing nations & remote under-served areas. This application is actually based on the fact that nearly 80% to 90% of world population is under some kind of network connectivity through tower infrastructures.

Moca provides an Android application for medical screening which integrates a Linux server application and the open source OpenMRS medical records database. The Moca app is designed to be used by nurses and careworkers who work from clinics or mobile vans from remote areas sent out to remote villages.

Moca choosed Android as its target platform because of it being open source which may lead to lost cost handsets. Also Moca developers choosed Android because of its high end camera feature & advanced application development environment.

To deal with the various problems related to existing global cellular framework Moca developers provide innovative technolgies for packetization, synchronization, and multimodal communications . For more you can visit mocamobile website.

Android Development Hardware

Google has reportedly started providing an unlocked version of the Android based T-Mobile G1 to registered Android developers from its website. This network and bootloader unlocked kit namely "Android Dev Phone 1" is available at cost of $400 to the existing registered Google Android
members & developers. This release is basically aimed to provide developers a real hardware platform to test their applications on."Android Dev Phone 1" is available in USA, UK, India, Japan, Germany, Canada, Taiwan, France, Spain, Singapore, Australia, Switzerland, Netherlands, Sweden, Austria, Hungary, Poland, and Finland. This can be used with any SIM card & also with custom builds of ANDROID OS . Development kit namely Android Dev Phone 1 features same specification as of T-mobile HTC G1. According to Google Android Dev Phone 1 comes with stack compatible with Android 1.0. More updates on same can be found here