Android

Just received a tip from an anonymous source that led me to a blog post that someone at HeyCosmo has found a secret test for the Google Android aka Gphone! Can anyone confirm if this is real?

From their blog post, "During the call, you're able to talk as if it was a regular phone service, except certain words or phrases will trigger an advertisement. One of my findings during hundreds of test calls with my brother, I've said "I'm so #$%^$ Hungry" and then the system just went crazy blasting a Burger King advertisement. Contextual search engine built into live telephone call? is this the future of Google and how we would be annoyed by Google's search, living and breathing inside our phone? God... Help us!"

Check out here for the application - you enter the two phone numbers, the call is linked up and then you can say certain phrases which "activates" the Android functionality. Somehow this feels like a hoax :)

USE AT YOUR OWN RISK - HAS NOT BEEN TESTED BY CN STAFFERS

Please report back if you give this a try!

Google has announced their Android SDK for developers along with a ginormous $10 million prize pool. Mr. Om has a good overview of how the prize money works. Scoble is disappointed so far. I might be lame, but if this is "open" then why is every app demonstrated in all of the videos Google products? Engadget has all of the videos in an easy to view format.

Below is the video from Sergey Brin, where he begins by explaining how excited he is about Android. Yet, I don't see the excitement, not a smile, not any body movements, nothing. If you are excited about something, SHOW IT. The other guy who follows Sergey also seems bored with the whole thing. Scoble calls the $10M a bribe, I wonder more if indie developers will care seeing as tho there was no passion in any of these videos. Naturally corporate and startups will get their developers working on apps for this new OS.

So to sum up Android: It's a Google OS which is "open" to anyone to create whatever they want with. I can only guess that phones that support Android will ship with lots of fun Google apps pre-built.

Come inside for Sergey's intro video to Android »