Skyfire 2.0 is the world’s first hybrid browser, using the best of the device’s native browser, and adding a cloud “booster engine” for extra features like video and social networking. It is our flagship go-forward product, as we’ve reported publicly for months, since our Android launch.
With that in mind, we are announcing that we will complete the phase out of our legacy v1.0 product on Windows Mobile and Symbian on December 31st, 2010 for remaining countries. This two-year old product used a “proxy browser” approach which is no longer our vision. It was a revolutionary product when introduced and offered for free, but the fast-moving mobile market has changed significantly since 2007, and as a small tech start-up, we need to keep innovating forward.
Our new 2.0 product is built for the next generation of smartphones and tablets with full support for html5, offline browsing, javascript, WebKit, and full-screen video. The 2.0 architecture is exponentially more data efficient as well, and better fits the technology roadmaps of our B2B customers (wireless carriers and handset makers).
This was a very difficult decision for us. We put our hearts and souls into the 1.0 product and greatly value the many Skyfire fans who used the product and provided us with invaluable feedback during this intensive research & development phase of our company. We experimented with ways to charge for the product (in certain international test markets) so that existing Windows Mobile and Symbian users could continue to use the service, but the payment mechanisms were very cumbersome and the piracy rates were so high on those OS platforms that we could not make it work. More importantly, we faced a decision point: If we were to begin charging money for a product, we had to commit to multiple years of support and enhancement of the product. It would not be the ethical thing to do to start down that path, given that we would not expect enough revenue to make that sustainable on the legacy 1.0 product, and we can no longer subsidize it. The right thing we decided was to focus on 2.0 and beyond.
We do expect to bring Skyfire 2.0 to additional platforms, and have begun discussions with some carriers and OEMs to decide which will be our next OS. Microsoft’s new Windows Phone 7 and Nokia’s MeeGo platform are both shaping up as platforms with a lot of potential and the recent launch of the new Blackberry OS 6 with a WebKit browser core makes for interesting potential for a future release of Skyfire 2.0. We value feedback from our users, so please let us know what platform you would like to see Skyfire on next and just as importantly let your wireless carrier know that you want Skyfire!
Thanks to all of our fans, new and old, for their support. We’re a small 35-person development shop, so all the enthusiasm for Skyfire has been gratifying for all of the engineers here in Mountain View.
Jeff Glueck, CEO
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I was entering rant mode but it's just not worth it... Still what was the point of creating yet another topic on this subject (and again in Soft Dev...)?
Yes I know but I didnt see that other thread that the other person had made. So I made this one instead.
Well, it was crap in the end anyway.
Nothing of value was lost.
HI to all ,
to moderators and admin i wan to request you to add NOKIA's smartphones in this forum.
normally in this forum we included most of smartphones of HTC,SAMSUNG,Motorola,LG etc so why not nokia ?
nokia's devices r also widely used devices and there are also few models of nokia is very popular and its also come with excellent technology .
so here i m requesting to give a chance to NOKIA and put some devices like N6,N8,5800,5230,5233 etc.
No doubt that it will take some time for adding all necessary information after creating NOKIA's section but ya it will be nice after few months, i think so. ok thank u for reading this.
My initial thoughts (the decision lies with the admins) is that the Nokia platform as we know it is dead. The arrangement with Microsoft to put Windows Phone onto new Nokia devices (before the end of the year they say) will ensure future Nokia handsets appear on XDA, but the potential for "development" on the existing Nokia platform is almost zero.
We have a lot of "dead" forums on here, I think it's best we focus on the devices with a future, not ones that will just be collecting dust this time next year.
Thanks,
Dave
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So the beta was released AFTER the official v1.0? Google: always innovative!
Didn't android used to be called android inc, android was started off by the guys from webtv, Google bought them out.
But the beginnings of android, started way before 2008 and was by webtv..........
Oh yeah just for the sake of it, I spoke to my friend, who has followed webtv since the beginning, and he was a major player in webtv, back in the day, he has a friend at webtv and this info is from him...
This is the guys resume and he is still a player.....just had to voice what I know. not trying to be defeatest, but to say google invented it, is not technically true, there were guys slaving away way before google got their hands on it.
http://www.fadden.com/resume.html
Ruudfood said:
So the beta was released AFTER the official v1.0? Google: always innovative!
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My mistake. Info fixed!
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promethieus said:
Didn't android used to be called android inc, android was started off by the guys from webtv, Google bought them out.
But the beginnings of android, started way before 2008 and was by webtv..........
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I has been in development long before that but user like us did not have access to the OS until late 2007.
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promethieus said:
Didn't android used to be called android inc, android was started off by the guys from webtv, Google bought them out.
But the beginnings of android, started way before 2008 and was by webtv..........
Oh yeah just for the sake of it, I spoke to my friend, who has followed webtv since the beginning, and he was a major player in webtv, back in the day, he has a friend at webtv and this info is from him...
This is the guys resume and he is still a player.....just had to voice what I know. not trying to be defeatest, but to say google invented it, is not technically true, there were guys slaving away way before google got their hands on it.
http://www.fadden.com/resume.html
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I have no knowledge of that inside info. All I know is what google didn't throw dirt over. But this is what this thread is make for so we can all share and learn this OS together. So thanks for this info.
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Android is an open-source software stack for mobile devices that includes an operating system, middleware and key applications. Google Inc. purchased the initial developer of the software, Android Inc., in 2005. Android's mobile operating system is based upon a modified version of the Linux kernel. Google and other members of the Open Handset Alliance collaborated on Android's development and release. The Android Open Source Project (AOSP) is tasked with the maintenance and further development of Android.
Canalys reported that in Q4 2010 the Android operating system was the world's best-selling smartphone platform, dethroning Nokia's Symbian from the 10-year top position. According to Gartner, Symbian is still slightly ahead on sales if some legacy non-Nokia Symbian smartphones are included in the Q4 2010 figures.
Android has a large community of developers writing application programs that extend the functionality of the devices. There are currently over 150,000 apps available for Android. Android Market is the online app store run by Google, though apps can also be downloaded from third-party sites. Developers write primarily in the Java language, controlling the device via Google-developed Java libraries.
The unveiling of the Android distribution on 5 November 2007 was announced with the founding of the Open Handset Alliance, a consortium of 79 hardware, software, and telecom companies devoted to advancing open standards for mobile devices. Google released most of the Android code under the Apache License, a free software and open source license.
The Android open-source software stack consists of Java applications running on a Java-based, object-oriented application framework on top of Java core libraries running on a Dalvik virtual machine featuring JIT compilation. Libraries written in C include the surface manager, OpenCore media framework, SQLite relational database management system, OpenGL ES 2.0 3D graphics API, WebKit layout engine, SGL graphics engine, SSL, and Bionic libc. The Android operating system consists of 12 million lines of code including 3 million lines of XML, 2.8 million lines of C, 2.1 million lines of Java, and 1.75 million lines of C++.
History Android, Inc. was founded in Palo Alto, California, United States in October, 2003 by Andy Rubin, Rich Miner, et al. to develop, in Rubin's words "...smarter mobile devices that are more aware of its owner's location and preferences." Other early key employees include Andy McFadden, who worked with Rubin at WebTV, and Chris White, who led the design and interface of WebTV, before helping to found Android.
Rubin, a co-founder of Danger Inc., Miner, a co-founder of Wildfire Communications, Inc. and former vice-president of Technology and innovation at Orange, and the other early employees brought considerable wireless industry experience to the company. Despite the obvious past accomplishments of the founders and early employees, Android Inc. operated secretively, admitting only that it was working on software for mobile phones.
Google acquired Android Inc. in August, 2005, making Android Inc. a wholly-owned subsidiary of Google Inc. Key employees of Android Inc., including Andy Rubin, Rich Miner and Chris White, stayed at the company after the acquisition.
At the time of the acquisition, because little was known about the work of Android Inc., some guessed that Google was planning to enter the mobile phone market.
At Google, the team led by Rubin developed a mobile device platform powered by the Linux kernel. Google marketed the platform to handset makers and carriers on the premise of providing a flexible, upgradable system. Google had lined up a series of hardware component and software partners and signaled to carriers that it was open to various degrees of cooperation on their part.
Speculation about Google's intention to enter the mobile communications market continued to build through December 2006. Reports from the BBC and The Wall Street Journal noted that Google wanted its search and applications on mobile phones and it was working hard to deliver that. Print and online media outlets soon reported rumors that Google was developing a Google-branded handset. Some speculated that as Google was defining technical specifications, it was showing prototypes to cell phone manufacturers and network operators. In September 2007, InformationWeek covered an Evalueserve study reporting that Google had filed several patent applications in the area of mobile telephony.
On the November 5, 2007 the Open Handset Alliance, a consortium of several companies which include Texas Instruments, Broadcom Corporation, Google, HTC, Intel, LG, Marvell Technology Group, Motorola, Nvidia, Qualcomm, Samsung Electronics, Sprint Nextel and T-Mobile unveiled itself. The goal of the Open Handset Alliance is to develop open standards for mobile devices. On the same day, the Open Handset Alliance also unveiled their first product, Android, a mobile device platform built on the Linux kernel version 2.6. On December 9, 2008, 14 new members joined, including PacketVideo, ARM Holdings, Atheros Communications, Asustek Computer Inc, Garmin Ltd, Softbank, Sony Ericsson, Toshiba Corp, and Vodafone Group Plc.
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Hope this helps
http://www.theverge.com/2011/12/7/2585779/android-history
All you need to know on the history of android OS.
It's a good read and the videos are nice to see the differences between releases. It really has developed since it's inception.
But your post says android began in 2008, which is Not the case, I will let you carry on with this on your own, you can not just omit the beginnings as they were the initial spark, dedication, make and break, times and the info I have given you is the real information. Good luck.
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prom1414 said:
But your post says android began in 2008, which is Not the case, I will let you carry on with this on your own, you can not just omit the beginnings as they were the initial spark, dedication, make and break, times and the info I have given you is the real information. Good luck.
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No it's say 2007. I'm sure Android sparked long b4 that but unless their is proof of that to be true I can't post it.
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By began do you mean the release date or something like that?
Because if you mean the actual "birth date" then it is at least a few years before 2007. It takes a long time to build an OS
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