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This is really getting exciting, the upcoming models of connected phones will soon be able to display a web page like this one here at connectedphone.com without having to scroll horizontally. I think this is one of those features that essentially blur the line between what a computer is and what a mobile phone is.

EE Times has written an article that the next iteration of the Android open mobile platform, version 2.0 aka Donut, will support QVGA, HVGA and WVGA resolutions, developer’s revealed in one session. Google developers were reluctant to provide details, but WVGA generally refers to an 800 to 854 x 480 pixel resolution.

According to NY Times, there may be as many as 18 Android based mobile phones available on the market around the world before the end of 2009 as disclosed by Google. The figure which can reach 20 doesn’t include devices that use Android but didn’t inform Google of its use.

Although, there wasn’t any specifics on who the manufacturer was, based on what I have been reading the past several days these would already include HTC, Samsung on the list. Sony Ericsson has decided to delay it’s Android based mobile phone until next year pending the release of the second version of the Android OS.

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I’ve just read an announcement that the Android SDK 1.5 will be released around the end of the month. In the mean time developers can get access to a pre-release version to enable them to start using the Android SDK 1.5 during development. It looks like a bunch of Cupcake mods will be made available in SDK 1.5 of Android. Some of the new features in Android SDK 1.5 include soft keyboards, home screen widgets, live folders, and speech recognition.

In addition, the new SDK’s from version 1.5 forward will now contain different platform versions. For instance version 1.5 of the Android SDK will also contain version 1.1. One very nice thing about this new structure is that developers can create versions of their products that allows them to target different platforms.

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I’ve just read an announcement that Google has made some changes to its user interface for the iPhone and Android mobile phones. The changes should make it easier for these mobile phone users to access gmail from their mobile phone. A new “floaty bar” feature has also been introduced for Gmail that lets the user access common functions in just one click.

With the new Calendar, it makes it easier to edit or respond to an event using your mobile phone even if you are currently offline. Switching between Gmail and Calendar is also easier with the new links at the top.