Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
Cellular News , meanwhile, is reporting that the Chinese interface
issue is not the only problem facing Android developers. It claims that
software development houses are having difficulty in developing
applications. What's more, it also worryingly claims that handset OEMs
are understood to be having difficulties with the application software
as well.
"A sizeable number of developers - the very
people that Google hopes will add the bells and whistles to its mobile
phone software - are complaining that the tool kit is riddled with
coding errors, some of them shockingly basic" it says, adding that
those developers have also said that "Google has been largely
unresponsive to their feedback and some observers suggested the very
credibility of Google's mobile phone initiative is on the line."
Which is a shame, as there is very good reason for the excitement
amongst developers and clued up tech savvy consumers alike: Android
could be the beginning of something big.
Built from the ground up to be truly open, Android is based upon the
Linux kernel. With a custom virtual machine designed to optimise memory
and hardware resources, the concept has 'wow' written all over it.
Not least because it represents a mobile phone platform that should be
totally open, totally customisable. The Open Handset Alliance promises
"With devices built on the Android Platform, users will be able to
fully tailor the phone to their interests. They can swap out the
phone's homescreen, the style of the dialer, or any of the
applications. They can even instruct their phones to use their favorite
photo viewing application to handle the viewing of all photos."
Mind you, it also promises a "fast and easy application development"
and handsets available real soon now. Both of those look like being
well and truly broken...
David Bass
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