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G1 owners were eager for updates. Features like video recording, stereo Bluetooth, and an on-screen keyboard felt like obvious gaps in an otherwise solid OS. But would the G1 actually receive the Cupcake improvements? Ask around in late 2008 and you'd get varying answers. Here's what had been pieced together...

Dogfood. Ever heard that term? It's the idea behind a lot of Google's services. When a company eats its own dog food, they're confident enough in their product to have the entire team use it. For a tech company, that's especially useful: employees can surface bugs, provide feedback, and inform...

A major update was coming in the first quarter of 2009 to Android, and it wasn't just bug fixes. Code-named "Cupcake," it brought some much-needed features: stereo Bluetooth, video recording, and an on-screen keyboard. Not confined to just the G1, these updates were arriving as a development branch, with a...

Some last minute tips to make sure your G1 experience goes swimmingly next week.

Andy Rubin stopped by the Official Google Blog to discuss the future of mobile: where it's headed and how it will help us. It's a short, optimistic read. What kind of things did Andy see coming in the next few years? Be it everyday things like traffic, sports, or weather,...

Many of you Android enthusiasts might already be aware of this. Last Friday, your favorite Android blog made the New York Times. The article was called "Do AndroidGuys Dream of Google Phones" and told a brief story on who we are and what we do. We were contacted by Laura...

Although it's not much of a surprise to Android followers, Google formally announced its application repository today. Dubbed "Android Market" (now known as the Google Play Store), it was exactly what people had been expecting. According to the official Android Developers Blog, it was "an open content distribution system that...

The winners of the first Android Developers Challenge are going to be announced next week and 20 lucky teams will walk away considerably richer. There will be ten winners of $100,000 and another ten will receive $275,000 for their efforts. And that will be the end of the first Developers...