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THE HTC ONE IS FINALLY HERE. Review and Ultra-pixel explained.

The Andy Rubin Story We take a look back at the history of Android and the man who brought it to Goo- US $5.99 Canada $6.03 gle and helped make it such a success. Pg. 24

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STORIES Samsung Sets It’s Sights on Google 04 Google I/O and a New Dessert? 16 Fall of Gingerbread 20 Are Six Inch Phones a Thing? 23 NEWS The Andy Rubin Story 24 Samsung sets sights Facebook’s New Home 34 Glass Explorer Winners Revealed 38 04 on Google’s Wallet New Look for Play Store 41 Samsung sets sights on getting more money from Google due to their pull they in the Android eco- DEVICE & APP REVIEWS system and are ready to break Upcoming away from Android if need be. S4 42 HTC One 44 Acer Iconia A1-810 46 Reviews Google I/O’s menu LG Optimus G 47 16 change up Game System 48 Google I/O rumors are starting Sony Xperia ZL 51 already, but this time we may be Updates in store for a tasty new edition Gmail 45 possibly named Keylime Pie. Youtube 46 Google Drive 47 We breakdown and explain the new PLUS New Apps Ultra-Pixel that the HTC One boasts. Contacts + 49 The Andy Rubin 60 Repulze 49 24 Story Camera FX 51 Andy Rubin steps down from the Android team but remains with Google, we take a look back at ASK his journey growing the system.. Interview With Eric Schmidt 55 The Big Deal About HTC’s Ultra-pixel 60 Reader Submited Questions 62 44 Is HTC the “One”? We get our hands on the new- ly released HTC One to give it a thorough review and see if it stand up to the all of the hype. 4 APRIL 2014 FANDROID 5 STORIES

SAMSUNG SETS SIGHTS amsung’s pole position in the Android ecosys- that assumption is. Stem is about get another boost when the Korean If you want to know how key Samsung electronics giant unveils the Galaxy S4 in New York has been for Android, just look at the fact that when Google bought Motorola on Thursday night. But, while it’s all glitz and glamour in May 2012, Eric Schmidt flew directly this week, there’s an underlying tension between Sam- to Samsung’s headquarters in South Ko- sung, Google, and the Android ecosystem that is about rea to personally assure its executives ON GOOGLE’S WALLET... that Motorola would not get special to reach a crossroads in 2013. status in the Android ecosystem andwould be treated as anyother brand. Samsung’s current flagship phone, the Galaxy S3, “I told them that the (Android) ecosystem has to became the best-selling Android device in the world be favored at all costs,” Schmidt said. “The Motorola in 2012. In its first 6 months on the market, the Galaxy products can’t be unduly favored, unless you’re also S3 sold over 40 million units. In the 3rd quarter of unduly favoring Samsung. If it looks unfair, and then NOT THE APP. 2012, it even passed the iPhone as the single best-sell- the ecosystem unravels, then it’s a terrible mistake.” ing smart-phone in the world, though Apple snatched True to Schmidt’s word, Google has not shown back that distinction in Q4 with the launch of Motorola any outward favoritism. Since the acquisi- the iPhone 5. tion, Google hasn’t even tapped Motorola to build any Now, Samsung is so bullish on the S4 that it is of Android’s flagship Nexus devices. And, during the reportedly ordering enough parts to handle sales of past year, Samsung’s leading role in the Android mar- 10 million phones per month. With much of the world ket has only been enhanced, with the help of runaway still converting from old-style cellphones to smart- hits like the Galaxy S3 and the Galaxy Note. The growing struggle between hardware phones, there’s certainly a solid case for that kind of Samsung now owns 40% market share bullishness. But, it also assumes that Samsung will of all Android sales. Second place? Huawei with about and in the mobile world. remain Google’s per-eminent Android partner over 7%. Samsung has certainly earned its success. You the next 12-18 months. The big question is how safe can’t begrudge it that. The company has out executed other Android device makers in both hardware design BY JASON HINER and software enhancements. It also did a better job of emulating best practices from Apple than any of the others Android vendors. While that strategy cost a lot in legal fees after a protracted court battle with Apple (that revealed just how closely Samsung was stalking Apple’s moves), it “Samsung now ultimately came to a stalemate. Meanwhile, Samsung devices soared to the head of the class owns 40% market in Android. The bottom line is that Samsung and Google forged an Android alliance that successfully stemmed share of all Apple’s momentum in mobile devices. Ironically, it was very similar to the way Intel and Windows Android sales.” stemmed Apple’s momentum in personal computers a generation ago. Let’s not forget that Samsung is also the leading seller in the Android tablet market and the leading laptop seller for the Google Chromebook market. The Google-Samsung combination is the most potent new partnership in computing and it is putting tremendous competitive pressure on Apple and Mic- = 10,000,000 phones sold

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rosoft. But, can the partnership hold together? There ), we have to expect Google to get even more are several competing interests that are driving a aggressive in selling inexpensive Nexus smart-phones wedge between the two companies, as is common and tablets directly to consumers to help free them with these types of partnerships. However, in this from expensive and onerous contracts with wireless case, the future of both companies in the mobile carriers and to help get more Google-centric devices business as well as the overall health of the Android in the hands of more people. SAMSUNG’S ecosystem itselfis at stake. Google has been betting on this scenario since the The first issue is that Samsung’s lead over the rest of launch of the Nexus One in January 2010 and it finally the Android phone makers is beginning to evapo- generated significant momentum around the concept SOFTWARE FEATURES rate. Just as Samsung skillfully executed plays from in 2012. As such, I fully expect Nexus devices to take a Apple’s play book, now other Android vendors are bigger chunk out of Samsung’s Android market share ⁺⁺S Beam sharing that lets you tap emulating Samsung. in 2013. two Galaxy S3s together to share HTC is taking a page out of the Apple and Samsung While fighting low-priced Nexus devices on one photos, videos, or files play-books by consolidating down to one flagship front, Samsung will also have to deal with the smart-phone. In this case, it’s the HTC One, a sharp re-emergence of HTC and the rise of Huawei, which new device that was announced in February and is could steal customers away from its core business of ⁺⁺Smart Stay eye-tracking technol- generally drawing strong reviews. Remember, HTC selling subsidized phones to consumers on traditional ogy that automatically keeps the was the leading Android phone maker before Sam- wireless plans. screen bright for as long are you’re sung’s recent ascent. Since Samsung’s devices are based on standard looking at it industry hardware components that any of the elec- Meanwhile at CES 2013 in January, Chinese device tronics companies can use and the Android software maker Huawei unveiled a pair of high-end Android platform is open for any company to co-opt, that ⁺⁺Best Photo camera feature that devices that are aimed squarely at Samsung’s two leaves Samsung very little room to innovate as an takes eight continuous photos and Mhit products, the Galaxy S3 and the Galaxy Note. The Android device maker. And when there’s little room to then suggests the best one (and 6.1-inch Huawei Ascend Mate is a phablet that goes innovate, the primary differentiator becomes price. lets you override it and manually even a little larger than the Galaxy Note, with a very The primary product innovation that catapulted select the best one of the eight) similar design. Samsung into the lead in the Android ecosystem in The Huawei Ascend D2 also emulates Samsung’s 2012 was that it did a better job than its Android com- ⁺⁺Direct Call lets you lift your phone thin plastic design and features a quad core proces- petitors of integrating hardware and software. to your ear to automatically call sor, 32GB of built-in storage, 2GB RAM, a 13 mega-pix- While Samsung’s Android success can also be el camera, a screen with 443dpi pixel density (sur- attributed to its go-to-market strategy (getting its someone that you had been tex- passing both the S3 and iPhone 5), and a 3000mAh ting battery that rivals the Droid Razr Maxx. Those are eye-popping specs that the Galaxy S4 will struggle to “The primary product innovation ⁺⁺S Voice (right) for enhancing the match when it is unveiled on Thursday. that catapulted Samsung into the devices sold everywhere with wireless built-in voice commands that come After the Samsung Galaxy S3, the next hottest An- carriers and retailers), its massive adver- with Android droid phone of 2012 was the Nexus 4, built by Google tising budget, and its ability to get parts in partnership with Samsung’s Korean rival LG. In lead in the Android ecosystem inexpensively, the demand for its products fact, the Nexus 4 would likely have taken a bigger was ultimately driven by a perception of ⁺⁺Split-Screen Multitasking that lets chunk out of Galaxy S3 sales if the product hadn’t in 2012 was arguably that it did quality and ease-of-use. you run two programs at once been sold out for most of the fourth quarter due to Again, Samsung had a jump on its An- overwhelming demand. a better job than its Android droid competitors by being able to watch With Google subsidizing the Nexus 4 so that it how Apple carefully integrated hardware could be sold for $299 (8GB) or $349 (16GB), one of competitors in intergrating and software on the iPhone since Sam- the Nexus 4’s greatest features was clearly its price sung was one of Apple’s key parts suppli- and will be overlooked by lots of mainstream users, who are more tag since the device is unlocked and does not require hardware and software.” ers for the product during its early years likely to be influenced by price and usability. a contract with a wireless carrier. The unlocked ver- Samsung learned those lessons well and So, unless Samsung can leap forward by being the first to sion of the Galaxy S3 costs $500 to $600. by the time it launched the Galaxy S3, it integrate a groundbreaking technology like the flexible OLED The Nexus 4 price tag is great for consumers and had included a variety of unique feature displays that its affiliates are developing, then it’s destined to for Google, who simply wants to get more Android that showed its growing savvy in software face long-term trouble in the Android market where it is going to smart-phones in the hands of more people because it as well as strengths, hardware integration. become a race to see who can sell advanced at the makes money off of people using its mobile platform. While Samsung is likely to continue this lowest price. However, it’s not so great for Samsung, which makes kind of innovation in Android to help its Samsung does make some money from Google’s mobile ads its money off of selling devices. And, that is where the devices stand out against HTC, Huawei, receiving around 10% of the profits. However now since Samsung major conflict comes into play. Motorola, LG, and others, these types of has now 40% of the Android market share it seems as if they can Bolstered by the success of the Nexus 4 and a software add-ons will inevitably remain help the mobile world against mutual rivals such as Apple. similar scenario with the Nexus 7 tablet (built by outside of the core Android functionality Amazon is another big player in the Android market, however

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Flexible displays like this one would open up the doors to new types of phones and give Samsung an edge on the smart phone market.

10 APRIL 2014 FANDROID 11 STORIES Samsung showing some early Tizen phone proto- types at mobile world congress convention. Sure, Samsung would lose some users marily focused on the Android platform in those scenarios, but it would protect “It will focus on Samsung and and ecosystem. the profitability of its popular high-end Either way this particular chapter in devices. It would also gain the ability to it will attempt to create not Google and Samsung’s history will most make money off of services on the devic- likely change the entire nature of their so es, rather than only making money on just a device but a platform far symbiotic relationship in providing the hardware sales and then letting Goo- and an ecosystem.” quality alternatives to Apple’s iOS devices. gle make all of the money from services, This will most likely lead to Google trying as Samsung currently does with Android. on Android devices, but it could certainly to distribute it’s business else where, most That’s why the Tizen experiment is more bet on the Samsung brand and Samsung likely to LG since they have already used than just a hedge or a negotiating tool to products being just as appealing to the them to produce the Nexus 4 phone. This get a revenue-sharing deal with Google market as Android. will shift the Android phone manufactur- to get a cut of that services money. Tizen In other words, Samsung isn’t likely to ing world and will probably yield some might also be more experimental due to market Tizen phones under the Tizen great new innovation and devices that we the shear number of mobile operating brand. It will focus on the Samsung brand, might not have seen otherwise. systems that are either already out or in and it will attempt to create not just a development by other companies. device but a platform and an ecosystem. In If the Android ecosystem becomes a the long run, that’s where almost all of the race to the bottom on smart-phone prices innovation – and the profits – will be as the “Mr. Rubin said Google’s recent acquisition of and Google refuses to share any services market matures. revenue with Samsung, then Tizen could The thing to watch will be how effectively Motorola served as a kind of insurance policy become the platform where Samsung Samsung can create its own platform and against a manufacturer such as Samsung gaining redirects mosts of its energy. Even then, ecosystem versus how aggressively Google I doubt it would completely pull the plug makes concessions to keep Samsung pri- too much power”

ROUND UP Here is a collection of all of the different mobile plat- forms that are currently out or under Amazon uses a tweaked version of An- CNET has reported that the first Tizen likely stick with Android and switch to an development. droid and doesn’t load Google apps on its phones will arrive this summer. HTC or Nexus phone if Samsung went all devices, and therefore is not a threat or a Tizen is still very raw, but it’s clear Tizen. So, this isn’t going to be something problem for Google. that Samsung is getting more and more radical that happens in 2013. That’s why Samsung is doing Tizen, enthusiastic about the platform. It not But, 2013 could be the sea change. I’ll give which could eventually become its only folded its LiMo project into Tizen but you one scenario to consider. If the Galaxy parachute for jumping off the Android it has now reportedly also folded its other S4 remains the best-selling Android phone bandwagon. Tizen was originally the next- pet project, Bada, into the Tizen platform in the world (but with greater competition) gen mobile OS to replace , back as well. and Tizen becomes a modest hit (with when Intel and were collaborating Samsung giving it a few exclusive fea- on it and it was called “MeeGo.” But, when Don’t expect the Tizen phones released in tures), then we could see Samsung move a Nokia hired Steven Elop as CEO and he mid-2013 to be much of a threat to the Gal- lot more aggressively. For example, what burned all bridges and moved the mobile axy S4 or the iPhone, but you should keep if Samsung used the equity of the Galaxy pioneer exclusively to Windows Phone, Dan eye on how many software innovations brand to push Tizen? What if the Galaxy S5 that left MeeGo abandoned. So, Samsung and hardware/software integrations like or the Galaxy S6 becomes a Tizen phone? Nokia running Win- Firefox OS that is still a new Blackberry 10 running swooped in and picked up the pieces. It the ones we’ve seen from Samsung recent- What if the Galaxy Note 3 or 4 becomes a dows phone mirroring under development open source OS that the Blackberry OS formed a new partnership with Intel, ly are integrated into Tizen. Many of the Tizen tablet? the metro tiles from and no word on which can run on almost any integrated its own LiMo project into the Galaxy features Samsung rolled out last With other high end Android Windows 8 carriers are on board. Android phone. platform, and Tizen was born. year are core functions that could form the “Many of the Galaxy features phones coming out on the It seemed like a minor, futile endeavor heart of an excellent mobile platform. market Samsung might need when Tizen was announced in September Samsung will be testing the waters. It Samsung rolled out last year to dial back on Tizen, desipte 2011, but it’s increasingly looking like it won’t quickly abandon the Android eco- the competition they are plan- SPEAK UP Here is your chance to speak your are core functions that could With could become a critical part of Samsung’s system and put a lot of potential phone ning on releasing a phone this mind and see what others are saying with our the future. At Mobile World Congress 2013 sales at risk. Any time the question of form the heart of an excellent year running Tizen. online poll either scan the QR code or go online last month in Barcelona, Samsung put Tizen is brought up, the overwhelming new to vote at fandroid.com/poll0413 the spotlight on Tizen and gave the tech reaction on Internet forums from existing mobile platform.” rival industry a sneak peek at the platform, Samsung phone users is that they would With Do we really need another mobile OS on the oth- horizon with Ubuntu Touch and Firefox OS? thip- 12 APRIL 2014 FANDROID 13 NEWS

The Andy Rubin Story By Daniel Roth

“Is this interesting to Google?” That’s what Andy Rubin was asking Larry Page. It was a spring day in 2005, and the two were in a conference room just off the main lobby at Google’s headquarters. A simple yes and Rubin would have walked away happy. They had met three years before, when Rubin was about to launch a smart- phone he’d invented called the Sidekick. At the time, Google was just an up- and-comer, trailing AOL and even Lycos in traffic. But Rubin, a well-known Silicon Valley player, chose Google as the Sidekick’s default search engine. Page was flattered by the unexpected endorsement. So when Rubin called out of the blue and requested this meeting, well, Page couldn’t say no. The Google cofounder arrived late, as usual. Rubin walked to the white- board and began his pitch. There were nearly 700 million cell phones sold each year compared with fewer than 200 million PCs — and the gap was widening. Increasingly, he said, phones were the way people wanted to con- nect with each other and with everything else. Yet the mobile industry was

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stuck in the dark ages. Unlike the Web, where open “Google dominated “In the lobby, a flat screen standards had fostered a multitude of cool compa- TV shows a spinning globe nies and applications, mobile was a tyrannical, closed the Web today, but system, repelling all innovators and disrupters who with animated flares tried to gain entrance. tomorrow might be a erupting wherever people are using Google to search Rubin said his startup, called Android, had the different story.” solution: a free, open source mobile platform that any from their mobile phones.” coder could write for and any handset maker could But because cell phones ran on different software, install. He would make his money by selling support had less memory, and operated under the constraints for the system—security services, say, or email of pay-per-byte wireless networks, the mobile Web management. Android would have the spirit of Linux was a stripped-down, mimeographed version of the and the reach of Windows. It would be a global, open real thing. Reading and surfing and — more to the operating system for the wireless future. point — viewing Google ads was a slow, stultifying Rubin didn’t want money from Page. He already chore. Even worse, a second-class Web could derail had funding. What he wanted was Google’s imprima- Google’s grand strategy. The company was trying to tur—even an email from Page would do. Rubin figured worm its way deeper into users’ lives by hosting ap- he could attract more VC funds with the search giant plications and personal files on Google servers, then on board, possibly with a hint that Google might be dishing them out to the always-connected consumer interested in developing its own branded phone. He whenever and wherever needed. That was easy on pulled out a prototype.Page picked up the device. He PCs, but phones didn’t play nice with the cloud. Goo- had been personally frustrated yet fascinated by the gle dominated the Web today, but tomorrow might be mobile market for years. He already knew the num- a different story. bers — he didn’t need Rubin to tell him how many PCs Working the problem had been a nightmare. Google and mobile phones were out there. He also knew that engineers had a closet overflowing with mobile it added up to a massive problem for Google. phones to test the company’s wireless applications The desktop metaphor was fading. Phones were mobile Google, Blogger, search over SMS. There were going to replace PCs as the main gateway to the In- dozens of operating systems to navigate, a mobile ternet, and they were going to do it soon. Why would Tower of Babel completely at odds with the easy consumers tether themselves to a PC when phones access and universal language of the Web. were growing more and more powerful — and were mand out there for something better. So was Rubin’s pitch inter- cheaper, too? What worried Page most was that the only firm esting to Page? Absolutely. But he didn’t want to stick his logo on from the PC world that seemed to be successfully Rubin’s phone. Or write a supportive email. He had a better idea: navigating the mobile labyrinth was Microsoft, one Google would buy Android. of Google’s biggest rivals. The plat- Rubin was floored. He had come in looking for an encouraging and shifts it from hand to hand. It’s maddening. All I want to do form had less than 10 percent of the US smart-phone word and left with the biggest payday in his life. (The eventual is get a closer look at his killer app. market, but it was growing fast. Microsoft’s system, purchase price was estimated at as much as $50 million.) Now After Google bought Android in July 2005, Silicon Valley pulsed however, was the ugly stepsister of what Rubin was all he had to do was live up to his own hype. with gossip and speculation about what the search giant was proposing: Redmond executives cared less about “Google’s model is to build a killer app, then monetize it later,” planning. Everyone figured Apple had a phone in the works opening up the Net to mobile users than about tying Rubin says. We’re sitting in another conference room across the and assumed Google must be developing one too. Rubin and his the mobile operating system into its desktop domi- street from where he and Page struck their deal three years ago. cofounders, Rich Miner, Nick Sears, and Chris White, weren’t nance. A decade ago, Microsoft had underestimated The building, which houses Google’s mobile division, is Rubin’s talking. “Trying to guess Google’s next move recently replaced the growth of the Web and then lost control of it to domain now. There’s a self-piloting model helicopter bearing an digging through Steve Jobs’ garbage … at the top of our weekend One of the first Android Google. Now it looked like it was Google’s turn to be Android logo parked in the hall — Rubin builds them in his spare activities list,” wrote tech blog Engadget. When Apple unveiled phones that was pro- caught flat-footed. time. Beyond are floors of people who think of nothing but the the iPhone last summer, expectations for a gPhone — could it be duced modeled after the If Google had it bad, users had it worse. Every year cellular future of their employer. In the lobby, a flat screen TV called anything else? — grew even more feverish. prototype that Mr.Rubin since 2002, the wireless sector managed to place at shows a spinning globe with animated flares erupting wherever created. This particular or near the top of the Better Business Bureau’s tally people are using Google to search from their mobile phones. But when Google finally broke its silence in early November, model was made by HTC of the most complained-about industries. Americans This fall, when the first Android phones hit the market, those there was nothing about a gPhone. Instead, there was a press in 2008.Luckily we have would rather do business with a used-car salesman flares will presumably flame even higher. release. Thirty-four companies — firms like Texas Instruments, come a long way. or a collection agent than with a customer service Rubin is tall and skinny and a casual dresser even by Google Intel, T-Mobile, and Sprint Nextel — were joining Google to build rep for, say, T-Mobile or Motorola. And who could standards. He’s 45 but seems younger. Sitting with one leg a wireless interface based on open source Linux software. The blame them? The plans were expensive, pricing was tucked beneath him, he explains the mission of the Googlefied group dubbed itself the Open Handset Alliance. Competitors complex and capricious, and the phones never lived Android to me, but I barely follow the words. I’m staring at his sighed in relief. This was how Google planned to shake up the up to expectations. Constant innovation, the first phone. It’s clearly a demo — black, scuffed, covered with finger- nearly trillion-dollar global wireless market? A consortium? principle of Page and Rubin’s world, was anathema prints; most of the face is taken up by the screen. Rubin absent- “Their efforts are just some words on paper,” remarked Steve to phone companies. There had to be pent-up de- mindedly slides it around the big wooden table, then picks it up Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, at a conference in Japan. “Another

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Linux platform,” shrugged the CEO of bet on? In Google’s regular line of busi- robot, the Android icon. He Symbian, the dominant smart-phone ness, the strategy has always been to unveil walks into the conference “The virus was spreading. At an operating system outside the US. innovative, occasionally flawed products, room of the Inside Hotel A week later, Google upped the ante. like Google Docs then keep them in beta and stops. There are almost event the next day in Israel, the The company put a free Android soft- for months or years. But people don’t want 200 people, more than twice local Google office had to switch ware developer’s kit on its Web site and to buy a phone in beta. Android products what he expected. A dozen announced the Developer Challenge, have to work right from the start. Is this developers are sitting on locations to handle the overflow.” with $10 million in prize money to be really the phone that’s going to change ev- the floor in the back of the parceled out to the creators of the best erything? Only time would tell. room, computers propped on Andy talking applications for the new system — a It was Dan Morrill’s first time out of the their knees. There are hobbyists, chief a PC or the Web. Coders were told that great social networking tool, say, or a about the new country, and that made him a little ner- technical officers, indie programmers, their applications would have constant handwriting recognition program. The mobile OS and vous. But as he gathered his bags in the and students. access to the Net, not the usual mobile Challenge was an open call; anyone it’s impact on the Munich airport on a surprisingly warm Morrill runs through his prepared re- hurry-up-and-wait feel. Working with was invited to take a shot. mobile market. January morning earlier this year, after marks then starts taking questions. They the cloud — enabling programs to push or Those hoping for a new gadget to the last leg of a long, exhausting flight want to know about Android program- pull info to or from the Web — was a must. rival the iPhone finally understood from San Francisco, he looked up to see a ming, of course, but they also ask why All Android phones would know where that Google had something radically Paul Bunyan-sized BMW grill fixed to the Google is doing this, what the company’s they were at all times, either by tapping different in mind. Apple’s device was wall. If you’re looking for engineers, he expectations are, and what the criteria into onboard GPS or by cross-referencing an end in itself — a self-contained, thought, there are worse places to go than will be for awarding the prize money. At cell towers using a proprietary database jewel-like masterpiece locked in a sleek how any individual model was pimped device. If Apple could generate that a city that welcomes you. one point, hotel management shows up to owned by Google. And applications would protective shell. Android was a means, out as long as the hidden Android DNA much business for Google, surely Google warn Morrill that the size of the gathering be allowed to share information, which a seed intended to grow an entire new was there underneath, keeping every- could do even better for itself. CEO Eric Morrill is a software engineer turned violates the fire code. at the simplest level meant the kind of wireless family tree. Google was never thing tied to the Internet. Schmidt, a BlackBerry man at heart, was “developer advocate.” He’s a roving evan- The virus was spreading. At an event the copy-and-paste functionality across all in the hardware business. There would initially skeptical about teaming up with gelist to the coder world. But that’s just next day in Israel, the local Google office programs that cell phones currently lack. be no gPhone — instead, there would be The company’s theory was that if you Rubin. But once he embraced the idea of his cover. Morrill’s real mission is to make had to switch locations to handle the Even better, at least in a developer’s hundreds of gPhones. make browsing by phone easy and fun, Android, he did it with a convert’s zeal. sure Android triggers a full-on network overflow crowd. In London, registration eyes, the Android team had violated an HTC, Motorola, and LG all announced people will use it just like a desktop “That is the re-creation of the Internet. effect — that mystical melding of passion for the developer’s conference filled up in essential tenet of the wireless industry: plans to market new Android phones in a browser, with Google search as the main That is the re-creation of the PC story,” and self-interest that fueled the growth two hours. Fanboys were putting up sites that users are too dumb and dangerous to multitude of shapes and sizes, each with port of entry. Christmas Day 2007 offered Schmidt told business leaders at the of behemoths like eBay and Facebook. for the platform: AndroidGuys, Phan- be trusted with downloadable software. different software options. Android was a Google proof that the strategy could work. World Economic Forum in Davos a month Google wants developers to build cool droid, Planet Android. In Thailand, the Engineers who write for just about any fully customizable system. Any applica- That morning, people unwrapped their after Christmas. “And it will happen in the programs that can draw huge numbers of government carved out an entire floor of mobile operating system today have to tion could be removed or swapped out iPhones, powered them up, clicked on the next year.” users, creating an expanding market that Software Park — a federally funded busi- spend time and cash obtaining security for another. Even the few programs that easy-to-use Safari browser — and pointed Rubin finally turns on the battered attracts more developers to build more ness incubator housed in a skyscraper keys and code-signing certificates. An- Google was creating from scratch — an to Google. In 24 hours, the iPhone, which phone and launches Google Maps. “So, cool programs to attract more users. If the north of Bangkok — for Android devel- droid would allow any application to be email app, a contacts manager could be accounted for fewer than 5 percent of all here we are,” he says, moving the satellite $10 million prize is the spark, Morrill’s job opment work. In Japan, quickie books on installed and run, no questions asked. replaced with third-party software that smart-phones worldwide, drove more image of San Francisco by dragging is to make sure there’s ignition. Google Android programming were appearing By the April 14 deadline for the first did the same thing. Google didn’t care traffic to Google than any other mobile one finger along the screen. “This is the had dispatched him to Germany to meet in major bookstores. In Chennai, India, round of the Developer Challenge, Google Embarcadero. I can manipulate it. I can with a small group of local mobile pro- attendees at a Nokia developer conference had received nearly 1,800 submissions. zoom.” He taps to focus in on a street view grammers interested in the new platform. compared notes on Android’s coding kit Entrants ranged from huge corporations of a truck’s license plate, then clicks to a The morning of his talk, Morrill dresses during the presentations. to single-person shops and came from all new application. “Let’s see, let’s go to a in his usual uniform, an untucked but- over the world. Only a third were from music player. I can go to Artist here and ton-down over a silk-screened T-shirt, this As soon as programmers started playing the US. “Google didn’t care how any individual get my list of — oops, oh it says the SD one with the image of a friendly green with the emulator, they saw how big Goo- Among the contact management card is missing.” gle’s ambitions were. systems and shopping tools, there were model was pimped out as long as the He squints into the tiny card slot. “Hmm, The company was applications that truly fulfilled Android’s it’s there. Looks like I have a little bit of a trying to make pro- promise, particularly in their use of hidden Android DNA was there underneath” bug.” He shrugs, taps on an icon to go to the gramming for a cell location awareness, social networking, browser, and checks out CNN.com. It looks phone analogous to and cloud computing. One developer good — a small but fully functional version programming for offered up Jamdroid, a program that of the Web site. Back when he and Page were first talking, this would have been amazing. But now, with the iPhone and other enhanced smart-phones out there? No big deal. A minute later the battery dies. Dan Morrill in 2008 at Developer Day He pockets the phone and finishes up. I giving out the developer guidelines can’t help feeling a little disappointed. on the new Android mobile OS. This is the phone Page is making his big

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“Google will supply the basic starter apps, but Android’s secret weapon is really the network effect.” you turn on in your car to feed real-time so we can put our services on top.’ Well, traffic data to a central server; the info very quickly they’re going to see that is then compiled and beamed to other mobile operators don’t want to be dumb Jamdroid users, crowdsourcing road pipes and that manufacturers want to conditions. LifeAware tracks friends differentiate their phones.” or family, plotting them on a map and Windows Mobile is now installed on 140 alerting the user when, say, a kid leaves a devices, hosted by 160 carriers around the preset area. E-ventr mashes up evites and world. Key to its success was Microsoft’s Google Maps to organize parties on the ability to use its desktop domination as a fly. BreadCrumbz lets you share pho- battering ram. Businesses wanted seam- to-enhanced driving and walking routes less integration between their office-based Sidenote with the world. Already, Android has half email and mobile phones, and by offering Looking at Android’s progess as many outside applications as RIM’s that, Microsoft was able to challenge HTC CEO and Andy Rubin show off BlackBerry platform and about 10 percent the BlackBerry. “Google is just trying to some of the newest HTC Android devic- as compared to Windows the number offered for Windows Mobile copy our model,” adds Rockfeld. (Not that es to an excited crowd in London 2010.. Mobile we can see why Mic- at Handango, a leading application down- Microsoft isn’t a bit unnerved. Earlier rosoft was concerned. load site — and that’s still months before this year, it bought Rubin’s old company, Currently Windows has it launches. Danger, for $500 million. Steve Ballmer about 150,000 apps avail- No wonder Rubin seemed so uncon- now owns the Sidekick, just in case.) cerned with the faulty prototype he able for it’s users. If we showed me back in Mountain View: It was Google says it has learned the rules of compare this statistics with just a framework waiting to be filled out the game — sometimes the hard way. Android, which has around by others. Google will supply the basic Not long ago, the company enhanced its 850,000 apps, and Apple starter apps, but Android’s secret weapon mobile version of Picasa, a photo-editing, which has around 775,000 is really the network effect. storage, and slide-show service, so users appearance of empathy and cooperation. When one for a comeback. It has assigned its top designers — apps in their . Among developers there is a giddy sense could instantly upload images from their chipmaker got cold feet at the idea of having some the people who crafted the Razr — to create new that Android is ushering in Web 2.0 to the camera phone. Google took it to a phone of its code open-sourced, Rubin immediately called must-have models. Engineers from Good Technology, It appears that Microsoft barely 0.5 world of mobile. But it won’t company for placement but couldn’t get senior executives to talk over the benefits. Then he the BlackBerry competitor Motorola purchased in may have waitied it out too take much to stop the movement. If man- the necessary sign-off. The service, which had his top engineer, Brian Swetland, sit down with 2006, are now writing applications for Android. For long, with android taking ufacturers like Motorola and HTC put out was free, would have competed with a the chipmaker’s attorneys and engineers to work out Motorola, Android has to work. about 53% of the mobile lousy phones, Android suffers. If carriers similar proprietary offering the carrier solutions. You have to very carefully figure out how to “The handset makers are on a treadmill, trying to market and iOS taking about like AT&T and Verizon Wireless block the was rolling out — and charging $10 a help them help you do the right thing,” Swetland says. turn out hardware every six months that’s innovative gates to their networks, Android fails. month for. The idea of instant mobile and thinner, with bigger displays and lower costs, 44% which leaves a small “Working with partners is not easy, and uploading to Picasa was quietly shelved. Rubin has a well-rehearsed spiel for the handset while having to do the systems integration,” Rubin 3% left which makes it a very the operating system is just a part of This time Google is going out of its way makers, too. They fear losing their individual identi- says. “The net result is no innovation. They don’t tough market for Microsoft to it,” says Scott Rockfeld, group product to assuage the fears of potential part- ties. Rubin counters that Android will liberate them have time. You know what? We make really good push it’s way into. manager for Microsoft’s Mobile Commu- ners and pay the necessary fealties. The from having to spend valuable resources managing software. We can take on all that work.” nications Business. “It seems like Google’s cockiness that marked its relationships in and maintaining vast amounts of code. Instead, they Convincing the big carriers — that’s been the tough- strategy is ‘Just get something out there the past has been replaced by at least the can concentrate on phone design and proprietary er task. For them, Rubin is offering Android’s unbeat- apps that are specific to their own brand (which able price: free. Software normally makes up about 20 Google’s open source license allows). percent of the cost of a phone. The service providers CURRENT MOBILE MARKET You can imagine heads nodding in boardrooms as will be able to pocket the savings or use lower-priced Rubin finishes his talk — he gets us! — And in fact handsets to get more consumers hooked on smart- 1,500,000 800,000 it has worked pretty well. HTC, an upstart Taiwan- phones, increasing the number of lucrative wire- 1,250,000 Android ese handset maker that is closely tied to Windows less-data plans. Plus, Rubin insists that the Android 1,000,000 600,000 Mobile, has built a 200-person engineering team to software will take the limits of the carriers’ networks 750,000 Apple’s iOS focus on Android. Motorola has gone a step further. into consideration. “We have to be conscious of the 44% 53% 400,000 500,000 The company’s handset business, slated to be spun cost they incurred to purchase the air,” he says. “So Windows Phone 250,000

150,000 850,000 775,000 off, is on life-support, and it’s counting on Android we don’t want to use too much data. We have to con- 200,000 0 3% 2010 2011 2012 2013 0 Year Mobile Market by Platform Apps Availalbe for Platform Daily Activations 30 APRIL 2014 FANDROID 31 NEWS Larry Page, Google CEO, talking about stantly think about how we can give users the company’s new mobile platform. a great experience without wasting all of There is, however, one incentive that their available data.” Google can still offer that might bring the So far, Android has been able to per- carriers around: access to its advertising Andy’s Google+ Post suade only T-Mobile and Sprint Nextel to mother lode, expected this year to top $16 Dear friends, join the Open Handset Alliance. Neither billion. The chance for a taste of Google In November of 2007 we announced the is a surprise: T-Mobile partnered with gold has lured competitors like AOL, Ask Open Handset Alliance with 34 founding Rubin on the Sidekick, and as one of the .com, and potentially even Yahoo into part- members. Today, I’m grateful to the over 85 smaller carriers it’s more willing to take nership deals. Mobile advertising is ex- OHA members who have helped us build Android and drive innovation at such an in- risks. Sprint, suffering from massive con- pected to grow from more than $1.7 billion Page rarely shows much credible pace. The Android ecosystem has sumer churn and almost junk-rated debt, in 2007 to $12.8 billion in 2011. If Google emotion, but I detect a flicker seen tremendous growth since the launch seems game for anything that might can translate its Web dominance into the of genuine excitement when of the very first Android device in October help. But the two biggest players, Verizon mobile arena, who wouldn’t want to part- he’s talking about Android. 2008. The volume and variety of Android Wireless and AT&T, have passed. “There ner with it? (Google says it can’t comment This isn’t just another of the devices exceeds even my most optimistic wasn’t anything viable we we’re willing on future ad-sharing deals.) mini apps, like Google Check- expectations - over 750 million compatible to entertain,” says Verizon Wireless “You have a significant challenge in out or Google Desktop, that the devices and counting! spokesperson Jeffrey Nelson. This spring, mobile, in that the screens are much company’s engineers seem to “Page rarely At its core, Android has always been the carrier even backed an Android com- smaller, so you can’t display nearly as air-drop onto the Web every about openness - the idea that a thousand shows much petitor, an open source consortium called much advertising or take as much space,” week — each of which has the brains are better than one. Just as the emotion, but ecosystem has grown, so has our team the LiMo Foundation. Google cofounder Sergey Brin told Wall potential to become a massive at Google. I am incredibly proud of the And why would a network operator join Street analysts on a recent conference challenge to an entrenched pany in July 2005. People im- I detect a flicker phenomenal group of people that spend Android’s cause? Android — like the iP- call. “On the other hand, you have much competitor or remain forever mediately assumed the gPhone of genuine their days (and nights) building the hone — will hasten the day when phone more relevant and timely information, in development. This is a would be the next thing out excitement when Android platform and services. Just look at companies become nothing more than like what location the person might be in much bigger gamble. It’s de- of the gate to challenge the last year...a lean yet incredibly ambitious dumb pipes to deliver data. If it manages meaning a greater user experience, so on signed to change an industry upstart iPhone. Instead of he’s talking about team released Jellybean with Google Now, to turn the cell phone into a perfect tool balance that leaves me quite optimistic.” and Google along with it. “Peo- the intense advertising and Android.” launched in many languag- for surfing and cloud computing, with Telecom consultant Chetan Sharma ple can debate how long it will funding that it would require es and countries and collaborated with voice as just another cool app, then the says that Android’s success depends on Larry Page doesn’t seem take us, but I have 100 percent to make an iPhone challenger, and Android is no longer in several partners to build three new Nexus only things left to differentiate one car- Google’s willingness to share the wealth. worried about the details. He’s confidence that eventually they put their money into that stage of its life, Google is devices to help drive innovation in the ecosystem. rier from another are which has the most “What’s the relationship going to be got people who will ham- we’ll get there,” Page says. the software which would going to move him to a new Today, the success of Android combined towers and which the cheapest unlimited between Google and the carriers in terms mer out the business deals And if they don’t? Not much eventually let multiple phones unannounced project. Some with the strength of our management data plans. Android’s decision to let any- of advertising dollars?” he asks. “That necessary to make Android downside. If the only thing challenge the iPhone on each rumors indicate that the new team, gives me the confidence to step one make add-ons and applications is also needs to be nailed down before we know work. We’re just around the Android achieves — as Page manufacturers/carriers own project will deal with actual away from Android and hand over the a threat. Today, developers who want to how big Android can be.” corner from his office, in yet knew before Rubin walked merits. The pressure suddenly androids, which Andy is reins. Going forward, Sundar Pichai will have their application on an AT&T phone In May, Google committed $500 million another Google conference into Google three years ago was off of Google to be the quite fond of for those who lead Android, in addition to his existing have to fork over a chunk of their revenue to bankroll Clearwire, a national WiMax room. “That phone you’re — is getting more people to iPhone killer, they only handle might not know. Whatever work with Chrome and Apps. Hiroshi while meeting stringent security require- system with partners that include Intel, carrying around,” he says, “we spend more time online, then the software. Andy ends up working on at Lockheimer - who many of you already ments. (Apple has copied this model: Jobs Comcast, and Time Warner Cable. Any think of it as a phone, but it’s Google still profits. More users Now in 2013 there are so Google we’d like to thank him know well - plus the rest of the Android & Co. will skim 30 percent off all sales of device, including Android phones, will really a computer, right?” Page mean more people viewing many different phones that for brining us a great mobile leadership team will work closely with all of our partners to advance Android and iPhone apps, which will be available only be able to use the high-speed wireless is dressed in a blue blazer pages with Google ads. If various companies are produc- operating system and hope to prepare the platform for new products and through Apple.) Under Android rules, network, cutting the carriers out of the over a white T-shirt. He leans they’re doing that from an ing that are all threatening the see him bring us another new services yet to be imagined. everyone’s their own boss. picture. “You need something more sub- forward in his chair. “We’ve Android phone, great. If not, iPhone’s grasp on the market. amazing technology. As for me, I am an entrepreneur at heart No big carrier is going to hand over stantial than a coalition of the willing to learned from computers but they’re on a phone made All of this was made possible and now is the right time for me to start a its network to Google for nothing. And cut the ice with Verizon and AT&T,” says that it’s really nice to have more Web-friendly thanks to by Mr. Rubin, he brought new chapter within Google. I am amazed if Google doesn’t show up on the two Jeffrey Lindsay, analyst with Sanford C. complete connectivity, to be competitive pressure from this platform to Google and by what we have accomplished from those biggest networks, which together control Bernstein in New York. “They are formi- able to connect anything in a Google, that’s also fine. “I hope developed into the most early days (not so long ago!), and remain 54 percent of the US wireless market, dable competitors.” Google would rather kind of open way. We’ve also it’s Android,” Page says. But widely used mobile OS in the passionate about the power of a simple it might as well not show up at all. partner, but it appears ready to fight. learned that it’s really nice to either way, Google wins. world. However this March he idea and a shared goal - an open source be able to run any application decided that he is stepping platform freely available to everyone - to transform computing for people every- you want to run, also in an Now, let’s look at some down and leaving the project where. open way. For a lot of people interesting facts from that. Mr. in the hands of Sundar Pichai, Thank you for your support, and a lot of the time during Sidekick himself (Andy Rubin) who currently also is running - Andy your life, the phone is your came up with the idea for the Chrome project. However main computing platform. We Android. Google, being Google this is not the end for Andy Andy’s public anouncment about stepping look at those technologies and does what they do best… at Google, in fact since they down from Android on March 13th say, wow, we could do a whole recognized the potential and see him as a valuable asset in lot more.” immediately bought the com- the early stages of projects,

32 APRIL 2014 FANDROID 33 ASK ASK The Big Deal About By Tucker Mulcahy HTC’s  Ultra-pixel. Single Pixel from a 13 Mega-pixel sensor. Actual pixel Single Pixel from the HTC One 4 Mega-pixel sensor.Ac - size is 1.1 micrometer or .0000433 inches. tual pixel size is 2 micrometers or .0000788 inches.This 2.69” What is the seceret behind what HTC is actually the “ultra” pixel, huge isn’t it? is calling the “Ultra-pixel”? It is actually something quite clever and challenges what the rest of thet smart-phone indus- Wtry has been pushing out in their newest phones. All digital cameras use a set of chip with a automatic sharpening filter so that parts in order to caputre the image that is every photograph taken with the HTC one gets in front of it, the HTC One has the exterior a boost in the level of detail. Now this solves lens, a fixed aperature or opening at f/2.0, Rear Camera the problem for most users but those who are assembly the interior lenses , the pixel sensor and going to zoom in an crop the photos or try and What does it mean then the imaging chip. sharpen it a little bit more are going to start to for the photo? The first big difference is that HTC is not experience some issues with the loss of quality pushing to plant the biggest number of in the shots. megpixels on the back of their phone, The HTC one uses another trick to try and instead they are only going to put in a keep it’s images sharper and brighter than it’s 4 mega-pixel camera, which for most competitors by using the largest fixed apera- consumers is plenty large enough, you ture of any phone out there, it uses a f/2.0 Examples can easily print a nice high resolution aperature which allows more light into the 8”x 10” photo of grandma dancing at the sensor, however this does mean that things family reunion. The reason that they are that you are not focusing on are going to be only putting in a 4 mega-pixel camera 5.41” more out of focus than other smart-phones is because space in a smart-phone is but not by much. limited meaning that cameras can’t really This trick also allows the phone to try and keep get bigger so to get these higher me- the ISO or the light sensitivity down on the ga-pixel cameras the manufacturers are sensor so that the photo will not have much actually squeezing more pixels into the noise, or colored speckles. The HTC one is able same amount of space. This means that to keep the ISO lower in most cases due to this the actual pixels are much smaller, well larger aperature. Photo taken with HTC One they both have incredibly small pixels, but Based on everything that HTC has done to relatively speaking the ultrapixel is almost make this camera different from the classical twice as large since the sensor has to approach of increasing the mega-pixel count it house less pixels. is pretty obvious that they knew that in most HTC knew that shrinking the number of cases that we use our phones to take photos pixels down would cause the sharpness the lighting is not going to be ideal and tried of photos to suffer a little. To combat to deliever a phone that would fill the need to the loss of pixels they fitted the imaging take better photos in low light.

.37” Photo taken with iPhone 5

QUICK Noise is unavoidable in our current day and age mask the noise, but when the ISO gets boosted to because no sensor can be built without defects, due work with less light the “light” from the imperfec- Actual Size .19” LESSON to the small size of the unit, these imperfections tions is also increased and we start to see them in ON IMAGE show up in our images as noise. However in most the image. ISO is how sensative the sensor is to Imaging Chip Ultrapixel Sensor SP Slim Lens f/2.0 Aperature Exterior lens NOISE situations the light hitting the sensor is enough to light and can be changed by the user or the phone.

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Get ready for the futuristic adrenaline rush from the developers of Reckless Racing! This action racer puts you in the seat of experimental Repulze hovercraft working as a test pilot for the Man. Well, the Synthetic Man is more accurate. Requirements The Synthetics run the corporations. The corpora- Android 2.2 + tions run the world. You are way down the food chain 257mb free getting pushed around to complete their “scientific” challenges. This racing game takes some of the old N64 SCORE style space race games and puts it in the palm of your usability 4.1 hands, just like you had alway wished you could. design 4.4 Repulze features online multiplayer action and is value 4.2 vastly addicting. Here at fAndroid we don’t always play games, but when we do... well you know. OVERALL 4.2

THE OUYA GAME SYSTEM Contacts+ (free) An Android gaming system with a lot to prove. The OUYA is People use their phone for one main reason, to stay in touch with one another, however sometimes the stock looking to start a new gaming sector, but this guy is only $99. texting app or phone book app simply doesn’t cut it. Or Requirements perhaps you’re looking for a new fresh look. Enter Con- Android 2.1 + tacts+, this handy little app comes in and links together 7.7mb free Last year, a project for the Android-powered video from Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo? How well all of your buddies social media accounts and phone SCORE game console “OUYA” (pronounced OOO-yah) does it function as an actual Android device? We number into a new contact book. by David Ruddock usability 4.2 was founded, using Kickstarter to raise funds for have the full review. The good: hundreds of free/ There are many features that this new app allows design 4.5 development costs. Originally asking for $950,000 freemium games. Only $99 for the console and one SPECS you to do, you can send text messages, auto-sync beau- value 4.6 from Kickstarter backers, the project raised over controller. Many games work with other controllers Running Android 4.1 tiful pics to your contacts from Facebook. Contacts+

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