Android 3.0′s Surprise Appearance

The pad looks bigger than 7″. It looks thin and rather unadorned right now, but this likely isn’t the final industrial design, so let’s just not worry too much about that. He seemed proud that it had no buttons on it, though, so I’m guessing that’s final.

I wonder what the CPU is — not an ARM SoC, since the graphics wouldn’t be discrete like that. A new dual-core Atom? Or something new, something custom? Accoring to Andy Rubin, it is a “new” processor, and for that matter a “new” screen, so it could be anything, and the screen might be different from the current crop. (as commenters point out, it’s likely that this it is running a Tegra 2 and Rubin was simply not describing it well)

Here are a few screenshots.

As for the price? TBD. Unless you want to buy the prototype, about which Rubin said “literally, this thing is probably like ten thousand dollars.”

Google Launches Chrome OS

Google made a special announcements about the long-awaited Chrome OS at 12/7/2010

Fully live blog from http://mashable.com: http://mashable.com/2010/12/07/chrome-os-launch/

Some highlights:

10:55 a.m. Pichai talked about the Chrome Web Store, which he says is intended to connect developers — especially small, independent devs — and end users.

11:05 a.m. Eva Manolis and David Limp, two Amazon VPs, talked about two new apps for the Web Store.

11:55 a.m. Google CEO Eric Schmidt is now on stage giving a big-picture talk about Moore’s law and the LAMP stack. “It took us all of this work to get to this point where a modern browser could emerge in the form of Chrome.”

This is big new for Chrome community

My new phone

I received my new phone last night. A cool Samsung's Captivate, a Galaxy S Android smartphone for AT&T.

I was hesitating about getting this phone because of some of the complaints about it. This is my first smartphone and it is SO easy to use!

It does take a bit to realize that this thing can be setup any way you want it. I'm not a big fan of apple products beside the IPOD nano that is wonderful, but having to buy an add on for my media player just to sync to it is just silly. No I tunes please. that brings up the best thing about this phone. It is compatible with everything, and you don't have to buy everything. Free apps.

However, I plan to buy a spare battery and keep that charged (can't do that with an iphone). Other than that, this phone is pretty good!