Android events for March

Device Launches:

• AT&T Motorola Backfliip: AT&T’s first Android phone goes on sale March 7, 2010 for $199 (plus $100 mail in rebate) with 2 year contract. The phone will feature Yahoo search instead of Google and it only ships with Android 1.5. Motorola should eventually upgrade the phone to Android 2.1, but users will be missing out on a lot of newer apps that require Android 1.6 or greater. AT&T is going to launch at least five Android phones this year, so we suggest waiting till next month to see what other choices might be available.
• T-Mobile Motorola CLIQ XT: Motorola’s second Android phone for T-Mobile is exactly like their first (minus the keyboard). The CLIQ XT goes on sale March 10, 2009 for $129 with 2 year contract. Leaked information from Best Buy claims the phone could be as cheap as $99 with a 2 year contract. This is the cheapest T-Mobile has debuted an Android phone at, so you get what you pay for. Not to the hammer the point, but a new T-Mobile customer could also grab the Nexus One for $179 with 2 year contract.
• Rumors: Look for a possible Verizon announcement about the Nexus One on March 23, the first day of CTIA.

Events:

• Game Developers Conference: This year’s GDC takes place in San Francisco from March 9-13. Google is sponsoring the event and handing out Droid and Nexus One phones to all the developers. I think we could see a couple big studios announce Android plans and maybe an update on the Unreal Engine.
• SXSW Interactive: South by Southwest is a set of interactive, film, and music festivals that take place in Austin, TX every spring. The Interactive conference will run from March 12-16. There are quite a few sessions on Android this year with several being hosted by Google. Eric Tseng will be talking about the Nexus One launch in a panel called, “What We’ve Learned About Mobile in the Last Two Months”. A Google Hackathon will also take place that provides a hands-on workshop where attendees will be able to build apps. We are hoping to attend, but there has been some issues with our press passes (oh I’ll find a way in).
• CTIA: This is the big one. CTIA is the international association of all the big carriers and they will all make a strong appearance at this show. Las Vegas, NV hosts the event from March 23-35. I expect to see new devices from HTC, Motorola, and Samsung headed for AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Verizon. We just attended the last CTIA in San Diego and I’ve had my fill of Vegas for the year, so we are skipping this show (so we can do others like SXSW and Google I/O).

Podcasts:

• Android and Me podcast: Clark and I are trying to do a weekly show every Wednesday at 3 PM EST on BlogTalkRadio. The show format varies from week to week and we try to keep it under 2 hrs. We have had our issues with BTR, but we are going to stick it out awhile longer and see if we can help them get live shows working on Android phones.
• AndroidGuys weekly podcast: The AndroidGuys podcast is still broadcast live every Monday night at their new time 10:00 PM EST. The podcast is hosted by Scott Webster of AndroidGuys.com and a collection of other guys (and gals) from Androinica.com, HTCSource.com, TmoNews.com, and a few others. I try to join the show as often as possible and we always have a great time.

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Android events for February

AndroidGuys weekly podcast: The AndroidGuys podcast is still broadcast live every Monday night at 10:30 EST. The podcast is hosted by Scott Webster of AndroidGuys.com and a collection of other guys (and gals) from Androinica.com, HTCSource.com, TmoNews.com, and a few others. I try to join the show as often as possible and we always have a great time.

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Android Developer Labs: Google will host a series of developer labs all over the world in February and March. The events are designed so that developers can hear about the state of the Android platform, get hands-on with the latest version of the SDK, meet like-minded Android engineers, play with the latest Android devices, test their apps, and ask questions directly to Android team members.

We will be attending the Austin, TX lab on February 4 so let us know if you are going.

Mobile World Congress: This is one of the largest global conferences for mobile technology and business. We expect to see a number of new Android phones announced from HTC, Motorola, Samsung, and more. Our sister site And.roid.es will be providing coverage in Spanish and hopefully some videos in English for our readers.

Android Developers on IRC: Some of the Android engineers still join IRC every Thursday night to answer your development questions. Please post your questions on Stack Overflow with “from-irc” tag in addition to “android” tag one day before office hours. They will follow up on those specific questions during office hours, and will also post answers after.

FOSDEM 2010: Developer-oriented Free and Opensource conference in Europe, is taking place in Brussels, Belgium on Saturday 6 and Sunday 7 February 2010. Apart from having many invited speakers, the conference offers developer rooms, stands and lightning talks to projects from the Free and Opensource community. This results in a staggering number of 250+ lectures!

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