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Video: Global Android Activations – Visualized

Nick Gray — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 20:00:05 +0000

Over the past two years we’ve shared countless numbers, charts, and graphs which gave a clear picture of Android staggering growth. For a while Google’s been touting their daily new handset activation numbers, but numbers along are pretty hard to visualize. In an attempt to give us a better idea of what those numbers really look like, Google has posted a new YouTube clip on their AndroidDevelopers channel which shows daily handset activations across the globe since the initial launch of the T-Mobile G1.

Watching the video, it’s pretty clear that the launch of the Motorola DROID and Samsung Galaxy S have both had a tremendous impact on the adoption rate of Android devices. It’s pretty clear that Android has grown exponentially over the past few year and there’s no sign that Android growth will be slowing down any time soon.

Record And Share Videos To YouTube With The T-Mobile G1 (VIDEO)

Taylor Wimberly — Fri, 01 May 2009 23:58:30 +0000

After months of patiently waiting, the Android 1.5 Cupcake update has finally begun rolling out to T-Mobile G1 customers. We reported last week that the new version would include a video recorder with support for uploading your videos to YouTube. It sounds like a cool idea, but what is the video quality like?

We asked some of readers to send in their videos and you can find the results below. As you can see, the video quality is decent. However, the frame rates are low and the picture quality really suffers in low light situations. Basically, it looks comparable to the cheapest webcam you could find at Walmart.

Seeing how this is a new feature that did not originally ship with the phone, it is a welcome addition. Hopefully the performance can be tweaked over time. We have seen improvements to the camera and I expect we will have some apps in the market soon that improve upon the default video recorder.

There is no doubt that the camera is one of the G1′s weak points. Some might excuse it, but we deserve more from high end phones. Thankfully, we have quite a few Android devices hitting later this year that will address this issue. We also have high hopes for Sony Ericsson with their 12.1MP camera and LG with their 120 fps camera.

If you would like to share your G1 video uploads with us, please post a comment below.

Every G1 owner now has a YouTube account.

Doom Ported To Android. Quake…

Taylor Wimberly — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 06:00:49 +0000

Our friend shinobiwan23 sent over this video of the new Doom port for Android. It was created by Vladimir Slava who also released several other Android apps. This comes just on the heels of our Android Bounty II announcement. We are hard at working lining up some devs to take on the project of porting Quake to the Android platform. Thank you to everyone who has donated. We have doubled the Bounty size from the first run and I think we can keep it growing. More details to follow.

[Video via YouTube]

Here is one more video I found from YouTuber Carboman23. In his video, he shows a little more information on setting up the controls.