Four Short Links: 16th March 2010
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DigiTimes is reporting that first shipments of the CDMA version of the Nexus One have left HTC’s factory bound for the US. The handset is rumoured to be launching on the Verizon network on 23rd March and will available to buy direct from Google’s phone store.
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Opera Mini 5 beta - now available to download from the Android Market. Ultra-fast thanks to the fact that it compresses pages server-side before sending them down to your phone, but still seems to have some minor rendering issues to iron out from our time with it so far.
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Tim Bray joins Google as an Android Developer Advocate and straightaway confirms his reputation for controversy with bashing Apple’s vision of the mobile internet. Interesting reading, but when you join a company which claims to do no-evil, it’s maybe not the best idea to badmouth your competitors on the very first day.
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portrays a delayed Nexus One Vodafone launch as a major setback. Google have always maintained that the device will launch with Vodafone in Spring 2010 so an April launch is not a huge delay but it makes good headlines. It is in Google’s interests to get the Nexus One rolled out across more carriers and in more territories as quickly as possible though, and negotiations with carriers are frustratingly slow for those eager to get their hands on the device. The article also states that the Nexus One will be free to anyone willing to sign up for a £35 monthly contract, the first substantial rumour so far on a possible UK price.
