FRANKFURT/LONDON (Reuters) - British chip designer ARM (ARM.L: Quote, Profile, Research) will demonstrate a prototype of Google Inc’s (GOOG.O: Quote, Profile, Research) Android mobile phone platform in action next week at the world’s biggest wireless fair, a source close to the company said.

Source: Reuters

I’ve played a bit last week with Android, it’s a really promising technology.
It’s a full stack, based on Java, it’s open and it should be really a “write once run everywhere” technology (not like JavaME!).

It’s a big change: they first wrote the OS, the software and then finally they found an hardware to support it. It might really work.

I like to think that the Google team was so frustrated working with J2ME for their (very nice) JavaME apps like GMail and Maps that they suddenly decided to write a full OS to support their ideas.
I remember an old Cédric Beust post about his intense, crazy experience on writing the Gmail app.
Is it only a coincidence that he’s working on Android?

Android offers many things, missed for too many years by Sun on the JavaMe platform.

- Deep phone integration (ability to interoperate between apps, make calls and so on with the phone)
- Ready to use “widgets” like maps
- Pretty nice pattern to write an application: what was a MIDlet in the JavaME world is now and Activity.

- Easy to write apps from any platform (yes, also Mac!)

The battle begins now, I-Phone: closed source, basically only web apps, nice screen with nice features or G-Phone. I can’t predict who’s gonna win but I’m sure that there are some losers on this battle already: Sun Microsystem, Nokia, Microsoft: all the old good companies, unable to make any decent progress in the last years. (where is MIDP3?!!!)

I’ve been very frustrated with the JavaME technology, I hope that Google will change now how things works in the mobile world.

I always used a text file for my todo list, I never found something better than moving lines coping and pasting, nothing so easy and immediate.

I’ve tried for a while tadalist  which is cool since it goes on the web, you can share it, it has an RSS interface, but the usability wasn’t so great.

Yesterday searching for a software that I’ve seen on the Gaz Mac I’ve found another one,  iGTD

The guy says:

You are a busy person, aren’t you? And there’s an easy way to track all things that have to be done… and to get those things done! iGTD takes some concepts from Getting Things Done methodology and makes them easy to understand and use in your every day life. But it’s definitely not limited to the GTD concept - you can really use it the way you want.

It’s simply one of the best Mac Os apps I’ve ever seen, I try to list here what I love of it so far:

• Export to iCal: awesome
• Easy to use, simple, logical, keyboard shortcuts for everything
• Integration with Quick Silver: cool
• Widget, integration with almost all the apps
• It’s free

Are you still reading this? Let’s try it out!

I’m a bit sad about this news, reported here,

What If Apple Has Sold Fewer Than 1 Million iPhones

AT&T (T) announced today that it had only activated 146,000 Apple (AAPL) iPhones the first day that they were on sale. And, investment bank CIBC said that sales of the handset have slowed considerably in the last 10 days. CIBC said that AT&T Wireless stores had plenty of supply and little traffic.

The research call explains that customers are disappointed with Apple’s connection speed. It goes on to speculate that Apple and AT&T may be rushing to get out a 3G device by Christmas.

If the information is accurate, it means that the quarter that will be reported about 90 days from now could be a significant disappointment, and that eyes will be on Apple’s earnings report this week for info on how the device has sold in July.

Douglas A. McIntyre

Especially cos my friend and former team lead, Ed Schepis, is not gonna reach his objectives on his fantastic website, OneMillionIphones

I’ve generated the fortune files from the old good pragmatic tips, in order to use them you need the fortune wordpress widget. And this is the main reason also for the restyling of the layout of my blog… I guess the 4th… My previous theme wasn’t widget compatible… That generated a widget obsession, so I have a flickr and a last.fm widget here on the right now…