(via VIA bringt den Android PC – Hands-On Video › Netbooknews - Mobile Computing Blog)

While I always liked VIA (mostly because they have always been an underdog) I don’t think that this thing is more promising than the Raspberry Pi - it’s only ARM11, too. If you are waiting for a cheap ARM Cortex A8 based similar system, wait for the recently surfaced but now sold out USB stick like Boxchip A10 based systems.

Android made Java-free thanks to 'XobotOS' project, but what are the legal implications? | The Verge

Just in case you missed the existence of XobotOS, it’s ‘monofied’ Android. While it looks like an emergency exit in case of a lost Oracle vs. Google case, it might not be as legally safe as it appears to be, given the concurrence between Microsoft and Google..

(via Tizen on Samsung Galaxy SII HD - Gallery, Live Call and Video)

This is an impressive demo of Tizen on real world hardware, aka the Galaxy SII HD LTE which is available in the shops in South Korea and the USA. Don’t be mistaken by the Galaxy SII branding - this device has a 4.65” Super Amoled HD (1280x720px) (just like the Galaxy Nexus) and is powered by a 1.5 GHz dual core Qualcomm Snapdragon S3 chip - in fact, resolution and SoC are similar to the Sony XPERIA S.

BTW, the HP Touchpad uses a close relative of this SoC (almost the same, but no GSM/3.5G hardware) this performance seems even more impressive - if the TouchPad had performed this well, it likely wouldn’t have failed so badly.

Tiny-Droid: Installing Android On The HP Veer (by pocketnowvideo)

This is really interesting: A port of Android to webOS hardware. Surely, most HP/Open webOS enthusiasts would totally prefer this happening the other way round, but still it’s great to see an almost working port created by nice folks from China. The best bit: You’ve got the good old webOS gestures!

If you want to install this on your HP Veer (it does not replace webOS (dual boot installation), check the above linked source of the video or the project page.

Something I missed: Some Tizen devices will be able to run Android apps, thanks to a compatability layer by Open Mobile. This likely won’t be a feature on every Tizen device, as it’s likely one of the few proprietary solutions to achieve that that have been shown with webOS, Maemo and MeeGo before. Unfortuntely the creators of these solutions always tried to sell it to device makers (OEMs), and none aside from BlackBerry (on the Playbook) decided to something like that yet with their devices (likely to get people to develop for their own platform.

Lenovo A750 (MT6575) support thread - ACER Users / ETEN Users Forum

This is the most helpful information regarding the Lenovo A750 I have found yet. Check it out if you are interested in the Lenovo A750.

Tizen on Samsung’s First Prototype Device (by TheHandheldBlog)

I am still not quite sure what to think of Tizen. On the one hand, it’s yet another HTML5 infused mobile OS (just like webOS/Open webOS and Mozilla’s boot2gecko) on the other hand, it is backed by two mayor hardware players (Intel&Samsung) and built around the Enlightenment UI framework, which for a long time showed of really efficient, good looking demos and almost no applications for real world use. And then Tizen is the lovechild of MeeGo and LiMo, two open source platform efforts which never really made a much of an impact on the market.

This video shows a demo unit showing of rather horrible Samsung UI. At this point, I would really like to see a merger of Open webOS and Tizen efforts, as HP/Palm has proven that they can do better than this in terms of UI concepts and UX design.

Ubuntu for Android - Two Kinds of Linux On Your Phone (by webmink)

Android, about 6 years ago

You can so totally see that this was pre-iPhone age

Oracle vs Google

Florian Müller, anti-software-patent activist on the ongoing case, whether Google has actually infringed Oracles Java Patents with Android.

*Just kidding: If Android is being banned from market, there might be a real world market chance for Tizen, Boot2Gecko and Open webOS… or maybe Nokia is bought because of its Maemo/MeeGo assets.