Lagotek integrates iPhone into Z-Wave home automation systems

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The Competition: Google Readies Android 1.6 Donut

Google’s next iteration of their mobile OS, Android 1.6 Donut, is set to give sugar highs again in October, with support for CDMA radios, QVGA and WVGA resolutions, and to quote from sibling site, Android Central:

Android 1.6 ‘Donut’ also brings Quick Search Box for Android which is basically universal search that searches locally on your phone and through the internet at the same time, new text-to-speech APIs, and the beautiful new Android Market we leaked a few weeks ago. There’s also updates to the camera’s interface, improvement to the camera’s loading time (39% faster), and a neat battery usage indicator that details which applications are using the most power.

CDMA support will now doubt make all those longing for an iPhone on Verizon lose their minds just a little bit more. Support for different screen sizes is more of a mixed bag, however. It means device manufacturers will have more form-factor freedom, but it also means developers will have to deal with Windows Mobile- and BlackBerry-style platform fragmentation (either working harder to support all the different screens, or choosing not to support some and increasing confusion for users). iPhone, graphics power aside, hasn’t had to worry about this… yet.

Quick Search, like Palm’s webOS search, going beyond the device to bring back answers from the cloud isn’t something iPhone supports, but is something we hope Apple’s looking into.

Still, it’s great to see Google keeping up with the updates. Anything in there that makes Android more compelling to you?

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The Competition: Google Readies Android 1.6 Donut

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