Archive for April, 2009

Unboxing Google’s Android Developer Phone 1

Wednesday, April 29th, 2009

 

At last the day came and Google’s Android Developer Phone 1 arrived. I had been waiting for it like kid waits for Christmas day for presents. I had been following the Fedex shipment ever since I got the tracking number. I should say it was weird experience all the way. First, the tracking number provided two shipment details, so I was asked to pick one of them. Surprisingly, one shipment was a past order which had been delivered already last month. It has never happened to me earlier. So, today when I went to pick up my parcel from doorman, I found that it contained wrong apartment number on it. Nope, it wasn’t shipper issue, probably earlier doorman did it by mistake but it was another weird sign, I should say.:)

So, like anxious child, I started unwrapping the package. It seemed light compared to other phone packages I have received. As I opened it, it was rather plain packaging, a white box with no writing or advertisement on it. Suddenly, my thought went to Iphone and it’s packaging.

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Electronic Medical Records: Good, Bad and Ugly

Tuesday, April 28th, 2009

Today, while browsing the web, i came across a blog entry titled ” Electronic Medical Records: Hazardous to Your Health? “. It had interesting viewpoint regarding Electronic Medical Records and one of commentors on the post also had interesting point of view. I would say the title of the post was quite shockingly attractive.

Electronic Medical Records have been hot point of discussion lately ever since Obama administration is proposing around $30 billion to digitize individual’s medical records(everything and not limited to charts, scans), history …. accessible from anywhere. As everything and every technology, Electronic Medical Records have their good, bad and ugly. It depends on whose perspective it is viewed on.

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First Android netbook to cost about $250

Monday, April 27th, 2009

New Android devices news are pouring in. Earlier, Samsung announced its first Android handset, now Guangzhou Skytone Transmission Technologies Co has annouced availability of first netbook Alpha 680 to run Android mobile operating systems within three months.
According to the article in Computerworld , Alpha 680 uses an ARM11 CPU running at 533 MHz, which is also used in Iphone and Iphone Touch devices. The Alpha 680 will have a 7-in. LCD screen at 800 by 480 pixels, 128MB of DDR2 RAM (expandable to 256 MB) and a 1GB solid-state disk (SSD) drive (expandable to 4 GB, though users can also add storage through the SD card or two USB ports). It will also have built-in Wi-Fi, keyboard and touch pad.

The device is is currently in testing, and final prototypes will be ready by June.
Looking forward to the device ……

Samsung announces its first Android handset

Monday, April 27th, 2009

Today, Samsung officially joined the manufacturers of android handsets. The company annouced its first Android handset. The handset will be launched in Europe in June. The rumors were available on Engadget Mobile site but it has now been officially confirmed. The handset I7500 will feature 3.2 AMOLED screen with WIFI, GPS, 5 megapixel camera and standard 3.5mm headset jack.It will feature quad-band GSM, tri-band 7.2Mbps HSDPA (900/1700/2100MHz).

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Android Cupcake update available for Google Dev Phone 1

Monday, April 27th, 2009

I recently found out that Android Cupcake update is available for Google Dev Phone 1 from HTC. I can’t wait for my dev phone to arrive and install the cupcake update. I have been excited about cupcake update for awhile now. This update is just available for Google Dev phone 1 only so Tmobile G1 users will have to wait for it. Another reason for going to Dev Phone rather than phone from carrier :)

Thanks Talk Android for the news.

For details about the Cupcake details and download visit HTC site

iPhone vs. Android development

Sunday, April 26th, 2009

As I was looking for articles comparing android vs iphone development, I came across blogger Ed Burnette and his post titled “iPhone vs. Android development”. The author shares his experiences during his 5 day course on Iphone programming by Joe Conway from Big Nerd Ranch. The post was insightful and very informative. The author is quite knowledgable in Android Development and has even written a book titled “Hello, Android: Introducing Google’s Mobile Development Platform”.
The blog post is available at http://blogs.zdnet.com/Burnette/?p=682

Developer’s Dilemma: Android vs Iphone

Sunday, April 26th, 2009

What should a developer thinking of venturing into mobile development go for? Android or Iphone? Both are interesting choice of platforms and decision i think would depend on the individual. I have been thinking of venturing into mobile development for past couple of months(infact since mid last year). Since i got busy with my day job  last year, i could spend time about choice of platform. Now i have little breathing time, so i would like to make a choice of platform. Below is my version of comparison between Android and Iphone. Please note these are my views and not everyone will agree to it.

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What is Health Informatics…, what is the fuss about?

Saturday, April 25th, 2009

Health Informatics term has become a common term lately within all people not just people concerned with healthcare industry or information technology. So what is Health Informatics? Is this something new?or it has been there and just lately it has got more attention? It depends on who you ask?  If you google the term “Health Informatics”, then one links to wikipedia article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_informatics)  provides an interesting insight into Health Informatics. I was surprised to find that Health Informatics began as early as 1950s in US.

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Welcome to Android Medical Applications- Is it the Future?

Friday, April 24th, 2009

Hi,

This blog is created to discuss android medical applications. Will android medical applications be the future of health informatics?

After ten years, i am excited again about some technology which could be future. Ten years ago, i along with couple of my friends had an idea about e-prescriptions where a doctor could write prescription right from their handheld devices and send it to pharmacy. There were very few handheld devices (major vendor was Palm) and wireless internet was not that popular at that time. I had bought couple of development books for Palm, we did proof of concept. But, then all of us got busy with our day jobs and it never went ahead.

Android looks like promising platform and especially coming from company like Google, it will make an impact. Also, around this time health informatics is getting more attention than earlier,  developing android applications for medicine domain could be interesting venture.

This blog will provide my thoughts /views on android platform, health informatics and developing medical applications for android platform.