Android

According to BoyGenius…  

AndroLib, the definitive tracker of Android applications, claims the Android Market has surpassed the 50,000 application milestone. This figure is unofficial as Google has been reticent to disclose actual numbers. During its recent earnings call, Google said it was aware of 38,000 applications, although the accuracy of the figures came into question as they were calculated at an undisclosed time. Last month alone, the Android Market was said to have grown by 9,330 apps. True, the Android Market still has a ways to go before it can rival Apple’s App Store in terms of the sheer number of applications offered, but this is some mighty impressive growth nonetheless. Love it or hate it, there is no denying that the little green robot is currently hotter than Hansel.Read

OK,  Anyone have a way to tell what hardware is being used when a ROM from a different Android device is used?

I would really like to have the Linpack list show the hardware being used and what performance can be expected.  But people are loading all sorts of ROMs onto their devices.  It’s hard to tell what is what. 

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

If you noticed the Linpack runs for a device showing up as verizon/aloha/aloha/aloha:2.1-update1/ERE27/eng.lge.20100329.223627:user/release-keys. 

So, is this the new LG C710? 

According to Androidcommunity.com this might actually be the phone.
It did reasonably well at 7.113 MFLOPS.

The over the air update from Verizon for the Droid has started. 
The first posting of the Linpack number for the new Android 2.1 comes from “triton”, who’s Droid scored a 4.659 on Linpack.
His/Her post doesn’t show up on the device list because of all the overclocker/modders.  Maybe I should start a “stock” listing too.  Anyway, congrats to triton for being the first.

If you are itching to get the latest update and you don’t want to wait, see the AndroidandMe post on “How to manually install Android 2.1 for Droid“

I was initially a big fan of Cyrket, but it went south a few months back when Google blocked some of it’s app discovery on the Android Market.  I recently found AppBrain and having only used it for a day, I love it.  This is something Google should have done from the beginning.  Having the best search engine in the world and a brain-dead market on the web just doesn’t make sense.  At least AppBrain is taking up the slack now. 

What is cool too is some of the Android Market analysis they have done.  I was surprised by really how few developers for Android there really is: “ In total there were 28,936 apps created by 7,429 developers. Even though the average number of apps per developer was just 3.9, there were 32 developers who launched more than 100 apps in the Android Market. The number of developers grouped by their number of apps launched is shown in the figure below.”