Hey there. Farinelli here. So um, the hamsters did in fact revolt again, nearly destroyed the episode but my l33t skills saved it somehow, and I’m basically left to apologize for the volume issues in this episode. You do not want to know what happened while I was working on this episode. And even if you do want to know, I don’t want to tell you. What I will tell you though, is that this week’s episode focuses on the last, newest, and debatably the most promising of the big 4 smartphone OSs – Google Android. Zi Yong from CodeAndroid joins us in sharing with you the pros (what, what cons?) of the Android system – what it has brought to the table, what companies have done, and what will be done with it in the near future. Be sure to catch the next episode as we do a grand wrap-up of what we have discussed in the past four weeks. Guess who’s back.

WANT TO FIGHT? WANT TO FIGHT?!

Daniel, DK, Fari, w/ Zi Yong

Refresh:
[2:20] Windows 7 Upgrade Options
[5:12] Tiny SG made MP3 Player Easy on the Wallet
[7:23] Amazing UK Plug Design
[10:56] Adsense Comes to Mobile
[12:43] MJ’s Death Brings Down Several Websites

[14:40] Android Discussion + HTC Hero

[33:25] BOTW: H1N1 Mask App

Also, we just can’t get enough of Mobile tech news, as shown in this week’s episode where we explore Firefox’s mobile browser that just got released as an alpha, and talk about Android some more. What’s that? The “we-waited-so-long-until-we-didn’t-care-anymore” Palm OS 6 that they promised to release in 2004 (!?) is finally launched as ALP? Right. And moving swiftly along…

Brought to you by Daniel, Farinelli and Hisham

We will not be recording episode 95 of 65bits on the 1st of November 2008 due to Podcamp 2008, although we might have special content releasing that day, so keep checking the site for details! 65bits will be back on the 8th of November! Oh, and do join us at Podcamp Singapore 2008, it’s free!

Stories in this episode:

[00:55] No usual 65bits next week due to Podcamp Singapore 2008

[02:10] X08 at Marina Square and the new Xbox 360 software

[09:25] Mobile FireFox Fennec M9 Alpha, released for all to see how it works

[15:00] Android now TRULY open-source, and code released is downloadable and compilable.

[18:45] Android removed applications just before G1 launch, but puts them back in. They’re not Apple after all…

[20:15] Access debuts ALP 3.0 and ALP mini way overdue. Remember Palm OS 6? Yea, neither do we.

[25:00] Mac Mini stops shipping. Is this good bye, or signs of a new Mac Mini?

[27:00] Byte of the week: XNJB – a graphical user interface for Mac OS X for the Creative Nomad range of portable MP3 players and newer MTP players