It looks like Davenum has found the first security hole in Android, a quote from the comments:

I’ve tested your code and it seems that content://googleaccounts/accounts/ returns login and hashed password, however content://settings/googlelogin returns login and password in plain text, so basically any application can read your account settings.

Courtesy of Benno who tarballed the actual Android files and Wired for the inspiration we hacked out Google Android's standard font: "Droid".

For those of you interested it's (offcourse) available for download.

According to an exclusive special report now available from TelecomWeb, Google's recently announced "Android" is "just another mobile Linux," rather than any real technical innovation: i.e., no more than a convenient way for the company to pursue its real goal -- to create an advertising delivery system it can control rather than innovating in telecommunications.

Stefano Mazzocchi has written a nice article about how Google routed around Sun's IP-based GPL license on Java ME.

Today Google released the Android code and I took a serious look at its internals... and found the solution for the licensing problem. It's called Dalvik and it's the new name of Sun's worst nightmares.

Technewsworld has an interesting article on whether or not developers are going to build apps for Android. Although the interest amongst mobile developers is hugh, few companies have already started.

The Google strategy

Google has set up a developer challenge with USD 10 million worth of prize money. Android developers submitting their applications between January 2 and March 3, 2008 can have a shot at one of the 70 prizes. In the first round the 50 best are awarded $25,000 for further development of their application. Those selected will then be eligible for even greater recognition via ten $275,000 awards and ten $100,000 awards.

Google is especially looking for innovative, useful apps that make use of Android's capabilities to deliver a better mobile experience. Some suggestions:

Sergey Brin and Steve Horowitz discuss the availability of the SDK, that it will be open source in the future, and demo applications on the Android platform.

Bruce Leak and Timo Bruck from SkyPop demo a couple of their new applications for Android.