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Motorola Remains Independent, No Necessary Nexus in Future

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<img alt="" class="aligncenter" height="250" mce_src="http://img220.imageshack.us/img220/3166/googlenexusslive25580x4.jpg" src="http://img220.imageshack.us/img220/3166/googlenexusslive25580x4.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; clear: both; color: #444444; display: block; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 640px;" title="google_nexus_s_live_25-580x447" width="324" />While Google’s purchase of the Motorola group may mean many things for Google, especially along the lines of patents, Motorola will, if Andy Rubin and Motorola’s Sanjay Jha are to be trusted, still act as a separate company. In addition, Rubin has doubly assured the Android public that the next Nexus device coming from Google will not necessarily be a Motorola device, and that Motorola “will be part of that bidding process” but will not necessarily be a certain lock-in.</div>
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As it’s clear that every real hardcore Android fan’s true love of Android is shown in their wanting to see the next Nexus device, Andy Rubin released a set of words noting how it should be clear to everyone that Google’s acquisition of Motorola does not mean Motorola will be given any special favors:</div>
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“We have this lead device strategy, that strategy has worked quite well to help focus the team. What we do is select, around Christmas time each year, a manufacturer that we work very closely with to release a device in that timeframe, and that includes also some essential companies and all the components that go into the device. And essentially all the teams huddle together in one building, they jointly work and these development efforts go on for 9-12 months, and ultimately at the holiday season or right before it the devices pop out that are based on this effort.”</div>
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- Andy Rubin</div>
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Publicly, as in sitting right alongside the official release of the acquisition of Motorola by Google, manufacturers Samsung, Sony Ericsson, HTC, and LG, have appeared rather positive about the deal:</div>
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“We welcome today’s news, which demonstrates Google’s deep commitment to defending Android, its partners, and the ecosystem.”<br style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; line-height: 1.5;" />– J.K. Shin President, Samsung, Mobile Communications Division</div>
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“I welcome Google‘s commitment to defending Android and its partners.”<br style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; line-height: 1.5;" />– Bert Nordberg President & CEO, Sony Ericsson</div>
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“We welcome the news of today‘s acquisition, which demonstrates that Google is deeply committed to defending Android, its partners, and the entire ecosystem.”<br style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; line-height: 1.5;" />– Peter Chou CEO, HTC Corp.</div>
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“We welcome Google‘s commitment to defending Android and its partners.”<br style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; line-height: 1.5;" />– Jong-Seok Park, Ph.D, President & CEO, LG Electronics Mobile Communications Company</div>
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What we’re looking at here instead will be Google acquiring a strong and significant patent portfolio, one that Motorola has very recently suggested that it was (and is) in a strong position to be on the patent offensive in the very near future. We can guess here that Google will now be able to hopefully defend itself against the current patent war going on in the streets.</div>
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Motorola Remains Independent, No Necessary Nexus in Future

While Google’s purchase of the Motorola group may mean many things for Google, especially along the lines of patents, Motorola will, if ...

Nexus S in Space at 100,000 FT – with Android Toy!

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You might be aware that a few days ago some students from the University of California teamed up with Google Engineers to send a Nexus S into space. What you might not know is there’s super cute video to go with – and what went into space with the handset? At least one cute little vinyl plastic Android toy – Hooray! Check out the full video of this fun team jamming payloads 100,000 ft above the earth, handsets running Google Maps for Mobile 5.0, Google Sky Map, Latitude, and the teams own custom sensor logging app.<br />
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Google Engineers worked with UCSC student Greg Klein of a crew of students to prep each foam cooler encased payload. On each rig is a nylon load line attached to the cooler and to a radar reflector, a parachute, and a weather balloon. Each rig also has an APRS transmitter attached to a GPS and batteries for power. After that, each rig was different. Some had digital cameras for taking pics and some had video cameras mounted at different angles (up, down, and at the horizon.)<br />
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The apps running on each Nexus S going up with these balloons did the following:<br />
<i><b>Google Maps for Mobile 5.0</b></i> with offline data to see what was directly below the balloon.<br />
<i><b>Google Sky Map</b></i> to see if they could identify the real stars in the backdrop.<br />
<i><b>Latitude</b></i> to report location when the phones had a data connection.<br />
<i><b>A custom sensor logging app</b></i> that sampled all available sensors on the device.<br />
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And then there were the super cute toys! If you don’t know which toys these are, take a look at <a href="http://androidcommunity.com/snowman-android-toy-spurs-wallpaper-for-iphone-20101222/" target="other">this post</a> which’ll give you a full rundown. You can take a full peek at a video of how each of the packages were prepared here:<br />
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What did they find? LOTS! Each of the boxes collected a pack of data, several of them reached pretty freaking high altitudes. The highest altitude one of these packages reached was 107,375 ft., over 20 miles high, “or over three times the height of an average commercial jet.” The fastest one of these packs went was 139 mph. Additional data is thus (straight from the Google mouth):<br />
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<blockquote>In tracking the sensors on each of the phones, we observed that the GPS in Nexus S could function up to altitudes of about 60,000 ft. and would actually start working again on the balloon’s descent. We also saw that Nexus S could withstand some pretty harsh temperatures (as low as -50˚C). Some interesting data we collected:<br />
Maximum Speed: 139 mph<br />
Maximum Altitude: 107,375 ft (over 20 miles, over 30 km)<br />
Maximum Ascent Rate: 5.44 m/s<br />
Average Flight Duration: 2 hours, 40 minutes<br />
Average Descent Time: 34 minutes</blockquote><br />
After analyzing the data they collected, the group found the speed and altitude of the jet stream: approximately 130mph and 35,000 ft! After each of the packages reached their top height, they of course came crashing down – but every single package was recovered (including one they sent up last week as a test.) Good job!<br />
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If you’d like to see an extended gallery of images from the launch, head over to <a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/116887554964117158278/AndroidInSpace?authkey=Gv1sRgCPPZ_8yezZffkAE&feat=directlink" target="other">Picasaweb</a>. If you’d like to launch your own similar project, head over to <a href="http://android.hibal.org/" target="other">http://android.hibal.org/</a> and tell us how it goes!<br />
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[<a href="http://googlemobile.blogspot.com/2010/12/android-in-spaaaace.html" target="other">Via</a> Google Mobile Blog]

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