An Array of devices based on the Android

Android is being used to build a greater variety of devices and is becoming ever so popular amongst manufacturers. Here is a list of products that will liven up the holiday spirit in you!

The Sphero is a totally new game platform transforming a smartphone into a robot controller. The physically present ball becomes the object of a game on iOS or Android handsets. Sphero has whipped up many interesting application ideas. The Sumo is the first app for the ball.  Others like Office Golf, Ambient Data, Cat App etc are just some other ideas for developer use. It operates on Orbotix’s open source API

An upcoming Google Maps Android version: It adds a new vector-based map drawing system, which appeared to improve speed and map flexibility. As one manipulated the map with fingers, it changed from a flat map to a three-dimensional outline of the roads and buildings.

Tablets “represent a fundamental change in the way computing works.” By allowing users to interact with them physically, tablets have, “removed a degree of abstraction.”

At a mobile conference, an Android “Honeycomb” tablet was made public for the very first time. The nearly 10-inch Motorola device is sleek, dark, thin, and sports an Android interface never seen before. It had a very clean homepage, but the app page mimicked the Apple iPad. The Gmail application, also looked the same as the iPad. Costing around $10,000, it was running on an Nvidia dual core CPU (presumably a Tegra).