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OMS – Open Mobile System, is based on Android, customized by China Mobile. There are a few rumored phones that would run OMS. Today, at the mmarket (mobile market for China Mobile), I found 2 OMS phones at
the registration page.

Dopod A6188, 320×480, internal GPS, 3.2MP camera. (Dopod is the brand which HTC sells phones in China).

Borqs JadeSpring. Borqs is the company which customized Android to be OMS Seems like a secret phone for now. In Chinese, it means 玉春… ? Sounds weird…

Truly interesting!

Android Shogun Android, Mobile Android, China Mobile, OMS

I’ve got hundreds of emails regarding my Android NPR Podcasts app.
Most of them are saying great things about it. Many also send in comments and suggestions, and of course, bug reports.

As of now, the Android SDK has been updated to support 1.5 (Cupcake) version. However, I don’t have a phone that’s running 1.5 yet. So there will be some strange bugs which I cannot really debug until my G1 is provisioned with Cupcake. Rumor has it that T-mobile is rolling out the OTA update starting this week. So let’s hope it comes real soon.

Here are a few email excerpts from the app users:

“This a very cool app and I miss it terribly. Tomorrow is another round of car talk and wait, wait, don’t tell me. My kids and I listen to it together at bedtime saturday nights off of my g1. This was only possible because of your app.
Thank you for developing it.
A family and fans”

Wow great! I don’t even know this app can be part of your family quality time It’s so nice to know!

“Thank you for a great app, I just love NPR!”

Yes, me too

“First, let me just say that I absolutely LOVE this app! My comp is broken right now so this is the only way I have to get any podcasts. Really glad you made it.”

No problem! G1 is a mini-computer! ^_^

“Inside of the application you already have a setting menu, it shows you thought ahead and acknowledge the grandiouse task the project would be. You showed great insight into a future of a tremendous app by already creating what you had! ”

Hehe, that’s flattering, but I will take it

“Hi, I love the NPR android ap – thank you.”

Same here!

“Thanks for developing this program- I love being able to access the podvasts via my phone!”

That’s the power of Android!!!

There are many many more appreciation emails and very constructive comments and suggestions! I thank you all for the support and I will keep making the app better little by little.

Android Shogun Android email, feedback, NPR Podcasts, user

As I slowly figuring out the ins and outs of Android, I’ll getting more updates out on my apps on the Market. Tonight I updated the NPR Podcasts app w/ built-in Music Player:

It’s actually pretty easy, you pass the Uri of the MP3 file to your intent, and fire it off. The system will broadcast that intent and a suitable Music Player will be chosen, or the user will be prompted to choose one if there are multiple available players registered to play the “audio/*” mine type.

Here’s the little codes:

Intent intent = new Intent();
intent.setAction(android.content.Intent.ACTION_VIEW);
intent.setDataAndType(Uri.fromFile(file), "audio/*");
context.startActivity(intent);


The app is updated on the Market now. Download and enjoy!

Android Shogun Android, Mobile Market, Music Player, NPR

EverythingPre is running a contest to give out one of 10 Palm Pres

Here’s my photo entry:

G1 and iPhone, trying hard to be Palm Pre

Head over to their contest page here

Android Shogun Mobile, Palm webOS contest, Palm Pre, webOS