It’s just a few semantic steps from icon to saint to death. A couple of weeks ago (in the previous post, in fact) I called the Nexus One iconic. Now arises the question: should Google kill the Nexus One? Early responses to the question (over at GigaOm) tend toward the emphatic no. Some emphasize that [...]
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The Iconic Nexus One
Nexus One, this is your day. You the phone. You the Google phone, and you got the URL to prove it: http://www.google.com/phone/.
Android Fonts Elsewhere
I’d like this blog to look Androidesque, and not only on an Android. One way of getting the Androidesque aspect is using Droid fonts on all platforms. One step toward that is using TypeKit. TypeKit is a web service that allows you access to hundreds of fonts for your websites. The Droid fonts are available, [...]
Android Green: A Palette-able Color
The Android icon is a specific shade of green: #A4C639 (source: brand guidelines). It’s already referred to as Android Green (source/example: Wikipedia). I tweaked the theme of this blog to use that very green for the blog title. I mean the main theme, PrimePress; I’ve yet to touch the mobile theme. That got me thinking [...]
Droid Fonts
Before Droid was the name of an Android phone from Verizon and Motorola, it was the name of this collection of fonts. These fonts are available under the Apache license. There will be more about this license, and Android’s use of it, in a future post; for now, I’ll just remark that it’s a free [...]
Phones
It’s time to recognize that Android is for phones, rather than being an excuse for an icon. I’ve had a T-Mobile G1 since September. Brief review so far: good phone, in terms of the device itself and in terms of service from T-Mobile; useful for checking email, and for some other webby things; decent camera; [...]
Many Other Androids
This badge, also from the official goodies page, generates unique Androids until you mouse over.
The One, but not The Only
Here’s the Android, from android.com’s Images and Goodies page. There are many other android images. Some of them show this android, in different poses or in action (e.g., skateboarding). Some show other androids. Some are rather older than the Android platform. For example… The Android Icon of All Time award doesn’t go to the android [...]