Google postponed release of Android

29th February 2008

Google has announced two postpones at once. Firstly, the appearance of promising mobile platform Android is postponed for several weeks because of the necessity to make last changes, and secondly in connection with the postpone they put off till nearly a month the start of the competition for the support of the best applications Android Developer Challenge with a fund of $ 10 million, as Android SDK is slightly delayed. This means that the developers of mobile applications will have about a month to study iPhone SDK, which would be released later this month. According to Google, forced postpone is the result of connection with users, because of which the company made a significant update of SDK. Because of the later appearance of SDK, deadline for presenting the applications on participation in Android Developer Challenge is extended from March 3 till April 14. In May 5, Google will announce 50 most promising projects, selling them to developers for $ 25000. In June 30, these 50 candidates will be able to present applications for getting awards at the amount of $ 275000 or $ 100000. The finalists will be announced in July 21. Despite of the pending release of the final version of Android SDK, the current version is still available for download at the site of the competition.