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Rob Pegoraro of the Washington Post writes:

The company hasn’t said anything specific about the pricing of this bring-your-own-device service and doesn’t plan to until early next year. But McAdam did say that it would offer “very different” pricing for low-bandwidth devices like utility meters.

During the teleconference, Verizon Wireless executives also said that any phone running Google’s Android software would be welcome under this system, as long as it runs on the CDMA standard Verizon and Sprint use. For the same reason, any Sprint phone that passed Verizon’s compatibility testing would also pass muster — but the iPhone, which only works on GSM systems such as AT&T, could not.

Read the rest of the Washington Posts Article, Verizon Wireless To Open Itself Up.

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ZaTelnet makes a professional and light version of telnet/ssh clients for mobile devices.

A light protocol client, designed for network system administrators, end users and web designers, working with Unix/Linux/BSD systems. This new, operating system independent version comes with extended functionalities, including smart phone support, ability to save, restore and edit sessions, floating keyboard, different font sizes, support of all possible display sizes and orientation, any many more.

ZaTelnet Light is a Telnet client for Google Phone. It also emulates terminal VT100 (basically enough for working with Midnight Commander and others console programs).

ZaTelnet Light offers extended opportunities for interface customization, such as full screen mode, different display sizes, 240×240, 240×480, 480×480 and 480×640 screen resolutions, portrait and landscape orientation modes, screen with adjustable size and different font sizes.

ZaTelnet Light boasts a handful of improvements that make remote administration of Unix and other servers via Telnet protocol using mobile devices simpler and more efficient.

Visit ZaTelnet for more information and the source code.

Technorati Tags: Android, Applications, Telnet, SSH, Open-Source, Commercial

Andy Rubin, director of mobile platforms at Google, talked to CNET News.com about Android:

Q: What does Android look like?

A: Google has stepped up on behalf of the alliance to do various components of the support from a developer community perspective. We have a user interface team continuing development on the UI, and there will actually be a replacement UI.

We’ve been building it as a mobile mashup platform. That is a new concept for [mobile] phones. So the developer can now stand on the system platform and take advantage of other developers’ work for the first time. So, that just creates more flexibility for the developers, less work, faster turnaround, rapid prototyping, and all that stuff, and we’re really, really excited about that concept.

Q: Is there a prototype dubbed Dream? Who has it, and when are we going to see it?

A: I actually don’t know where that name come from. That’s been an internal code-name that’s been kicked around here, but it changes quite constantly.

We have manufacturing partners in the alliance, and they’re building products, and Google has been given some of those devices. As part of the SDK, there’s a complete hardware emulator that runs on the PC. It runs on Mac, Windows and Linux. It’s literally a hardware emulator of various devices — you know, different screen formats: horizontal, landscape, or portrait and, with the Qwerty keyboard and without a Qwerty keyboard; with touch, without touch.

Read the rest of the article, Android maker talks mashups and mobiles - ZDNet UK

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