We’re on the ground at Google’s campus in Mountain View waiting for that not-so-secretive Nexus One event to start. We’ll be updating this page live with coverage of the event.
09:47AM: We’re seated and ready to go.
09:49AM: Andy Rubin, king of the Android bots is here.
09:52AM: The small venue is filling up and everyone is getting seated. It’s supposed to start in around 7 minutes.
09:53AM: Black Eyed Peas are playing. Save. Us.
09:57AM: We’ve spotted HTC CEO Peter Chou. Why oh why would HTC be here?
09:58AM: The dude next to us just said, “BGR kicks ass.” Thanks, guy.
10:00AM: Said guy who likes BGR is John Siracusa from Ars Technica.
10:01AM: Looks like the event might be running a tad bit late but almost everyone is seated.
10:06AM: Music is down, about to start!
10:07AM: Google VP Mario Carlos is on stage talking about the Open Handset Alliance. Members like NEC, China Telekom and Freescale. He’s also going into the history of the T-Mobile G1.
10:08AM: The myTouch 3G was released a little while after, furthering innovation.
10:09AM: There’s now 20 Android devices on 59 carriers in 48 countries in 19 languages.
10:10AM: Four major software releases from Android in 2009.
10:11AM: “Android is contributing to more and more users getting to the web through their mobile phones. We all know this is happening, we’re doing it ourselves. We see Android users searching the web up to 30x more than they do on a featurephone.” Also, Google has has seen an increase in mobile searches 5x.
10:13AM: From the beginning, they’ve been developer-friendly and have had an open source license, giving the freedom to innovate. He said it enables lower manufacturing costs, and it’s faster to market. “Android architecture allows ‘always on’ applications to run in the background.” Open and free.
10:15AM: The next step in the Android evolution… uh oh, here we go.
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