I attended Mobile Barcamp Saturday, November 10th, 2007 - Pace University and there were a few people from Google who presented a session on Android, the new Google Phone (and barcode reader application) platform.  The SDK for Android is being released over the next week and so not that much could be shown.

According to CrunchGear in Old Man Dvorak says ‘the Google phone is doomed’  the Google Phone is doomed, Android is doomed according to John Dvorak.    While I didn’t see any indication of that while listening to Google’s pre-presentation of Android at MobileBarCamp2, I got the distinct impression that very little was presented to me that would be interesting, at least, not at this point.

Based on what’s being presented now – there’s really not much to say – Google is re-writing bar code scanning on mobile devices because it wanted a good open sourced version of that functionality and could not find one. 

Honestly, I tuned out on the rest and decided to leave Barcamp after the Google presentation – it was great yesterday but there was so much input I needed to go and paint.