Phetsarath is now included in Android

Good news is that I have included Phetsarath font as part of the system wide development. The is display still have some issues with tonemarks and will need to work with the Android to patch the rendering engine of the Android system.
Cheers,

Android 1.5 Lao virtual beyboard map developed

The virtual keyboard for Android is now developed and is working correctly as display in the attached picture.

Khmer on Android 1.5

Recently I has a chance to work with a Khmer friend, Danh Hong, to see if Khmer is supported in Android 1.5. We installed Khmer Opentype font and modified the system to accept the new font. Voila it works as shown here. However there were some issues with Khmer displays such as positions of characters and that vowels were not display correctly. These issues shall be fixed by the Android team where they need to patch the rendering engine of the Android.

Dell to make Android phone

Hardware giant Dell has advanced plans to make an Internet capable handheld device which uses the Google Android operating system.

According to the Wall Street Journal, the machine can't be used as a cellphone but instead falls into a category Intel has been pushing called a mobile internet device (MID).

But Dell won't be following its well worn route of using Intel chips, claims the report. Instead it is likely to use an ARM based chip - that's something of a slap in the face for the chip giant, which faces fiercer competition in this sector from the British based fabless chip company.

The Journal said that Dell started developing the MID last year after it abandoned an attempt to compete with Apple in the iPod sphere.

The report also claimed Dell is working on Android smartphones and is negotiating with different cellular companies to promote the gizmos.

Moblin and Android Developments

Moblin and Android shall be the best Netbooks and Mobile OSes...tweaking internals now so it will include Lao support soon.

OpenOffice with JavaFX

Oracle was the first top-tier IT vendor to announce it was putting its key product - the database - on Linux. The logic was simple: Linux freed Oracle from depending on a single company for operating system - that company was Microsoft.

Taking the baton from Sun Microsystems' co-founder and chairman Scott McNealy at JavaOne this week, Oracle's chief executive Larry Ellison has seen his opportunity for independence again

Ellison threw a curve ball at JavaOne: he revealed he's been secretly meeting Sun's product groups and has decided that he likes JavaFX as an interface architecture. Ellison, ahem, "encouraged" the OpenOffice group to quickly build libraries for the C++-based suite using JavaFX.

This is going to be quite unique...JavaFX is better then what we have in the OpenOffice (look and feel and etc) now.

Complete story from here:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/06/04/ellison_javafx_commitment/

Lao users needgood contents and local language

As far as I am concerned, most operators lacked good contents. Why? I think it is neither cost nor capability. It is because they simply ignored the potential. Most of the vendors here don't seem to care much about Lao language as well. I have developed the first version of Lao language mobile and users seemed to react positively but they want more options- who can provide them?
Most of the mobile phone, nowadays, having only Thai and other languages but sad not having Lao support.
Operators, too, are not thinking about utilizing the full potential of mobile phones as well. Most contents as I observed are capable of downloading ringtones, music, some video clips....they want more.

I am working with the officials at the NAPT to do more..policy and pusing the operators to pay more attention. I hope that users can get more contents with the local language support within not long distance.

Cheers!