They may be smart, but they are clueless when it comes to giving catchy names to their concepts.
Golfzilla? Godzilla playing golf? Yeah, I guess that's the reason some people get to keep their jobs helping these chaps come up with decent-sounding product names.
While we don't know when the first Android phone will be coming, there are already a whole bunch of developers writing software for the upcoming open source platform. We wrote about Enkin when Andy Rubin, the man heading Android at Google, was in Singapore last month. Enkin is basically an app written by a couple of college students that combines the use of the phone's camera with a GPS chip to provide a different experience in satellite navigation.
Golfzilla isn't that cool, but it lets you play golf on Google Maps with the option to select the country and the course. So instead of fancy 3D graphics, you are actually playing as if you were on the ground, but from a bird's eye view. The final release of Golfzilla is expected to be available at the end of 2008 and will support P2P battle mode using GTalk. That's pretty much in line with the expected launch of Android.
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