Create an Android category and create a new Android blog. You can definitely leverage traffic from Rimarkable by writing the occasional post about Android here and then linking to your more in depth content on the Android specific blog.

Except for the iTards. Sorry, I couldn’t resist.

…So the wider the coverage, the better.

I think as one of the first people to get one (3 months b4 release to anyone) I have put more time into this device than consoles, laptops, or any other personal electronic item. The possibilities are there. And I have been psyched about how many ways programmers will be able to take advantage of this phones vast strengths. I think these phones have been in a higher demand than could have been predicted and can’t wait til it becomes another standard that has great services like this one on the public market that bring to light intelligent ideas that find their way into even more intelligent innovations.
It would be a good idea.

“For example, if you were to be an Android blog that would try to cover everything Android, you would have stiff competition from existing blogs and your expenditure of resources on maintaining the blog would NOT differentiate you all that much from them. “

What you could offer to the blog reading community is perspective on the Android platform from where you are an expert at: the Blackberry platform. Perhaps striking a deal with another Android blog and cross-posting could work. But, I really don’t know how the economics of blogging works.

If you were to start another Android blog, try having a focus that is unique from the other Android blogs so that you can differentiate yourself from them. For example, if you were to be an Android blog that would try to cover everything Android, you would have stiff competition from existing blogs and your expenditure of resources on maintaining the blog would differentiate you all that much from them. The ROI looks dim, in other words.

However, if you were to create an Android blog that focused on, for example, comparing Android to other smartphone platforms and had posts showing Android’s advantages and disadvantages as well as work-arounds for the disadvantages, then you could cover news like new apps or firmwares issued by Android developres yet also have a focus that would differentiate your blog from others. It also means you wouldn’t have to cover certain pieces of Android news that get covered by at least 5 different blogs within hours of each other.

If you want to do to Android what you do to the iPhone on this blog, ie, offer it up as a comparison to BB, then keep it all here.

If you want to explore in depth the world of Android, not only juxtaposed to BB, then a separate blog is appropriate.

I will say, that like you, I don’t own an Android phone yet and have no plans to do so, but I am fascinated by how far the platform might go given its open source business model. I also think Palm probably should have opted to go the route of Android instead of developing its own “new” OS.

I see where Mike is coming from but if your target audience is folks looking for news and information about Android, they may not readily find it here when mixed in with primarily BlackBerry content.

If you are just talking about the occasional Android post like you do with the iPhone from time to time, a category should be just fine.