Google Launches Open Handset Alliance To Develop Android OS for Mobile Phones
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Though we had earlier blogged about Google confirming the existence of Gphone which sources such as WSJ and CNET suggested, Google is not announcing its Gphone as yet amidst lot of speculation. Google has setup an alliance of 30 leading technology and mobile companies to develop “Android”, an open source based operating system for mobile handsets. Dave Burke, a keynote speaker at the Future of Mobile conference spoke yesterday about Android and Open Handset Alliance in London. Dave is the engineering manager of the mobile team at Google. It is still not clear whether the Gphone is in the offing but sources suggests that Google is just making efforts to develop “Android”, a mobile operating system, which will enable users to use approximately eight technologies services such as GPS, mobile web browsing, multimedia, gaming graphics and much more.
There is a talk on the internet that Gphone or phones with “Android” will have web 2.0 features. This means that mobile users will be able to use social networking sites like orkut on their mobile phones, or that could be just another proposition Google might be having for its open source mobile operating system.
The open source “Android Developer Starter Kit” is now available on the Open Handset Alliance website to developers across the world so they can develop applications to improve the mobile user’s experience of the internet.
The open handset alliance website states:
What would it take to build a better mobile phone?
A commitment to openness, a shared vision for the future, and concrete plans to make the vision a reality.
Welcome to the Open Handset Alliance™, a group of more than 30 technology and mobile companies who have come together to accelerate innovation in mobile and offer consumers a richer, less expensive, and better mobile experience. Together we have developed Android™, the first complete, open, and free mobile platform.
We are committed to commercially deploy handsets and services using the Android Platform in the second half of 2008. An early look at the Android Software Development Kit (SDK) is now available.
The Official Google blog describes Android:
“Android” is the first truly open and comprehensive platform for mobile devices. It includes an operating system, user-interface and applications — all of the software to run a mobile phone, but without the proprietary obstacles that have hindered mobile innovation.
Here’s the screenshot of the Open Handset Alliance Website:
The question here is,
Will “Android” be able to develop applications that will enable mobile users to get hooked to the internet on their mobiles? Will “Android” become the only official ‘windows’ of mobile handsets or will Microsoft fight it out tough and hard with Google by developing an OS for mobiles? Will this move of Google help Google take up the entire mobile market which is huge and bigger than the internet market globally or make its competitors take up steps to establish their share of the market?
Lets wait and watch…!!!
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