Android, the Future Phone’s OS.

Google has entered the mobile market and this is not new to us. Google has been in news for all that they are trying to do to develop mobile market. Now it looks like the days are not very far away when we can see all the mobile phones running on Google’s software like presently all the desktops run on Microsoft’s windows softwares. With the announcement of GPhone (Gnome-e-Phone), Google has made us realize that they are not going to sit back in this market. Now Google has joined hands with some other firms to develop a open source software for mobiles, they want to develop a software which can run on any mobile phone. This Alliance is named as Open Handset Alliance. If this comes in, Google will definitely revolutionaries the mobile market as Microsoft did for PC market. Google has released the SDK for this OS Yesterday, which gave a push to the developers to start coding for this product which is due to start shipping in 2008

This open source software is presently termed as Android. This will be based on Linux operating system. Android was a small firm which was overtaken by Google in early 2005. Some of the major firms which have joined hands with Google in this race are HTC (High Tech Computers), Intel, Motorola, Qualcomm, T-Mobiles and the list is still growing. The work is on its peek and Google has declared to release this phone early next year. The Alliance is spending nearly $10 million to develop this software. There are also speculations that the present hardware used is 32 MB RAM, 32 MB Flash and 200 MHz of processor however the alliance is working to get this numbers down. Andy Rubin, the director for Mobile platform at Google said that there are about 34 companies in this Alliance and every one has contributed their own share for the development of this operating system. When asked about the IPhone, he said that it is a different business, he also appreciated Apple’s effort in building high quality consumer products. By this we can also think of Apple joining the race with Google. I don’t think so, because Apple has revolutionaries the mobile industry with its IPhone and Google with GPhone. They both can be great competitors but not partners. Read a review about this software at CNet


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