Android: Google’s New Platform for Mobile Device
Google has finally made a much-anticipated announcement about "Android", the “first truly open and comprehensive platform for mobile devices.”
Google silently forms a “Open Handset Alliance” which includes so far 34 companies. As we stated before Android is a platform, not a particular device.
Google does say that it expects manufacturers to begin shipping phones with the Android platform in the second half of next year, including a device from T-Mobile. According to Google CEO Eric Schmidt:
“Today’s announcement is more ambitious than any single ‘Google Phone’ that the press has been speculating about over the past few weeks. Our vision is that the powerful platform we’re unveiling will power thousands of different phone models.”
The company plans to have a software developer kit (SDK) available for Android within “a week or so.”
[Source Masable]
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