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Google Reveals More Platform Details

Nov 5, 2007, 1:42 PM by (staff)

In a conference call today, Google provided some additional information about its new mobile platform. Google's new partners make up the Open Handset Alliance. The OHA is a collection of 33 companies that includes chip makers, handset makers and carriers, among others. What Google hopes its OHA partners will do is use the new Linux-based mobile platform, called Android, to replicate the desktop application experience--and mobile web browsing in particular--on the handset. Android will be the basis for multiple handsets from multiple vendors and will be compatible with every data network available. Google said the core software and SDK will be available next week, but no handsets running the platform will be available until the second half of 2008.

source: Google

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japhy

Nov 6, 2007, 6:55 PM

Ha!

I'm reminded of this:
https://www.phonescoop.com/news/item.php?n=1724 »

and I think: those Google guys really get it. Those in the phone industry have tended to focus so much on the phones/networks/hardware themselves, while Google is using software to shift the ethos of the whole industry.

Pretty dang brilliant.

TechToyJunkie

Nov 5, 2007, 2:03 PM

Truely revolutionary in the market

I'm hoping that this will have a huge impact on the mobile industry that we need. This software alliance should compliment the pressure that the iPhone put on the carriers to truely provide us with a product that we want and that will be useful for our daily lives.

Between these two events(iPhone and Goog platform) I can imagine the carriers getting back to being service providers in the telecom industry and no longer having a huge control of the content on our mobile devices.

VZWookiee

soon to be the only worthwhile carrier!!!

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beeferjay

i dont like verizon, they lick

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