Google Announces Android Mobile OS

Rumors about GPhone have been running since a long time. People expected the Google to come out with a revolutionary mobile device which will probably give some competition to Apple’s iPhone, but Google actually had a plan of their own.

Instead of working on a single mobile phone, Google has announced a Linux based mobile operating system called Android, and it will be freely available under mobile open source license. Google has partnered with 34 companies including Sprint, HTC, LG, T-Mobile, Motorola, Nvidia, and eBay. Android-based handsets are expected to roll out to costumers in second half of 2008.

Next week, Android Software Development Kit (SDK) will be handed over to developers, so that they can build third party apps for the forthcoming mobile operating system. By giving a head start to developers, Google is expecting lots of third party apps by the time Android-based phones start shipping. I’m really curious to see what Android has to offer for die-hard mobile users.

[Via: CyberNet]

This post was published by on November 6, 2007

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  • http://sunnytalkstech.blogspot.com Saptarshi

    Doesn’t the entire thing sound like Google wants us to believe its something new. LiMo (Linux For Mobiles) and supporters Motorola have such an OS for sometime now… With Google may be the tools(SDK) would be better, but I’m wondering how far can Google get!?? Does this mean JavaME is dead or does it mean applications will be Linux-only!!

  • http://techroach.com Tech Roach

    Hmm… somewhere I saw that its going to be out next week. I mean, the devices. Not SDK. Have any idea about this ?

  • http://indyankk.blogspot.com Innovations & Interesting Ramblings

    open source will always do the trick…i am sure that developers are going to pounce on it…

  • http://smackall.com/mobile-game-developer/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=2 Harishankar

    Just imagine when we have 80% of the market supporting J2ME and most of them only support J2ME. So how would someone say J2ME is going to die in next 10 yrs. May be since its both java and only the VM changes, so developers might have a way to make it work on both, ofcourse with some pain like how we have lots of platform.