Well, it might not be a gPhone like a lot of people hoped, but Google is aiming to become a major force in your pockets with their newest venture; Android, their brand new open platform for mobile phones.
The Open Handset Alliance (OHA), which is the body that oversees the producers of the phones that will utilize this tech just shouted out with a press release from across the pond in the US of A (which you can peak after the break).
A few cherry-picks of info from this release:
- Handsets should be avaliable second-half 2008
- The SDK will be avaliable next week for the manufacturers (so we might see prototypes pretty darn soon)
- Android consists of not only an OS, but also a User Interface, middleware, and applications
- 33 major players in the biz, including HTC and Motorola are on board (yay!)
One of the interesting things we’ve learnt is that NVIDIA is among the members of the OHA, and with this quote; “NVIDIA will be working within the Open Handset Alliance to enable rich media acceleration on a new generation of devices based on the Android platform.” I’m starting to look forward to this new mobile platform.
Mobile-phone fanboys rejoice, the Big G has come to the rescue.
Long live Google.
