gPhone is here!
Google has scored another first, the first gPhone was announced today. This will go in history as one of the really defining moments for the open source world.
T-Mobile, the Germany mobile phone services provider unveiled the first Android powered phone, today. Android is a set of programs that will form the operating system and developing platform for gPhones. Android was developed by Google with the cooperation of more than 30 companies involved in the mobile phone industry, a group known as the Open Handset Alliance. The Open Handset Alliance includes the likes of Google. Motorola, Samsung, Ebay, Intel and several other companies
Android is really a platform aimed at software geeks to develop exciting mobile phone applications such those found on the iPhone from Apple. The Android platform is based on the open source Linux operating system and as such should make a serious business case for open source software.
Google continues to redefine technology as we have known it and it seems nothing is stopping those guys at Googleplex.
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Google look like they will soon take over everything. Shouldn’t they just focus on what they are good at?
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Well I have heard your argument Virtugirl and I must admit there’s some validity in it. On the other hand I think what these guys are doing is a case of strategic brilliance. They are trying to set standards/optimise all major platforms of their core business - Search. Thats why they have a new browser: to optimise search on the browser and now they are influencing phones: to optimise search on phones. Mind you they are not building a phone(at least not now), Android is just a platform.
As Google says “This doesn’t mean we’ve changed our core mission; just that the farther we travel toward achieving it, the more those blurry objects on the horizon come into sharper focus (to be replaced, of course, by more blurry objects). ” Source:http://www.google.com/corporate/tenthings.html.
They are still doing what they are good at-Search, its just that there’s clarity on some previously blurry issues.
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