Google announces alliance with Cellphone Companies for it's Interface "Android"

[hyedipin]

Mobile phones based on Google’s software are not expected to be available until the second half of next year. They will be manufactured by a variety of handset companies, including HTC, LG, Motorola and Samsung and be available in the United States through T-Mobile and Sprint.

The phones will also be available through the world’s largest mobile operator, China Telecom, with 332 million subscribers in China, and the leading carriers in Japan, NTT DoCoMo and KDDI, as well as T-Mobile in Germany, Telecom Italia in Italy and Telefónica in Spain.

The 34-member Open Handset Alliance, as the group is called, also includes many of the leading makers of mobile phone chips, like Broadcom, Intel, Qualcomm and Texas Instruments, as well as SiRF Technology Holdings, Marvell Technology Group, Nvidia and Synaptics. EBay (which owns the Internet calling service Skype), Nuance Communications, NMS Communications and Wind River Systems are also members of the group.

It is said that the new technology led by google will most likely surpass those made by Apple (OS X Phone), Microsoft (WM6), Nokia (Symbian), Palm (Palm) and RIM (Blackberry) and will be superior to them.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/05/te...hp&oref=slogin

[Kevin1a]

I'm just excited about "open". I seems things are getting more and more locked down and corperate controlled nowdays. Hopefully that trend will begin to reverse with the introduction of more mainstream "open" mobile devices.

[adamska]

It was humourous when all the tech crowd were getting ready for a Apple-esque frenzy over a "gPhone" and then got told it was something waaayyyy more significant!

I'm interested in how this will pan out

[psionandy]

As Dvorak said, every month there's a new linux phone alliance ;) and none of them have got anywhere.