Google To Launch ‘Android’
Google is ready to launch a set of software for mobile phones. The software is based on open-source technology and supported by some of the leaders in wireless industry companies worldwide.
CNET News reports:
The company is expected to hold a press conference on Monday to unveil the project, which is expected to incorporate software from the Linux world into a mobile platform code-named Android that's designed to run on phones, according to sources familiar with Google's plans. A software development kit for what's being called "a complete mobile-phone software stack" is believed to be in the works and will be released relatively soon thereafter, the sources said. It's not exactly clear what kind of software will come as part of that stack, but it's said to include everything you need to run a phone.
Japanese wireless carriers KDDI and NTT DoCoMo are said to be heavily involved in what will be called the Open Handset Alliance, according to other sources. The rest of the more than 30 other companies involved reads like a who's-who list of the mobile-computing industry, including Qualcomm, Broadcom, HTC, Intel, Samsung, Motorola, Sprint, and texas instruments.
The Gphone otherwise called Google phone won't be released anytime soon. An ambitious project like that with a significant number of players and details could drastically change. So far, it was unclear when the final version of the software will be launched. The search engine giant has declined to tackle the Gphone.
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By VeniVidiWiki, November 6, 2007 @ 5:05 am
I just tried to think about “how to browse large Google Maps …on my small cell phone !? ”
here is a first proposal, with some drawings : http://venividiwiki.blogspot.com/2007/11/how-to-display-large-pages-on-small.html
what do you think of it ?