Google takes a big step forward by moving into mobile and introducing Open Hanset Alliance(OHA) which includes 34 powerful companies such as Qualcomm, Motorola, Samsung, T-Mobile, Sprint, Skype, LG, HTC, KDDI, DoCoMo and China Mobile,etc. Goal of this alliance is to develop an open source operating system for mobile phones, in other words "an alternative to Symbian OS, Windows mobile and iPhone". (I'm sure Apple will think about opening their OS and Symbian too).
Google's mobile OS will be called "Android" (No "Google" word/logo attached at all .... how humble they are .... ) which is an open source OS built on Linux and Java.
Since this mobile OS is available for free of charge for OEM vendors, this will be a major hit for proprietary mobile OS vendors.
Further it will give more flexible environment for mobile application developers.
And I'm sure ......... this will lead to come up with some more mobile OS distro like in linux desktop.
Surprise ........... this Android SDK will be available from Nov 12th, and mobile phones will be available from mid of 2008 [Not sure how fast it going to come here , since it will be launched initially USA, Europe, Japan and China ].
I think this is a great news to mobile application development companies like us, it will eliminate some of the barrier currently we have because of the closeness of the mobile operating systems.
Finally.........mobile application developers are getting more flexibility and more open environment.
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