Googles Android: Set to Launch

The sophisticated handsets carrying Googles Android software will make it easier to browse the web and bring some of the programs and features usually found on home computers to mobiles. Some of the world's leading phone manufacturers are expected to reveal prototypes of devices running Googles new operating system at next week's Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona.

Googles Android: The Difference

The major difference between Googles planned open source mobile platform called Android and the normal mobile phone operating systems are that the source code for Googles Android is open source, so it means that it can be customised easily by people who know how to.

You may be thinking how can this help me? Well more people will have access to the code compared to closed platforms like Windows Mobile Platform and the ones used by Nokia etc. so more people will be competing against each other to put out programs that they hope will be popular and catch on.

In essence and also in practise it will create a circle of high productivity for the mobile phone and I think that this will be one of the major milestones in the history of mobile phones.

Googles Android: The Birth

Android is a set of software tools which will be built by Google, they are designed to power a next generation of mobile phone handsets which will be released early as 2008.

The tools are based on open source software Linux - thus meaning it is free to use. It means any one can develop software for the open source platform; this will enable Android to be tailored for individual phones (such as a Nokia, Samsung, LG...), networks (T-Mobile...) and potentially users.