Less than a month ago I had posted about the upcoming, so called "
iPod killer", from Google. Which infact is a software and not a device. Well its just had its debut! Yep, Google has finally launched its open source mobile phone OS and
Google's CEO Eric Schmidt is really making some big claims about it. Thats great news for smartphone users (and I hope some day for PC users!) and certainly not good news for properietry OSs... well... Windows Mobile. The SDK will be out later this month and phones supporting Android wont be out till late next year.
Google had actually bought over Android over two years ago, the interesting thing is, the founder of Android, had also started a company which made its own smartphone device with full email, browsing and messenger capabilities. Hiptop has its quite a few limitations of its own of course.
Did you know that
Starhub had its own Hiptop device? its not a suprise they
discontinued it though. The version pictured below is the T-mobile's Sidekick II.
So you think Google might still come out with its own "iPhone" or Windows Mobile killer device just yet? The smartphone scene is getting more and more interesting.
Bilal Zaheer
http://elanist.com/bilal
1 comment:
First off great decision by google to dump the hardware plans(for now). Hardware is so much harder; harder to build, harder to modify, harder to patch, just plain hard especially for a software company, just ask M$ on the pains of axe bawkz.
Now andriod is great for google because of course they can now rule the ad space there, very smart again.
Having said that i'm still scratchin my head over the gimic that making it open like this would make it a big thing, whos gonna test it, i'm not buying it unless it comes in a good package like iphone. would you install third party stuff on your smart phone?
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