Google Phone and Android by Sergey Brin

What’s Google Phone or Gphone? Google Phone speculations are running at full sway all over the internet. Google is on its way to enter the mobile device market. Some assume that Google is offering a phone running on a custom-built Operating System (OS), with software like Google Calendars, Google Maps, Google Earth and Gmail integrated within the Google Phone along with the standard phone functions. Others feel that Google is competing against the Apple’s iPhone. On the other hand there are some negative rumours coming like, Google won’t enter the mobile handset market because of low profit margin, Google has less experience in hardware.

Now let’s leave apart all the gossip and come to the genuine fact.
Sergey Brin and Steve Horowitz from the Google Headquarters, California confirm that there is no such thing as Google Phone but instead introduce us to the Android Platform. They endeavour to illustrate the demo applications on the Android platform through their video clip in the You Tube site.

What is Android?
Android is a fully integrated mobile “software stack” that consists of an operating system, middleware, user-friendly interface and applications.

This new Open Source (OS) Operating System is the Software Platform over which you can build your own powerful applications for Mobile Phones. SDK has been released and is available for Free Download.

The Home Screen displays all the favourite applications where in you can access The Browser, Maps, Contacts, Text messaging (chat), Global Time and 3D Games. One of the amazing things build in the SDK is the ability to interact and integrate applications with one another. For example, while you are looking at the Maps to find the exact location of where your friend stays, you can get text messages from others and reply them.

Web Browser is based on the Open Source (OS) web kit that allows you to see WebPages just as it appears on your desktop. In fact web pages get loaded over the 3G Data Network and this means accessing the net at 3G Speeds, that’s really fast downloading.

Maps Applications enable us to scan around the city we like by using touch screen capabilities. One of the benefits of using the Android Platform is that there are some basic functions built in, like the Map Views. In order to build something on top of Map views we don’t have to reinvent all the functionality in Maps.

Google is waiting anxiously to reward $10 million for the developers who come up with the best applications using Android Platform. They are looking forward for innovative applications that make use of great functionality available on Android. So, developers out there, get ready to join the race that’s surely going to have a giant effect in the cell phone market.