Breaking: Google Announces Android and Open Handset Alliance

TECHCRUNCH annuncia il famigerato Gphone

Google just officially announced the Open Handset Alliance to create an open platform (to be called Android) for a Linux phone that can run mobile Google apps and others. The 34 partners include T-Mobile, Sprint Nextel, NTT Docomo, China Mobile, Telefonica, Telecom Italia, Motorola, Samsung, HTC, Qualcomm, and Intel. Here is the press release. Writes Andy Rubin, the man behind the Google Phone. :

Android is the first truly open and comprehensive platform for mobile devices. It includes an operating system, user-interface and applications — all of the software to run a mobile phone, but without the proprietary obstacles that have hindered mobile innovation.

Reports started trickling out last week that Google is ready to announce its Gphone, or rather Gphones. It is more a reference design, than a single phone. The goal is to make the apps both device and carrier independent. The software development kit will be available on November 12.

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