The Google Phone
2008 September 17 – 9:45 pmJust as everyone is getting settled into the iPhone hype there’s something creeping around the corner that appears to only getting very technical press. So I bet most people haven’t got a clue it’s on it’s way. Any the ‘it’s’ is a phone from Google (well more of a phone operating system).
What’s interesting about this is that Google have written a new operating system for their new phone. We’re all used to Windows Mobile, Symbian (what runs Nokia phones etc), OS X (what runs the iPhone) and others but Google has now written what it calls Android. They’ve taken an interesting route to getting developers to write software for it even before it is actually released. They held a competition online giving large (read $275,000.00) cash prises to the best software writers. There appears to be some really great looking software coming out, but I see no word on Exchange Active Sync yet.
More detail about Android can be found here. And there are various videos looks at the software available for it here.
Watch this space for more info shortly.