GOOGLE Open Handset Alliance for Andriod mobile operating system
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Google Android was designed from the ground up to enable mobile developers to create mobile applications that take full advantage of all a handset has to offer. It was built to be truly open. An application can call upon any of the phone's core functionality, such as making calls, sending text messages, or using the camera, allowing developers to create richer and more cohesive experiences for users. Android is built on the open Linux Kernel. Furthermore, it utilises a custom virtual machine (VM) that was designed to optimise memory and hardware resources in a mobile environment. Android is open source; it can be liberally extended to incorporate new cutting edge technologies as they emerge. The platform will continue to evolve as the developer community works together to build innovative mobile applications. All applications are created equal
Android does not differentiate between the phone's core applications and third-party applications. They can all be built to have equal access to a phone's capabilities providing users with a broad range of apps and services. With devices built on the Android Platform, users are able to fully tailor the phone to their interests. They can swap out the phone's homescreen, the style of the dialer, or any of the applications. They can even instruct their phones to use their favourite photo viewing app to handle the viewing of all photos.
Google phone supporting the Andriod mobile operating system include the google phone g1 and the google phone g2 and the new Nexus One. (HTC Touch 3G mobile handset)
The Nexus One (aka Google mobile phone) is a Google Android based touchscreen smartphone
Pre-installed software applications provide access to many services including:
GMail ™, Google Calendar ™, Google Maps ™, Google Talk ™, and a YouTube ™ video player.
The integrated Google Maps™ application supports detailed map, satellite, traffic, and the new street view.
The customisable home screen lets you put tools and gadgets you want at your finger tips.
With the Kogan Agora Pro mobile phone, you will be able to download new software applications from third-party developers to further enhance your smart phone experience.
Access the Internet wherever you are (requires 3G signal) with fully integrated features, including:
* One-Touch Google Search ™.
* Upload and watch videos from YouTube ™.
* Instantly send and receive emails with Gmail ™.
* Click on a phone number from a website, and your phone will dial it.
* Save web images as wallpaper.
The Android™ powered Kogan Agora Pro mobile smart phone is state-of-the-art technology that will forever change the way you communicate!
Agora Pro Features and highlights:
* 2.5-inch TFT-LCD flat touchscreen.
* Integrated QWERTY keyboard.
* High-speed 3G network connection.
* One-Touch Google Search ™.
* Easy Web Browsing.
* Easy-to-use email with attachment support for images, videos, music and documents.
* Customisable Home Screen with instant Email, text message and IM notifications.
* Instant access to mobile Internet services (Gmail ™, YouTube ™, Google Talk ™, Google Calendar ™, Google Maps ™).
* Music Player.
* Bluetooth® 2.0 with Enhanced Data Rate
* microSD™ expansion slot for all your storage needs.
* Wi-Fi network access.
* GPS navigation capability.
* 2.0 megapixel camera.
Android ™ Operating System
Android ™ is the mobile operating system used on the Kogan Agora Pro mobile smartphone. It delivers a complete set of software for mobile devices. Developers from around the world are creating new and exciting applications that can easily be loaded onto the phone. It features a revolutionary user interface and is the most advanced mobile phone software engineered.
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. :
Despite all of the very interesting speculation over the last few months, we’re not announcing a Gphone. However, we think what we are announcing — the Open Handset Alliance and Android — is more significant and ambitious than a single phone. In fact, through the joint efforts of the members of the Open Handset Alliance, we hope Android will be the foundation for many new phones and will create an entirely new mobile experience for users, with new applications and new capabilities we can’t imagine today
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. Android-based phones will start to come out on the market in the latter half of 2008. One mobile startup CEO I know says he was contacted on Friday by Google and given the final go-ahead to port his app onto Android, which his company has not started to work on yet. The software development kit will be available on November 12.
Google Inc has invested hundreds of millions of dollars in its mobile google phone project and is currently courting U.S. and European mobile network operators, The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.
Recently Google had engaged Taiwan's High Tech Computer Corp to design a Linux software based mobile phone for launch in the first quarter of 2008 (US release).
Reportedly T-Mobile, owned by Deutsche Telekom, would likely be Google's U.S. partner with France Telecom's Orange selling the phones in other markets, perhaps including Australia.
Google had also approached the two biggest U.S. wireless services, AT&T Inc and Verizon Wireless, in recent months to ask them to sell mobile phones with Google service.
A person familiar with the situation told Reuters that talks between Verizon Wireless, owned by Verizon Communications Inc and Vodafone Group Plc, and Google have ended without resulting in an agreement.
T-Mobile and Vodafone already incorporate Google search in their mobile Web service in Europe, while AT&T offers it as one of several Web search options.
Google said in an e-mailed response that it is "partnering with carriers, manufacturers, and content providers around the world," without giving further specific details.
It has said wireless was an increasingly important market but it has not announced plans to build a phone. It said last week that Sprint Nextel Corp would feature Google services on devices for a new wireless network the No. 3 U.S. mobile service is building.
Google has also developed prototype phones and talked over technical specifications with manufacturers including LG Electronics, The Wall Street Journal said.
Mobile advertising is still a relatively small market but advertisers and wireless experts expect this to change.
A new patent reveals Google's clever technology for predicting your needs.
Google is set to plunge headfirst into the mobile phone business later this year.
The search engine giant has filed a new patent describing an application that predicts what the user is searching for, or the words in a text message, depending on the user’s location, the time of day and his or her history of searching and messaging.
If you’re planning an evening out in town, the phone might predict that you are looking for a bar at 8pm and a pizza house at 11pm, based on your previous beer-drinking / pizza-munching search history. Once suitably lubricated and stuffed with food, you pull out your mobile – let’s call it the Google Phone – and it brings up a list of taxi companies to take you home.
We’ve already reported on Google’s possible entry into the mobile phone world, and this patent suggests the process is in full swing. Apple’s iPhone might have some tough opposition when it launches here in December/January.
GOOGLE PHONE SPECIFICATIONS (GOOGLE PHONE SPECS)
There are no current hard specs for the current model Google Phone (s) -
There is currently talk that the Google Phone has a Linux based operating system and that the Google Phone will have wireless networking facilities.
(More details on the Google Phone specs will be posted here as soon as they come to hand)
Google Phone Australia Release Date
Reports indicate that the Google Phone may have a release date of first quarter 2008, which would put it in direct competition with the Apple iPhone which may be releasing at the exact same time in Australia.
Releasing the Google Phone at the same time as the Apple phone would put a stop to the runaway success that that device has had in the US without strong competition.
The Google Phone Australian release date would depend on factors such as manufacturing, logistics, network availability and perhaps sales in other regions. Having a later release in Australia of the Google Phonecould also mean that Australia gets a slightly upgraded version of the Google Phone handset and or Google Phone software / services.
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