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Google wants to be Windows for your cell phone
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Open Handset Alliance)
After a week or so of rumors about an exciting new "Google Phone," the Web software giant confirmed Monday the details about its venture into the mobile platform, i.e. your cell phone.
Rather than release one model of a phone, Google is teaming with 33 other participants, including carriers T-Mobile and Sprint, in the Open Handset Alliance to create a unified platform, currently named Google Android, for running software applications on mobile devices.
What's that all mean? The big motivation for Google is that it will likely have its applications such as Gmail and Google Docs & Spreadsheets automatically built into a major share of new cell phones in the burgeoning market.
What's interesting and exciting is that the platform--likely based on Linux--will be open to all third-party developers. With any luck, that means that consumers will finally be able to choose exactly which software apps they want to use on their cell phones.
Google CEO Eric Schmidt claims that "as a result of this platform you'll be able to do amazing things with your mobile devices that you've never thought of." We'll get a first peek at the possibilities for programmers with an early look at a software development kit for Google Android next week.
Nicole Lee has created a wish list of features that she'd want from a Google phone. What's your dream of a perfect cell phone? Tell me about it, or whether or not you'd welcome Google onto your cell phone in the comments.
Do I make myself clear?
out there that uses cell phone instead land lines.
George Langley
I do not want to take pictures, I have a camera.
All I want is a Mobile Telephone that works every where, every time.
This saves me from carrying two phones around when I am travelling and all other resultant benefits of one phone rather than two.
1. Big enough screen.
2. Good on appointment reminders.
3. Easy Calendar
4. 2mp+ camera.
5. A 'switch to silent mode' I can do in my pocket.
I currently have an 'elderly' Samsung that can call and allows me to text - end of! When I broke down on a heavily used motorway I found it a nightmare trying to call for help.
I also carry an 'elderly' PSION PDA because it has Word and Excel on it and I use these applications on the move. I have not found a Blueberry of any of the ilk with these applications.
So there we are a dream mobile for the deaf, with office applications and the Internet!
Here in South Africa it might be years before the phone is available here.
my cell phone is nokia 3310 abd its number is :0126325739
mohamed gaber
- telefono nokia 6276
- by luandry November 7, 2007 7:53 AM PST
- quisiera ponerlo en un telefono celular modelo 6276 nokia
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