Wednesday, April 9, 2008

Android - open source mobile phone platform

Dan Morrill from Google introduced Android, which is an open source mobile platform that will allow users to build their own applications. There are more than 3 billion phones in the world today. There are 1,000 new mobile phone customers every minute.

With Android, users will be able to define and create the applications that they want to use on their mobile phones - not having to deal with the choices of phone manufacturers or carriers.

Apple opened up the iPhone around the same day in March that Android was discussed.

The key is that more customization is going to be possible. At first the hackers will rule, but
eventually it will not be impossible for us to create the simple apps that we want.

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