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Android fires Google into mobile market



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Published Date: 13 February 2008
A PROTOTYPE of Google's new Android mobile phone technology has gone on show at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
Android is a free software system based on Linux open-source technology.

The phone will be the internet search engine firm's first foray into the telecommunications market.

Google has teamed with a large group of mobile-handset makers and other technology companies to make mobile-phone software, which is expected to hit the market in the second half of this year.

The software is a direct rival to Nokia's S60 platform.

Google has made software applications that allow internet searching via mobile phones for some years, but the new software will run the operating system of the phone, which controls applications and interacts with the hardware.

The congress will run until tomorrow.







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  • Last Updated: 12 February 2008 9:03 PM
  • Source: The Scotsman
  • Location: Edinburgh
  • Related Topics: Google
 
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BILLinBCN,

Barceona 13/02/2008 10:23:53
Apple is going to blow their big chance... Their current course will relegate iPhone to the same fate as the Mac OS. The excellent iPhone experience will be available only on the Apple hardware, which only Apple’s core fans will have.

Mobile phones (unlike PCs or MP3 players) are highly personal devices -- many people see them as a fashion accessory, or a projection of their personality and social status. The idea that a single product (or even a suite of conceptually similar products) will have ubiquitous appeal is silly.

Read the excellent analysis at http://www.broodingsavage.com

 

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