Google to Unveil ‘Android’ platform for Mobile Phones

By Michael Santo
Executive Editor, RealTechNews

Rumors about the gPhone, whether it be an actual phone or a platform, have been rampant for months. Now sources say Google will hold a press conference tomorrow to reveal what’s really up.

The company is expected to hold a press conference on Monday to unveil the project, which is expected to incorporate software from the Linux world into a mobile platform code-named Android that’s designed to run on phones, according to sources familiar with Google’s plans. A software development kit for what’s being called “a complete mobile-phone software stack” is believed to be in the works and will be released relatively soon thereafter, the sources said. It’s not exactly clear what kind of software will come as part of that stack, but it’s said to include everything you need to run a phone.

Japanese wireless carriers KDDI and NTT DoCoMo are said to be heavily involved in what will be called the Open Handset Alliance, according to other sources. The rest of the more than 30 other companies involved reads like a who’s-who list of the mobile-computing industry, including Qualcomm, Broadcom, HTC, Intel, Samsung, Motorola, Sprint, and Texas Instruments. Source: News.com

We Say: Interestingly, Nokia is reportedly not in the alliance. But that figures, doesn’t it, with Nokia’s part ownership of Symbian?