The Google Phone isn't really a Google Phone or GPhone after all. What it will be is an open-source operating system for mobile phones. The project is called Android and it's a a software stack for mobile devices that includes an operating system, middleware and key applications.
From the Google info page about Android:
The Open Handset Alliance, a group of more than 30 technology and mobile companies, is developing Android: the first complete, open, and free mobile platform. To help developers get started developing new applications, we're offering an early look at the Android Software Development Kit. [Android]
In this YouTube video Sergey Brin and Steve Horowitz discuss the availability of the SDK, that it will be open source in the future, and demo some applications.
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Recent Comments | 3 Total
November 13, 2007 at 6:48am by Laert Yamazaki
Great, but...isn't it very similar to iPhone? I mean, the MacOs for the iPhone?
November 14, 2007 at 6:55am by Pepin Gelardi
Laert, Android has many of the capabilities of the iPhone OS. Indeed, multi-touch input aside, the two systems share nearly every capability. However, Andriod is exceedingly different from the development angle. While Apple will most likely open the iPhone OS to developers with many restrictions, Android is designed to be a free and open playground. Furthermore, if Android is as easy to work with as many of Google's other API's, we should see a lot of applications in short order. The results should be really surprising. That said, in the end, many of us will prefer the well balanced, smooth-running applications on the iPhone.