Umeed Se Dugna - Google OS and GPhone together

From Last100

Google did not announce it was delivering an actual branded phone, dubbed the Gphone. Instead Google is leading a broad industry partnership known as the Open Handset Alliance and is developing an open software mobile platform known as Android. Android is a fully integrated "software stack" that consists of an operating system, middlewear, a user-friendly interface, and mobile applications. (Intro video.)

Handset manufacturers who signed on are HTC, LG Electronics, Motorola, and Samsung. Apple, Microsoft, Nokia, Palm, and Research in Motion — are not involved as the so-called Gphones will compete with their own offerings.

Google's software will be freely available under "open source" licensing terms, meaning that cellphone manufacturers can use it at no cost and create their own features and apps to differentiate their products and services from others.

Can different manufacturers, programmers, and third-party developers deliver Google-influenced phones that meet the needs of today's mobile, info hungry consumer? Or will Google phones be a mish-mash of user interfaces, half-baked applications, spotty networking, and other problems, which seem to plague Windows Mobile?

The world is waiting.

"Just like the iPhone energized the industry," Sanjay Jha, chief operating officer at Qualcomm, told the NYT, "this is a different way to energize the industry."