This past week Google's developer's conference was one of the first
demos of the Android mobile phone operating system. Announced last year
by the Open Handset Alliance, a group of mobile phone manufacturers and
software houses who want to have one unilateral platform for all mobile
phones to run on Android looks to be one of the most interesting
revolutions in the Mobile phones market.
Being developed by
Google the phones are highly likely to blend well with other Google-ware
like the popular Maps service and Google Mail service. The stand out
feature is that the operating system is being designed to run on a wide
range of mobile phones regardless of their feature set. In a similar way
to how PC operating systems are made to work on a wide range of
computers with varying specifications Android will take advantage of
specific phone features such as built in GPS and touch screen
interfaces.
This past week had the operating system running on a
touch screen unnamed handset and it was sporting a number of new
features since it was last shown off earlier in the year. One exciting
feature was how the handset was unlocked; the user had to draw a
specific shape on the touch screen to unlock the keypad. Another feature
took advantage of the GPS function by having an on screen compass which
had been tried on other handsets such as the GPS enabled S60 phones
offered by Nokia but attendees said the example shown by Google seemed
to work much more fluidly than other attempts.
The decision to
show off the software at their developers conference was obviously to
entice the collective minds into coming up with some ideas for possible
applications for their operating system, with it being open-source
software, a factor popular with the programming masses, it looks
promising that any mobile phones sporting Android's operating system
would have a lot to offer the stale mobile phones market.
Obviously
a lot of comparisons were made between the software and Apple's stand
out mobile phone the iPhone, the interface seemed to bear some of the
Apple hallmarks such as saving Youtube links as icons on the main screen
and a touch based interface.
The Android operating system is
currently nearing completion with handset manufacturers Motorola, HTC
and Samsung all volunteering to use Android on their forth-coming mobile
phones in the next year.
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