Google made its name making the web easy to use and its new operating system suggests that it will do just the same for mobile phones. The new 'Gphone'has been made so that, with very few exceptions, you need only three keys to operate it: 'select', 'up/down/left/ right' and 'back'. All the rest is intuitive. A picture of the globe is the internet.A musical note is the music player. An envelope is mail. The first thing that you notice is how fast it moves.One of the the icons leads to a bigger menu - a bit like the one on the iPhone - where more specialised icons, like one for YouTube, are laid out.
The internet is quick - even over the regular GPRS network, which is significantly slower than 3G. The YouTube application, for instance, is very compelling - not surprisingly, given that Google owns YouTube. A simple version of the site opens, with a prominent search bar. Results from a search display quickly and effectively.
Obviously it will have all mobile phone functionalities. A neat feature on the camera gives you the option to 'Keep' or 'Toss' the image you've just taken - a nod to the these disposable times. One button takes you to your gallery, another switches to video mode.
Google's mobile operating system, which is called Android: it's wholly customisable.
The device demonstrated by ARM [running on Andriod], the British chip maker, was a prototype, and is more a taste of what is to come rather than a definitive version.
To be clear, this is not 'a Google phone'. Google has only helped design the software, which operators and handset manufacturers will be free to adapt how they like. So far T-Mobile, Motorola and HTC, the Taiwanese are among those who have said they are interested to release phones that run on Android. The first Android devices are expected to go on sale in the second half of the year.
Google, meanwhile, has not ruled out bringing out its own phone. Eric Schmidt, Google's chief executive, has said that if Google has to produce its own mobile device, Android would make a good platform for it to run on.
2 comments:
Nice to know about Android OS and the inherent technologies. Is it possible (obviously in future) that we replace any existing OS on my mobile phone with Android and vice-versa just like we do over our PCs...I know its a big deal like Supporting hardware for OS to run on that Mobile Phone, re-burning ROM for the new OS and other intricacies... but still every existing invention was almost impossible at some point on the timescale :) ....give it a thought.. new business idea?? what say?? and I think its do-able (I can think of a path to achieve it..) we just need to work together ..by the way Happy Scribbling!!...
PS - Its "Brief" not breif.. :-) ..
When we will have common OS-like one Android, then we can burn the ROM of mobile phones(currently not all) through standard ROM burning mechanism. It should not be a problem.
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