Google enters into mobile
Google takes a big step forward by moving into mobile and introducing Open Hanset Alliance( OHA ) which includes 34 powerful companies such as Qualcomm, Motorola, Samsung, T-Mobile, Sprint, Skype, LG, HTC, KDDI, DoCoMo and China Mobile,etc. Goal of this alliance is to develop an open source operating system for mobile phones, in other words " an alternative to Symbian OS, Windows mobile and iPhone ". (I'm sure Apple will think about opening their OS and Symbian too). Google's mobile OS will be called " Android " (No "Google" word/logo attached at all .... how humble they are .... ) which is an open source OS built on Linux and Java . Since this mobile OS is available for free of charge for OEM vendors, this will be a major hit for proprietary mobile OS vendors. Further it will give more flexible environment for mobile application developers. And I'm sure ......... this will lead to come up with some more mobile OS distro like in linux des