"It’s official: Google (GOOG) has targeted the mobile phone sector. The company is unveiling a Linux-based mobile phone platform called Android though the new Open Handset Alliance, a group which includes 34 partners."
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"So what’s really going on here? If anything, it looks like Google’s borrowed Steve Jobs’ reality distortion field. All of this is a PR and media manipulation masterstroke. Obviously since they’ve created the 'Open Handset Alliance', other handsets that don’t come out of it must be closed, right? It’s a story the press is running with... A person with no outside knowledge of the mobile industry would read that and think that it’s essentially impossible to access anything other than carrier-approved services or install third-party applications on phones. That, of course, is far from true, and it remains to be seen what Android will do that will offer any improvements over existing smartphone OS like Symbian and Windows Mobile, or even over good ol’ Java."
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