First Android Build Shown to Mobile Phone Developers

This past week Google's developer's conference was one of the initially demos of the Android mobile telephone operating method. Announced last year by the Open Handset Alliance, a group of mobile telephone manufacturers and software program houses who want to have 1 unilateral platform for all mobile phones to run on Android looks to be one of the most intriguing revolutions in the Mobile phones marketplace.

Being developed by Google the phones are extremely most likely to blend nicely with other Google-ware like the favorite Maps service and Google Mail service. The stand out feature is that the operating program is becoming created to run on a wide range of mobile phones regardless of their feature set. In a similar way to how PC operating systems are produced to work on a wide range of computers with varying specifications Android will take benefit of certain phone characteristics 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 attributes given that it was last shown off earlier in the year. 1 exciting feature was how the handset was unlocked the user had to draw a specific shape on the touch screen to unlock the keypad. One other feature took benefit of the GPS function by getting an on screen compass which had been tried on other handsets such as the GPS enabled S60 phones offered by Nokia but attendees stated the example shown by Google seemed to function much extra fluidly than other attempts.

The decision to show off the software at their developers conference was certainly to entice the collective minds into coming up with some ideas for possible applications for their operating method, with it getting open-source software, a factor favorite with the programming masses, it looks promising that any mobile phones sporting Android's operating program would have a lot to supply the stale mobile phones market.

Obviously a lot of comparisons had been created in 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 most important screen and a touch based interface.

The Android operating method is at the moment nearing completion with handset manufacturers Motorola, HTC and Samsung all volunteering to use Android on their forth-coming mobile phones in the next year.