Report: Android – Google’s answer to mobile

On the face of it there’s not much to interest publishers about a new mobile phone operating system (OS) – after all, few users would be able to tell you what OS they have on their phone. So why should you care about Android? The ‘G-word,’ that’s why.

by Anton Jolkovski anton.jolkovski@wan-ifra.org | February 25, 2008

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Nobody can afford to ignore it when Google gets behind a move to open up the mobile market. If the hype is to be believed, then the true launch of the ‘G-phone’ later this year – the first prototypes were shown at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona on 11 February – will revolutionise the way phones work.

You will be able to shoot videos, edit and upload them to your YouTube account, and watch YouTube videos as well. If you lose your way while driving, you can tell your phone where you want to go and it will direct you.