gPhone? or something better?

Today comes the long awaited announcement of the now infamous gPho….wha?… there was no gPhone announced today! Turns out it wasn’t a phone at all, well I guess it depends on how you look at it.

This morning Google along with many other partners announced the Open Handset Alliance. What is this you say? Basically it’s a bunch of companies banding together to stop the insanity that is today’s mobile phone. The goal so far is to make your mobile handset work the way you think it should. The alliance consists of partners such Google (of course), Motorola, Qualcomm, HTC, T-Mobile and many others apparently totalling 30 at this point.

Android is the real key here as it’s basically an open framework consisting of an operating system, middleware and key mobile applications. This is a really exciting time for mobile phones. Essentially what I’ve always dreamed would happen. The only part I’m afraid of is that industry leaders have gotten behind large initiatives before and have still failed. Plus there is a ‘promotional’ video available that has got me a little confused. Are they using these little kids to explain the concept because it’s a no-brainer and should have been done already, or that it should all these companies are playing ‘nice’ together, or how about these are the kids that are actually going to be able to use this stuff by the time it comes out. Hopefully not the last option… plus they’ve said there will be an SDK sometime next week and handsets based on Android by second quarter 2008.

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