Shout About Mobiles

I have recently twittered on quite a bit about the Google-phones.
Why?
Because I like them!

Google has come a long way from its search engine beginnings; it is now everywhere! Emails, SatNav, phones… It’s getting to be a lot like Microsoft – when you think of computers, you think of Microsoft. And now when you think of the internet, you think of Google. With its fingers in increasing amounts of pie, this company is the way forward. And now it’s had a nibble at the phone market and found it very tasty, it doesn’t appear to be going anywhere soon!

So, let me explain the Google-phone numbers. So far, we have three: the G1, the G2 and near-confirmed whispers of the G3. Each of these devices has had the software designed by Google, but the hardware is designed by the manufacturer – HTC for the G1 & G2, and apparently Huawei for the G3.

With the rumor mill rife with talk of the G3, Google must be happy that their “little” operating system is doing so very well. They have just released an SDK (software developer’s kit) for OS version 1.5, and it seems that it won’t be long before we get a new version of this ‘always on the up’ OS.
The main difference, so I have heard, is that the new version 1.5 is based on the cupcake branch of the OS (cupcake being the jargon name for their on screen keyboard), which promises to deliver various improvements over the current version. The OS version 1.5 is meant to be released with the G2 when it comes out in April.