Just like Microsoft did earlier this year, Google is also announcing that it doesn’t plan to make any phone of its own. But Microsoft was designing Project Pink phones which were canceled as soon as the whole T-Mobile Sidekick issues started. Should we assume that Google is also secretly planning Android phones?

Andy Rubin has denied such rumors and we tend to believe him for now? After all, why make an Android phone when you have so many manufacturers making Android phones for you? Instead Google should focus on the software part that brings the magic to Android phones.

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When Google announced their forthcoming Chrome OS a few days ago people wondered if it would go on to replace Android as Google’s mobile OS as well.

However, Google’s VP of Mobile Engineering Platforms, Andy Rubin, recently told the community that there is nothing to worry about and that Android is here to say. He elaborated by saying a mobile OS has much different priorities (such as network protocols and cell tower communication) than those found from a desktop OS.

So Android adopters, you can lay your worries to rest, Chrome OS and Android will exist together without replacing one another. However, I can see some very deep integration of the two within one another, don’t you think?

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Google’s own Andy Rubin has confirmed at a T-Mobile and Google event that we’re going to have more Android OS updates in the near future. Donut is already in the works with the Eclair and the Flan coming out later. He didn’t mention any arrival dates and specific features but we do know that these new Android OS versions will be centered on social internetworking. That means your future Android phone will be able to integrate Facebook updates when receiving incoming calls from some of your contacts. You’ll be able to see the current pictures and latest updates of that person in the contact list that’s currently calling. And hopefully we’re going to have even more social networking services integrated with the new OS.

We’ll be waiting for Google to further detail all these new internetworking features and dazzle us with even more new interesting additions. In the mean time we’re expecting more Android phones to arrive this year, as that earlier estimate of at least 20 phones this year has been confirmed again by Andy Rubin.

via PhoneScoop

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