Sony Ericsson had a terrible year so far. At some point we had some rumors saying that Sony and Ericsson are going to break up. Well they haven’t done that yet and, even better than that, Sony Ericsson has announced it’s intention to join the Open Handset Alliance.

Will an Android handset arrive in 2009? Is the company ready for such a commitment? Sony Ericsson doesn’t have specific plans for a 2009 release. In fact there’s nothing official pointing to that. Future Android products will be high-end products but in the same time the platform won’t be exclusive to high-end products in the future. Sony Ericsson won’t put its eggs in only one basket and it will continue to release Symbian and Windows Mobile handsets too.

What will 2009 look like from the Sony Ericsson point of view look like? We’re going to see about that!

via USEB

Tags: Android, Google, Mobile News, Mobile Software, open handset alliance, Sony, Sony Ericsson

Android is going places. The OS seems to be quite appreciated by various companies from the mobile world. The Open Handset Alliance has just received 14 more members: AKM Semiconductor Inc., ARM, ASUSTek Computer Inc., Atheros Communications, Borqs, Ericsson, Garmin International Inc., Huawei Technologies, Omron Software Co. Ltd, Softbank Mobile Corporation, Sony Ericsson, Teleca AB, Toshiba Corporation and Vodafone.

Everyone wants a piece of that Android action and we should see more companies coming along the way. We should be waiting for devices ready to work nice with an Android OS and we’re particularly thinking about more Android smartphones for 2009. Although we did hear a rumor according to which Google is working also on some kind of PC OS. Possibly and Android version.

via Engadget

Tags: Android, Google, Google, Mobile News, open handset alliance

It’s official: there’s no Gphone coming out of Google’s stables. Instead, Google announced Andriod and the Open Handset Alliance. Calling Android an open and comprehensive platform for mobile devices, Andy Rubin, the Director of Mobile Platforms at Google claimed that it provides all the software to run a mobile phone - the operating system, user interface and applications.

Developers need to wait for about a week before they can get their hands on on SDK that will enable them to get started on cool apps, but you will have to wait until the middle of 2008 before you can buy a phone that will run them. Partners for the OHA include Motorola, Qualcomm, HTC and T-Mobile.

When it comes to smartphones, Symbian is right there at the top. Of course, Symbian is a closed-source open platform, while Android is based on the Linux kernel and will be available as open source under an Apache v2 license. The advantage of this license is that mobile operators and handset manufacturers can innovate on the platform but need not contribute them back to the open source community.

Watch out for an SDK on November 12, 2007.

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