Credit: Tavis Coburn

Last November, Google and 33 other companies announced the Open Handset Alliance (OHA), a new industry consortium that, in promoting open standards for mobile devices, promises to reinvent the cell phone--and possibly the entire wireless-telecommunications industry. While that's a tall order, I suspect that handsets, which Google intends to make as customizable as laptop computers, are just the beginning of the company's mobile efforts.

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