March/April 2008
Android Calling
Does Google want to free your phone--or does it want to own it?
By Simson Garfinkel
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| 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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