The Googe Phone And Android

Google recently acquired Jaiku, a Finnish business, that held different Short Message Service Patents (SMS), that is the technology that provides for the exchanging of small messages between cell telephones.

Google presently has a 29 percent share of the US market above 16% to Yahoo according to internet marketing research firm eMarketer, and would wish nothing more than to control the mobile device market such as cell telephones, Blackberries and more, including their own GPhone. After this news Google's stock rose to a monumental $600 per share recently, speculating that Google's gains may raise to as high as fifty percent over last year's numbers.

In late November that expectation was interrupted as Google, along with an alliance of cellular phone-related reverse cell phone directory companies, asserted its cell telephone plan was not for one handset. Rather, the company is planning to formulate a platform, or operating system, that will allow for greater functionality for all cellular telephones. The formation of the Open Handset Alliance (OHA), that has such industry behemoths such as Samsung, Motorola, T-Mobile and O2's parent Telephonica, is getting together to support Google's venture, named Android.

Android is determined to be the succeeding multi-platform cellular telephone software package that is able to work on several different handsets. It hopes to supply not simply an operating system but also middleware and key applications. Legions of Google's hottest applications like GMail and Google Maps already have mobile versions telephone users can extend through Java. Android wishes to create applications like this more practical on mobile telephones but also to allow for a fuller internet experience also.

For those unlucky few that are just unable to write anything in Java (the Android programming language), one of the huge number of other handsets that are for sale will have to do, because there will nevertheless be a big mixture of features to keep one working.