Android or as media long has called the google Phone has been announced. But what we long thought would be a phone is in fact an open software platform. The platform is going to be loaded on to phones made by HTC, LG, Motorola and Samsung.

Behind the Android UI stands 34 companies, but we are missing big producers like Nokia and SonyEricsson. The 34 members of the Open Handset Alliance developing this GPhone will be trowing in their own expertise.

The SDK for developers will be available by November 12, the set launch date for Phones with Android running under the hood is sat to 2H of 2008. This will also get the developers some time to develop and show result. We will have companies like Nvidia working on the graphics and we know LG can design, and of course google has the biggest database on earth so hopefully they not what people wants.

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