Google’s entry into mobile has caused a certain amount of excitement. Now, just to stoke that excitement ever so slightly, Google’s released a video showing off its open-source Android platform.
Google’s Steve Horowitz starts out confirming that there’ll be no ‘GPhone’. Fair enough, but then he shows off Android on an unnamed device.
What immediately strikes you is that it looks very similar to the iPhone - for instance, on the large colour screen where you can scroll through menus with your finger.
What’s really exciting is the linking of applications. The example shown is accessing your contacts, then clicking on their address and going to their location on Google Maps.
You can also receive notifications of messages at the top of your screen, which can be expanded to see the whole message.
Browsing on a 3G network you get full internet pages, which can be zoomed out to see the whole page, and when accessing your history you can see the pages in your history as tiles to be scrolled through with your finger.
So far so exciting. If Google’s already done this (Mr Hotowitz says he’s had his device for six months now), just imagine what will be possible on the first devices when they appear late next year!
You can see Android for yourself here.
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