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Google’s answer to PC Revolution

Today's announcement is more Ambitious than any single 'Google Phone‘. Our vision is that the powerful platform we're unveiling will power thousands of different phone models —-Eric Schmidt

The Plan

Annndroid ? Androooid ? Where on earth did it come from ? Is it handsome ? Why it’s gonna rock ? How will it rock (us) ? And why it won’t rock ? Who’s gonna rock Android ?

android is…

android is designed to look and act like human. Interesting huh ?

It is a software platform and operating system for mobile devices

Based on Linux

Developed by Goooooogle for OHA

Undeterred Logo

It originated at…

In 2005, G00G acquired a small start-up (android)

The android team, led by Rubin (co-founder), developed a Linux-based mobile device OS

Google wanted its search and applications on mobile phones and it was working hard to deliver that

It originated at... 2

Open Handset Alliance – 5th Nov, ’07 was unveiled with the goal to develop open standards for mobile devices

Google pledged assistance in complete software lifecycle for OHA members

Nokia, Microsoft, RIM (BlackBerry) are only major players to not align with OHA

OHHH..H..A..

Google, HTC, Intel, Motorola, Qualcomm, T-Mobile, Sprint Nextel and NVIDIA

Sony Ericsson, Vodafone Group, ARM Holding, Asustek Computer Inc, Toshiba Corp and Garmin Ltd

And 34 other heavy-weight corporates

Is it handsome…

At least three prototypes were unveiled for Android at the Mobile World Congress on 12th Feb ’08

At the Google IO conference on 28th May ‘08 had a 528 MHz Qualcomm processor and a touch screen and had a 128 MB of RAM and 8 GB of flash.

One of the prototypes

T-Mobile G1

It was released in the US on October 22, 2008, in the UK on October 30, 2008,

Why it’s gonna rock ?

Handset layout

The platform is adaptable to VGA, 2D graphics library, 3D graphics library based on OpenGL ES 1.0 specifications, and traditional smart phone layouts.

Why it’s gonna rock ?

Storage

The Database Software SQLite is used for data storage purposes

Why it’s gonna rock ?

Connectivity

Android supports a wide variety of connectivity technologies including GSM/EDGE, CDMA, EV-DO, UMTS, Bluetooth, and Wi-Fi.

Why it’s gonna rock ?

Messaging

SMS and MMS are available forms of messaging including threaded text messaging.

Why it’s gonna rock ?

Web browser

The web browser available in Android is based on the open-source WebKit application framework.

Why it’s gonna rock ?

Dalvik virtual machine

Software written in Java can be compiled into Dalvik bytecodes and executed in the Dalvik virtual machine, which is a specialized VM implementation designed for mobile device use, although not technically a standard Java Virtual Machine

Why it’s gonna rock ?

Media support

Android will support advanced audio/video/still media formats such as MPEG-4, H.264, MP3, AAC, OGG, AMR, JPEG, PNG, GIF.

Why it’s gonna rock ?

Additional hardware support

Android is fully capable of utilizing video/still cameras, touchscreens, GPS, accelerometers, and accelerated 3D graphics.

Why it’s gonna rock ?

Development environment

Includes a device emulator, tools for debugging, memory and performance profiling, a plugin for the Eclipse IDE.

Why it’s gonna rock ?

Google threw open the entire source code (including network and telephony stacks) that were not available previously, under an Apache license

How it’s gonna rock ?

God knows… next slide please

Oh.. This is how…

And it won’t rock because…

Software installed by users must be written in Java utilizing Android's specific API. A non-standard Bionic C library in use at core.

Compared with Openmoko Linux, Android runs a customized Linux stack with no support for GUI libraries other than Skia

Android ain’t 100% open-source despite what was announced by Google. Parts of the SDK are also proprietary and closed source

Google can control the platform

Who’s gonna rock android…

Micro$oft is readying WinMo 7 OS which looks promising as well (if rumors are to be believed)

Nokia has bought Symbian Inc. and is readying new OS in alliance with SonyE

BlackBerry has released Strom, which converges HD-movies, Internet, Apps, Phone into one device (expect more releases in coming months !!)

And not to forget Apple’s iPhone

That’s all folks(Thanks for being patient)