Love it or hate it, Apple's trendy new iPhone is taking some selected countries around the world by storm. In anticipation of the expected deluge of customer queries O2 UK has employed an additional 1427 staff, including sales and support staff. Not too bad for one single product in the veritable sea of mobile handsets. I guess Apple will be on a few more peoples' Christmas list this year. Now we just have to await a release date for the rest of us.
But while the iPhone is here (sort of) the Google behemoth hasn't been resting on it laurels. Back in 2005 Google bought out a company called Android. After seemingly endless speculation about Google's own handset, nicknamed the "GPhone", last month the search engine masters announced instead an open source operating system and programming framework for mobile devices. The system is being supported by a consortium of some of the world's mobile phone and technology heavyweights such as Motorola, LG, Samsung, NTT DoCoMo and Intel. "What exactly does that mean to me?" you may ask. That's a good question. Right now, not much, but in the next few years, probably a whole lot! Starting from around the middle of next year handsets running the new operating system will start popping up all over the place. Because the system is open it will allow programmers from around the world to create some really cool applications that you can install on your phone; programs that are useful to YOU! Expect your phone to go from being simply a text messaging reader to a complete lifestyle device. Captain Kirk is going to be so jealous.
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