Posts filed under Google Android prototypes

Well that didn’t take long – no sooner had I posted about Google Android prototypes being on display at MWC 2008, than up pops a picture of one!

You can’t really see much – in fact, it looks just like an old Sony Ericsson P900 smartphone externally (which it probably is – this is a prototype, remember). However, it’s the software we’re really interested in, and there’s just not enough detail in this pic to give us any idea of what we can expect from Google Android phones.

More Google Android pics coming up, though, so stay tuned.

[Source: TechCrunch]

The Mobile World Congress 2008 (formerly known as 3GSM) has just kicked off in Barcelona, and the first bit of news to come from the event is a revealing interview with Google’s Rich Miner who talks about the new Google Android platform.

In an interview with Rory Cellan-Jones of the BBC, Miner confirms that there will be prototype Android phones and services on display at MWC, and that the phones themselves will be ready in the second quarter of 2008. He also explained Google’s business model behind Android: provide a free open platform to a new market, and pretty soon the ads will follow. If Google develops that platform, then naturally it will be Google delivering (and profiting from) the ads.

We all knew this, of course, but it’s good to hear it from the horse’s mouth.

We’ll give you pics and details of the new Google Android prototypes as we get them.

[Source: BBC News]