If you got excited about the iPhone then get ready for the next roller coaster ride, the Android Phone. If you haven’t been following lately then you probably haven’t missed much. But now that summer is near, so is the debut of the Android Phone, which will be based on a new open source operating system called Android. Android represents Google’s stab at Windows, Linux and Mac OS. Oh, and according to Google’s website there isn’t going to be a Google Phone, just phones that run on Android.
To make the things interesting, Google is working to make sure Android phones will not be limited to traditional wireless networks. To this end, Google is backing a new company (I would say startup, but this is going to be huge) called Clearwire that will provide WiMAX as an alternative to traditional cellular. They aren’t alone, according to Google’s blog “Google, Comcast, Intel Capital, Time Warner Cable, Bright House Networks and Trilogy Equity Partners have entered into an agreement to invest $3.2 billion in a new wireless broadband company.” - talk about big deals.
The essentials include a merger of Sprint and Clearwire WiMAX networks. Google is invested in this deal because they plan to leverage the new network for the Google Phone. This definitely has broader implications such as a better alternative to wired Internet connections and wifi.
Definitely check out the video and the next generation phone.
