Google and T-Mobile unveil their first joint mobile phone officially September 22, 2008.
Android
The device manufactured by HTC will have Google's
open source operating system Android running as its brain, nervous system and
blood stream. The speculated name will be the HTC Dream also known as the
GPhone, another "I-phone" Killer....
There have been many speculations on what the final
specifications of the phone will be, many anticipate it will out do apple's
benchmark I-phone which has been a leader when it comes to smart phones.
The purpose of this article is not to praise and
market the I-phone (Steve Jobs has already taken care of that and he did a damn
good job :) ! ) but to shed some light on what I believe is Google's foot in
the door and how they will revolutionize the mobile world just as they have
done the internet (Presurance.com).
Consider the smart phone market as a big pie, where
the slices have been made by different bakers or chefs eg windows mobile,
Symbian, Palm, RIM and apple. These slices have been difficult to bring to life
and not only that, the slices are difficult to eat because the chefs didn't
really know what they were doing or why they made the slices the way they did.
Google is creating a whole new pie, for hungry folks and it will create a lot
of demand because there are so many people starving for Google’s pie that does
not require a chef to create. It is open source therefore you can toss it in
your own oven at home or microwave it to get great tasting pizza. They are
cutting out all the middle crap that makes phone development expensive for
careers, this results in price competitive handsets, making everyone a winner.
In a nut shell, Android will be the next big wave
and there will be so much development towards its growth, and versatility.
Regions and countries big on mobile phones will fuel the growth of this
"Android"; these include Britain,
France,
Germany Russia and most European countries. This wave will also hit Africa,
with South Africa
and rapidly growing economies such as Ghana
and its sub-Saharan counterparts. The economic impacts and opportunities will
be discussed in a separate article coming soon exclusively to presurance.com.
