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It's important to recognize that the Open Handset Alliance and Android have the potential to be major changes from the status quo - one which will take patience and much investment by the various players before you'll see the first benefits. For this reason, Android will complement, but not replace, our longstanding mobile strategy of developing useful and compelling mobile services and driving adoption of these products through partnerships with handset manufacturers and mobile operators around the world. Our goals must be independent of device or even platform. We recognize that many among the multitude of mobile users around the world do not and may never have an Android-based phone. We see Android as an important part of our strategy of furthering Google's goal of providing access to information to users wherever they are. We think the result will ultimately be a better and faster pace for innovation that will give mobile customers unforeseen applications and capabilities. Through deep partnerships with carriers, device manufacturers, developers, and others, we hope to enable an open ecosystem for the mobile world by creating a standard, open mobile software platform.

We have developed Android in cooperation with the Open Handset Alliance, which consists of more than 30 technology and mobile leaders including Motorola, Qualcomm, HTC and T-Mobile. It includes an operating system, user-interface and applications - all of the software to run a mobile phone, but without the proprietary obstacles that have hindered mobile innovation. In fact, through the joint efforts of the members of the Open Handset Alliance, we hope Android will be the foundation for many new phones and will create an entirely new mobile experience for users, with new applications and new capabilities we can’t imagine today.Īndroid is the first truly open and comprehensive platform for mobile devices.

However, we think what we are announcing - the Open Handset Alliance and Android - is more significant and ambitious than a single phone. Posted by Andy Rubin, Director of Mobile Platformsĭespite all of the very interesting speculation over the last few months, we're not announcing a Gphone.