Google Android to be launched within this year

Ever since Google made the announcement about Android, much has been talked about the mobile software system. Almost every other day, you could see someone talking about Android. The kind of buzz it created in the market was incredible. The initial reaction was nothing but excitement for Android, then it was seen as the potential Apple iPhone killer, and things were looking bright. But then, after some time, some people questioned Google’s logic of making people wait for a long time to get a glimpse of its product. The wait, however, is over.

Last week, at the Annual Developer Conference at San Francisco, Google unveiled the near-completed Android platform to people. The reaction from the crowd gathered there, unanimously, was a big ‘wow.’

Sample this – you can unlock phones by drawing a certain shape on the touch screen. No need to enter passwords or any such thing. On the homepage of the device, you can bookmark all your favorite web pages. There is a magnifying tool that you can use to zoom in on the text in the web pages. And there is an automatic compass tool which helps you with road maps. With all this and more, Android certainly caught everyone’s attention at the conference.

Google has also made it clear that Android will be launched within this year. Google firmly believes that its open source mobile platform will benefit users more and will become the major player in the future.

Analysts believe that with close to 3 billion mobile phones in the market, the scope for an open source mobile platform like Android is huge. They estimate that Google could be able to rake in as much as $5 billion every year from the mobile advertising market.

I have no doubt that Android will be a very useful, very innovative, and very futuristic platform. However, the important thing here is its ability to change certain perceptions about mobile web like the Apple iPhone did. Before the launch of iPhone, surfing the internet from the mobile phone was considered a cumbersome process and very few did that. Bang came in the iPhone and made mobile surfing so much easier. Similarly, if Android could change certain perceptions about mobile phone and offer great user experience, we are in for another revolution in the mobile industry. Are you excited about the launch of Android? Will you give it a try? Most importantly, do you think it will live up to its expectations?

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