After months of wild speculation, Google has finally introduced its new “GPhone.” There’s just one problem: it’s not actually a phone at all. What Google has created a something far greater than a shiny new mobile phone. The company is planning a worldwide alliance between various mobile phone companies, programmers, and cell phone service carriers.

If Google has its way, all of these disparate entities will develop a new worldwide “open source” wireless phone technology. It turns out that Google’s new phone, is actually a cell phone operating system known as “Android.” The idea is for android to do for mobile phones what the development of the Internet did for home computers. Think of it as Windows XP for your phone — now you’re getting the idea.

And because the new Android cell phone operating system is “open source,” programmers around the world will be able to develop software to run on any phone using Google’s system, pretty neat, eh?

But before Google can take over the cell phone world the same way it has the Internet, it’s going to have a bit of a fight on its hands to make this worldwide open cell phone market a reality. In the United States, the cell phone market has been traditionally closed, with carriers “locking” phones to their specific network as a type of protectionism.

Google is going to have to win over (or crush) some huge cell phone industry players in the US to make their “open source” plan a reality. You can just imagine that old giants like AT&T will not be very happy with the idea of an “open source” cell phone market in the United States. Oops! There goes their entire business model…

Source: Google-Phone

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