Android Has An Interesting Couple Of Days
Posted by Benny Torres | November 6, 2008
Our very own gPhone addict Matt Story is constantly extolling the virtues of his new baby, the T-Mobile G1. For the uninformed – the G1 is the first phone to use Google’s “open source” phone OS named Android. This has been a busy couple of weeks for the Android platform. Most importantly, this week hackers were able to “jailbreak” the G1 – allowing anyone and everyone (who is nerdy enough) to peer into the platform’s innards and do all kinds of fun stuff. Jailbreaking the iPhone allowed users to load custom apps nearly a year before there was the App Store – so a jailbroken G1 can only mean good (or at least interesting) things. I’ve got to think that from now on – no marginally advanced phone OS is going to be free from being “jailbroken.” More G1 news after the jump…
In other Android news – both Sprint and AT&T executives have said they’re holding off on putting Android-powered phones on their networks. Both essentially said the OS isn’t ready for “primetime.” I’d have to believe that Matt would disagree considering he hasn’t stopped talking about the gPhone since he’s gotten it. Everyone seems to think that Sprint and AT&T’s positions are pretty big barriers to Google’s proposed domination of the phone OS landscape… especially in the face of steep competition from Apple.
