Google’s Android

34 mobile and technology leaders came together to form the Open Handset Alliance offering consumers an extremely cost efficient, powerful mobile experience, a mobile platform freely available to all handset makers and wireless carriers. Although most of us can’t get our hands an android enabled phone yet, we can take some sneak peeks at it and at least get the latest updates on whats happening with this mobile industry changing, ANDROID!

On November 5th, 2007 the open handset alliance announced Android. November 12th, 2007 Google released a software development kit for the platform and is already encouraging third-party development by offering $10 million in prizes to those who build the best applications. April 17th 2008 1,788 submissions were received. 20 winners were announced on Aug 28th. $5 million was awarded to developers for great Android applications. September 23rd, 2008 The world’s first Android-powered phone is announced. Phones will be available to consumers on October 22 at a much more reasonable rate than many would have expected, Tmobile, the only carrier so far, has been selling the G1 to customers at around $180 with a two year agreement of course! Although,….. customers have to pre-order and it takes some time before you actually get your phone. There are leaks out that Best Buy is selling the T-Mobile G1 in October or early November.

Well, we may not be able to get our hands on anything yet but You can find multiple decent quality demonstration videos on the so far only, android enabled phone, the TMobile G1 at android.com heres a link to the site, Make it your own