Not robotic humanoids, but the Google-led mobile operating system that’s being primed to challenge the iPhone for its throne. “Android adoption is about to explode,” Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt claimed in an earnings conference this week. “You have all the necessary conditions.”
Those conditions, of course, being the newfound availability of Android-powered phones. With a total of twelve devices set to be available within the next month, distribution in 26 countries and plenty of buzz, it could well be true.
Why the excitement about this OS? Since Android was released as an open source platform, Google essentially saved manufacturers plenty of overhead. Rather than design a smartphone platform from the ground up, they opened it up for customizations, allowing each cellphone maker to put in changes as they pleased. It allowed them to focus on hardware and usability, rather than underlying operations.
Come Christmas season, Android will be the OS running on four smartphones from HTC, two from Motorola, two from Samsung, one from Dell, one from Huawei, one from LG and another from Acer. More importantly, that roster is continually growing, with many more planned releases for the coming year.
With Google’s non-stop improvement of the platform, the increasing number of apps and the continued support from manufacturers, 2010 will be an interesting year for smartphones. Has the iPhone Killer finally arrived and is it ready for primetime?
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