Android Developer Challenge

Android -->An Open Handset Alliance Project

Andriod is basically an open source mobile operating system (or a mobile platform) which is to be used in Google's mobile phone.

A prototype of Android mobile phone platform would be demonstrated next week at the world's biggest wireless fair.

Google plans to deploy phones and services using the Android platform commercially in the second half of this year.

Google established an alliance of more than 30 carriers, handset makers, Software firms and chipmakers in November to develop Android, which is based on open-source software and designed to make the Internet work better on mobile phones.

The Android Developer Challenge will award $10 million to developers who build great apps for Android.

Research firm Strategy Analytics has estimated that Android will be in 2 percent of smartphones this year.

Hope Android makes it well in the market ...

Sources: Google , Reuters