Your Mobile: Will ‘Dream’ Become Reality in May?
Smart phones can’t afford to be dumb. You and I know. And that’s what Google also knows. So the Net-search major had formed a consortium of nearly 30 other like-minded tech and telecom companies to transform the mobile phone market with an ‘open’ platform: Android, kicked off during November last year.

The consortium is christened Open Handset Alliance and the Android phones aim to give users a heavenly “com-com” (it’s, I think, a simple way to write computing and communications) experience not available on today’s phones.

Now, the news: the first Android phone is likely to hit the market next month. It may be a pure hearsay that the Taiwan-based mobile device maker, HTC, is going to introduce it under the brand name ‘Dream’. But let’s assume it’s true, for now.

In the beginning, the product could be a mere prototype, as Google is currently trying to rope in developers under its ‘open’ system to create myriad applications for Android phones. So the fully working models are expected to be available by June or may be later.

If these Android phones are really smart, they would soon try to outsmart the others like Apple iPhone, AT&T Tilt, LG Voyager, Nokia N95, RIM BlackBerry Curve, and Samsung Glyde.

For the time being, let’s keep our fingers crossed and ear to the ground.

Now, My Techbox asks:
Will the current population of 3 billion mobile users be interested in swanky services available on future handsets? Or will they be for a few affluents?

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