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Over at Gizmodo, they’re sampling the initial Android prototypes. For those of you unfamiliar, this is a platform being created by the Open Handset Alliance. It’s supposed to be revolutionary, but it doesn’t exactly look that way right now. Anyway, give the site a visit and check out what’s up. There’s a video of a device running Android (looks a bit like the Mac OSX doc at the bottom), and a picture of Qualcomm’s test model.

After Verizon announced an open handset initiative, the only logical step from that point was to join up with Google’s Open Handset Alliance, and adopt Android, their in-the-works open-source mobile operating system. While there was some question regarding Verizon’s intentions prior to yesterday, CEO Lowell McAdam made everything clear to BusinessWeek.
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We were thrilled with the recent announcement of the Open Handset Alliance, a partnership between Google and a number of mobile phone carriers and handset and chip makers that will bring along an open-source mobile software platform. No, it’s not a Gphone, but as Google execs say, it’ll be like having 1,000 Gphones. Notably absent from the Alliance are the nation’s two top carriers: AT&T and Verizon (”hint: both companies are doing just fine with their current business models,” says EPICENTER). Well, it appears that AT&T is coming forward a bit more with its reason for reluctance.
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While it doesn’t seem very likely, rumors abound that Google, in its efforts to make an imprint in the wireless telecommunications industry, is looking to buy Sprint, the country’s No. 3 wireless carrier. This is completely a rumor, though, and may or may not have originated in the mind of TMCnet president Rich Tehrani. He puts together a decent case on his blog, though.
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