Android UI Video Demo Shows off Multitouch, Google Maps, Quake
Google’s Sergei Brin and Steve Horowitz show off multiple prototypes of the Android platform, one of which has a Palm smartphone form factor and one that has a higher-end, HTC Windows Mobile form factor. The former shows off text messaging and Google maps (which looks pretty great, btw), and the latter shows off 3G desktop-quality web browsing using webkit. There’s also 3D OpenGL rendering, application feature sharing, and iPhone-esque finger gesturing. If you weren’t excited about Android yet, just think about how this could turn out to be the open-source iPhone. [YouTube]
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WHy is it that we have too many ill informed people commenting stupid comments on this thread. Most people here are commenting on the UI and applications and stuff. Forget about them. THis is an Open Source OS and API set. You take the SDK and you design your own Interface and applications for it. Being a google SDK would mean it may be easier to also intergrate google applications in to this also. But at the end of the day who really cares about the look, I will put money on it that there will be that many different looks between all the vendors that it would be hard to tell if they were all Android.
I do hope thou that ASAP someone makes an application for this that can change the look, style and layout easily. being OSS, I would expect an XML/CSS style interface so it should be very easy to write up new interface layouts and styles.
The other thing I hope is that someone out their gets the SDK and creates version to suit todays devices, like the HTC Dopod etc. Maybe even a basic version for my SE w880i…