Fasten your seat belts: Android is comming

T-Mobile has recently annouced that will have a Android phone still this year.
Time to see what happens with this new player in mobile platform war!

From: Engadget Mobile

Is mobile fragmentation an issue or reality?

Funny! Couple weeks ago, I've asked Marcelo about Apple SDK in his blog. Seriously, fragmentation is a reality. We're always trying to avoid it, having a standard and trying to reduce the way of delivering and developing applications... But, is this the only way doing business here?

I'm convinced Java is a great development platform, but it will not surive in the "write once, run anywhere" way for so long. Don't get sad JME guys. I'm not thinking or even telling Java is going to die. It's a pretty mature platform, but it will co-exist. At least not for now.
I believe Android (funny picture aside!), iPhone SDK, Java, Symbian will co-exists as well. And seems like the only convergence point is (again?) the web: Webservices, widgets/wisets will definetely defines the new user experience to mobile-browsing in the internet, enhancing competition for services and content, not for delivery.

In my opinion, we're facing different scenarios:

• Platform based changes - where Google promisses launching it's own O.S - Android.
• End user experience - iPhone definetely re-invented this business.
  
• Internet services - Widgets and Widsets (more in forum.nokia.com) and
• Yahoo! Go (and next, Yahoo! Connect) experience.
  

So, developers might think to work in three kind of business:

• Specific device-target development (iPhone, N95, etc)
  

• General device development (Java dev.)
  

• Mobile internet services development (Widsets/Widgets dev.)
  

Can you think out of the box? Make your points!

Nothing is created, nothing is destroyed...

... everything is copied! (In a sweet way, by the way)


Check this: Samsung Instinct experience -- from Engadget
and video!