Google announces Android and Open Handset Alliance as highlights of their mobile phone plans.

Android is the first truly open and comprehensive platform for mobile devices. It includes an operating system, user-interface, applications, and all other software needed to run a mobile phone.

Android is in cooperation with the Open Handset Alliance, which consists of more than 30 technology and mobile leaders including Motorola, Qualcomm, HTC, and T-Mobile.
Google Android based phones will be hitting the market in the second half of 2008.

The details about Android will show if this Google announcement is really going to change the way we use mobile phones in the near future.
Via the Google blog.