Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 5th Nov 2007 21:36 UTC, submitted by irbis
Google and 33 other companies have announced an ambitious industry alliance that will maintain a completely open source mobile phone stack. The Open Handset Alliance says phones based on its Linux-based 'Android' stack will reach market in as soon as eight months. The Android stack is based on 'open Linux kernel', the group says. It also includes a full set of mobile phone application software, in order to "significantly lower the cost of developing and distributing mobile devices and services", OHA said.
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2005-07-06
it is likely that Android is a Java based system (some of the members in the page deals with java). it can be like Savaje, a very thin OS layer and everything else is running on a Java virtual machine. i think Savaje was Java 1.4 compliant, so it is not a far fetched guess that Android supports a form of Java standard edition, not micro edition. There are already fully functional java browsers available, such as http://www.webrenderer.com/ so,browser can be covered easily. But still, all are guesses.