Google's I/O Conference Shows Off Android Mobile OS

by Aric Annear on May 29, 2008

Google took Android, their mobile phone OS due for release later this year, out for a stroll yesterday at the Google I/O conference in San Francisco. Vic Gundotra (Android's VP of Engineering) led a keynote bringing various developers on the project onstage to discuss the status of the mobile OS.

Highlights of the keynote include Android's HTML5 offline integration, AJAX calls for rich media, and Java 5 support. If that sounds like Greek, what it means is that the mobile phone web browsing experience will start looking much, much more like your desktop browsing experience, with particular focus on social media sites (like MySpace and YouTube) and blogs.

Check out the Android OS in action in this YouTube clip taken from the keynote, and read more about the conference here.