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Google Calling: Inside Android, the gPhone SDK (O'ReillyNet)

Google Calling: Inside Android, the gPhone SDK (O'ReillyNet)

Posted Nov 13, 2007 2:05 UTC (Tue) by bdelacey (guest, #49013)
Parent article: Google Calling: Inside Android, the gPhone SDK (O'ReillyNet)

Thanks for the lively discussion on this topic. It's such a new area, it's great to see the
dialog taking place. 


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Google Calling: Inside Android, the gPhone SDK (O'ReillyNet)

Posted Nov 13, 2007 7:06 UTC (Tue) by kune (guest, #172) [Link]

Sorry, I have trouble to understand your statement. What is new about licensing software? As far as I can see Google has published an SDK under their own terms and have stated the intention to publish most of the components under the Apache License. As far as I can see they get nice press of being open source, when they in fact are not open source right now and will probably never be for the complete platform. I doubt that the FCC will accept open-source controlled radios on a Google platform.

Google Calling: Inside Android, the gPhone SDK (O'ReillyNet)

Posted Nov 13, 2007 10:13 UTC (Tue) by mjr (subscriber, #6979) [Link]

Doesn't seem very likely that the Linux system would directly control the radio parts. I
pretty much assume a dual chip design, where a proprietary GSM/UMTS/CDMA/whatever chip is
separate, interfaced to the application processor.

Google Calling: Inside Android, the gPhone SDK (O'ReillyNet)

Posted Nov 13, 2007 14:56 UTC (Tue) by tseaver (subscriber, #1544) [Link]

I read the OP as being in heavy sarcasm mode.

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