Much noise has been circulating about Google jumping into the mobile business… well now things are getting more precise. Here is their scoop from their blogs and from their video cast that you can find below. Briefly Google purchased a company called Android in mid 2005. Android’s idea was to make a open software platform based on Linux that would compete with Windows Mobile, RIM’s Blackberry and Symbian and that would be easy to use and free to use. The idea is to set a universal norm so that when developers make applications for mobiles they don’t have to port to each and every mobile device.

Of course that is the stated reason.. or lets say the nice reason, the Google reason is to power the search and the ad revenue that the wireless market has the potential of generating.

To make all of this palatable for handset manufacturers Google has founded the Open Handset Alliance and brought on board key players in the industry with people like Samsung, Motorola but also key telcos like Telefonica, Sprint and NTT DoCoMo.

So if all goes according to plan, there will be lots of phones based on the Open Handset Alliance, running Google-based services. Handset maker HTC, previously wedded to Microsoft’s Windows Mobile, has promised to deliver Android phones.

Here is what the Android/Google team has to say about their endeavor. Whatever said and done they look like they’re having fun :

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