We had quite a party here yesterday with the new Google Android that was released the same day.

Google Android is an open source operating system and development platform for all sorts of mobile devices. It’s based on the popular operating system Linux and can thus be expected to be able to run (or be made to run) on almost any hardware in the wild.

But Google Android is more than this. It comes with a variety of tools which should enable developers to churn out great applications for mobile platforms with more efficiency and less hassle than ever before. Not that every other operating system for mobile devices has been developed to be hostile to developers, not at all, but with Google Android it’s simply just open and with a lower barriers of entry: It’s free, documented and it’ll more than likely develop a broad eco-system around it as many other open source projects have.

Google Android is developed by the Open Handset Alliance, a consortium of 34 companies working in the fields of hardware, software and telecoms.

We welcome Google Android and we look forward to working with it for our projects. Both in a geeky manner and with regards to the fact that Google and the other members of the Open Handset Alliance bring new energy into the arena of mobile and embedded devices.