Android Alpha OS Hand’s On Video With BBC Reporter

Google and the Open Handset Alliance’s Android OS gets a thorough going over by BBC tech journo Darren Waters alongside Andy Rubin (Google’s director of mobile platforms).

The video shows the operating system running on an unknown 3G touchscreen prototype model with trackball. The overall look of the updated ‘Alpha’ OS is very impressive and clean. Along with a brief Quake demo Rubin also unveiled a version of Street View for the device.

Rubin talks about how the lack of oppeness in has stifled progress and innovation in the cellphone space and goes onto talk about how Android will give developers the tools and scope to really innovate and push boundaries.

“What Android enables for third party developers is the kind of programming we see on the internet,” he says.

“What it enables is agility and rapid innovation and the same kind of innovation that happens on the internet.”

You can read the full interview with Google’s director of mobile platforms, Andy Rubin here

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