Google Android From Sony Ericsson

Google Android mobile phone on its way from Sony Ericsson.
Despite earlier rumours that they weren’t going to be doing so, Sony Ericsson have confirmed they are planning on making a Google Android mobile phone, and have confirmed they have signed up to the Open Handset Alliance, Engadget Mobile reports.

Of course, it’s not just them, as people like Asus, Toshiba and Vodafone have also been announced as joining, but in terms of new rockin’ mobile phones for the consumer, Sony Ericsson are the big name signed on who can potentially deliver the coolest mobile phone quickest.

That’s needed badly, because, despite the T-Mobile G1 being new, hugely innovative, and, I have to admit, pretty cool, the first of any breed never changes the world it’s born into. Even if you look at the T-Mobile G1 objectively, that mobile phone alone can’t change the landscape around it, much the same way the iPhone didn’t start to make real sense as a purchase until the second version was released. It’s more of a demonstrator of what may be possible. Well the Sony Ericsson Android handset be the mobile phone to take that example, and make the phone actually into the world-changing, universe-breaker that the T-Mobile G1 simply can’t be?

Well, time will tell, of course, but consider how the Sony Ericsson X1 is doing, and consider the rave reviews it’s getting. Also consider that the Sony Ericsson X1 is the first ever Windows Mobile phone I’ve ever wanted to own, since it makes Windows Mobile, well, nice.

So, if they can take an operating system they’ve never used before, and create the best Windows Mobile phone ever made, with the Sony Ericsson X1, imagine what they can do with Google Android.

Oh, and ten billion quid says the first one will be an Xperia mobile phone