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Verizon Wireless seems to consider to join the 34 Open Handset Alliance members in supporting Android mobile phone platform.
When Verizon Wireless announced its plans to open its wireless network to third-party apps and unlocked handsets, last week, there was little question amongst members of the press that Google’s recently announced Open Handset Alliance had played something of a role in pushing the nation’s second largest wireless carrier–long known for being the most restrictive–toward this newfound openness.
During a Q&A session at the end of the press conference, one reporter asked Verizon chief executive Lowell McAdam whether the company’s new open intiative, set to be launched toward the beginning of next year, also signaled that the company was more seriously considering joining the 34 companies that had signed up for Android–a move Verizon had previously been very weary of making.
Source: PCMag
This is a crucial issues between Google and Sun in term of using Java application. Google created Dalvik in order to avert paying license to Sun?
Instead of using the standards-based Java Micro Edition (JME) as an engine to run Java applications, Google wrote its own virtual machine for Android, calling it Dalvik. There are technical advantages and disadvantages to using Dalvik, developers say, but technology may not have been the driver for Google.
Google most likely built Dalvik as a way to get around licensing issues with Sun that would have come with using JME, said Stefano Mazzocchi, a developer and board member at Apache Labs.