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There is no Gphone, but are there Android T-shirts?

Google’s being officially “no” at the moment about an actual Gphone, instead insisting that all the hubbub is really about Android, the open source mobile platform that the’ve put together.

Today was the release of an early look of the SDK, which when released in full in 2008, will allow anyone to develop complete full functioning programs for the Android platform. Along with this, google dropped a few more videos, highlighting a first look at the software in the works.

Those Android guys are really smart cookies, however video presenters they aren’t. No matter, because a few coders were seen wearing Android T-shirts, which forgave them any faults. That shirt is going to be the ultimate geek gift for Christmas (besides the XO, of course) if anyone can get their hands on this.

• Android @Google Code
• Open handset Alliance

Introducing Android from Google, your new mobile overlords, err, saviors

For the record, this isn’t ALL from Google, thirty-four companies have come together to help develop the first globally open, comprehensible mobile OS platform. They are the Open Handset Alliance, and the project is called Android.

Stay tuned for the breakdown after this introduction from a few of the co-creators. Notice the abundance of handsome bears collaborating in this video, this has to be a good thing, eh?

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