Texas Instruments is using the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona to showcase prototype handsets based on the Android mobile platform, the Google-backed initiative based on Mobile Linux.
TI's early Android prototypes take two forms. First, a handset based on its OMAP850 processor, which also includes its WiLink Wireless LAN and Bluetooth technology, and an OMAP3430 processor-based Zoom Mobile Development Kit from Logic PD.
In terms of the UI and functionality of the devices, TI promises "quick and easy access" to applications such as web browsing, email, messaging and video... [read the full story]
Read our full Mobile World Congress coverage, and also, check out our guide to Mobile Linux - the open source, Google-backed Android platform being based on Linux.
As well as adding a dynamic news feed and links to Android resources, we've also added the video showing Google's Sergey Brin and Steve Horowitz discuss the availability of the Android SDK and demo some applications.
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