There has always been speculation that Google is developing a mobile phone (a gPhone, as most articles called it), but Google always does things differently. This time announcing the Open Handset Alliance, which is a bunch of companies that develop an open, Linux-based hardware and software platform with an open API. The platform is called Android.
There’s not much to see yet (specifically, there isn’t any phone based on Android yet) but there are two nice short videos. One is Introducing Android, which shows the team that developed it (including Andy Rubin, who you can read about in this New York Times article). The second video is called If I had a magic phone where you can see cute kids telling us what they expect from a magic phone.