NOW, GOOGLE LETS DEVELOPERS CUSTOMISE APPLICATIONS FOR G-PHONE

San Francisco
The Economic Times

Google has released a kit for software developers to create fun, hip or functional programs for the "G-phone" in a direct challenge to Apple's hot-selling iPhone.

The Android 1.0 software developers kit lets computer programming wizards customize applications that will work on the open-source platform built into the G1 handsets being brought to market by telecom carrier T-Mobile.

The T-Mobile G1 phones are heralded as the first of a generation of devices built on the Google-led Android operating platform.

Apple recently began letting outside developers customize applications for iPhones and iPod Touch models but vets programs carefully and safeguards details of proprietary software built into its products.