Talk:Android (smartphone)

Interoperability and standards

There's a lot of discussion of features, which are important for the end user in the marketplace. So far, however, I don't see a significant discussion of how the Open Smartphone Alliance will ensure interoperability. Have they set up an interoperability testing laboratory, which could even be a distributed virtual private network.

That usually comes from a combination of standards, options selected in the standard, and agreement on things that don't lend themselves to standardization, such as the operating system. Apropos of standards, I do know that the W3C Consortium is working on standards for mobile devices. Has the Android taken a position on using, or not using them?

What does Android assume about the IP stack? Is it, as a number of newer mobile phones, dependent on IPv6? What's the multimedia architecture? Does it, for example, use the Session Initiation Protocol? MIME types?

Any speculation on bandwidth required to run these features, which clearly will affect infrastructure, and even where the Androids could be used?

Howard C. Berkowitz 12:14, 10 August 2008 (CDT)