Google has just released the Android open mobile platform SDK today for download. Android is a open source mobile platform that consists of Linux as the operating system and Java as the middleware for developing mobile applications. Android is a complete mobile phone stack -- meaning the whole software can be used to run a mobile phone. It has everything that is needed to make a mobile phone work.

One more good news is that Google has started the Android Developers Challenge in which the winning mobile applications will get US$10,000,000 in prize money. 

The Philippines is well-known for the title of "SMS Capital of the World" or "Text Messaging Capital of the World" aptly so because we hold the highest number of text messaging traffic per day than any other country.

In a small country such as ours where even children as young as 10 years old have their own mobile phones we have made text messaging part of our everyday lives. But this is not the only thing worth noting.

Apple has released new models of their popular music/video players called Ipods. Aside from new features for the Ipod Nano and Ipod Classic models, the all-new Apple Ipod Touch model will be also available.

The Nokia N95, one of the most awaited cell phones from Nokia is already coming up with another version. Nokia has recently officially announced an upcoming Nokia N95 with 8GB of storage.

The Nokia N95 8GB, which is a GSM/WCDMA cellular phone, supports dual mode EGSM 850/900/1800/1900 and WCDMA 2100 HSDPA.