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Google Android 3.0 & Google Music Service Coming This Winter?

Article first published as Google Android 3.0 & Google Music Service Coming This Winter? on Technorati.

A lot of Android owners out there are probably wondering when Android 3.0 & Google’s streaming music service will be available.

Well, according to an interview with Android Product Manager Gaurav Jain conducted by Israeli financial newspaper Calcalist, the next version of the Android operating system, Android 3.0 (code named Gingerbread) will be available in the US during this coming holiday season.

Google’s Streaming Music service, which is also due to be released along side the Android 3.0 launch, was also mentioned in the interview. During Google I/O 2010, Vic Gundontra, VP of Engineering for Google, demoed Android 2.2's  (Froyo) capability to stream iTunes music to Android.

For those you that don't know what Google’s Music service is, it’s a push-to-phone service that allows users to go to Google’s Android Market from your Mac or PC, search for a song, and have it downloaded over-the-air to your handset.

A company called mspot has already created an application for Android 2.1 that allows you to upload your iTunes music library to their servers and stream it to your Android 2.1 handset. Apple is expected to launch its own cloud-based version of iTunes later this year. It will be interesting to see which company will be able to do music streaming to handset’s better.

Intel plans to put Android on Atom powered smartphones

According to PCWorld Intel has a big plan for the Google Android mobile operating system. The company has already ported Android to smart phones using the companies Atom based processors. According to the article Renee James general manager of Intel’s software and services group has stated, “Intel is enabling all OSes for Atom phones”.  Intel is doing this to get the Atom processor into smart phones in a market that is dominated by microprocessors from Arm Holdings. Google Android was originally created to be used on smart phones running on ARM processors. But since the mobile operating system is open-source, companies will be able to change it in order to run on other processors.

While this would mean much faster & powerful smart phones, I am wondering  if this would create fragmentation in the processor market for smart phones. And if it would affect application developers. So what do you guys/gals think would it create a processor speed race between ARM & Intel? And would having two microprocessor’s powering Android create issues for application developers?

Source: PCWorld