The Google Android Alliance. It sounds like something out of a Ed Wood science fiction movie, and maybe it is. Google has now announced its plan for the Google Mobile Phone, and it is not a phone at all — at least not yet.

As Search Engine Land reports it is a an open source mobile operating system. It is like Windows or a Mac OS for mobile phones and appliances. Android is based on the Linux operating system.

The Open Handset Alliance

So far more than 30 companies has signed up for the Open Handset Alliance.

Among the memberswe find LG, HTC, T-mobile, Sprint, and other telephone companies and manufactures. There are also software companies (eBay), semiconductor companies (Intel), and commercialization companies on board.

These companies are committed to commercially deploy handsets and services using the Android Platform in the second half of 2008.

Major players missing

Who are missing? Well Microsoft and Apple are not on board. They have both their own operating systems running on mobile phones. Nokia is not on the list either. It remains to be seen if the Finns will stick to their own solutions.

US Verizon and At&T are also absent, as are Vodaphone and France Telecom.

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