Latest report from research firm has revealed what was inevitable – that Google Android is now the world’s leading smartphone platform, well at least for Q4 2010. Yes, Android beats Nokia at number 2 and Apple at no. 3 According to Canalys, Android-based smartphone shipments have reached 32.9 million, while shipment of Nokia’s Symbian-powered smarthphones more »

In time for the arrival of the T-Mobile G1 handset to the hands of mobile consumers who ordered for it, Google has just released the Android source code freely for the public’s perusal. And so Google has launched the Android Open Source Project. What this means is that anyone can download the source code and play around with it to come up with a useful application for the T-Mobile G1 phone or some other Android phone.

The Android platform promises to be “a complete, end-to-end software platform that can be adapted to work on any number of hardware configurations.” By releasing its source code to the public, Google, third party applications developers and mobile phone manufacturers who are eying to get a piece of the Google branding success would definitely find the Android source code a valuable tool for whatever purposes it may serve them. Continued after the break.