Miner: We refer to it as a platform because it's much more than an OS but it's based on Linux. It's a real complete stack. We've worked very hard all the way from the hardware up through all the software levels: the Linux OS, device drivers, all of the middleware, all the way up to the applications. It's a very highly optimized stack for mobile that's based on Linux.

IDGNS: Google has said it will provide a lot of flexibility for how developers, handset makers and carriers will be able to use and adapt Android and its components. Can you swap out the OS piece and use a different Linux-based OS?

Miner: It's based on Linux, so it will be released supporting a particular release of Linux, but as long as there's Linux underneath the platform and our device drivers, you should be in good shape. It's not a set of applications that could run on top of Linux or Symbian or different OSes. The platform is based on Linux.

IDGNS: And the Linux distribution will be called Android?

Miner: The handset distribution will be called Android and it's based on Linux but with a whole bunch of other components for things like optimized graphics for mobile phones, optimized database, speech recognition, video codecs. It's all of that other software that makes a handset optimized in a Linux environment we're delivering.