By Nick Farrell
27 August 2008, 7:39 AM

SEARCH ENGINE OUTFIT Google has dropped Bluetooth and the GTalkService instant messaging from the set of tools for the first version of the mobile phone OS, Android 1.0. Writing in the Android Developers bog Nick Pelly said that developers ran out of time.

Android Bluetooth API was pretty far along, but needed some clean-up before it could be made part of the SDK. If it had been put in the 1.0 SDK it would have locked Android into that API for years. There were security problems with GTalkService which would have forced developers, rather than Google, to come up with ideas to fix them after the release of Android. GTalkService revealed personal details about a caller.

Google promised to support a Bluetooth API in a future release of Android although Pelly did not know when that would be. We can't say we are surprised. Here Android is, brain the size of a planet and Google can't be bothered to sort out how to make it talk. I ask you, it is typical and very, very depressing.