Andorid to control your home?

The HTC Hero and Sony Ericsson Xperia X3 are already showing us just what the mighty Google Android can do when you give it a tickle. But how about using Android to control your gaff? Well that’s just what Silicon Valley types Touch Revolution reckon could happen, claiming several of tech’s biggest players are planning Android–packing household gear by the end of the year. Read on to see just what that means.

It’s taken a while, but Google Android is at last starting to get up to full speed in the battle for mobile OS supremacy. The next step though seems to be taking Android into the home, shovelling it onto devices with touchscreens as big as 10–inches according to Touch Revolution.

It says that some of tech’s biggest players will get involved with new kit that’ll do a string of different household tasks. That certainly makes sense with Acer, Asus, LG, Panasonic, Sony Ericsson and Toshiba all signed up to Google’s Open Handset Alliance.

In–home gadgets packing Android could control everything from lighting and locks to alarms and air–con. It all sounds very much like Nokia Home Control Centre, which is due to drop next year and which we’ve already fondled. That works via a mobile app, something the HTC Hero could easily deal with via Android Market.

(Via Electricpig)

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