Verizon knocking down walled garden; getting into bed with Google's Android?

I wonder, I wonder. This is the kind of news that makes my heart warm. A big, big carrier going open source, dumping its walled gardens and embracing Google’s Android? Hmmm. Or is it just, as is commented in the piece, ‘a press release’?

I’ll watch this one carefully.

The chaps at Gizmodo have the news on the story…

Link: Verizon N Google: Verizon Hugs Google, Says Android Is Key to Open Networks

In a breaking BusinessWeek story, Verizon Wireless CEO Lowell McAdam says that it will support Android, Google’s new platform for phones and mobile devices, making Verizon a member of sorts in the Open Handset Alliance. While this seems to be the logical conclusion to Verizon’s weeklong openness bender, McAdam claims that it was the Android platform that “facilitated” Verizon’s move out of the walled garden.