it's perfectly possible for a company with Google's clout and resources to hire more hardware engineers and designers, create unique devices, and outsource its manufacturing. Here are five reasons why it should do just that.

Now you can use your Samsung Galaxy phone or tablet to share any content to any MirrorOp Professional enabled central display. Completely flexible and universally compatible with any app, the MirrorOp sender allows you to easily share pictures, movies, games or presentations onto your TV or projector.

OpenXC is an API to your car - by installing a small hardware module to read and translate metrics from a car's internal network, the data becomes accessible from most Android applications using the OpenXC library. You can start making vehicle-aware applications that have better interfaces based on context, can minimize distraction while driving, are integrated with other connected services, and can offer you more insight into your car's operation. Ford Motor Company and Bug Labs joined up to create a standard way of creating aftermarket software and hardware for vehicles.

The Android Developer's Cookbook

Co-authored by Jim Steele, our VP of Engineering, and published in October 2010, the Android Developer's Cookbook has quickly risen to be a best seller on Amazon and reviewed by readers to be an "awesome cookbook" that helps applications developers to start working on Android.