Filed under: cellular, Google, Gphone, HTC, Microsoft, mobile, Motorola, Samsung
Google today announced its much anticipated cell phone strategy. Instead of competing with cell phone manufacturers, Google plans to provide the software to run on handsets manufactured by some of the worlds leading cell phone manufacturers including Motorola, HTC and Samsung, with additional partners anticipated in the future. There will be no Google phone or GPhone, rather, Google with license the software for free to handset manufacturers to encourage them to develop mobile computing and communications platforms that will surpass the Symbian and Windows Mobile smartphones that are currently available on the market.
Consumer electronics hype junkies will be disappointed, but may change their mind when the new handsets start rolling out in the second half of next year.
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