LG will launch Android phone by early 2009
LG Electronics plans to start selling a phone model running on Android, the highly anticipated mobile phone operating system, at the start of next year at the latest, a senior official said. During an interview at the Mobile World Congress trade show LG’s vice president for marketing strategy, Chang Ma told Reuters - “We will bring it out late in 2008 or early 2009″. LG is part of a group of about 30 companies that said they would support Google’s operating system, which is based on Linux, an open-source software platform.Service provider Deutsche Telekom’s T-Mobile and Taiwanese phone maker High Tech Computer have both said they plan to sell phones based on Android this year. Also, since LG is saying that they will sell Android phone from next year , we should be able to find out more in this year, hopefully by the end of the summer.
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