Samsung Android: 2nd Quarter
Posted by Sam Churchill on December 19th, 2008
Samsung will release its first Google phone in the second quarter of the next year via Sprint Nextel and T-Mobile USA, say industry insiders. The Google phone will feature the Google Map based location information service, messenger G-Talk, the G-mail application and Google Search.
Sprint organized a task force team a year ago to develop a Google phone. The company is predicted to select a full touch screen phone similar to the one that it adapted to Omnia and Instinct.
An official of Samsung Electronics said, “We are accelerating the development process for Google phone in order to meet the specific need of local carriers. We will be able to release Google phone in the second quarter of the next year in the US market.”
Meanwhile competition in the smart phone market is likely to become fierce with Symbian and Windows Mobile losing its shares to Apple with its Mac OS X and Android emerging. Beside’s the Android Open Handset Alliance, other open mobile platforms include Nokia’s Symbian Foundation and LiMo.
The iPhone now commands over 30 percent of the U.S. smartphone market.
source: dailywireless.org
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