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This isn’t really directly Android related, but it is interesting to see that Microsoft has just posted a job description on a Seattle job-hunting site that describes a position as a lead for its “Skymarket” project for Windows Mobile 7.
If Apple, Google, and Microsoft are all going to have integrated app stores, it seems likely [...]

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Information week is reporting that analyst firm J. Gold Associates is saying that it expects Nokia’s newly open sourced S60 UI and Symbian OS and Google’s Android are going merge starting in the next “three to six months.”
J. Gold states that the merger makes sense because they are both open source and the move would [...]

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Bill Hughes of market research firm In-Stat is predicting that 17.1 million Google Android OS based devices will be sold in 2009, nearly double what he is predicting for world-wide Apple iPhone sales. He believes that the Chinese market will be the driving force behind Android adoption, with its 1 billion potential cell phone [...]

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It appears that Google’s Android will have a new, and quite formidable, open source competitor in the near future. Today Nokia announced that it was purchasing the remainder of Symbian Limited, the company that makes the Symbian OS, and that it would be turning over the OS and its own S60 user interface to [...]

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A couple of videos have shown up on YouTube that claim to show Android running on a Nokia N95 smartphone, a device that normally runs the Symbian OS with Nokia’s S60 user interface.
Android has been sucessfully ported to Nokia’s Linux based N810 Internet Tablet, as well as a number of HTC smartphones that run Windows [...]

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