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Acer joins Open Handset Alliance, says devices planned for Q4 2009

by Michael Oryl on Jun 01, 2009 0 Comments">0

Today Acer issued a press release announcing that it has officially joined the Open Handset Alliance. The OHA is the organization founded by Google and others that supports the Linux based Android smartphone operating system. Acer also said in the announcement that it expects to launch Android based devices in the fourth quarter of this year. The full press release is available after the jump.

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Android is heading to China Mobile via HTC

by James Tromans on May 26, 2009 0 Comments">0

According to Peter Chou, Chief Executive of HTC, China is soon to experience Android; big news for Google’s operating system. Allegedly, China Mobile will offer a customised version of the HTC Magic, called the OPhone. Stepping all over Lenovo, HTC’s OPhone is aptly named due to its association with the Open Handset Alliance. This device will give Android access to nearly 500 million subscribers. It goes without saying that China Mobile is the world’s largest mobile operator, but when you have a population of 1.3 billion people, you might think that’s not saying so much. But think again, as China …

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O2 Germany product manager supposedly claims plans for 6 to 8 Android phones in ’09

by Michael Oryl on Feb 06, 2009 0 Comments">0

According to Hayo Lücke at BasicThinking.de, O2 Germany plans to offer 6 to 8 Android OS based smartphones to its customers by the end of the year. Lücke attributes the information to an unnamed O2 XDA product manager he claims to have spoken with at O2′s Innovation Days 2009 event in Munich. Lücke says that the product manager was not willing to say when O2 would start offering Android phones. For others of you out there that can also read German, here’s an excerpt: Offiziell wollte es der Marketing-Chef zwar nicht verraten, aber der für die o2 XDAs zuständige Product-Manager …

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Garmin and ASUS announce alliance for GPS phones

by Michael Oryl on Feb 04, 2009 0 Comments">0

Well well, it seems that two OHA members have announced that they will be working together on new phones. Garmin and ASUS will be co-developing and marketing the nuvifone series that Garmin announced this time last year at the Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona. Garmin says that ASUS was its ODM partner from the start, so it makes some sense for the two of them to work together. As a result, the original nuvifone has been renamed the Garmin-ASUS nuvifone G60, and the two companies have said that they will announce a new model in Barcelona later this month …

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ASUS working on Eee Phone – no mention of Android

by Michael Oryl on Jan 14, 2009 0 Comments">0

The CEO of ASUS, Jonney Shih, recently sat down with the New York Times to talk about some of his company’s display products. While doing so, he also mentioned the Eee Phone, a device that he has said before his company was considering building. While Shih didn’t mention Android to the New York Times, Shih did more or less confirm that the Eee Phone was coming. ASUS joined the Open Handset Alliance back in December of 2008.

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Garmin to offer an Android powered smartphone in 2009? Maybe….

by Michael Oryl on Dec 22, 2008 0 Comments">0

Oh the rumors, how they flow. Here’s another gem from DigiTimes, the guys in Taiwan known for some of the most rumorific of news available on smartphones. In a piece talking about Garmin’s plans to ship 18 million navigation devices in 2008, right after mentioning the company’s plans for shipping its Nuvifone next year, DigiTimes dropped this little beauty: Garmin also plans to launch self-developed Android handsets in the second half of 2009, with production to be outsourced. There is, of course, no credit as to where that bit of information came from. Who said it? We have no idea, …

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Open Handset Alliance adds Garmin, Toshiba, Vodafone, and 11 others

by James Tromans on Dec 10, 2008 1 Comments">1

Yesterday, the Open Handset Alliance (OHA) announced a plethora of 14 brand new members to its clan of supporters. There are some pretty big names floating around in the list, including the world’s fifth largest personal computer manufacturer (Toshiba), and the world’s fourth largest mobile handset manufacturer (Sony Ericsson). Throw in Garmin to find your way and Vodafone to give you signal and you’re set. Still missing from the list are the United States’ largest mobile carriers, AT&T and Verizon Wireless. The list of new OHA members follows:

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Sony Ericsson joins the Google Android Open Handset Alliance

by Michael Oryl on Dec 09, 2008 1 Comments">1

Today Sony Ericsson announced that it has joined the ranks of the Android faitful by becomming a member of the Open Handset Alliance. The brief press releases can be seen below: Sony Ericsson extends portfolio strategy to include support for Open Handset Alliance London, December 9 2008 – Sony Ericsson today announced the extension of its portfolio strategy to include support for the Open Handset Alliance “Sony Ericsson is excited to announce its membership of the Open Handset Alliance and confirm its intention to develop a handset based on the Android platform,” said Rikko Sakaguchi, CVP and head of Creation …

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Google invites ASUS to join the OHA Android party

by Darcy LaCouvee on Sep 17, 2008 0 Comments">0

ChinaKnowledge.com is reporting that yesterday Google extended an invitation to join the Open Handset Alliance to Taiwan’s ASUS. ASUS has been making Windows Mobile based smartphones for some time, and would probably be a decent fit for future Android OS development. ASUS has been gaining a lot of brand recognition power lately due to its wildly successful Eee line of low-cost, low-power notebook computers. [via EngadgetMobile]

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