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HTC’s John Wang says Android and Windows Mobile are complementary

by Darcy LaCouvee on Sep 30, 2008 0 Comments">0

Taiwan’s DigiTimes has posted a brief story on HTC’s CMO (chief marketing officer), John Wang. In the story Wang says that the Android platform and the Windows Mobile platform are complementary in nature. Windows Mobile and Android handsets form separate ecosystems with their own merits and advantages. The former provide users with high performance, interoperability and a large library of applications, while the later give handset design companies and developers more flexibility. He also argues that the future success of Android will not be built upon its open source nature, but rather the platform’s innovation. [via SlashPhone]

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Microsoft sees the light, starts work on its own app store

by Darcy LaCouvee on Sep 01, 2008 0 Comments">0

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 that Nokia and friends will have to follow suit in the not so distant future. [Read]

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Google Android running on an HTC Touch Dual

by Darcy LaCouvee on Apr 13, 2008 0 Comments">0

It seems that the guys over at XDA Developers, a Windows Mobile centric hack/developer site, have managed to get Android running on a number of HTC devices. Leah Geary of Coolsmartphone has it running on his HTC Touch Dual and has posted a number of videos of it working. It took a number of reboots and such, he says, but hey – it works. Which, of course, makes everybody wonder, if a bunch of random guys can plug away and get it working, how hard could it be for HTC to do it?

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