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Mobile World Congress 2008 : Google Android sighted in hardware - Windows Mobile competitor number 3 February 20, 2008 [General] | By Edward J. R. The biggest competitor to Windows Mobile (still) is Symbian OS that is commanding majority of smartphone market globally. Second one is Apple iPhone that is soon to explode in popularity because yet this month iPhone SDK will be released. Already now in USA iPhone is outselling Windows Mobile. Third (yet) upcoming competitor to Windows Mobile is Google Android and Mobile World Congress 2008 was the first event ever when it was presented in hardware: The Google Android phone presented in video above was the one manufactured by HTC and HTC has promised that it will release in second half 2008 (at least) 2 Google Android powered phones: one with touch-screen and one without touh-screen (as the one presented in video above). Apart from HTC several other manufacturers are working on Google Android phones and by the end of 2008 and at the beginning of 2009 there will be several Google Android phones on the market. Since Apple is not licensing Mac OS X Mobile to other manufacturers at all, and Symbian S60 of Nokia is too clumbsy to be easily ported to other phones (in practice big manual support of Nokia engineers is necessary in porting process), obviously many manufactures of mobile phones will be resorting to Google Android. Knowing the power of Google corporation clearly one doesn't have to be a soothsayer to predict that Google Android OS for smartphones will very quickly achieve big market share... and thus it will be strong competitor to Windows Mobile... particularly because, contrary to Windows Mobile, it is open source and FREE.  Post your comment (free registration is required to post, but if you register you can edit your posts later) [ 1 Comment ]
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