High Tech Computer (HTC) is developing a mobile phone that will use the open-source Android software created by Google for its operating system. The phone will be called Dream and have a large touchscreen and full QWERTY keypad. The handset is over 5 inches long and 3 inches wide and has a keypad that swivels out from underneath the screen.
HTC is not the only company that is developing a mobile phone around the Android operating system. Samsung has joined the hunt to create a device that utilizes Android.
HTC was the first company to announce it was building a phone around Android. Other members of the Open Handset Alliance, a group dedicated to promoting Android, are also believed to be developing handsets designed around the operating system. Over 30 companies have joined the Open handset Alliance. Samsung and Motorola are two manufactures who belong to the alliance and may be developing Android phones of their own.
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Comment by Ashish — March 20, 2008 @ 10:55 pm
Everyone seems so happy to have one more phone platform. From a developer’s standpoint, we already have too many : Brew, J2ME, Windows Mobile, Symbian, Linux …
HTC, which was the second historical manufacturer of Windows mobile phones after Sagem, is now going to play Android against Windows Mobile !
The confusion does not necessarily benefit consumers or developers.
Comment by Chris — March 26, 2008 @ 1:41 am