LG to roll out Android phone by early 2009

Posted on ZDNet News: Feb 12, 2008 7:22:00 AM

BARCELONA--LG Electronics plans to start selling a phone model running on Android, the highly anticipated mobile phone operating system, at the start of next year at the latest, a senior official said.

"We will bring it out late in 2008 or early 2009," Chang Ma, LG's vice president for marketing strategy told Reuters in an interview at the Mobile World Congress trade show.

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LG is part of a group of about 30 companies that said they would support Google's operating system, which is based on Linux, an open-source software platform.

Service provider Deutsche Telekom's T-Mobile and Taiwanese phone maker High Tech Computer have both said they plan to sell phones based on Android this year.

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Great, androids with phones: MORE jobs lost to automation as our answering machines play phone tag without us! (Read the rest); Posted by: critic-at-arms Posted on: 02/13/08 You are currently: a Guest | Log in | Terms of Use

Lots of excitement building behind Android. Windows Mobile is getting left DonnieBoy | 02/12/08

RE: LG to roll out Android phone by early 2009 Loverock Davidson | 02/12/08

This is all open source, so, Google will not be able to force anything on DonnieBoy | 02/12/08

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Great, androids with phones critic-at-arms | 02/13/08

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