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Will Google Android be a major smart-phone player in 2009?

The Google-backed Open Handset Alliance adds Vodafone and Sony Ericsson, along with 12 others to boost the Google Android mobile and wireless and operating system. The move points to the momentum Android is gaining with both the T-Mobile G1, and promises of future phones in 2009 from Sprint, Motorola and others.

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John Walko
Columnist

“The OHA move signals increasing confidence in the platform amongst big players in the smartphones segment.”

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Quoted 1 year, 8 months ago by sdotc

LittleAbout.com
Blogger

“This...is the emblem of jubilance and continuing success of the first Android-based phone, the T-Mobile G1...expected [to] sell around 500,000 units this year. The presence of Android has emboldened the spirit of Ericsson, which plans to release its Android device in mid-2009...”

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No

Andrew R Hickey
Channel Web Writer

“...[S]o far, the year-old [OHA] consortium has only churned out three actual devices, while Android members such as LG, Motorola, Samsung, Sprint Nextel and more continue to release proprietary smartphones from their own camps. ”

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Quoted 1 year, 8 months ago by sdotc

Clint Boulton
Blogger

“This isn't any different than when the OHA launched in November 2007 to support Android, which has so far made its way onto one official vendor smart phone, the T-Mobile G1.”

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John Walko
Columnist

“...[C]ollaboration between Vodafone and OHA could lead to Android runtime running on LiMo-compliant handsets...Such a move would reduce fragmentation within the mobile Linux community and help stimulate the developer community, which would benefit all OHA members and the wider mobile community.”

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Quoted 1 year, 8 months ago by sdotc

Amy Thomson
Columnist

“Smart-phone sales will double to 338.8 million units by 2012, according to Framingham, Massachusetts-based researcher IDC.”

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Matt Hamblen
Columnist

“Nokia smart phones, as well as the Symbian operating system, finished on top [in Q3], but Nokia device sales, which totaled 15.4 million, fell for the first time, dropping by 3%. All devices running the Symbian operating system declined 12% for the third quarter.”

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