The Wolfman Cometh

Posted: November 9th, 2008 | Author: James Barnes | Filed under: blog | Comments Off

Phandroid has posted a noteworthy story on Huawei’s plan to launch a mobile based on Google’s Android Operating System in early 2009.

Huawei is well known locally as China’s Wolf in the Network Hardware business and in recent years has gobbled up Ericsson/Nortel/Lucent/Alcatel’s customers in this sector, supplying kit to British Telecom, Vodafone and France Telecom amongst others.

Huawei’s adoption of Android comes as no surprise. Firstly, I do not know one single mobile developer in Beijing who does not want to work on a Linux-based mobile platform. Secondly, whilst Symbian and Microsoft continue to sell OS licenses at between GBP 5 and GBP 10 per unit, who wouldn’t want to choose a ‘free’ OS?

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