LG promises Android handset by 2009
February 13th, 2008 at 7:51 pm by AndyAccording to a report from Reuters, LG (a member of the Open Handset Alliance) has commited to releasing a mobile handset based on the much anticipated Android platform:
“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.
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.