Another track yet the call to detectives76329 points while the S P 500 dropped 4Assailed by photographers Nicolas Hulot apologizes for their diagnosis must ensure their reliabilityA multimodal esplanade with a cost of EUR 49The statements by the Governor were doped yenIt must be said that the real TMP has taken a serious delay ignition5 billion at catalogue prices immediately replaced by 15 Boeing 777All 690 seats spread over three buildings This has maintained the oligarchic systemThere was much talk, but they were ultimately very little seen. Mobile phones equipped with the Android operating system, developed by Google, have been discrete this week in Barcelona, where the sector met for its large annual raout. Only the Taiwanese manufacturer HTC has announced the upcoming release of a new device integrating the Android, the HTC Magic software. It will be sold in the spring by Vodafone in several European countries and by SFR in France ("Les Echos" from February 18). HTC was the manufacturer of the first Google Phone (G1), sold by T-Mobile operator since the fall of the United States and, more recently, in Europe.
Apart from this launch, only Huawei announced an another Google Phone in Barcelona. But, on the stand of the Chinese manufacturer, the device was turned off, behind the wall of a showcase. And its arrival on the market does not immediately: "We the market on the third or the fourth quarter," explains to "Echos" Edward Chen, President of Huawei mobile terminals. In Europe, "T-Mobile the subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom, Editor's note will be out this smartphone with a different design", reveals the leader of Huawei.
From other manufacturers, the Korean Samsung and LG just simply repeating that they emerge their own Google Phone by the end of the year. Same thing in Motorola.
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Clearly, must await the second half to arrive several equipped mobile for Android. "Manufacturers take the time Google baby found its marks before launching phones", considers the analysis firm Ovum.
It must be said that with the first phone with Android, T-Mobile did not really pushed the market. The operator does not sales figures, but Morgan Stanley estimates that 300,000 G1 phones were sold in the United States between his release late October and the end of the year, against $ 1.75 million to Apple iPhone. Today, it is the iPhone that has the wind in its sails. Apple passed 13.7 million copies of his famous phone in 2008. Now last Monday in Barcelona, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO, beau had remembered that 20 million Windows Mobile equipped phones had been sold in the same period, the growth is in the opposite camp.
In the third quarter of last year, worldwide sales of iPhone surpassed for the first time with the Windows software phones, according to the Gartner research firm. Hence the reaction of Microsoft, with a new version of its operating system for the fall ("Les Echos" from February 17).
Android for the PC
The battle around operating systems therefore promises to be fierce year, with the rise of Android. And it could even go beyond the mobile. Freescale has announced that it would sell before the summer of adapted to Android for a SFF PC microprocessors. A new front in the battle between Microsoft and Google could open. According to a Gartner analyst interviewed by Reuters, Google may use its brand and its community of developers to place its operating system in the ultraportables. The Internet giant is, him, simply remember that Android is an open mobile platform, and that any company can use as it sees fit.
