Now it is really a battle between China and Taiwan. Not only in politics, there will be another China vs Taiwan match up in Android handsets. China’s Huawei is about to follow Taiwan’s HTC step on joining Open Handset Alliance (OHA), the consortium of Google-pioneered-Android maker. Huawei is well known as the country’s largest handset ...

The Android platform is an open platform, governed by the Open Handset Alliance (OHA). OHA has many members, and today it includes seven network operators and four handset manufacturers. While the platform itself should be consistent across vendors/providers, thank God, I wonder what will be the differentiation challenges that handset manufacturers and network providers will face?

Found under: android, google, china mobile, oha, g1, T-MobileHTC G1 the first Google Android mobile phone is set to pave its way to the Chinese mega super deluxe mobile market next year courtesy of China Mobile. The G1 which is currently one of the hottest devices to come out this year has brought new life to the wailing T-Mobile network. With its Googley clean interface top notch features and its...

Found under: android, google, asus, eee phone, eee, oha, g1, htc, t-mobile, The Google Android chuu chuu train is speeding off with full throttle as ASUS the EEEPC maker jumps on board for the joyride. It has long being said that ASUS would soon release an Android device most people like myself assumed ASUS would most likely brand the device with the popular and well known EEE. Weeks back Google h...

Following Google’s footsteps, Nokia and Symbian are really pushing forward with R&D by taking in several huge companies to gain access to Symbian. Notable companies include ARM, Visa, and Huawei amongst 52 companies that have expressed their interest in joining the Symbian Foundation. With such a huge following, the software and platform potential

Today is the day some people received the Android G1 (not me, where the #@!$# is it? I want mine :-) Google has started to publicize some of the features, so it is now getting interesting. What many people do not know is that the Android SDK has a very limited set of applications. Therefore, nobody in the developer community has seen what is going to be on the phone. Google (and the OHA) add apps ...

According to an article posted in the Taipei Times, Ryuji Yamada, president of Japan’s NTT DoCoMo, said that his company plans to offer a Google Android based smartphone in the first half of 2009. As a founding member of the OHA, this isn’t too much of a shocker, really. In a somewhat related

A really good news for Japan’s gadget otaku. The country’s largest operator, NTT DoCoMo, is planning to sell Google’s Android platform phone next year. DoCoMo is one member of Open Handset Alliance (OHA), organization that developed the Android OS, based from Linux. Probably the model that will be sold is based on HTC’s T-Mobile G1. Beside ...

It goes without saying that any company hooked up with Android's patron saint -- the Open Handset Alliance -- has at least a passing interest in actually doing something with Android, and in Motorola's case, we're going to go out on a limb here and say that, you know, in all likelihood, they were fixin' to drop an Android build onto a phone or two at some point down the road. I...

Not only Sony Ericsson indicated their interested in using Google’s Android platform, but also Motorola. The American company has even confirmed to assemble a 350 team of Android developers, while Nokia might follow. Motorola is one of the original members of the Open Handset Alliance (OHA), the main backers of Android. Other significant OHA members are