The participation of China Mobile in Google's yesterday's announced new platform Android for mobile devices,was certainly a bit of a surprise, since no other Chinese partners like handset manufacturers were involved.
China Mobile might be in terms of valuation the largest telecom provider in the world, its global adventures have up to now been very limited and mostly a disaster. Being part of this potentially groundbreaking initiative is certainly a change for the better.
The open platform, being provided for thousands of different mobile phones, should be on the market in the second half of 2008, but developers can already start making applications by next week. The Android-based mobile phone should be able to give internet access on a phone that is much cheaper than the current handsets.
Nokia was also not in the alliance, but Motorola, Samsung and LG were. It is going to be an interesting shake-out.
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