Posts Tagged ‘HTC’

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Last Tuesday, Google finally confirmed it was entering the hardware market with the launch of its mobile handset. The Nexus One is made to Google’s specifications by HTC, a Taiwanese company, and runs the latest version of Android software, an open source operating system already running on some handsets, including those made by HTC, and Motorola.
Salivating over a head-to-head competition between Google, Apple and the mainstream news media made so much of it as they could. The BBC has even sent its technology correspondent, Rory Cellan-Jones, to Google’s headquarters, where he obeyed has asked whether the company thought its new mobile competition for Apple’s iPhone would give. The Google spokeswoman waffled, but need not have bothered. The reality is that, in most respects, the Google phone is inferior to the products of Apple. Read the rest of this entry »