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Samsung Electronics will show Google Phone in 2009 Q2
Samsung will release its first Google phone in the second quarter of the next year in North America.
The launch of Google phone by Samsung is regarded as a signal of its plan for increasing the shares in the smartphone market by releasing handsets in various operating systems.
Also, as Samsung joins the Android group led by Google, the competition among the mobile platforms like Symbian by Nokia, MS Windows Mobile, LiMo and Apple’s Mac OS X will become fierce.
On December 18, industry insiders said that Samsung Electronics is currently in the development process of its new Google phone to release out in the second quarter of the next year via Sprint Nextel and T-Mobile USA in North America.
The company is predicted to select a full touch screen phone for a form factor of its Google phone, the one that it adapted to Omnia and Instinct.
An official of Samsung Electronics said, “We are accelerating the development process for Google phone in order to meet the specific need of local carriers. We will be able to release Google phone in the second quarter of the next year in the US market.”
Meanwhile, with the launch of Google phone by Samsung Electronics, the competition for the hegemony in the smart phone market as well as the mobile OS market is likely to become fierce.
The Google phone will feature the Google Map based location information service, messenger G-Talk, the G-mail application and Google Search
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