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Monday January 12, 2009
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One glaring omission from the CES showroom floor this year: anything Google Android-related. While a number of handset manufacturers are expected to release followups to T-Mobile's popular G1 handset. not many seemed to notice, as most phone news was overshadowed by the reemergence of ailing Palm with the release of its iPhone competitor, the Palm Pre.
Among companies rumored to be releasing an Android phone next year is Taiwanese manufacturer HTC. Australian telecom Telstra, who has met with both Palm and HTC, spoke with the Australian blog Smarthouse, telling it that HTC's forthcoming Android offering is "better and more functional" than the Palm Pre.
Telstra went on to say:
We have seen both and we believe that the new HTC phone will be a real competitor to the iPhone and the Pre which at this stage looks nice but is still not delivered to market.
HTC has yet to confirm the existence of the phone.
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January 12, 2009 12:32 PM
Two funny. A phone that's not out yet better than a phone that's not out yet!
January 12, 2009 12:38 PM
So if someone said that their future web start-up company was going to blow every other start-up company out of the water, we should all take that to be gospel? Google just spent the better part of the past two years developing the current andriod platform we have now, what makes anyone think that after producing just one phone they're already planning to change it into something so much more sophisticated? Finally, I love the comment at the end... "the new HTC phone will be a real competitor to the iPhone and the Pre which at this stage looks nice but is still not delivered to market."
Ok what you're saying is that the HTC, which is only rumored to be in the making is going to big the biggest contender to the iPhone, and the Palm Pre, which we've actually seen in action, held and tested, is just "nice" since it hasn't been delivered to market. You sir need to check your logic.
January 12, 2009 12:40 PM
@Lucas: I don't think "he's" saying anything. "He's" saying that HTC is saying something. I think your comment is best directed at HTC.
January 12, 2009 3:51 PM
@ Alan.
Very accurate. Whomever is making these assumptions is who I'm after, not necessarily the author of this article. I never shoot the messenger!