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Google Phone Rumors Swirl

ARM to show prototype at Mobile World Congress: source

By Laila Weir,  Newser User

Posted Feb 8, 2008 10:34 AM CST

(Newser) – The public will finally get to see Google’s Android cellphone platform in action at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona next week, a source told Reuters. British chip maker ARM will show the prototype, the source said, though ARM and Google declined comment. The first phones and services based on Android are due on the market in the second half of 2008.

Both T-Mobile and HTC have said they’ll release Android-based phones this year. Android is being developed using open-source software and is aimed at making the Internet work better on cellphones. In November, Google assembled a group of carriers, handset makers, software developers, and chip makers to work on the platform. Researchers have estimated it will be in 2% of smartphones this year.

A passers-by walks past a NTT DoCoMo Inc. shop at Marunouchi business district in Tokyo in this Friday, July 27, 2007 file photo. Japan's top mobile phone carrier NTT DoCoMo will join with Internet search engine Google to provide Internet search and e-mail services on the company's handsets, news reports...
A passers-by walks past a NTT DoCoMo Inc. shop at Marunouchi business district in Tokyo in this Friday, July 27, 2007 file photo. Japan's top mobile phone carrier NTT DoCoMo will join with Internet search...   (Associated Press)
The reception desk is shown at Google's New York offices on Thursday, Jan. 31, 2008. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
The reception desk is shown at Google's New York offices on Thursday, Jan. 31, 2008. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)   (Associated Press)
The Google logo is seen on a podium and projected on a screen at Google headquarters in Mountain View, Calif., Monday, Dec. 10, 2007. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)
The Google logo is seen on a podium and projected on a screen at Google headquarters in Mountain View, Calif., Monday, Dec. 10, 2007. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)   (Associated Press)
A Google sign inside Google headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. is seen in this May 30, 2007 file photo. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, file)
A Google sign inside Google headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. is seen in this May 30, 2007 file photo. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, file)   (Associated Press)
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