GPhone Hardware Manufacturer?
With the latest news that the Gphone will actually be (yet another) mobile Linux I started wondering who is likely to manufacture the devices. I would expect it’s beyond Google and network operators’ abilities to do this themselves. I can’t see existing phone OEMs cannibalising their own product markets to create new Google devices, at least initially.
My mind went back to something I read a month ago…
"Despite the recent upsurge in the popularity of Linux-based handsets, it remains a great challenge to transfer Linux-concepts into a product for commercial production because the Linux industry lacks a long-term cooperation partner, such as Microsoft, according to Peter Chou, CEO of High Tech Computer (HTC)"
HTC is the manufacturer of the large proportion of Windows Mobile phones and also ’signature’ devices produced by network operators such as Orange and O2. Hence, I think Google with its Google Gphone OS is the partner HTC has been looking for.
Update 12 Oct: Report HTC To Ship 50,000 Google OS Phones By Year-End; But Don’t Line Up Yet; For Developers
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