Android Still Marginal at MWC
Posted in: mwc 2009, Today's Chili
And the score is Windows Mobile 3, Android 0. Mobile World Congress was supposed to be a big Google Android party, but so far Android seems to be the choice of chipset companies and Chinese ODMs, not of the large, branded handset manufacturers who sell most phones. Of course, we’ve still got three days of the show left, but what we’re seeing today isn’t encouraging.
Samsung, HTC and Sony Ericsson have all decided not to show new Android phones at MWC, although they all profess their love for Google’s open-sourced platform; they just won’t put out. Instead, I’ve seen Android phones and mockups from smaller vendors you may not have heard of: a chipset-level demo from VirtualLogix, a phone from Chinese vendor SIM Technology with a touch screen and no physical keyboard (at left) and a mockup from Huawei. Check out the VirtualLogix and Huawei devices after the jump.
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