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Google's Android Will Take Off Soon, Say Company Execs

By David LaGesse

Posted: April 17, 2009

A keyboard slides out from the otherwise stout G1.

So far, the T-Mobile G1 is the lone Android phone

After what's been a slow start, Google's software for cellphones should be taking off soon, say company execs. Android should have a "very, very strong year," CEO Eric Schmidt told analysts yesterday. He added:

There are announcements happening between now and the end of the year that are quite significant from operators and new hardware partners in the Android space, which I won’t preannounce except to say that they really do fulfill much of the vision that we laid out more than a year ago.

That vision is getting stale. After appearing to good reviews on one phone last year, the software has hardly been seen. Little was said at a big electronics show in January, and only a little more at a wireless show a month later.

MLB

Googles android does little compared to Blackberries and iPhone. Where is baseball? As in MLB.

JTS of MO @ Apr 25, 2009 17:11:44 PM

Google knows

how to do business. Cellphone software is sensitive. To me it seems like they've taken it slow and used this initial T-Mobile use case to really perfect the imperfections. I am excited to see what they have in store later this year.

Daniel of GA @ Apr 17, 2009 17:31:41 PM

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