Google to Focus the Android on Low-end Cell Phone
Google to Focus the Android on Low-end Cell Phone. Facing the competition with its rival, Apple and Nokia, Google actually plans to focus on Android to low-end cell phone market. Google will bury more of the Android operating system to low-end phones in Asia, especially in China and India.
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Andy Rubin, vice-president of Engineering, Google in an interview with BussinesWeek, Wednesday (30/06/2010), said Google will also help application developers in two countries so that they can sell more applications and content for Android.
Some vendors who would collaborate with Google to deliver an Android phone at an affordable price are Huawei Technologies and LG Electronics.
“Opportunities in the low-end market are still quite broad. See’s going to happen, this is a revolution,” said Rubin.
Google Android today is a weapon not only in the mobile segment. But Google sees Android could be used as new ways to achieve revenues in the mobile market is estimated at USD13,5 billion of advertising.
Therefore, Google has developed some support for the Android one of which is continuously developing application services. Applications in the Android Market now reached approximately 65 000 applications. When compared with the number of applications in the AppStore is this small numbered, articles in the App Store now has approximately 200 000 applications.
“We actually had to walk according to the pattern,” Rubin said, referring to Gartner’s analysis which predicts the Android OS will be the second largest after Nokia in 2012.
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