Tuesday, October 6, 2009

Verizon teams with Google to develop Android devices

Verizon and Google have entered into an agreement to jointly develop wireless devices based on Google's open source Android mobile platform.

During a teleconference Tuesday, Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam and Google CEO Eric Schmidt outlined the companies' new strategic partnership that will see them working together to develop Android-based smartphones, PDAs, and netbooks, and to deliver users with applications sold through the Android Market app store. Verizon says that it will have two Android-based handsets on the market by year-end with more to come by 2010.

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