Android getting stylus for China and more

May 21st, 2009

In a recent interview with Cnet Andy Rubin (Director of Mobile Platforms @ Google) discussed the open source mobile platform Android. Here are a few excerpts:

  • Andy revealed that Android will adapt to chinese users by offering stylus operation. Would that mean resistive touchscreens? or special styluses with UI tweak?
  • “If somebody wants to use Android to build a Yahoo phone, great.”
  • Google Phone? like Palm or iPhone? “Controlling the whole device is great, (but) we’re talking about 4 billion handsets. When you control the whole device the ability to innovate rapidly is pretty limited when it’s coming from a single vendor.”
  • Why aren’t there many Androids in the market yet? “It takes about 18 months to build a phone from end to end. What we wanted to do for our market entry was make sure that we had one successful showcase product to prove that the product was reliable and robust and ready to go. We chose HTC as our partner for that.”
  • “it’s absolutely 100 percent free, it’s complete, it’s everything you need to build a phone”

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