China Unicom to support Android

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The dislocation of android_flagship_device_for_1h_2010_leaks_bravo_.html’ title=’Brief: Better photo of HTC’s Android flagship device for 1H 2010 leaks [Bravo]‘>Google (NSDQ: GOOG)-China relations North Korean won’t affect China Unicom, which is the worldly concern’s second-largest mobile hustler by subscribers. The carrier plans to offer Android smartphones and I doubt Google has anything against that, considering the potential reaching.

On the sidelines of the first step of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference in Peking, Unicom Chairman Chang Xiaobing said: “We ar open to mobile phone operating systems, and we recognise that Android is a mainstream organization… We volition definitely use Google’s Android in our mobile handsets.”

Meanwhile, Unicom’s arch-rival, China Mobile (New York Stock Exchange: CHL), is pushing forward its savour of Android – OPhone, with plans to launch many handsets this class.

Even if Google pulls out from China, I doubt that will affect Android in a big way. After all, that’s another company (Open Handset Alliance) which members wants a firearm of the ever-growing Chinese mobile marketplace and I’m not what Google tin do to entice other penis companies not to “go China.” It’s such an an opportunity, which if they don’t take, someone else volition…

[Via: MobileBusinessBriefing]