Google's CEO predicts strong year for Android
Expect more announcements on new products, partnerships with service providers, Schmidt says
April 17, 2009 12:00 PM ETIDG News Service - Google Inc. CEO Eric Schmidt on Thursday predicted good times ahead for Android, the company's mobile phone operating system and software.
"Overall, it looks like Android is going to have a very strong year," he said during the company's first-quarter investors' conference.
New announcements of Android-related products and partnerships with mobile phone service providers and device makers will be "quite significant" this year, he said.
One new area for Android will be in netbooks, the mini-laptops that have become popular over the past year.
Companies have started putting Android into netbooks and other mobile Internet devices largely on their own, not at Google's prodding, he said.
Taiwan's Asustek Computer, which pioneered commercial netbooks, is rumored to be working on an Eee PC netbook that uses Android as its OS, while other Taiwanese companies are also reportedly developing such products.
Android could become the first real challenger to Microsoft's Windows XP in netbooks.
Chip giant Intel Corp. expects Microsoft to release at least two versions of its new OS, Windows 7, for netbooks later this year.
Taipei-based High Tech Computer developed the first smartphone around Android, the T-Mobile G1, or as HTC calls it, the Dream.
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