BERLIN
The world's second-largest cellphone maker, Samsung Electronics, has decided to use Google's Android as a key software platform for its smartphones alongside with its own new bada software, a company executive said.
''We are prioritising our Android platform. Android is very open and flexible, and there is a consumer demand for it,'' YH Lee, head of marketing at Samsung Mobile, told Reuters in an
interview on sidelines of the IFA consumer electronics fair.
Android is also powering Samsung's first hit smartphone model, Galaxy S, which sold more than one million units in the United States alone in its first month of sales.
Google's Android has stormed the cellphone industry over the last year, overtaking Microsoft and Apple to become the third-largest software platform after Nokia's Symbian and
Research in Motion.
Samsung unveiled on Thursday at the trade fair its iPad rival, Galaxy Tab, which runs on latest Android software, and the Wave 723 phone, the second model to run on its own bada software.
Sep 2010
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