Google and Verizon announce Android partnership

06 October 2009 by Shane McGlaun

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Android is tearing up the mobile phone marketplace with new handsets running the OS coming out left and right. The handsets have proven to be so popular that carriers are rushing to get them to market. Google and Verizon Wireless announced a new agreement today that will speed Android devices coming to the Verizon network.

The agreement has the two companies jointly working to develop, market and distribute Android devices on the Verizon network. The devices created under the agreement will come with applications from both companies and third-party developers preinstalled.

Verizon and Google plan to develop several Android devices together and the devices will be built for Verizon by several leading phone makers. The two companies won’t say who those phone makers will be, but my money says Motorola and HTC will be big players.

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mr_strat

10-06-2009 02:42 PM

I wonder how they'll cripple the hardware like they do their other phones.
deserttopping

10-06-2009 02:55 PM

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Originally Posted by mr_strat

I wonder how they'll cripple the hardware like they do their other phones.

they'll probably just charge you a dollar every time you open the camera or change ringtones.
Synergy

10-06-2009 03:59 PM

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Originally Posted by deserttopping

they'll probably just charge you a dollar every time you open the camera or change ringtones.

Agreed. But if for some reason they don't, I could save a lot of money by getting back on my parent's Verizon family plan and not paying for an individual T-mobile plan.