You may not of known this, but Gigabyte, manufacturer of essentially anything you put inside a computer, also makes handsets. What you also don’t know is that Gigabyte lost anywhere from $9.3 to $12.5 million from its handset business in 2009.  You don’t need a Masters in finance to know that’s not good.

In an effort to turn things around (and realizing the potential) Gigabyte will be changing gears, shifting away from own-brand GSmart (Windows Mobile powered) sales to ODM, with Android as an additional operating system.

Of course, the possibility of a Gigabyte-manufactured phone making it to the US is pretty slim, it’d be interesting to see what they can develop and hopefully bring to the US.

[via digitimes]

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