Samsung Delay Android Handsets Until Late 2009

Samsung’s Head of marketing for the mobile device division Younghee Lee, has told The Guardian that none of the companies Android powered handsets will be on display at the Mobile World Congress 2008 event later this month.

There had been speculation that Samsung, which recently leapfrogged Nokia to become market leader in the UK, would unveil its first phone running Android at next week’s Mobile World Congress trade show in Barcelona.

But Younghee Lee, head of marketing at Samsung’s mobile device division, said there will be no Android phone at the show, but they are “planning internally” for a release in the second half of the year. She said the company is in negotiations with a number of operators about taking a Samsung-designed Android phone.

It was revealed back in December that Samsung were aiming for an Android phone launch around June, but according to Lee any future phone releases have been delayed until the second half of 2009.

[via guardian.co.uk]

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