Android collaboration as much as five years in the making

[Andor]

HTC's Chief Marketing Officer has revealed that talks with Google for a possible collaboration begun as much as 5 years ago - long before Google bought the Android project.

Since then HTC have been deeply involved in the developed of the Android handset, with the G1 taking 3 years to come to fruition.

Handset builders Motorola, Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics are all currently listed as members of the Open Handset Alliance, the group of corporate supporters Google formed around Android. The companies are believed to be at work designing Android-based handsets but none of them have announced anything yet.


HTC plans to make more of the handsets.


"This will not be out last Android phone," said Wang. "This is just the beginning."

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I guess all those gPhone rumors from way back when were pretty accurate

[dr0ne]

Hopefully the G1's successor's won't take as long

All parties seemed to do well in the timeframe, OS creation plus hardware development. Pretty impressive they managed to keep it all under wraps for so long too.