FRANKFURT/LONDON (Reuters) - British chip designer ARM
will show a prototype mobile phone based on Google's
Android platform next Monday at the Mobile World
Congress wireless show in Barcelona, a source close to the
company said on Thursday.
Deutsche Telekom's T-Mobile and Taiwan's High
Tech Computer Corp. (HTC) <2498.TW> have said that they plan to
offer phones based on the open-source Android software platform
this year.
It is also bidding for wireless spectrum in the United
States in a move that pits it against entrenched carriers like
AT&T and Verizon Wireless .
Research firm Strategy Analytics has estimated that Android
will be in two percent of smartphones this year.
