Google to unveil Mobile Strategy: Sources

Google Inc will unveil its mobile strategy on Monday, including a phone operating system and a broad alliance with multiple wireless service providers and handset vendors, people familiar with the matter said on Friday. [via I4U]

"Sources said the Google mobile operating system would be based on open-source Linux code, which will support applications from different software developers in addition to Google's own services, which include e-mail and mapping.

Its partners include Sprint Nextel Corp , Deutsche Telekom's T-Mobile USA, Motorola Inc and Samsung Electronics , sources said.

The phones are expected to come on the market around the middle of 2008, said one person who was briefed on the plans."

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