one year after the marketing by T-Mobile US from the first phone using the operating system developed by Google, the new stamped terminals "android" tributary. Twelve phones carrying the new competitor Windows Mobile OS have been announced this year and more are expected next year. While the Taiwanese HTC was the only one to make of "smartphones" under Android, now, Motorola, LG, Samsung, Dell, or even ZTE intend out models with the operating system of the American search engine.
France, a dozen different models using Android could be marketed for Christmas. For the Gartner Institute, in 2012, Android could equip 18 of "smartphones" sold in the world this year. Behind Nokia, but before BlackBerry, iPhone and Windows Mobile. In the second quarter of 2009 however, the Android market share did not exceed 2. But the software has two incomparable advantages over its competitors: based on free software, it is free and open. It is for this reason that Asian groups adopt it quickly. No need to reverse $ 15 to Microsoft for every phone manufactured and sold with Windows Mobile.

HTC hope and half of its sales this year, will be carried out with Android phones. "Until now, the Chinese knew to make phones but not operating systems." "Smartphones" make their cost. "With Android, it's the barrier to entry of the Chinese manufacturers on the market of"smartphones"who fell," said the leader of a French mobile operator little optimistic on the future of Nokia and Sony Ericsson in the short term. In any event, other Windows Mobile, the operating system choices is not bloated for manufacturers. Symbian, the leader of the market by volume, remains the property of Nokia. Apple and Research in Motion have each their owner for the iPhone and the BlackBerry operating system. In these conditions, Google swept easily into the breach.
A lifeline
Motorola, him also, hope that, with Android, it is its lifeline. Both and if while the US Group thus left the LiMo (such as Linux Mobile) Foundation, which brings together industrialists interested in the Linux platform. And it is even more intent out models using Windows Mobile! The new boss of the mobile division of Motorola, Sanjhay Jha (coming from Qualcomm) is launched in a rationalization of the platforms to save research and development and to focus on a single program. The man even demanded his troops that they work directly with Google engineers on the interface. The dexterity, which will be sold in early November in France, will be the first model of Motorola under Android. The following, the Droid, will be marketed week next by the Verizon Wireless operator across the Atlantic. The first US mobile operator hopes to counter ATT, who obtained the exclusivity of the iPhone two years ago. Verizon Wireless will put the package on the Droid for the year-end holidays. It has already launched a campaign of advertising anti-iPhone. In France, three operators sell the iPhone, Motorola be probably more difficult to penetrate. But, secretly, Orange, SFR and Bouygues hope that a competitor to the Apple flagship phone will emerge soon. Not a question for them to become too dependent on the firm to Apple.