The Japanese have Android working already

Tuesday, December 11th, 2007

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smalljapandroid.JPGJapanese telecom WILLCO has demonstrated a simple call with Google’s handset OS Android on one of their PHS reference boards. The article’s translation is dubious, to say the least, but it seems they have things running as they’d like, and they showed the phone running Google Maps and receiving a call at the same time. Not exactly worth writing home about but at least it’s working the way they want it to this early on.

Japanese cell phone operator gets Android up and running
[Digital World Tokyo, via Keitai Watch]

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