O2 Germany alone has 6 to 8 Android phones planned this year
Basic Thinking, the recently sold "German TechCrunch" quotes an O2 product manager saying that "we want to get out 6 to 8 Android devices this year." (the post is in German). The quote was made yesterday at an official press conference at the O2 Innovation Days 2009 in Munich, Germany.
O2 Germany is a subsidiary of Open Handset Alliance (OHA) member Telefonica - the world’s third largest carrier with over 220 million subscribers. The remark is relevant as there have been no official statements from an OHA operator yet on how many Android devices it wants to launch this year. The mobile device sales value chain is controlled by operators as internationally around 80 percent of device sales happen in operator stores. Device makers traditionally need to convince operators to take up mobile devices into their product lineups in these stores.
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