SAN FRANCISCO--During a keynote address at the Open Mobile Summit 2009 conference here, T-Mobile USA CTO Cole Brodman touted his company's "belief in the power of open," and argued the carrier had supported the concept long before some of its competitors. Specifically, Brodman noted T-Mobile was the first carrier to launch an Android handset in the U.S. with its debut of the G1 device a year ago. And that push will continue: He said the company will have four Android handsets available this holiday season, with that number doubling to eight in the first six months of 2010.
Brodman also said that T-Mobile believes that 2009 is the "year of the smartphone," and expects that 40 percent of its sales in the fourth quarter will be smartphones, the majority of which will be devices with Android and BlackBerry operating systems. Full story...
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